Matt Brown

Founder and publisher of @extrapointsmb, a newsletter on off-the-field stuff in college sports. Also on the other website.

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

This website sucks and I should stop using it.

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BACK FROM BYE

@MattBrownEP joins us for the College Sports Business Hour. In feeds now, but also watch this video start to finish 12 times if you're up for it:

-EA microtransaction fallout
-Big 12 + Monster
-Big 12 vs. Texas Tech
-Michigan AD limbo

https://t.co/ayk8j97sDV

[David Covucci @DavidCovucci]

Shout out to FOIAball's first-ever exclusive :))

https://t.co/a0KHxxgby3

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

when my TL is nothing but people posting screengrabs of the new ACC tiebreaker policy

[Maryland Sports Report @MSRterps]

You will not believe what it translates to 😭😭😭

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

I can add to this...hearing that the "movement" specifically centered around softening bill language centered around preventing leagues from expanding/breaking away for a SuperLeague

Legislative calendar is going to make this tough though

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

There is movement from lawmakers to make some of the revisions to the bill that SEC and Big Ten leadership requested, sources tell @YahooSports.

It’s unclear if these possible changes - not yet formalized in legislation - will be enough to garner support from the two leagues.

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

France doesn't need a three here. They just need a quick two

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

should your school start a flag football team or a triathlon program? or women's wrestling? bowling? fencing?

good news: Extra Points can help
https://t.co/A0s5okfV1c

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

(whispers)

Yeah, practically speaking, ACTUAL NIL is still mostly just for D1 athletes.

~$10M in DII sounds like a big number, but there are over 300 DII schools, each sponsoring at least ten sports...and suddenly those topline numbers dont look quite so big

[D3Direct @D3Direct]

"NIL is only for big schools & D1 Athletes."🤦‍♂️

This was a common refrain when NIL was legalized five years ago in July 2021.

Since then, the reality has played out much differently w/ the D3 level outpacing D2, NAIA, and JUCO on total NIL spend

Here's five year historical data & a projection for where the D3 level could go in the next two years 👇

[Sooner Tracker @SoonerTracker]

Good nugget in here about guidance from suppliers on ad patches. Nike specifically asks that ad patches be “team colored.”

Hopefully that spares us from a bright yellow Love’s patch situation like the Thunder.

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

should your school start a flag football team or a triathlon program? or women's wrestling? bowling? fencing?

good news: Extra Points can help
https://t.co/A0s5okfV1c

[KC Smurthwaite @KcSmurthwaite]

For additional look behind the jersey patch curtain ... @MattBrownEP writes a little bit about it in today’s newsletter via https://t.co/VJJ1wYfFaY

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

this sucks (and it sucks when schools other than Michigan have done this). Regardless of what the law compells them to do, the *right* thing to do would be for the university to at least produce a summary that would be shared with the public
https://t.co/pZIUnj9eFd

[David Jesse @reporterdavidj]

An FYI regarding the University of Michigan investigation into the athletic department. No physical report was compiled and issued. Regents were briefed orally recently on the findings, which were critical of the AD and others at the university.

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

If Michigan doesn't release this report (or at LEAST an executive summary) via FOIA or proactively, I hope other reports join me in blanketing this place to find correspondence as to why (or what staffers knew what re: the report's findings)

[Austin Meek @byAustinMeek]

What we know: Michigan has a board meeting Thursday where the Jenner & Block investigation and AD Warde Manuel’s future are expected to be discussed.

What we don’t know: What, if anything, Michigan will disclose from the investigation.

https://t.co/WWUDgCfHDD

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

or at least, allow the *perception* that he was making key decisions, because that isn't always the same thing as reality.

Michigan can pretend this whole report is only given orally or whatever, but one way or another, they *should* have to tell the truth IMO

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

@QuinneyUte you know just as well as I do that it'll be a cold day in outer darkness before BYU voluntarily discloses financial anything

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

Just saw that BYU just announced a jersey patch deal, so clearly the Monster logo didn't completely obliterate the value for individual schools

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

I'm just a guy with a laptop, but I think some of the conversation about how bad the Monster deal was for the Big 12 is a little premature
https://t.co/z9xql7SEzj

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

@C2CW0 ...do...do you think this report was just about stallions

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

@janecoaston false

nebraska football fans existed

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

you know what? maybe I should write that before I go on vacation. would more than a few people actually read it?

[David Covucci @DavidCovucci]

@MattBrownEP i need the matt brown haters guide to university foia offices

[Matt Brown @MattBrownEP]

Michigan is not my worst school about responding to open records requests (even very basic ones), but they're probably in my top ten. Michigan's open records law isn't especially reporter/public friendly though.

[Lucas Tucker @Snake_Burton]

@MattBrownEP Also via FOIA I know Angelique Chengelis has said on the radio (WTKA) many times she’s been trying to get it, and still has a request from a couple years ago unfulfilled. Basically the past few years they’ve been awful at response time.