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I used to live and breathe HS recruiting, but I barely pay attention now. One basic premise that is completely out of date IMO is how volume impacts the team rating system. USC has recruited 30 players out of HS for 2026 and has the #1 class….cool story bro. What if your program is in a good place and only needs 13 HS players for 2026? If your coach has been around a while and you still need 30 HS players, that is not a positive in 2025.

This is where it's headed, and it's all because 50 years ago the NCAA latched onto its "Student-Athlete" model and would not let go. Penalize players for getting jobs, or loans to buy a hamburger. Meanwhile the coaches and schools. conferences, TV networks are making $$$, but they're professionals. Now, because the NCAA has been inert, the players are professionals in every sense of the word. Back in the day players wanted to play for their school. It meant something to them. But then we got the players skipping "meaningless" bowl games to protect their NFL viability. Now players are coming to the school that will give them the best NIL deal. Money is driving the Playoff structure, and the players don't have to wait for the NFL to "show them the money"

Thank you, Steven A. I note that the 1st team Clemson DL guys were on last season's team that lost 4 games. Archie Manning has started two games vs. G6 opponents. PFF may like the Vandy TE, but where, except for 23andMe, is the supporting data for Archie being 1st team? The 2nd team and 3rd team QBs match up in the opening game, which sees LSU playing Clemson. Maytayo should have been All-B1G last season and is underrated here. I think OL Isiah World could have joined transfers Thieneman and Hughes. Nice to see Poncho on the list.

LSU wins it all, but not without controversy. Coastal Carolina coach Kevin Schnall ejected in first inning vs. LSU in heated start to CWS Finals Game 2 - On3 WWW.ON3.COM In the bottom of the first inning of Game 2 of the College World Series, Coastal Carolina head coach Kevin Schnall was ejected. SEC sites were quick to claim LSU's 8 titles superior to USC's 12 titles because, TA DA!, LSU played more difficult schedules.

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There's some news that the ACC and Big 12 were desperate to break up the power couple of the B1G and SEC. Will the B1G wield it's power and vote to keep the playoff at 12 if the SEC doesn't back off the 8 game conference slate? It's going to cost everybody money because more playoff teams means more money for the conference, I think it was 3.2 million after disbursement. Notre Dame gets about 16 million I think, that's the biggest winner in any format imo. In my perfect world the B1G and SEC would use their power to force Notre Dame to make a decision. After that the SEC would go to 9 games like everyone else, and they would eliminate the static two season opponent home/away slate. The ACC and Big 12 would get a guarantee of three teams should they meet the criteria. The G5 would get a bid if they finish in the top 20. No byes, and the first two rounds would be on campus. Will any of that happen? I doubt it, too many egos in the room to be made to look weak for compromising. Greg Sankey has been getting away with more bluster than anybody not named Notre Dame. Should he be seen as compromising, he would lose some of his so called mystique.

I'm a Gator fan, not an SEC flag waver. I have tired of the whole argument and hyping of the SEC bottom feeders.What are we doing here? Ole Miss, South Carolina, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, and Vanderbilt are now yearly tough games? I can't even brag about Florida because it's been fifteen years since they've done anything. I don't celebrate or try to claim some quasi third party of separation victory from Georgia or Alabama. Those two have been dominant, they deserve the bragging rights.

If Wisconsin loses its lawsuit against Miami, then is any direct revenue share contract between a school and an adult player enforceable? If not enforceable, the transfer portal timelines are meaningless. So long as another school is willing to enroll a player, a player may 'transfer' whenever he and his agents so desire. So says the player's attorney, and by lack of any response to date, so says the University of Miami. As the CBS Sports article points out, in the NFL, tampering has consequences. The Dolphins were fined $1.5 million for tampering with Tom Brady. Behind the Wisconsin v. Miami tampering lawsuit over transfer DB Xavier Lucas that was months in the making - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM And what comes next could -- stop us if you've heard this before -- change college football Note that the contract the player signed was the standard for direct revenue share agreements approved by the Big Ten. One issue to be resolved, if the case goes to judgment and is not settled, is that the agreement, consistent with the NCAA's head-in-the-sand approach of not referring to the recipients of revenue sharing as 'employees', does not refer to the player as such. The contract is an assignment of an athlete's Name, Image, and Likeness for the term of the agreement. As the B1G is responsible for approving the form of the contract, it isn't surprising that the conference is supporting Wisconsin's lawsuit. You've got to know when to fold up. I am not aware of any law that requires colleges and universities to offer athletic scholarships and to fund athletic teams. As I asked in another post on this subject, is it time for schools to inform the world that this is it for college-supported athletics? Or at least this is it for anything other than an Ivy League no-athletic-scholarships approach? Do this, and I think Congress may be forced to act. Or, teams will be granted the use of a school's trademark, but the teams will be minor league professional teams for the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, etc.

