Peyton Barish
@pbarish18.bsky.social
College Sports Policy Junkie
*views my own*
*views my own*
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Should sports be a college major?
Superb question posed, and thanks to the Sports Collective gathering yesterday at Nike NYC HQ, we have a great, growing foundation of really good answers and blueprints for “yes,” “here’s why” and “here’s how.”
And yes, I had to represent on NBA Draft Day 😉🏀
Superb question posed, and thanks to the Sports Collective gathering yesterday at Nike NYC HQ, we have a great, growing foundation of really good answers and blueprints for “yes,” “here’s why” and “here’s how.”
And yes, I had to represent on NBA Draft Day 😉🏀
June 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Should sports be a college major?
Superb question posed, and thanks to the Sports Collective gathering yesterday at Nike NYC HQ, we have a great, growing foundation of really good answers and blueprints for “yes,” “here’s why” and “here’s how.”
And yes, I had to represent on NBA Draft Day 😉🏀
Superb question posed, and thanks to the Sports Collective gathering yesterday at Nike NYC HQ, we have a great, growing foundation of really good answers and blueprints for “yes,” “here’s why” and “here’s how.”
And yes, I had to represent on NBA Draft Day 😉🏀
I think this might be my biggest pet peeve in college sports. The tendency for administrators and coaches to call college athletes "kids" rather than young men and women.
Call college athletes “women” (not “girls”) challenge
June 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I think this might be my biggest pet peeve in college sports. The tendency for administrators and coaches to call college athletes "kids" rather than young men and women.
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Call college athletes “women” (not “girls”) challenge
June 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Call college athletes “women” (not “girls”) challenge
As always, I am so grateful for @mattbrown.bsky.social giving me the opportunity to write about this problem and talk about how the Original Position applies to college sports!
NEW EXTRA POINTS:
A guest author argues that if the smaller D1 leagues don't start sticking together, they're all gonna hang separately.
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/guest-post...
A guest author argues that if the smaller D1 leagues don't start sticking together, they're all gonna hang separately.
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/guest-post...
Guest Post: Smaller Division 1 Schools don’t have a Class Consciousness. They Should Get One
You have nothing to lose but your chains. And maybe your automatic bid.
www.extrapointsmb.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As always, I am so grateful for @mattbrown.bsky.social giving me the opportunity to write about this problem and talk about how the Original Position applies to college sports!
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To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
To enter just repost.
Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances.
Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
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New from me: More than 100 women's basketball players have been quietly forming a players advocacy group. Last month, they went public.
I caught up with Oklahoma's Raegan Beers, the group's SEC President, about what's next as the House settlement looms:
www.sbnation.com/womens-ncaa-...
I caught up with Oklahoma's Raegan Beers, the group's SEC President, about what's next as the House settlement looms:
www.sbnation.com/womens-ncaa-...
SEC star wants a ‘voice in the room’ for women’s basketball players as House v. NCAA settlement nears
With the House settlement looming, Oklahoma’s Raegan Beers explains why she helped form an advocacy group for women’s basketball players, and why they want to meet with Greg Sankey and Tony Petitti.
www.sbnation.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New from me: More than 100 women's basketball players have been quietly forming a players advocacy group. Last month, they went public.
I caught up with Oklahoma's Raegan Beers, the group's SEC President, about what's next as the House settlement looms:
www.sbnation.com/womens-ncaa-...
I caught up with Oklahoma's Raegan Beers, the group's SEC President, about what's next as the House settlement looms:
www.sbnation.com/womens-ncaa-...
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in 2016, Charlie Baker and the NCAA took pro-trans stances. In 2025, they instantly gave in to transphobia to stay on the good side of Trump and Congress.
In doing so, they've helped give cover to all the other anti-trans garbage these bigots will try to pull.
open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...
In doing so, they've helped give cover to all the other anti-trans garbage these bigots will try to pull.
open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...
The spineless cowardice of the NCAA's anti-trans swerve
A decade ago, the NCAA stood up on trans issues. Now that trans people are under attack, they've given in to bigots.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
in 2016, Charlie Baker and the NCAA took pro-trans stances. In 2025, they instantly gave in to transphobia to stay on the good side of Trump and Congress.
