OT: D1

[IUPbigINDIANS]

It Looks like The Centre County Community College has the chance to join them.

I will be in Creepy Valley for Round 1

[IUP24]

They are the best team. Two more matches played to anywhere near what they are capable of should bring it home. Of course as a long suffering fan of Pitt athletics I’m very nervous. I hate drawing a 3rd match with Louisville after beating them twice already.

They didn’t have an easy draw as the top overall seed. That Oregon team was really good. They were the last team to beat Pitt at home and they have a number of girls on that team who have made deep runs before. And Kentucky won it all in 2020.

I actually kind of like them playing against Louisville, win or lose. This is the game they can’t seem to get past. They run into one of the legendary heavyweights every year at this stage and they have seemed pretty overwhelmed by the moment. I know Louisville beat them last year in this game, but Pitt should at least have confidence that the team they are playing is someone they have beaten this year. Playing them in a true road game there will be a challenge though.

They are a fun program to follow.

[IUPNation]

La Tech is taking Marshall's spot.

Torts could have made the call…

[IUPNation]

They are the best team. Two more matches played to anywhere near what they are capable of should bring it home. Of course as a long suffering fan of Pitt athletics I’m very nervous. I hate drawing a 3rd match with Louisville after beating them twice already.

It Looks like The Centre County Community College has the chance to join them.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Wow, bad week for Army. They get unexpectedly dominated in the Army-Navy game, and now their bowl game blows up.

La Tech is taking Marshall's spot.

[Chuck Norris]

The fact that they barely practiced in a week is pretty wild. That entire team had the flu rip through their entire roster over the last 5-7 days. Most of those girls were still very sick playing tonight. Dan Fischer has a great program. Hopefully they can finish the job.

They are the best team. Two more matches played to anywhere near what they are capable of should bring it home. Of course as a long suffering fan of Pitt athletics I’m very nervous. I hate drawing a 3rd match with Louisville after beating them twice already.

[Ship69]

Marshall has dropped out of its bowl game vs Army.

Lack of players.

Many are following the coach to Southern Miss.

Wow, bad week for Army. They get unexpectedly dominated in the Army-Navy game, and now their bowl game blows up.

[IUP24]

Pitt volleyball headed to their 4th straight Final Four after a 3-0 sweep of Kentucky.

The fact that they barely practiced in a week is pretty wild. That entire team had the flu rip through their entire roster over the last 5-7 days. Most of those girls were still very sick playing tonight. Dan Fischer has a great program. Hopefully they can finish the job.

[Chuck Norris]

Pitt volleyball headed to their 4th straight Final Four after a 3-0 sweep of Kentucky.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Marshall has dropped out of its bowl game vs Army.

Lack of players.

Many are following the coach to Southern Miss.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

I think there’s more fascination with the idea of him doing this than belief that he is going to turn them into a perennial power, though I’m sure the latter is out there. He’ll make UNC games must see tv at least. I do think he’ll bolt for the NFL at the first chance, if there is one.

Every coaching hire is great right up until it isn't.

If anything Bill and his gold-digging chick should be entertaining.

[Chuck Norris]

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t see this going well for Bill and North Carolina. I’ve always thought Belichick’s record with and without Tom Brady was quite interesting and maybe more of a reflection of the coach he is. The college game is also vastly different as others who tried to make the transition have found out. It’s a fun news story and maybe I’ll be wrong and Carolina will suddenly become a perennial football power, but I just don’t see it.

I think there’s more fascination with the idea of him doing this than belief that he is going to turn them into a perennial power, though I’m sure the latter is out there. He’ll make UNC games must see tv at least. I do think he’ll bolt for the NFL at the first chance, if there is one.

[ctrabs74]

Being reported yesterday that Boston College is prepared to offer 1.4 million dollars in revenue sharing money this summer to best 17 year old junior hockey player in the CHL in an effort to get him to jump from junior hockey to the NCAA next year when he reaches age 18. The reports are saying that BC is trying to leverage the new model and really focus and lean into winning big in men's ice hockey. For those that follow hockey, CHL players were never eligible to play NCAA hockey if they were playing for a major-junior hockey program in the CHL. That rule recently changed and it has been interesting following the developments of it.

I remember reading somewhere that different universities would prioritize different sports and not everybody would keep up with the Jones's for football spending. Can't think of where I saw that though...

This is not surprising. Despite playing in a power conference for football, basketball and other Olympic sports (the ACC), Boston College has always prioritized men's ice hockey over football and basketball. BC hasn't been overly relevant within New England in college football since the Doug Flutie days. The only time the BC fanbase really gets fired up is when the Eagles play Notre Dame every once in a while.

But, ice hockey? Massively popular by comparison (and I can vouch for this having grown up in New England before relocating to Pennsylvania in 1995). There's more interest in BC vs. Harvard playing in the Beanpot hockey tournament than there is for, say, BC vs UNC or Duke in college hoops. They take their college hockey seriously in New England.

[IUPNation]

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t see this going well for Bill and North Carolina. I’ve always thought Belichick’s record with and without Tom Brady was quite interesting and maybe more of a reflection of the coach he is. The college game is also vastly different as others who tried to make the transition have found out. It’s a fun news story and maybe I’ll be wrong and Carolina will suddenly become a perennial football power, but I just don’t see it.

I’m with you. This has disaster written all over it.

[IUP24]

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t see this going well for Bill and North Carolina. I’ve always thought Belichick’s record with and without Tom Brady was quite interesting and maybe more of a reflection of the coach he is. The college game is also vastly different as others who tried to make the transition have found out. It’s a fun news story and maybe I’ll be wrong and Carolina will suddenly become a perennial football power, but I just don’t see it.

People believed UNC was going to become a power program when Mack Brown returned. Then when NIL became a thing they just knew the Heels were going to hit it big. None of it has ever materialized there.

I'm not saying what I think will or won't happen there with this move, but I don't think it's as cut and dry as many think. If UNC jumps all in to support football and BB, that comes at the expense of their basketball program. I don't people understand that what is coming down the tracks likely won't allow many of these universities to blindly throw money into EVERY sport using a win at all costs philosophy.

I'm fascinated by the hire, mainly because I want to see how his vision of creating an NFL structure unfolds in the college game. I doubt he really even recruits much at all. Based on what I've read, he is hiring a GM that will manage a recruiting staff and they will be responsible for that component of building the program.