B1G Ranking By 2025-26 Estimated Revenue - Private schools USC and NW not included. Revenues are rounded and shown below in millions of dollars. 1. Ohio State - 188 2. Michigan - 166 3. Nebraska - 142 4. Penn State - 142 5. Wisconsin - 132 6. Iowa - 118 7. Michigan State - 117 8. OREGON - 112 9. Minnesota - 103 10. Indiana - 102 11. Washington - 102 12. Purdue - 98 13. Illinois - 94 14. Maryland - 82 15. UCLA - 82 16. Rutgers - 77 Here's an analysis of the 2024 Big Ten revenues and expenditures, which includes revenues for the Pac-12 newcomers in 2024. Oregon is one of the approximately half of the conference teams with an athletic department that finished in the black. Big Ten athletic departments’ 2024 financial statements: Seven lessons from a data deep dive SPORTS.YAHOO.COM The athletic departments of the Big Ten’s 16 public universities generated nearly $2.84 billion in revenue during the 2024 fiscal year but collectively spent nearly $3 billion, according to financial... The private schools did not report revenues and expenses.

The USC direct payment distribution plan seems to be typical of schools with a big-time football program. LA Times report looks at USC revenue sharing plans following NCAA House settlement TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM A recent report from the Los Angeles Times looked at the Trojans' plan to attack this new era of college sports Michigan weighs in on B1G direct payments, including the revenue for each B1G program. The $20.5 million cap on distributions helps the teams with less revenue keep up with Michigan and Ohio State. When the B1G media agreements are renegotiated in 2029-30, I think the B1G will follow the ACC and distribute media revenue based upon the 'Eyes On the Prize' number of TV viewers, and 'Eat What You Kill' distribution of PO money going to the teams that earned the money. How revenue sharing should be distributed across the Big Ten Conference WWW.MAIZENBREW.COM With every athletic department in the Big Ten generating varying amounts of revenue, yet expected to distribute the same $20.5 million to athletes in 2025, economic disparities are already...

Thanks, G. The B12 does support the 11-5 format, but at least as of today, like the B1G, the B12 does not want the PO to expand unless the SEC plays 9 conference games. I do give Greg Sankey a pass on last season's fouled-up format—a format designed for 5 Power Conferences. He was able to eliminate a second G6 team as an automatic qualifier, but could not reach an agreement on changing the format to seeding that matched the rankings. As you note, last season's field was so unbalanced that 10 conferences and Notre Dame voted for this needed change in 2025-26. Of course, the 'balance issues' were exacerbated by the committee for no good reason ranking G6 Boise State the 9th best team in the nation. This screwed ASU fans out of a game in Glendale, Arizona instead of Atlanta. Is the 4-4-2-2-1-3 format (B1G format) bad for the ACC and B12? Looking back from the inception of the BCS in 1998, and projecting what a 16-team field would have been, the B1G would have had the most participants, followed closely by the SEC. Two teams each for the ACC and the B12 would have helped both conferences, especially the B12. Among his duplicitous comments regarding the B1G format, Sankey suggests that a guarantee of only 4 teams in the field would hurt the SEC. True in that all three 9-3 'left out' SEC teams would have been in last season's 5- 11, 16-team field. Notre Dame would score one of the three at-large bids every season, and the other two at-large bids could go to the B1G and SEC teams. Is there a reasonable SEC fan (an oxymoron?) who, after the 2024-25 postseason, believes six SEC teams deserved to be in the field? Does anyone with a modicum of objectivity believe that the SEC commissioner and SEC ADs, before arriving at the SEC spring meetings, were not aware that SEC coaches wanted to stay at 8 conference games? And that an ESPN FPI pamphlet justifying 8 games because of the brutality of the SEC schedule just happened to be lying (lie-ing?) around? At this point, without the SEC agreeing to play nine conference games, I'd as soon see CFB leave multi-millions of dollars on the table and stay with a 12-team field through the conclusion of the ESPN broadcast agreement, 2031-32. With the condition that the Football Committee uses disclosed metrics, as does the CBB Committee, and none of the metrics come from an ESPN computer. (Unfortunately, CFB has a weekly rankings show, but the shows are built into the ESPN broadcast agreement, and ESPN will not give up the revenue.) Use the CBB model and move the start of the Season to Week 0, and also consider dumping or flex-scheduling conference champ games. This season's CFB champ game will be played on 1/19/26. In 2026-27, without a change to the schedule, the season will conclude on 1/25/28. CFB PO games will not have more viewers than NFL PO games. I also see no reason for continuing the Greg Sankey suggested Advisory Committee. I have no beef with the SEC fans who want to play nine conference games instead of N-E-W-S Directional State. No beef with a Florida team playing 11 P4 games in 2025, and other SEC teams that play 10 P4 opponents. Tony Petitti and Brett Yormark need to call the SEC and the ACC's 8 conference games bluff.

