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Stanford is an interesting case. I'm not sure they want to do what it takes to win at a high level, but they should be better. When I think of Stanford, I think about Notre Dame without the history of success. ND is flooded with money and puts it into the football program. They have their own TV network. Don't look now, but they are ranked #12 and have a relatively easy schedule with Pitt being the toughest game. They should win out and be back in the playoffs. I think Freeman is a good coach and has a good background in paying players from his time at OSU. The ACC deal is perfect for ND.

That makes a lot more sense, I was going to say $20 to see an exhibition is wild

I was hoping you forgot.

I believe you still have one coming from a win from a couple of years ago but for some reason have not picked it up.

The FIBA websites are currently inoperable, but I thought Oggi was shown getting major minutes for Serbia's either U-20 team or earlier at U-17 in international comp. Besides the team in Bosnia he played for last season, he earlier was part of Partizan Belgrade, a major well known Euro sporting club, probably on their youth team. I also found a SI story pointing to the interest Kansas coach Bill Self (among many ranked programs) had in the Yugo. His height is listed as either 6-5 or 6-6 in all the sites I saw, but that could have been 17/18 y.o. Kansas Could Pivot to New European Recruit Following Dame Sarr Miss https://www.si.com/college/kansas/basketball/kansas-could-pivot-to-new-european-recruit-ognjen-stankovic-following-dame-sarr-miss

What does this mean in terms of his two-way eligibility? Can he still be called up and active at any time?

So you want them to be ranked ~#125 instead of #136 as that will somehow dramatically improve the state of the conference. Thanks for answering my question

Where does UMass rank among the 8?

The card shop I work at on the weekends had a Panini redemption for an Enrique Freeman rookie auto. After learning that I PC Freeman, the shop owner gave the redemption to me. The card arrived today from Panini. Love seeing Zips on official sports cards!

I would make a guess, but I don't want to risk winning the bobblehead.

There's a free Matthew Wilson bobblehead for the first person to guess tonight's starting five correctly!

Pitched two flawless innings.

I would add in alumni base. I mentioned Mark Cuban and Ellison emerging as big boosters. Neither accumulated their fortunes in the states they attended college. You need a large network of successful alumni. Theoretically a school like Stanford could generate an unfathomable amount of money given their connection to Silicon Valley. At the same time they likely pride themselves on academics too much for that to be the case.

To be fair, Cincinnati is also a P4. But Cincinnati is still #2 in a one-school state, and your greater point is 100% correct.

Good post. I think a lot of it is going to revolve around not just one person, but the wealth in a state, the number of P5 schools in a state and how the money is divided up. For example, OSU is the only P5 school in a state with three major population centers. Mississippi State and Mississippi are two schools in a poor state with little population. There aren't many Uber wealthy people in Mississippi. Oregon is a small state, but tech has created a lot of very wealthy people who have more than car dealership money.

What exactly is MAC-strong? Per Massey, the MAC has 8 out of the bottom 25 teams in all of FBS.

Hopefully Akron gets a mention or two during the series 👍🦘

He was just taking a little nap since the Schmuckeyes were on a bye week. Now he has another vital job to do in rooting them on to covering the 21 point spread against the dreaded Nits. Yes, this is a must win for us. Although now that UMass is in the league, we need for them to get MAC-strong. I'll go with the Vegas line as my prediction whenever it comes out. I think technically we are on our bye week now (week 10) and the UMass game counts as week 11.

If the Zips go all in and outZip themselves, losing to 0-8 UMass, at least it'll be on a sparsely attended Tuesday night for the 135th highest attended FBS school.

This NIL era is still new and programs are still jockeying for position. I think some programs are a given such as; Ohio State, Texas, Georgia, Michigan (especially since Larry Ellison's wife who is a former alumni has took an interest), and Texas A&M to be at or near the top in spending. Oregon is certainly up there in spending, but much of that comes from Phil Knight. Who knows if that money keeps flowing in once he passes. I know Oklahoma State appears to have suffered from their billionaire philanthropist passing away. Indiana was a minnow in the college football world, but ever since NIL several wealthy alumni, including Mark Cuban, have become more involved. I'm sure more billionaires boosters will emerge and some might just get bored and quit giving.

I feel part of the issue with highlight reels is that you only ever see the good, not the flaws. The league he played in I frankly never heard of. I'm sure it's a higher level of competition than the MAC, but from my own ignorance I'm not sure how it compares to college basketball as a whole. He was an 8th or 9th man on his team. He's coming to Akron, which already has a lot of guard depth. He also joined the team late so he has just maybe 2 months now to learn the system. Compared to ~5 months to years for the other guys he'll be fighting for minutes. He can certainly earn playing time, but I see his minutes ramping up as the season progresses.

https://www.footballscoop.com/2025/10/27/joe-harasymiak-umass-fbs-head-coach-takes-on-scout-team-role-as-injuries-mount

No clue, but I've wondered the same.