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The SEC is drawing a hard line on the pro-to-college pipeline. All sixteen conference members unanimously approved a new policy that would suspend any coach who brings back a player from the NFL, NBA, or WNBA. This is the conference putting its foot down on what it sees as a competitive imbalance, and the message is clear — that door is closing fast.
And the NFL is firing back from the other direction. The league is set to notify all thirty-two teams that any player who leaves for the college ranks this season will be locked out of NFL rosters for two thousand twenty-six. So players eyeing that return to campus now have a serious price to weigh — one year of college ball could cost them a full NFL season.
Meanwhile, a franchise just changed hands for nearly ten billion dollars. NFL owners voted unanimously to approve the sale of the Seattle Seahawks from the Paul Allen estate to a group led by Vinod Khosla, a limited partner with the San Francisco forty-niners. Nine point six one two billion dollars makes this one of the most expensive sports transactions in history, and Seattle has a new era ahead.
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