NCAA Convention 2025: Who is actually going to opt-in to House? And why?

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I am currently in Nashville for the 2025 NCAA Convention, and will be until early Friday morning. I’ll be in Atlanta for the weekend and the College Football Playoff National Title Game, and then finally head back to Chicago.

This is my third NCAA Convention, and for me, they’re really invaluable events. I’ll spend a good 10+ hours each day talking to ADs, SWAs, Faculty Athletic Reps, Conference Leaders, and industry professionals, from D-I to D-III. It’s a chance for me to reconnect with folks I only know over Zoom or phone calls, to meet new potential sources, to remind the college sports industry that I am a real person who owns pants and shirts with buttons, and to catch up with my reporter pals from across the country.

Attending these events makes me a better reporter, and hopefully, helps make better newsletters for you to read. But if I’m being honest, it’s also often difficult to write quality copy from the road. The fancier the convention center, the worse the Wi-Fi is, after all…and after two straight days of CollegeSportsPalooza, sometimes your brain just isn’t firing at top capacity when you get back to the hotel room.

So this is not a complete and total dispatch of the convention. I’ll have more in tomorrow’s newsletter, and likely even more after that, once I have a bit more time to actually process all of these conversations.

But I did want to quickly share a few thoughts from yesterday’s big Knight Commission presentation, and some of the conversations I had with ADs and senior administrators over the rest of the day.

While the Knight Commissions sessions have been pretty well attended at every NCAA Convention I’ve been to, Wednesday’s event was even more standing-room-only. I’m not surprised, because the speakers tried to offer explanations and information about the thing that seems to be confusing basically everybody right now…the House Settlement.

Here were my three big takeaways:

Okay, so who is ACTUALLY going to opt-into this thing?

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