Story from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports

The next evolution of college athlete compensation is on the horizon.

College leaders and plaintiff lawyers, in negotiations now for months, are inching closer to arriving at an agreement to settle the House antitrust lawsuit and usher into the sport a new model that features sharing revenue with athletes.

But it’s not here just yet, and plenty of hurdles lie ahead.

The negotiations have been no real secret within the college sports industry. In fact, discussions have grown serious enough that a potential revenue-sharing model has been socialized with administrators — something Yahoo Sports reported earlier this month.

On Monday, reporting from ESPN shined more of a light on the negotiations: They are heating up.

But what does a settlement of the House v. NCAA case entail exactly? What does it mean for your school? How does it impact the future of college sports? And are all of the school presidents on board?

We'll try to explain what is a very complicated — and fluid — situation.
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The five head coaches of the men's lacrosse programs submitted votes for the All-ACC Team and the conferences awards. Notre Dame won four of the five major awards.

Notre Dame goaltender Liam Entenmann won both the ACC Defensive Player of the Year and Goalie of the Year for the second straight year.

Notre Dame attacker Pat Kavanagh won ACC Offensive Player of the Year. Irish head coach Kevin Corrigan was named ACC Coach of the Year for the first time.

The lone award that didn't go to Notre Dame was ACC Freshman of the Year, which went to North Carolina's Owen Duffy.

Stats from the ACC's release:

• Entenmann has recorded a 9.86 goals-against average and .527 save percentage while racking up 117 saves (10.64 per game) this season

• Pat Kavanagh owns 19 goals and 34 assists for 53 points this season. His 4.82 points per game average ranks third in the ACC, while his 3.09 assists per game is second.

The All-ACC Team consisted of 19 players. Seven of them are from Notre Dame. Duke (4), Virginia (4), Syracuse (3) and North Carolina (1) split the remaining spots.

Eric Dobson, Sr., M, Notre Dame
Will Donovan, So., LSM, Notre Dame
Liam Entenmann, Gr., G, Notre Dame
Chris Kavanagh, Jr., A, Notre Dame
Pat Kavanagh, Gr., A, Notre Dame
Will Lynch, Jr., FO, Notre Dame
Ben Ramsey, Jr., SSDM, Notre Dame
Kenny Brower, Gr., D, Duke
Andrew McAdorey, Jr., M, Duke
Brennan O'Neill, Gr., A, Duke
Josh Zawada, Gr., A, Duke
Owen Duffy, Fr., A, North Carolina
Billy Dwan, So., D, Syracuse
Owen Hiltz, Jr., A, Syracuse
Will Mark, Gr., G, Syracuse
Payton Cormier, Gr., A, Virginia
Cole Kastner, Sr., D, Virginia
Griffin Schutz, Jr., M, Virginia
Connor Shellenberger, Gr., A, Virginia

Notre Dame will play Virginia in the ACC semifinals on Friday. The winner will play Syracuse or Duke on Sunday for the ACC Tournament title.

No Notre Dame guys included here, but I think it's always interesting to read about the five-star recruits who didn't pan out.

Grace College center Elijah Malone, the 2024 Bevo Francis Award for the best player in small college basketball, announced this morning that he'll play his fifth year at Colorado.

Malone visited Notre Dame and Indiana during his transfer recruiting process as well.

The search for a big continues for the Irish ...

Notre Dame continues to evaluate ways it can improve the depth on its roster, and that even extends to the preferred walk-on running back/special teams contributor market.

The Irish hosted former Central Michigan running back Jake Tafelski this past weekend. Jeff Douglas captured a photo of him at Saturday's Blue-Gold Game.



Tafelski spent four seasons with the Chippewas but redshirted as a true freshman in 2020. The 6-foot, 220-pound product of Dearborn (Mich.) High played in 25 games at Central Michigan with most of his snaps occuring on special teams. He totaled seven carries for 21 yards and one touchdown and six receptions for 42 yards in his CMU career. He also recorded six tackles.

Tafelski is a graduate transfer with two seasons of eligibility remaining. As long as he gets into Notre Dame, I like his chances of ending up with the Irish.

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@RivalsFriedman highlighted five important visits upcoming for recruits in the East region. One is 2025 safety JaDon Blair's official visit to Notre Dame.


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Notre Dame 2025 point guard target Kayden Mingo was highlighted by Rob Cassidy following Session I of the Nike EYBL season for his defensive effort and motor.

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@Greg Smith was in Canton, Ohio, for Sunday's Under Armour camp. His Recruiting Rumor Mill from the event includes notes on three Notre Dame receruits: 2026 OL target Ben Nichols, 2025 OL commit Owen Strebig and 2025 WR target Talyn Taylor.


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We’re loaded at RB, but is the RB room FULL? My guess is yes and Edwards looks at KSU again.

Notre Dame men's lacrosse finished its regular season Saturday by completing a sweep of ACC opponents.

The No. 1 Irish capped a 4-0 conference record with an 11-9 victory over No. 5 Virginia.

Notre Dame (10-1) did so with a strong defensive performance. The Irish held Virginia (10-4, 1-3 ACC) to its lowest goal opponent since May 2022. The Cavaliers scored six goals in the first half but only managed six shots on goal in the second half.

Notre Dame goaltender Liam Entenmann saved 11 shots in the game. Virginia's Matthew Nunes saved 10, but he allowed 11 in a losing effort.

The 11 goals for Notre Dame are its second-lowest total of the season behind a 10-goal performance in an overtime loss to Georgetown in February.

Seven Notre Dame players accounted for goals in the win over Virginia. Devon McLane led the Irish with three goals. Pat Kavanagh and Jake Taylor both logged two goals. Chris Kavanagh, Jordan Faison, Jeffery Ricciardelli and Max Busenkell each put one in the net.

