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This newsletter focuses on everything beyond the games that influences college sports, from big FBS universities to smaller NAIA institutions. Four times a week, you can expect insightful commentary, thorough analysis, and original reporting on key topics such as NIL laws, the workings of college athletic budgets, the relationship between athletic departments and their universities, and a deeper understanding of how the entire college sports system functions.

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Want to win a statewide election? Maaaaaybe throw some millions into NIL?

1 week ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. Back on April 1, Wisconsin voters went to the polls to vote in a State Supreme Court election that was projected to be highly competitive. Normally, that wouldn’t be a story that would attract much interest outside the state.
What I'm hearing about Utah Valley, Sacramento State, and other mid-major realignment business

2 weeks ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for your continued support of Extra Points. Before we dig into the story here, a belated congrats to fans of the University of Florida for their men’s basketball national championship! Now that all the nets have been cut down, we can finalize the results of the Extra Points Bracket Challenge, brought to you by Short Courts. Congrats to our winner, MikeKozo22! We’ll be reaching out to these folks in the coming days as well, so everybody can get their fabulous prizes.
What to expect from next week's House settlement hearing

3 weeks ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. Every college football team has a coach. They’ve got coordinators, recruiting analysts, graduate assistants, trainers, and other staffers. But as we move deeper into the post-House era, another job title may join them as truly essential personnel: The general manager. Some programs have already hired GMs. Others have folks doing GM-type work under different job titles, like Director of Player Personnel.
Coastal Carolina is gonna give away food at football games. Here's how the math works

3 weeks ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for your continued support of Extra Points. Normally, we’d paywall our Thursday newsletters. But today, we’re unlocking this one for everybody, thanks to the sponsorship of College Athletics Management. CAM is in the business of helping athletic departments find the best athletic apparel partnership for them. Led by industry veteran Pat Flynn, CAM has the experience and the ideas to propel a static space into the future.
Tariffs are likely to impact the college sports industry too

3 weeks ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. And congrats to the UConn Women for their outstanding national championship victory over the weekend! The biggest non-sports news from the last few days was the Trump administration’s decision to dramatically increase tariffs on imports from roughly 90 different countries, over 40% in some cases. The White House says this is policy is “reciprocal” and meant to incentivize manufacturing to return to the United States.
Here's why Saint Francis (PA) says they're reclassifying to D-III

1 month ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. Back on March 14, I wrote a newsletter called “why I'm hearing more D-I schools are considering reclassification.” I tried to explain in that newsletter why circumstances had changed, although I decided not to name any names of schools that were coming up in those industry conversations.
Finding Solutions

1 month ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for your continued support of Extra Points. This has always been a tension, but one thing I’m taking away from conversations in the college athletics industry this year is that everybody is focused on trying to find ways to increase their athletic department revenue. High major. Mid-major. D-III school. Everybody. Part of that, of course, is the expected revenue sharing obligations as part of the House settlement.
College Sports' New Financial Playbook

1 month ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. I hope all of your brackets are doing better than mine. I thought I had done a respectable job in the first round, but when I checked how I was doing in our Extra Points Bracket Challenge, brought to you by Short Courts…I appear to be in 97th place. Now, there’s 367 people in our group, so that’s not that bad, but nowhere near the top. Our top brackets appear to be split between Houston, Duke, and Florida winning it all.
What Does a GM Actually Do?

1 month ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for your continued support of Extra Points. The hot new job title in the college athletics administrative arms race is the General Manager. St. Bonaventure made a massive splash when they hired former NBA Scoopmaster Adrian “Woj” Wojnarowski to serve as their GM. , a former NFL front office-type, over a million dollars a year. the former director of the Senior Bowl north of $700,000 to serve as their program GM.
D2 Realignment, NIH Cuts, and College Sports Mailbag Insights

1 month ago | extrapointsmb.com | Matthew Brown

Good morning, and thanks for spending part of your day with Extra Points. It’s been a few weeks since we did one of these, so let’s break out the ol’ MAILBAG. As always, I accept questions on a rolling basis via Twitter, Bluesky, DMs or email. Here’s one, via Bluesky reader Joseph Myers: Will Trump-Elon cuts to universities affect the timing or level of future conference realignment?