In doing so, they've helped give cover to all the other anti-trans garbage these bigots will try to pull.
open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...
In doing so, they've helped give cover to all the other anti-trans garbage these bigots will try to pull.
open.substack.com/pub/rodgersh...
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I wrote this newsletter about college sports but *looks at the news* guess its relevant to lots of other things too huh
money isnt real
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/money-isn-...
money isnt real
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/money-isn-...
Money isn't real
The financial foundation of college sports may be changing, but that doesn't mean spending is slowing down
www.extrapointsmb.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I wrote this newsletter about college sports but *looks at the news* guess its relevant to lots of other things too huh
money isnt real
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/money-isn-...
money isnt real
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/money-isn-...
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Donor fatigue is real, but the worry that NIL would lead to declining donations to FBS athletic departments has largely not come to pass.
My SBJ analysis of data from 2019-23 found 74.5% of public FBS schools had their best fundraising years under NIL.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
My SBJ analysis of data from 2019-23 found 74.5% of public FBS schools had their best fundraising years under NIL.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
In the NIL landscape, exhausted donors keep on giving
With NIL funding approaching a billion dollars, data shows donations directly to public colleges also have leaped by 40%.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Donor fatigue is real, but the worry that NIL would lead to declining donations to FBS athletic departments has largely not come to pass.
My SBJ analysis of data from 2019-23 found 74.5% of public FBS schools had their best fundraising years under NIL.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
My SBJ analysis of data from 2019-23 found 74.5% of public FBS schools had their best fundraising years under NIL.
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
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Gonna echo something here that I’ve said for years now: I hope someday there’s real movement by black athletes, coaches and parents to boycott these schools. If they don’t want black people on campus, don’t go. Imagine trying to find work at these places when they no longer covet the athleticism.
The Texas GOP will not rest until they have chased every non-white person out of our state universities. This is a threat by the governor to fire a conservative president at a conservative university for doing something legal even under our backward anti-DEI law. thebatt.com/news/gov-abb...
Gov. Abbott threatens Welsh after DEI claim spreads online – The Battalion
Gov. Greg Abbott threatened President Mark A. Welsh III in a post on X after screenshots spread online suggesting that Texas A&M was breaking state law by “
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January 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Gonna echo something here that I’ve said for years now: I hope someday there’s real movement by black athletes, coaches and parents to boycott these schools. If they don’t want black people on campus, don’t go. Imagine trying to find work at these places when they no longer covet the athleticism.
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I really think schools should offer legitimate majors for athletes in “football” or “basketball” and so on. It’s easy to imagine academic courses in sports (history, strategy/theory, analytics, etc) and colleges certainly offer less practical majors (which are also good!)
NEW EXTRA POINTS:
Forget trying to move college sports further away from academics. What if we tried to actually integrate them WAY more?
From sport majors to athlete classes and more. Here's *research* on why it could work, and who is already doing it:
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/here-s-wha...
Forget trying to move college sports further away from academics. What if we tried to actually integrate them WAY more?
From sport majors to athlete classes and more. Here's *research* on why it could work, and who is already doing it:
www.extrapointsmb.com/p/here-s-wha...
Here's what ACTUALLY integrating college sports with academics could look like
With real world examples and everything!
www.extrapointsmb.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I really think schools should offer legitimate majors for athletes in “football” or “basketball” and so on. It’s easy to imagine academic courses in sports (history, strategy/theory, analytics, etc) and colleges certainly offer less practical majors (which are also good!)
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I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society.
I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
January 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society.
I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Everything about this is chilling!
January 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Everything about this is chilling!
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Good read by @daniellibit.bsky.social. This was always the correct answer when college athletic departments stressed they can’t pay players. Don’t pay coaches so much. Coach and player compensations are directly linked. www.sportico.com/leagues/foot...
Coaching Salary Cuts Support Economist’s ‘O’Bannon’ Testimony
Roger Noll, a key expert witness in O’Bannon v. NCAA, says contract restructurings for Mike Gundy and Mike Norvell bear out his earlier hypothesis.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Good read by @daniellibit.bsky.social. This was always the correct answer when college athletic departments stressed they can’t pay players. Don’t pay coaches so much. Coach and player compensations are directly linked. www.sportico.com/leagues/foot...