The Bold Type, with Commissioner Dan Butterly – Dec. 1, 2025

Good morning! 

On Saturday night time, we topped our last champions of the autumn at The Hawaiian Islands presents the 2025 Big West Women’s Volleyball Championship on the LBS Financial Credit Union Pyramid on the campus of Long Beach State. Congratulations to Cal Poly for profitable The Big West girls’s volleyball  titleand the automated qualfication into the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship.  A huge thanks to The Big West and Long Beach State’s workers and volunteers for internet hosting the championship over the Thanksgiving vacation. 

Best of luck to the Mustangs as the tackle No. 5 seed BYU on Thursday at 5 p.m. from the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Read extra >>> 

 

I’m hopeful that lots of you loved the Thanksgiving vacation with household and associates.  The time between Thanksgiving and the tip of the yr is a particular time to spend with household and associates, create recollections, and put together for the reward giving season. As you become older, I’ve realized you look much less for materials issues and extra for creating recollections.  As you put together for Cyber Monday or buying within the weeks forward, contemplate including experiences to your reward giving this season, whether or not that’s taking your loved ones to Disneyland, or sharing experiences with our student-athletes through the common season and Big West Championships.  The extra followers which can be within the stands, the higher the expertise for our student-athletes, whereas additionally creating enjoyable recollections with your loved ones and associates. Upcoming Big West Championships might be discovered through our web site right here.  

For our student-athletes profitable Fall Big West Championships, and to these of you that may rejoice future championships with us, the tune of the day is “Celebration” by Kool & The Gang.

This week, The Big West will host our Fall conferences, inclusive of our Faculty Athletics Representatives, Senior Woman Administrators, Directors of Athletics and Board of Directors (Chancellors and Presidents). There is quite a bit on every assembly agenda as we glance towards a greater, bolder Big West.  We sit up for the discussions, choices and spending time with one another.   

Let’s get to The Bold Type! 

   CONGRATULATIONS   

• To the 2025 Big West Cross Country Award winners! Read extra >>>  
• To the 2025 All-Big West Men’s Water Polo award winners, with student-athletes from all six establishments incomes distinction. Read extra >>> 
• To the fifty-one Big West student-athletes representing eight member-institutions who have been honored as members of the College Sports Communicators (CSC) 2025 Academic All-District® Men’s and Women’s Soccer Teams! Read extra >>> 
• To Big West Champion UC Davis males’s water polo, who will play No. 3 seed and host Stanford within the First Round of NC Water Polo Championship on Friday, Dec. 5, at 6 p.m. at Avery Aquatic Center. Read extra >>> 
• To the student-athletes and head coach who have been featured on the 2025 All-Big West girls’s volleyball awards listings! Read extra >>> 
• To the UC San Diego males’s basketball program who received the ESPN Invitational with wins over Temple, Bradley and Towson three straight days! Read more >>> UC San Diego males’s basketball has now received 22 straight non-NCAA Tournament video games.  

• To UC Santa Barbara males’s basketball who claimed the title on the 2025 Resorts World Las Vegas Classic on Saturday after wins over Lehigh and Seattle U! Read more >>> 
• To our wonderful Players of the Week! 
  

   THE BOLD BREAK BY CHLOE CLARK: LONG BEACH STATE’S LOGAN KING    

From Newmarket, Ontario, to Long Beach, California, Logan King’s journey has been one among cultural adaptation and athletic growth. 

Off the court docket, King has navigated new meals, social norms, and the tempo of life in Southern California. On the court docket, the redshirt freshman has adjusted to a quicker, extra intense enjoying fashion and a heightened athletic customary, making a mark in The Big West in a primary collegiate season. Read extra >>> 

   LET BIG WEST BASKETBALL CONFERENCE PLAY BEGIN!   

This Thursday beings convention play for Big West girls’s and males’s basketball – what we formally name “Bold Week”.  Please be a part of us in-person or watch on ESPN+ because the race to the Credit Union 1 Big West Basketball Championships begins.   