Chicanery? I agree 1000%. Let us not forget skullduggery (Merriam Webster's definition says see Greg Sankey!). It seems like the seeding can only be as good as the rankings; how good are the rankings when most of the SEC is ranked in the top 25? I am inclined to believe that Sankey would not be such a blowhard if the SEC was assured of making the most money annually; by conference and team. Money talks and it would say the SEC is best according to Sankey the Spin Doctor.

I think they are missing Kenyon Sadiq Athlon Sports Releases Preseason All-Americans WWW.SI.COM Vanderbilt had one player named to the preseason teams and it wasn't quarterback Diego Pavia.

I truly believe that Dan and his staff will not overpay for talent in the near future which may change over time. However if there is a dire need to over spend for a no-miss recruit then that might change their approach. The team at the present time is very solid and I expect that to continue although we may be forced to use the portal pretty heavily in the next couple of years. I have no problem with A&M training these kids and overpaying to buy a team. How well has that worked for them so far. Go s

Travis Hunter gets record rookie deal. Former Colorado football star Travis Hunter signs record rookie deal with Jaguars COLORADOBUFFALOESWIRE.USATODAY.COM After a few months of negotiation, Travis Hunter signs his rookie contract with the Jaguars with a rare twist to his signing bonus.

Two sport 4* offered. No 2026 QBs yet? What 4-Star Quarterback Recruit Matt Ponatoski Said About Dan Lanning, Oregon Ducks WWW.SI.COM Oregon Ducks football coach Dan Lanning and baseball coach Mark Wasikowski are recruiting four-star quarterback/shortstop Matt Ponatoski. Ponatoski is fresh off

Hummmm, offering the brother, I wonder how many other schools did that? Oregon football offers brother of 5-star OT Immanuel Iheanacho DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM The Oregon Ducks extended a scholarship offer to Michael Iheanacho, the brother of a major 5-star target on Sunday.

And Okie and Vandy beat up 'Bama, the strength of schedule is what the ESPN computer says it is, nobody is crowing louder than ESECPN about how great the SEC is, that the football product must be dominated by SEC teams. We DESERVE to only play 8 conference games.

Prediction: Oregon poised to land 5-star recruit Immanuel Iheanacho Prediction: Oregon poised to land 5-star recruit Immanuel Iheanacho WWW.SPORTINGNEWS.COM Oregon is closing in on a 5-star commitment

Iheanacho moves up commitment date. Oregon Ducks 5-Star Recruiting Target Immanuel Iheanacho Moving Commitment Date? WWW.SI.COM The Oregon Ducks hosted five-star offensive line recruit Immanuel Iheanacho for his final official visit of the summer before his scheduled commitment date of A

The ACC and Big 12 have sided with Sankey mostly because accepting the 4-4-2-2-4 model is like admitting they really are little brothers. The B1G is pushing for the SEC to get to 9 conference games, the SEC will use the strength of schedule argument to say its seasons are already tougher, and the B1G top beats up on its bottom. I don't know about any of you, but I'm over this old men in suits arguing over an extra million when they are already making billions. Let me know who's in, make the regular season still matter, and don't totally exclude the G5. Arizona State and Boise State were great stories, so was SMU and Indiana. Let's just seed the teams based off their true ranking please. Oregon would've made it to the CFP if they were in the Notre Dame/Penn State bracket. How in the heck did you reward Oregon for it's undefeated season by giving them Ohio State or Tennessee in the Rose? Meanwhile you gave Penn State the Boise State Broncos. Even if Oregon had gotten Tennessee and if they beat them, they would get Texas. Tell me which side is balanced. Oregon, Arizona State, Texas, Ohio State , Tennessee and Clemson vs Georgia(backup QB), Boise State, Notre Dame, Penn State, SMU and Indiana.

Will USC Explode or Implode? https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/usc-football-preview-2025-trojans-season-prediction-win-total-projection-top-players I like the predicted loss to OBD.

Can Luke Moga catch the ball? Be interesting to see him run with the receivers to see if his size and speed could create problems for a defense. Seems like a great athlete, and would love to seem him get some playing time.

Thunder No. 55, Isaiah Hartenstein is the son of former Duck basketball player Flo Hartenstein (played 112 games in late 1990's) Both Isaiah's parents: Flo and Theresa were U of Oregon students. Older sister Jasmine and Isaiah were born in Eugene where mom Theresa held the family together while Flo played in Germany. Then, reunite in the off-season. After playing, Flo became a coach in Germany. Isaiah moved to Germany with mom and Jasmine when he was 11.

I'm going to trust you and some others I've seen pushing this, it is a bit nerve racking to see so many recruits going to other programs though. I know I need to trust Lanning and others on this since they haven't really steered the program wrong so far.