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Happy for Fulford. Full circle for him.

Looks like Stevenson will be part of the TST on ESPN this summer.

I wasn't trying to suggest that the basketball players generate the most revenue. Just stating that the NCAA is essentially a pro league revenue wise, but the athletes have gotten less than pennies on the dollar for decades. It will be interesting to see how this all settles.

https://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/finances Is $30-40k per year for education and room & board enough for athletes that generate tens of millions if not hundreds of millions in revenue for a school? If not, then the fundamental question becomes how is a player's financial compensation married with the end goal of higher education - the degree? The difference in schools - degree-wise - are largely indistinguishable for the majority of athletes as the different types of majors realistically available for student athletes is limited. That's why the NCAA is in this mess today. "Suits" in both Indianapolis and at the individual schools have reaped the financial benefits of the athletes without either 1) allowing the athletes to also reap the benefits via NIL or 2) being directly compensated fairly by the schools. Based on the revenue generation for football and basketball, the NCAA should be the 2nd highest paying basketball league in the world.

Ding ding ding. Cars (pretty much all of them), housing/food for families (pretty much all of them), tattoos (Ohio State), escorts (Louisville and probably others), etc. It's visibly a lot crazier now, but it was so much dirtier before.

Not shocked by Wasel given the reports at the Spring Game. Hester is a surprise. I'm ok with 3rd & 4th string guys hitting the portal. We need the scholarships to find win-now talent and depth.

Interesting. Ohio chooses to use a scholly on a high school recruit.

Props to Duquesne on including Akron

Note the "#Team109" that is clearly stolen from Groce/Akron.

Praying both scenarios are synonymous.

Not a Zips player, but the Browns 6th round pick - Nathaniel Watson - was a Moorhead recruit at Mississippi State. Spent the first 2 years at MSU under JoeMo. Another NFL feather in the cap for our HC. Can't wait until he starts pumping Akron players into the NFL.

The crazy Hurley gets a big time commitment.

The only reason to recruit high schoolers is to build a connection for when they almost inevitably hit the transfer portal.

Ironically...

Still a lot of players in the Portal, but we're #11 after our terrific class. Dru has done well in the past week. Good for him. Something interesting. Akron is 1 spot behind Indiana, who spent well north of $1M in NIL.

I'll let you know once I hear back from SBU.

Glad to hear the turnout was good. The University lacks effective marketing at times but a good spring game turnout shows there's some community excitement for the program. I didn't attend so I'll only be adding some random thoughts. - Would be cool if the University live streamed the game on GoZips.com or YouTube. Just set up some cameras, have a student run the switch (or even just have one camera with no angle changes), and let fans who couldn't attend view it. - WVU had Pat White & Pat McAfee coach their spring game. I wonder if we could get Hixon and Blackburn or some other OG Brookhart guys to come back and participate next year. - Can we move Bullock to TE?

Man, Duquesne is really (Kent yellow) peeing themselves in excitement to induct everyone into their (probably bare) Hall of Fame. Sheesh.

I would certainly agree with this. He's your 7th man that provides a big offensive boost when you need it. Our Jack Gholke.