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Also Chicago State only has like 2,500 students? I’m going to assume it’s largely a commuter school? Guessing this would be an FCS team, so, whatever. Good luck to them.
 

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Kirk Ferentz really has a teflon kind of vibe about him. The Iowa administration is going to just keep on keeping on I guess.
 

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Kirk Ferentz really has a teflon kind of vibe about him. The Iowa administration is going to just keep on keeping on I guess.
Seriously? Writing checks this big has to have an impact.

And how the hell do they successfully recruit black players?
 

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As a tax payer in Iowa, it's fucking asinine.
I'm not into cancel culture, but when Iowa athletics asks citizens to pay the bill for their issues, it will no doubt rub a lot of Iowans the wrong way.

Fuck the Ferentz'z and fuck the ad gary barta.
 

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As a tax payer in Iowa, it's fucking asinine.
I'm not into cancel culture, but when Iowa athletics asks citizens to pay the bill for their issues, it will no doubt rub a lot of Iowans the wrong way.

Fuck the Ferentz'z and fuck the ad gary barta.


Look at LSU a fews years ago with the state. Louisiana was having all kinda of short falls for with money and gave LSU all kinds of money.
 

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Seriously? Writing checks this big has to have an impact.

And how the hell do they successfully recruit black players?
They don't. That's why they're historically the same team year in and year out. lol
 

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As a tax payer in Iowa, it's fucking asinine.
I'm not into cancel culture, but when Iowa athletics asks citizens to pay the bill for their issues, it will no doubt rub a lot of Iowans the wrong way.

Fuck the Ferentz'z and fuck the ad gary barta.
I'm into consequences. Most regular people like us face them. Ferentz has won football games at Iowa than anyone else, so he doesn't have to. Truth? Your tax dollars have been at work long before this settlement.

Ferentz hires relatives to insulate himself, he's had significant periods during his tenure as HC where multiple players have been arrested (including 18 in 14 month span), he had the Section 8 Housing scandal where one of the players living in public housing was his own son and the program has had more than its fair share of players involved in sexual assaults.

Maybe if they have catastrophic enough season they'll fire him, but he seems to have a status that allows him to keep his job no matter what so long as they keep winning enough games.
 

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Wow.


 

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Swaim is a troll, never right. I follow this stuff closely.
 

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Dude's guessing for clicks. Biggest problem is thinking the SEC will only go after 2 schools in the next round. The SEC is 100% going into VA and NC.

The B1G is taking UNC, UVA & the crown that is ATL via GT. This is done. FSU is trending towards AAU behavior. Someone from FL is joining the B1G, who remains the question.
 

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If the B1G could snap it's fingers: ND, UNC, UVA, GT, Florida, Stanford, Washington and wait for it... ASU would be on their final roster.

No ASU is not an AAU institution... yet. But they've got 5,000,000 reasons to be in the B1G and ASU's President Michael Crow is turning ASU into a research monster. There's only one non-AAU school that generates more research $$$ and ASU outpaces many current AAU schools in that data point.

Cal, Duke & Oregon are on the outside looking in.
 

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If the B1G could snap it's fingers: ND, UNC, UVA, GT, Florida, Stanford, Washington and wait for it... ASU would be on their final roster.

No ASU is not an AAU institution... yet. But they've got 5,000,000 reasons to be in the B1G and ASU's President Michael Crow is turning ASU into a research monster. There's only one non-AAU school that generates more research $$$ and ASU outpaces many current AAU schools in that data point.

Cal, Duke & Oregon are on the outside looking in.
You don't think Nike Phil would make a generous donation to B1G research to get Oregon's foot in the door, or would they expected to go a different route?
 

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2023 Predictions

1. Michigan
2. Ohio State
3. Penn State
4. Maryland
5. Rutgers
6. Michigan State
7. Indiana

1. Wisconsin
2. Iowa
3. Illinois
4. Minnesota
5. Nebraska
6. Purdue
7. Northwestern
 

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If the B1G could snap it's fingers: ND, UNC, UVA, GT, Florida, Stanford, Washington and wait for it... ASU would be on their final roster.

No ASU is not an AAU institution... yet. But they've got 5,000,000 reasons to be in the B1G and ASU's President Michael Crow is turning ASU into a research monster. There's only one non-AAU school that generates more research $$$ and ASU outpaces many current AAU schools in that data point.

Cal, Duke & Oregon are on the outside looking in.
Well now they are.
 

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UCLA gets Michigan, Ohio State, to a lesser extent Iowa, and of course USC in their first year. Welcome to the B1G! Wonder how many of those Away games will be in November for both Cali teams?
 

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UCLA gets Michigan, Ohio State, to a lesser extent Iowa, and of course USC in their first year. Welcome to the B1G! Wonder how many of those Away games will be in November for both Cali teams?
I can’t wait to see USC freeze their asses off in late November playing at Michigan or Ohio St. I’ve always wished they would come to South Bend in late November.
 

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I can’t wait to see USC freeze their asses off in late November playing at Michigan or Ohio St. I’ve always wished they would come to South Bend in late November.
Yeah, but watch the narrative change when they do struggle with BIG teams in November: "USC sucks, overrated."
 

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I can’t wait to see USC freeze their asses off in late November playing at Michigan or Ohio St. I’ve always wished they would come to South Bend in late November.
Please let the football gods make that away game at Northwestern be in November with whipping wind and snow.
 

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UCLA will be their last game of each year, hoping many snow game in usc's future
 
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