Eighty-one scholarship players left Big Ten rosters during the two weeks the portal was open in April, and the conference took in nearly as many. Oregon and Penn State lost nine apiece. That is one conference in one window, and it is now the ordinary rhythm of the sport rather than a crisis in it. Michigan is worth looking at only because its offseason was the most compressed. Dusty May left for the Dallas Mavericks on June 22, weeks after winning a national championship, and

Most leadership failures in sports don’t come from a lack of effort or discipline—they come from leaders who were promoted for performance without developing the skills or identity required to lead others. That pattern reveals a broader truth about leadership, particularly in athletics: most people are promoted for performance, not for leadership readiness, and the two are not the same thing.

The sporting world watched with interest over the past six weeks as Lane Kiffin, former head football coach at Ole Miss, went through a very public game of “The (football) Bachelor”.