The rollout of the new NIL Go clearinghouse — the NCAA’s attempt to reign in pay-for-play NIL contracts — is not going smoothly. Uncertainty about rules and regulations led to the College Sports Commission to send out a memo Thursday… Source link
On July 21, Diana Sabau will walk out of her office at Utah State University for the last time as the university’s director of athletics. She will have served a grand total of 701 days in that role. It won’t go down as the shortest tenure for an athletics director in USU history, but it will be far shorter than her two predecessors — John Hartwell and Scott Barnes — who were both in Logan for seven years. Even in that short time, though, Sabau has managed to work up quite a legacy. One that will be remembered far beyond the small span she spent at USU. The beginning of the 2024 calendar year proved to be biggest hurdle for Sabau. Her first widely-seen move as athletics director ended up being firing women’s basketball head coach Kayla Ard in early March 2024. The firing was all but guaranteed given Ard’s 24-90 overall record as coach in four season, it was mostly the manner in which Sabau went about the firing that raised eyebrows. Before Ard had even made her way to the postgame press conference following what would be her final game (a 85-49 loss to Boise State in the
