The NCAA v. House case made waves during the college football offseason, bringing lightning changes to the already transforming landscape. In a recent ruling, a federal judge allowed the Division I colleges to share up to $20.5 million in revenue with their athletes.
The ruling sent shockwaves through the sports world and has left many different types of businesses scrambling to capitalize, including an NFL agency that just signed an LSU staffer to help it navigate the world of NIL.
LSU Director of Player Development Leaves for Agency Due to NIL Chaos
Jordan Arcement, who has served as LSU football’s director of player development since 2023, is leaving for a job with Athletes First, one of the biggest sports agencies in the world.
On3’s Pete Nakos reports that his role with Athletes First will be to “assist in adapting to the revenue sharing era of college football.”
LSU personnel staffer Jordan Arcement has been hired by Athletes First to assist in adapting to the revenue sharing era of college football, a source tells @On3sports.
Arcement has experience on the team side with negotiation and managing a multi-million dollar budget.… pic.twitter.com/txEoMJFdJ8
— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos_) June 9, 2025
This is yet another domino in what seems to be a chain reaction of changes to the college football world since the ruling was announced. Arcement was one of the main leaders in NIL for the Tigers, and now he has left, or better yet, been poached by a sports agency.
The revenue sharing of college football should allow agencies like Athletes First to capitalize on college athletes more than ever. With college athletes being paid directly by the schools, the opportunity for an agency to negotiate contracts and profit from those signings is more accessible than ever.
Not only is this a huge shift in the way that college football seems to be heading, but Arcement’s departure is a huge blow for LSU, as Arcement has been essential to their NIL, recruiting, and on-field player development.
The college football world is changing and changing fast, and it’s clear that the revenue-sharing world is creating more chaos than ever before.
It will be interesting to see if other historically professional sports agencies make similar moves to Athletes First in an effort to not only understand how the revenue sharing will work but also profit from it.
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This is the type of thing that college football fans have been dreading since NIL was first introduced, and it’s starting to feel like the House v. NCAA ruling has officially opened the floodgates of chaos.
We’ll see what other effects the ruling has on college football, but Arcement’s hiring to Athletes First is certainly the first of many.
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