Day 504

• Interesting "Bold Prediction" from SB Nation's Ohio State blog:  Ohio State will join what will become the sole superconference in college football, the SEC.  I've long wondered when the day would come when the SEC would be the extent of college football -- it may well happen in four years.   
  
• The new reality of college football:  Bryce Young, quarterback of national-champion-presumptive Alabama, will be paid over $800,000 in Name, Image, and Likeness deals.  And you wonder if the NCAA survives this...  
• The Big XII has actually issued a Cease and Desist order in court to ESPN to stop taking actions that would destabilize the conference.  Horse is out of the barn, people.  And you just ensured that Texas and Oklahoma are probably going to be staring buyouts in the face to get relevant again...   
• ESPN, and I can't believe I'm defending them, denies the claims.  They have already been talking about the impact NIL will have on college football, and one Power 5 AD said the remaining teams in the Big XII had zero value as a conference.  Another anonymous Power 5 AD has said this will be the end of the NCAA, part and parcel.
• The Baseball Hall of Fame will retain Curt Schilling on the writer's ballot, against his request.
• The official invitation has been extended.  Oklahoma and Texas are SEC bound.  Only question is when.
• It appears Aaron Rodgers has signed and remanipulated his contract to reduce the end by one year with the Packers (2022, meaning he would have two more years with the team), with some financial guarantees added in.