FRISCO, Texas — Within a small booth three stories above the practice field of the Dallas Cowboys, Kenny Dillingham crosses his legs, leans back in a swivel chair and details exactly what’s happening across the current college football recruiting landscape.
“We don’t know the rules,” the Arizona State coach says. “The settlement passed, but who knows what Deloitte is going to clear. Until there is clarity, you’re living in limbo.”
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And there’s something else, too.
“You are seeing a lot of people lie and promise fake things,” he says.
The Big 12 on Tuesday kicked off three weeks of conference football media days from the Cowboys’ domed practice facility just north of Dallas, its head coaches, administrators and players jaunting across the turfed field to various media stations on Day 1 of a two-day event. It unfolded in front of a backdrop of what happened a week ago: the implementation of the NCAA’s historic settlement of an antitrust case — a move that has ushered in direct athlete-revenue sharing.
A similar theme emerged from the eight head coaches here Tuesday, one likely shared by the eight others who get their turn on Wednesday: The Wild West, they say, remains wild for now.
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The finger pointing has already begun.
Schools are making big enough contract offers to recruits that they cannot possibly remain under college football’s new compensation cap, some coaches believe. Others are guaranteeing third-party NIL deals as part of the total compensation package to athletes — something against new revenue-share rules.
A few are doling out cash from their collectives to high school players in an attempt to induce their commitment — also against new rules. And those schools rich enough to have front-loaded millions of dollars in the spring to compensate this year’s…
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Author : Ross Dellenger
Publish date : 2025-07-09 01:34:00
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