Our first Spectrum SportsInternet sport of the yr is that this Saturday, Dec. 6, that includes Long Beach State at defending champion UC San Diego girls’s basketball at 1 p.m. PT.   

   THE SCORE ACT TO BE VOTED UPON   

The House of Representatives announced final Wednesday it plans to carry a ground vote on The SCORE Act (H.R. 4312), presumably as quickly as December 3, 2025.   

If you click on the hyperlink inside this message, you possibly can see the summarized sections of the SCORE Act. Noteworthy are adjustments which were rumored and negotiated, together with the student-athlete illustration being a ‘minimum of 20%’ (silent on different percentages for teams) and the minimal sport sponsorship provision factoring in these with 14 or 15 sponsored sports activities. 

This bipartisan invoice can be overwhelmingly supported by the NCAA membership, together with faculty and student-athlete leaders throughout all three divisions and subdivisions, as a result of it successfully tackles our three priorities: making certain student-athletes are usually not workers of colleges, preempting patchwork of state legal guidelines, offering legal responsibility safety – priorities student-athlete leaders from all three divisions are advocating for. Check out the newest section by section of the invoice.  

 

The invoice additionally establishes student-athletes’ rights to healthcare, scholarship protections, NIL monetization and security requirements – all in keeping with present NCAA insurance policies.  

   MEDIA REPORTS FOCUSED ON NCAA AND LEGAL MATTERS   

• Triple Crown Sports introduced the National Invitational Volleyball Championship (NIVC) received’t be held in 2025. (link)  
• The Men’s and Women’s Basketball Oversight Committees have proposed that the notification-of-transfer home windows open for 15 days beginning after the conclusion of the 2026 Men’s and Women’s Final Fours. Under the proposals, which want DI Cabinet approval and would go into impact in April 2026, the DI girls’s basketball notification-of-transfer window would open April 6-20, whereas the boys’s would open April 7-21. (link) 
• Texas legal professional normal Ken Paxton has dispatched a three-page letter to the seven energy convention colleges throughout the Lone Star State urging them to not signal the College Sports Commission’s participation settlement  – “a document that binds the 68 power league programs together under new enforcement rules, most notably requiring them to waive their right to sue over infractions decisions” and “only enforceable if all members of the Big Ten, Big 12, SEC and ACC sign.” (link, link) 
• Former Tennessee Men’s Basketball student-athlete Zakai Zeigler is continuous his lawsuit in opposition to the NCAA, making an attempt to recoup what he says are thousands and thousands of {dollars} in NIL funds he would have earned by being permitted to play one other season for the Vols as a substitute of abroad, per the Knoxville News Sentinel’s Tyler Whetstone. While the criticism fails to define the injury quantity Zeigler is searching for, his unique submitting cited evaluation from Spyre Sports Group claiming he might have earned as much as $4M if eligible for the 2025-26 marketing campaign. Whetstone: “In denying his request, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Crytzer wrote Zeigler didn’t present the Four-Seasons Rule ‘produces substantial anticompetitive effects in the market.’ So Zeigler’s authorized group scrapped that argument and centered as a substitute on how they are saying the Four-Seasons Rule violates the Sherman Antitrust Act and the same state regulation as a result of it’s an illegal restraint available on the market. (link)  
• The Third Circuit Court issued a mandate overturning the decrease court docket’s preliminary injunction for Rutgers security Jett Elad. Boise State Asst. Professor Sam Ehrlich: “But in doing so, the court docket overturned their prior ruling (Smith) that NCAA eligibility guidelines should be noncommercial and never topic to antitrust. The court docket’s determination overturning the district court docket’s determination was primarily based on the decrease court docket’s failure to outline the related market, holding that courts should contemplate the adjustments in market circumstances post-Alston. This is a transparent pyrrhic victory for the NCAA. (link, link) 
• In the most recent House settlement growth, former Cal Poly swimming student-athletes Scott Iannaccone and Abigail Leight have filed an attraction to U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken’s order overruling objections to the continuation of the Injunctive Relief Settlement. (link) 

   QUOTE OF THE DAY   

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward 

I hope you all loved the Thanksgiving vacation! 

Dan