Faison scored the go-ahead goal at 10-9 with 9:12 remaining in the game. McLane beat the shot clock on an assist from Busenkell with 3:41 left to give Notre Dame a little breathing room.

Pat Kavanagh, a graduate student, added two assists to set Notre Dame's career points record with 274. He surpassed Randy Colley's 273, which was set in 1995. Chris Kavanagh, Pat's younger brother, and Busenkell also added tallied two assists on the attack.

The Irish picked up a season-high 50 ground balls. Entenmann and Will Lynch each picked up six ground balls.

Notre Dame's 10-1 record includes a 5-0 record against top-10 opponents this season. The Irish have won eight straight games in a season for the first time since winning 10 in a row during the 2012 season.

No. 1 seed Notre Dame and No. 4 seed Virginia will meet again Friday in Charlotte, N.C., at American Legion Memorial Stadium for the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. The game will be televised on ACC Network at 5 p.m. EDT.

No. 2 seed Syracuse (11-4, 3-1) and No. 3 seed Duke (11-4, 1-3) will play Friday at 8 p.m. The champonship game will be played Sunday, May 5, at 12 p.m.

BOX SCORE: Notre Dame 11, Virginia 9

@John Garcia Jr. was at the first OT7 7-on-7 tournament of the season in the Orlando, Fla., area.

He broke down the play of the major quarterbacks at the event, which included Notre Dame 2025 commit Deuce Knight and 2026 target Brady Hart.

Good stuff here.


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Blake Fisher is the second Notre Dame player selected in this year's NFL Draft.

I mentioned this name in my recruiting notes thread earlier. Now an offer has happened.

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2025 three-star ATH Dylan Robinson has received an offer from Notre Dame. The Irish are recruiting the La Verne (Calif.) Bonita product as a wide receiver. He attends the same school as 2025 LB target Noah Mikhail, so Notre Dame's had a chance to see him a few times now.

Robinson has been recruiting as a wide receiver or defensive back depending on the college program. Per MaxPreps, Robinson caught 22 passes for 514 yards and six touchdowns as a junior.

His relatively short offer list also includes UCLA, Utah, Washington, Arizona State, Penn State, Kansas and Boise State.

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Notre Dame football walk-on offensive tackle Quinn Murphy announced he has entered the transfer portal in a post on X/Twitter Thursday.

Our transfer tracker has been updated. Murphy is the second walk-on, in addition to running back Skip Velotta, to enter the transfer portal this offseason.


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So my daughter has settled on the University of Tennessee. Being from Michigan, this is a little bit of a change, but my daughter and I will be in Knoxville May 13-15th so that I can check out the school since I was not able to make the trip when she did her tour. We are staying at The Tennessean, could anyone recommend some good/great restaurants to eat at on the 14th?

Much appreciate any help anyone can provide.

New story from Pete Thamel and Dan Murphy at ESPN:

The leaders of college sports are involved in "deep discussions" to reach a legal settlement that would likely lay out the framework for sharing revenue with athletes in a future NCAA business model, sources told ESPN.

The NCAA and its power conferences are defendants in an antitrust class action lawsuit, House v. NCAA, which argues that the association is breaking federal law by placing any restrictions on how athletes make money from selling the rights to their name, image or likeness. The case is scheduled to go to court in January 2025. If the plaintiffs win at trial, the NCAA and its schools could be liable to pay more than $4 billion in damages, which has motivated many leaders across the industry to seek a settlement.

Sources indicated that a turning point in the discussions, which have been ongoing, came last week in the Dallas area, where the power conference commissioners, their general counsels, NCAA president Charlie Baker, NCAA lawyers and the plaintiffs' attorneys met. (They chose the Dallas area because they were already there for the College Football Playoff meetings, which were held in that area last week.)

While sources stressed that no deal is imminent, details about what a multi-billion-dollar settlement could look like are expected to be shared with campuses in the near future. There are myriad variables to get to the finish line and still some obstacles and objections at the campus level, but sources indicate that progress has ramped up in recent weeks.

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I'm working on fully updating The Heat Index tonight, which will be shared on the homepage tomorrow morning. But here's a quick rapid fire through some of the noteworthy updates for the 2025 class targets.

• Notre Dame has one cornerback spot remaining in the 2025 class following the commitment of Dallas Golden. I like Notre Dame's chances to land Mark Zackery for that spot better than Trystan Hayes.

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• The defensive line name to know right now is Jalen Wiggins. The Irish checked in on the Florida commit last week and aren't pushing hard yet, but they're trying to create an opportunity there.

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• A couple of linebacker targets have official visits schedule: Madden Faraimo for June 7-9. Gavin Nix for June 14-16.

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• WR Talyn Taylor has an official visit scheduled for June 14-16.

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• Notre Dame is also showing interest in 2025 WR Dylan Robinson. Irish are considering an offer there as they make sure they have options at the position.

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From @Greg Smith at the Under Armour Camp in Canton, Ohio yesterday:

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We'll throw updates in this thread when there are reports on where Notre Dame's undrafted free agents will be signing or heading for tryouts.

QB Sam Hartman signs with Washington Commanders, per NFL Media's Tom Pelissero.
K Spencer Shrader signs with Indianapolis Colts, per Notre Dame.
DB Thomas Harper signs with Los Angeles Chargers, per KPRC's Aaron Wilson.
LB Bo Bauer (one year later) signs with Commanders, per his agency.
LS Michael Vinson gets a rookie mini camp invite from Colts, per Notre Dame.

@Eric Hansen joins Pete Byrne of WSBT discuss Notre Dame's quarterback competition with Riley Leonard and Steve Angeli, the development at wide receiver, young players stepping up at linebacker and what head coach Marcus Freeman's summer check list should look like.

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