March 3, 2026 by Sports Illustrated
Iowa State AD says issue was with players, coaches and parents, but players off the record state the same issues have existed prior to 2018 with the athletic staff so it couldn't just be the current players!
about nation.enterprises
nation.enterprises inc. was established in 2025 by Sport Venture Group and a diverse shareholder group including former team members from Goldman Sachs, adidas, TaylorMade, Coca-Cola, Visa and Disney as the investment vehicle for nation.university and nation.academy to integrate the pathway of youth to collegiate sport through a singular multi-sport platform designed to enhance talent development at every level and sector of sport.
We are principals, NOT a private equity company, we license olympic sport brands from collegiate level schools offsetting the school’s expense, compensate them with licensing fees and revenue sharing, and build an affinity toward the school through our youth sport platform.
about nation.university
nation.university is the collegiate licensing arm of nation.enterprises. It plans to license Olympic sports from universities and colleges that are under pressure to cut Olympic sport programs and to generate revenue. How do we do this?
First, we license the the program(s) from the school. Second, we take over the annual budgets saving the schools millions per annum. Third, we pay the school a licensing and revenue share of marketing rights. Fourth, we create a new league and cup model that reduces operating costs and enhances competition. Fifth, we create a new marketing and media platform. Sixth, we connect the collegiate platform, that is now outside the NCAA, with the youth market. Seventh, after year 3 we begin selling sub-licenses to qualified sub-licensees.
about nation.academy
nation.academy is the youth sport arm of nation.enterprises. It plans to develop sport campuses to support nation.university, nation.academy and all their inclusive needs for high quality talent development. How do we do this?
We plan to develop 100+ Acre youth sport campuses that include the required competition and training facilities for both collegiate and youth. The campuses will feature stadiums, arenas and training facilities in line with the best clubs in the world. The campuses will also feature on site sport charter schools to maximize education and training schedules, but will NOT participate in state high school sport leagues. The campuses will also feature 500+ hotel rooms for weekday league and weekend events. Lastly, we may develop multi and single family hosuing.
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olympic sports in the news
Univ. of Nebraska football players challenging College Sports Commission for rejected NIL deals
A group of 18 Univ. of Nebraska football players are challenging the College Sports Commission (CSC) over rejected NIL deals, according to Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. The players “are challenging more than a million dollars of third-party NIL deals rejected” by CSC. “Husch-Blackwell, a national law firm familiar with handling college athletics cases,” has been retained in the case. “Multiple university administrators” tell Dellenger that their athletes are also considering arbitration after rejected NIL contracts.
College Sports Commission CEO says system struggling with volume of ‘manufactured’ NIL deals
The CEO of the College Sports Commission, the new body charged with approving athletes’ outside name, image and likeness (NIL) deals, said Tuesday the organization is running into unexpected challenges due to a surge of school-affiliated deals it believes do not comply with the rules the schools themselves established.
Iowa State terminates women’s gymnastics during season
Iowa State Cyclones made an incredibly difficult decision to suspend their women’s gymnastics season after only four competitions on Feb. 8. Conflicts arose between individual teammates, members of the coaching staff and parents that made it impossible for the team to operate properly. However, several players have reported off the record the systemic issues with the program dating back before 2018 across several atheltic staff and coaches that does not sync with the timeline this was a current player issue but the same issues related to lack of funding of the program as the key issue.
Trump’s College Sports Roundtable Includes No College Athletes (or Coaches)
Next week, President Donald Trump is set to host a roundtable to discuss the future of college sports. But no current college athletes (or active coaches) were invited to participate, according to a list of invitees obtained by Front Office Sports. The list is subject to change. But it offers a window into the type of group Trump hoped to assemble to discuss issues plaguing college sports.
Marshall Cuts Women’s Swimming While Competing at Conference Championships
This week should be an exciting one for athletes on Marshall’s women’s swimming and dive team, who are competing at the American Athletic Conference championships in Greensboro, N.C., through Saturday. Instead it has become, in the words of a parent of one of the swimmers, a “whirlwind of emotions” following the news that the university has decided to cut the team at the end of the season. That means as many 30 scholarship athletes will need to decide whether to transfer or end their college careers when the conference tournament is over.
Schools on Hook for $303M NCAA Volunteer Coaches Settlement
The NCAA on Thursday announced it finalized a payment structure for a $303 million settlement that resolves a class action brought on behalf of individuals who worked as “volunteer” coaches for schools’ Division I teams, except baseball, sometime between March 17, 2019, and June 30, 2023—the date when the NCAA lifted a bylaw that capped the number of coaches.
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