Big Contracts, Big Buyouts, Big Pressure: College Football Coaches Hit the Jackpot

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports Brian Kelly will earn at least $9 million a year at L.S.U., which is paying its old coach almost $17 million to step aside. Top universities have become steppingstones to other top gigs.https://nyti.ms/3xUWxIP

As N.C.A.A. Rewrites Its Rules, Here’s How College Sports May Change

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports The notoriously bureaucratic N.C.A.A. is gearing up for debates about what it should look like going forward.https://nyti.ms/3cfoj8N

Open Tryouts During the Season? For Arizona, Loser of 17 Straight, Why Not?

By BY BILLY WITZ from NYT Sports The Wildcats football team needs help, so it sought out reinforcements on campus.https://nyti.ms/3AQ4BdL

The Return of Morehouse Football

By BY ALANIS THAMES from NYT Sports Morehouse was one of the first colleges that grants football scholarships to shut down sports because of the pandemic.https://nyti.ms/3anCR5j

A 12-Team Playoff Isn’t a Done Deal. Math and History Suggest a ‘Yes’ Looms.

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports If the College Football Playoff field triples, the competition will most likely become more lucrative than the Division I men’s basketball tournament.https://nyti.ms/3F43drg

In a Scheduling First, Pac-12 and SWAC Plan Home-and-Home Basketball Games

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports The deal between a Power 5 league and the Southwestern Athletic Conference could help H.B.C.U. teams draw big crowds.https://nyti.ms/3kqwGDu

Robert Gates Ran the Pentagon. Can He Help Save the N.C.A.A.?

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports The former defense secretary now leads a committee that could remake college sports — or, as often happens with the N.C.A.A., that has little to show after many meetings.https://nyti.ms/2Xzvgh1

Terry Brennan, Youthful Notre Dame Football Coach, Dies at 93

By BY RICHARD GOLDSTEIN from NYT Sports One of Leahy’s Lads as a player on national championship teams, he was hired as coach at 25 and fired at 30.https://nyti.ms/3hfs2G8

Lane Kiffin, football coach at Ole Miss, will miss Monday’s game after a positive test.

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports The coach and his staff and players have all been vaccinated. He said he has had only mild symptoms.https://nyti.ms/3h2yvEy

A New Kind of Homecoming All Over College Football

By BY ALAN BLINDER AND ADRIA MALCOLM from NYT Sports After the disruptions of 2020, teams from coast to coast are playing in their own stadiums for the first time since 2019.https://nyti.ms/3gZTMP9

Nick Saban, 7 Titles in, on Offenses, Defenses and Changes in College Sports

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports Saban, the 69-year-old Alabama football coach, has a new deal and another national championship. Now the Crimson Tide taskmaster is starting his 15th season in Tuscaloosa.https://nyti.ms/38nGYND

A.C.C., Big Ten and Pac-12 Form Coalition to Counter SEC’s Might

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports The move was far short of a merger and came less than a month after Oklahoma and Texas said they would leave the Big 12 for the SEC.https://nyti.ms/3DfIFL9

N.C.A.A. Will Not Punish Baylor for Sexual Assault Scandal

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports The N.C.A.A.’s decision came more than five years after Baylor’s efforts to cover up sexual assaults became public.https://nyti.ms/2VJpzMv

College Athletes Score, Cutting Deals as a New Marketplace Is Born

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports From hurdlers to quarterbacks, students signed contracts and began to pull in some of the millions that could be made this year alone.https://nyti.ms/3xdER9V

College Athletes Cash In as Generations of Rules Fade Under Pressure

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports Thursday brings a seismic shift for college sports: eased N.C.A.A. policies and new laws to let players make money off their fame.https://nyti.ms/3jDRzL4

College Athletes May Earn Money From Their Fame, N.C.A.A. Rules

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports Here’s a breakdown of why the N.C.A.A. finally relented to pressure to allow athletes to make money beyond the cost of attending their universities.https://nyti.ms/3y8Ieip

College Players May Make Money Off Their Fame, Powerful N.C.A.A. Panel Recommends

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports Pressured by a wave of state laws taking effect on July 1, the college sports industry is on the verge of letting players profit off their names, images and likenesses.https://nyti.ms/3y1OZ5J

Teenage Ballers Can Cash in Earlier Than Ever. But at What Cost?

By BY DAVID GARDNER from NYT Sports Male players as young as 16 have many options to play high-level basketball before the N.B.A. without going to college — and get paid big money to do it.https://nyti.ms/3w0fjfg

The Dynamics of College Sports Are Changing. So Are the Business Prospects.

By BY BILLY WITZ from NYT Sports Some digital opportunities didn’t exist even a few years ago, but now are part of what young athletes will be evaluating as they consider where, or whether, to go to college.https://nyti.ms/3h8D7br

N.C.A.A. Misses Target to Approve Rules to Let Players Profit Off Their Fame

By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports Top leaders will meet again on Monday, three days before several state laws challenging the college sports industry are expected to take effect.https://nyti.ms/35KJUmn