GMG_Dallas

Can't do a relegation system until media money is tied to all of FBS and not broken down by conference. Then you do like European soccer leagues do where you incentive teams based on ranking. In the British Premier League for example, teams get a base media payout, then a payout for each time they're nationally televised, and payouts based on national and international rankings. It works for them. Why can't it work here?

College sports was destroyed over $600 and a $60plustax game?

Didn't want to start a new thread but thought this was funny.

In Europe, players start being treated as professionals from a young age. When you join an academy over there, you do everything at the academy. It's like being in college here. They live, eat, do their schooling at the academy on top of playing the game and this can start in elementary school. Getting a player from Europe means getting somebody who's been living the lifestyle of a college student for over a decade. I doubt it's to that level for football but for basketball (and other sports) it is. I have family over there and knew a guy in an academy for judo (France regularly has olympic medalists in judo) who lived like that in middle school. Away from family and following a strict daily schedule to progress in the national ranks. Again, getting at least basketball players from over there would mean getting guys mature far beyond their age.

The top 2 picks of the NBA draft are French as well as number 6 so 3 in the top 10. Plus all the Serbians, Germans, Spaniards, and Argentinians we've seen over the years. We should absolutely be recruiting basketball players internationally if the budget allows. Edit to add the number 1 pick of the 2023 NBA draft was also French and had a great first year: Wembanyama.

I honestly didn't read all that. I was making a joke. Relax.

I've got a coworker who played for Indiana in the late 90s and he said at Michigan was something else.

A P4 excited about unranked commits? My oh my how the mighty have fallen.

In Cash we trust

You're going to run out of coaching candidates if every time one doesn't work, you exclude future candidates who meet the same criteria as failed ones.

"Yes."

I believe he said the best offensive backcourt. They're probably the most talented we've seen. Win a championship and they can enter the conversation of greatest along with Chauncey Billups/Rip Hamilton, Manu Ginobili/Tony Parker, Joe Dumars/Isaiah Thomas, and Steph Curry/Klay Thompson.

Cut Deuce Vaughn and sign Wilson is the move. Zeke still has a role as a goal line back and pass blocker. Vaughn just looks lost.

I am so in before the lock again.

In before the lock. I have nothing of value to provide on this topic.

Still took an L, though.

Unless he was told he no longer had a spot at Tulsa. I think it's been said before but aren't scholarships on a yearly basis now?

I'm also counting week Zero as a win. 5-2 heading into the FAU match-up.

Looked at JJ's Eastfield stats for comparison and he averaged 18.9 ppg in 32 games, hit 20 points or more in 15 games, and scored a game-high of 45 against (Dallas) Richland College. Nothing against this guy as I've never seen him play but I hope this is a PWO. Would be great for him to come in and earn a scholarship like JJ did.

I'm young. Derek Thompson and Andrew McNulty.

I don't see the eventual SEC/BIG10 vs the world thing working out long-term. Sure, USC-Michigan may be fun once in a while but there's no history to support the matchup. There's no regional rivalry. Those college kids aren't a 2 hour drive away to terrorize each other. Eventually, they're going to alienate half the college football fanbase because some of us may watch these games on Saturdays right now because it's football and it's a new match-up but they mean nothing to us long-term either so we won't keep watching them. I don't care to watch an SEC or BIG10 game if it means nothing to the greater landscape of college football. These are not the games football fans want, it's the games networks want. It will fail. An Oregon State fan will never be an Oregon fan. A Texas Tech fan will never be a Texas fan. A Florida State fan will never be a Florida fan. The markets are what they are. They won't change. Not anytime soon at least. Good luck, networks. This is why y'all keep cutting your staff and losing money (especially you, ESPN).

If I'm being completely honest, I don't even really care who turns into commits. I've had a hard time caring about the recruiting cycles in football lately. You get guys, several don't even make it to campus or leave before the fall, and others end up being busts so the hype isn't even worth investing in emotionally. Basketball is more steady, IMO.

And their football program has won 3 bowl games and 2 conference championships in the 7 or 8 seasons since it was brought back. They do a great job with recruiting in both football and basketball and seem to get a lot of support/private funding.

That school has really got athletics figured out.

I need help here. Is this the most accomplished/experienced transfer class we've had in the McCasland/Hodge era(s)? Not asking about how those classes panned out, just the class itself at commitment/signing. I feel we needed to be sold a lot more during other recent recruiting cycles. This is all looking really good.