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Media Deals:
- Nov 28 | Twitter | Jon Wilner | 92 Retweets: “If #USC finalizes the Lincoln Riley deal, the impact will be immediate for the entire #Pac12. This affects CFP, recruiting, media rights, future realignment issues - everything. It is, in some ways, a vaccine for the conference.”
- Nov 28 | Twitter | Mike Vorel | 16 Retweets: “Lincoln Riley to USC is undeniably good for the Pac-12. Good for perception, good for CFP odds, good for future media rights deals, good for maintaining west coast recruits. But is it good for UW? Time will tell.”
Employment:
- Nov 29 | Michigan Live | 33.1K Engagements: “Harbaugh announced Monday night on the “Inside Michigan Football” radio show his plan to redirect any bonus money earned during the 2021 football season back to the Michigan athletic department to reimburse employees who took a pay cut during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
- Nov 24 | The New York Times | 1.7K Retweets: Frustrated over slow-moving contract negotiations, Columbia University’s graduate student workers are on strike for the second time this year, with a labor contract and the university’s fraught relationship with its graduate students on the line.”
- Nov 29 | Twitter | Dennis Dodd | 517 Retweets: “Brian Kelly to LSU confirmed. @PeteThamel first. Hearing salary will be in $15 million per year range. DC Marcus Freeman obvious ND interim but also could be auditioning. Is this Matt Campbell's time?”
Hazing:
- Nov 28 | CBS News | 3.6K Engagements: “When a freshman named Sam Martinez died pledging Alpha Tau Omega at Washington State University in 2019, his parents said the national fraternity hid the local chapter's history of hazing, and hindered the investigation into their son's death.”
- Nov 28 | Twitter | 60 Minutes | 65 Retweets: “Washington State University freshman Sam Martinez died from alcohol poisoning after a night of fraternity hazing. When police and EMTs found his body the next morning, his blood alcohol content was nearly five times the legal limit.”
NCAA Violations:
- Nov 24 | Southern University Athletics | 329 Engagements: “The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) notified Southern University on November 16, 2021. That it has removed a five-year-long probation on its athletics department and Southern University has been restored to full rights and privileges of NCAA membership.”
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COVID-19:
- Dec 01 | KWCH | 245 Engagements: “Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has notified state education officials that some public universities are violating a state law passed last week that loosened requirements for obtaining medical and religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccinations. Schmidt wrote a letter last week to Kansas Board of Regents President Blake Flanders, with copies sent to the University of Kansas Chancellor Doug Girod and Kansas State University President Richard Myers.”
Cost of Attendance:
- Nov 27 | Twitter | Dave | 307 Retweets: “Over 40 million people have federal student loans. @POTUS promised student debt relief less than a month before the 2020 election and loan payments resume on February 1st but nobody's talking about it. This graph shows how tuition outpaced wages even after adjusted for inflation.”
Campus Safety:
- Nov 29 | Bipartisan Report | 48.4K Engagements: “Students at Arizona State University are demanding that school officials remove Kyle Rittenhouse from the university after his recent trial on homicide charges ended in a not guilty verdict.”
- Dec 01 | ABC 6 | 6.6K Engagements: “A teenager wanted for the murder of a Temple University student has turned himself in to Philadelphia police. Williams is accused of fatally shooting 21-year-old Samuel Collington of Prospect Park, Delaware County on Sunday during an apparent robbery near the North Philadelphia campus.”
Free Speech:
- Dec 01 | Twitter | Drew Hernandez | 1K Engagements: “ARIZONA: ASU socialists get drowned out by conservative counter protesters chanting “LET’S GO BRANDON!” at an ASU socialist organized gathering to protest Kyle Rittenhouse attending online classes at the university even though he is no longer enrolled at the school.”
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University of Oklahoma: ▲Athletics
Louisiana State University: ▲Athletics ▲Employment
Duke: ▲Athletics
- Nov 30 | Eleven Warriors | 14.8K Engagements: “Although far from a heavy betting underdog against Duke, unranked Ohio State pulled off an upset against what many considered to be the nation’s top college basketball team, as the Buckeyes earned a 71-66 victory over the Blue Devils at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus.”
Arizona State: ▲Enrollment
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Ohio State: ▲Athletics
Louisiana State University: ▲Athletics ▲Employment
University of Southern California: ▲Athletics ▲Employment
- Nov 28 | Los Angeles Times | 16K Engagements: “USC’s athletic director knew the hire would not only define his tenure, but determine the direction of a Trojan football program that spent the better part of the past decade tumbling from its perch atop college football...So he set his aim in September on one of the top coaches in college football, an offensive mastermind and ace recruiter so coveted that he seemed entirely out of USC’s reach.”
- Nov 28 | Twitter | PFF College Football | 1.4K Retweets: “BREAKING: Lincoln Riley just informed his staff at Oklahoma that he’s taking the USC head coaching job, per @mzenitz https://t.co/aJb7pkGtjP"
University of Alabama: ▲Athletics
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