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SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH

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🗞️ In Today’s Edition. College Athletes Suing NCAA to Extend Eligibility to 5 Seasons. The Nation’s Most Selective Colleges Might Have Just Snatched Away Your Students. Player to Ref Program. Amazon Ends Program That Lets Prime Members Share Free Shipping Perk

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TOP STORY

1. College Athletes Suing NCAA to Extend Eligibility to 5 Seasons

by Dan Murphy, ESPN

“A pair of Vanderbilt football players are among 10 athletes suing the NCAA in an effort to force the association to allow college athletes to compete for five seasons rather than four.

Linebacker Langston Patterson and defensive lineman Issa Ouattara filed a class action lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, which claims that the NCAA's eligibility rules violate antitrust law. The NCAA's current rules allow athletes to compete for four seasons during a five-year timespan that begins when they enroll in college.

Attorney Ryan Downton said in a news release that the players were not aiming to completely remove any eligibility restrictions but believe they should be able to compete in games for all five years that they are allowed to be on the team.”

» Court Awareness. “The association has faced more than two dozen lawsuits challenging their eligibility rules in the past two years. In their initial rulings in those cases, judges have largely sided with the NCAA, which argues that the limited time athletes are allowed to play is an important distinction that separates college sports from the pro leagues. However, especially in cases that involve athletes who previously used some of their eligibility while playing at the junior college level, some judges have issued injunctions that allow the athlete to keep playing.”

» Worth Noting. "Now that college athletes can benefit financially from commercial use of their name, image, and likeness -- and, starting this year, from compensation paid by NCAA members schools directly -- forcing the athletes to forfeit a year of eligibility is an anticompetitive restraint on their earning potential," Downton and his co-counsel from the Baker Botts law firm wrote in their news release.”

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2. The Nation’s Most Selective Colleges Might Have Just Snatched Away Your Students

by Sonel Cutler, Chronicle of Higher Education

“Plagued by severe budget cuts and a precipitous drop in international-student enrollment, several highly selective colleges, including Duke, Harvard, Rice, and Stanford Universities, have admitted dozens of students on their wait lists just weeks before the start of the fall semester.

Many of those students had already paid tuition, attended orientation, connected with roommates, or received their class schedules at other institutions. Universities typically close their wait lists before the summer begins.”

» History. “Wait lists emerged as demand for college degrees skyrocketed after the passing of the 1944 G.I. Bill. College administrators had to find a way to manage class sizes and yield so as to not enroll more students than they could accommodate. For college applicants, as admissions have become more and more competitive, wait lists have become a sort of purgatory, stringing along applicants’ hopes of admission.”

» What Changed? “Now, some colleges, undergoing severe budget cuts, are offering incentives for prospective students to make the last-minute switch late into the summer months. Coming in under a target class size means that, over the course of four years, a college could be looking at losing millions of dollars.”

» What They’re Saying. “It just shows that the wait list at these highly selective places is an incredibly powerful lever that they can pull,” said Jeff Selingo, who is a former editor for The Chronicle. “... You have to have such a brand that you’re able to pull people who not only moved on from you, but are integrated into another university.”

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3. Player to Ref Program

“As student-athletes return to campus, we want to remind you that the intake form for the NCAA Player to Ref program, known as P2R, is active and can be shared with student-athletes who have expressed an interest in becoming an official or may have been identified as someone who would make a good official.

As part of this program, student-athletes who have never received any formal officiating training are provided access to RefReps at no charge after registering with the program. The NCAA national office will be working to connect state high school associations or conference coordinators with student-athletes who have completed officiating training to get those student-athletes started on their officiating experience.

4. Comings and Goings 

• GENESEO - Julie Decker named head women’s coach

• MCLA - James Birge announced his retirement as president at the end of the academic year

• POTSDAM - Drew Gardner named assistant men’s coach

• ST. LAWRENCE - John O’Connor and Padriac Condon named assistant men’s coaches

• STEVENSON - Jordan Hoover named director of athletics

• SUFFOLK - Rich Tierney named assistant sports information director

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5. Amazon Ends a Program That Lets Prime Members Share Free Shipping Perk With Users Outside Household

by Anne D’Innocenzio, AP

“Amazon is ending a program that allows members of its Prime membership subscription program to share their free shipping benefits with people who don’t have the same primary address.

In an update to the customer service section of its website, the online behemoth says it will eliminate the sharing on Oct. 1 and is encouraging users outside the household of the account holder to sign up for their own Prime subscription.

Amazon is encouraging users who don’t live with the account holder to subscribe to their own membership at a discounted rate of $14.99 for one year. After that, it’s $14.99 per month or $139 annually. The offer starts this Friday and is valid until Dec. 31, 2025.”

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