“NCAA Is Dead”: Paul Finebaum Sends Blunt Message on House Settlement After $2.8B Announcement Paul Finebaum reacts sharply to the $2.8B House settlement, declaring the NCAA is dead in the wake of the

Just one day after Texas passed a bill letting athletes over 17 sign contracts with schools for NIL, the long-running House v. NCAA lawsuit for $2.8 billion got its final stamp from U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken. This historic decision now clears the way for universities to pay athletes directly, marking a tidal shift in college sports. It’s a reckoning. Paul Finebaum isn’t mincing words, and if you tuned into ESPN’s SportsCenter with Jay Harris on June 7, you saw the longtime college football critic go nuclear. The man who’s spent decades propping up the pageantry of Saturdays just called time of death on the NCAA.

“I couldn’t help but think back about 10 years ago, when Mark Emmert, then the President of the NCAA, essentially said college athletes will be paid over my dead body