OT: D1

[Fightingscot82]

How is one declared academically ineligible the day before the first game?

Wouldn't this have been known for weeks? I'm sure it was, internally.

However, I didn't see the word 'academically' in any of the stories. I'd assume that's what it means. But, the timing is very odd.

Probably wasn't eligible at the end of the spring, had to take summer classes to regain eligibility, but that didn't work out so well.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

There's a dead man walking in The Swamp

[EyeoftheHawk]

Probably wasn't eligible at the end of the spring, had to take summer classes to regain eligibility, but that didn't work out so well.

The story just says he was determined to be “ineligible.” I made the assumption it was academics because I couldn’t think of what else would make a player ineligible. Regardless, whatever it was they must have been trying to fix it right up until the last possible minute.

[IUP24]

The story just says he was determined to be “ineligible.” I made the assumption it was academics because I couldn’t think of what else would make a player ineligible. Regardless, whatever it was they must have been trying to fix it right up until the last possible minute.

He isn’t academically ineligible. There’s some things that have leaked as rumors, but nothing really confirmed and likely won’t be.

[Chuck Norris]

I was looking for a huge underdog to use my FanDuel ‘No Sweat Bet’ on and briefly considered Duquesne, but with Toledo being a favorite in the MAC I couldn’t pull the trigger. Went with former D2 Abilene Christian to pull off the straight up stunner against Texas Tech. $10 bet pays $300 if I win. Fingers crossed, lol.

In OT:

Texas Tech 52
Abilene Christian 51

That’s just cruel.

[Fightingscot82]

In OT:

Texas Tech 52
Abilene Christian 51

That’s just cruel.

Abilene Christian was D2 not long ago.

[Fightingscot82]

There's a dead man walking in The Swamp

That schedule could have cost Saban his job. That's a rough one.

[Chuck Norris]

Abilene Christian was D2 not long ago.

They gave it one heck of a go. Sadly the only highlight most people will see/remember is their god awful attempt at the winning 2 pt conversion in OT. At the end of regulation, down 45-42 they had 2nd and 1 at the Tech 4. They got stopped twice and decided to tie the game on 4th down. Not sure I wouldn’t have just taken a third crack at winning it right then.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

They gave it one heck of a go. Sadly the only highlight most people will see/remember is their god awful attempt at the winning 2 pt conversion in OT. At the end of regulation, down 45-42 they had 2nd and 1 at the Tech 4. They got stopped twice and decided to tie the game on 4th down. Not sure I wouldn’t have just taken a third crack at winning it right then.

Indiana High scored first in OT Friday night and went up 7-0.

Ringgold then scored and went for the win. They came up short. Ringgold has lost a WPIAL-long 28 straight.

Always a tough call.

[Ship69]

Indiana High scored first in OT Friday night and went up 7-0.

Ringgold then scored and went for the win. They came up short. Ringgold has lost a WPIAL-long 28 straight.

Always a tough call.

It's a long way from the days of Joe Montana on the Mon.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Florida State looks horrendous. My goodness.

[IUP24]

Florida State looks horrendous. My goodness.

The problem is that Florida State never should have been ranked 10th to open the year. The voters who do the polls are extremely lazy. They have no idea what’s going with any of these teams.

I didn’t think they’d be this bad, but they never should have been ranked this high. I am surprised they are looking like this tonight, but I was pretty confident in my pick of GT on the ML last week.

FSU lost Jordan Travis, their top two WRs, multiple OL, and MOST of their starters on that defense. People saw a big name QB transferred there (who sucks, let’s be very clear about that) and that Roydell Williams jumped to FSU from Bama. So the voters assume they’ll be good. Reality is that team lost everything from last year. Kirk Herbstreit picked them to go to the Playoff, but he also said that people need to check some expectations given what they lost. That’s coming to fruition.

[IUP24]

Watching this is like watching Pitt’s offense last year with Frank Cignetti Jr. and Phil Jurkovec. Just terrible football.

Completed passes mostly behind the line of scrimmage. Rhythm throws are late and offline. Things down the field are under thrown, overthrown, or thrown to somebody with the wrong jersey. Nightmares.

DJ is horrific.

[TheBigCat2192]

For anyone who hasn’t checked ESPN (or their CFB news source of choice) a federal judge put the big NCAA settlement wrt athlete pay/NIL/roster limits/backpay on hold and ordered the attorneys to hammer out certain issues inside a three week deadline.

The two biggest appear to be

1. A clause (or clauses) mandating that booster payments to athletes must be for “valid business purposes”
2. Concern that future athletes who are not part of the deal are or could be getting their future earning potential restricted.

Subjectively I don’t see why number two should be a holdup here; that is an inherent part of the nature of all sports CBAs (I know this is technically a court settlement but in practice it doesn’t seem too different than a CBA). I’m much more curious to see what can be worked out about the first point.

[IUP24]

For anyone who hasn’t checked ESPN (or their CFB news source of choice) a federal judge put the big NCAA settlement wrt athlete pay/NIL/roster limits/backpay on hold and ordered the attorneys to hammer out certain issues inside a three week deadline.

The two biggest appear to be

1. A clause (or clauses) mandating that booster payments to athletes must be for “valid business purposes”
2. Concern that future athletes who are not part of the deal are or could be getting their future earning potential restricted.

Subjectively I don’t see why number two should be a holdup here; that is an inherent part of the nature of all sports CBAs (I know this is technically a court settlement but in practice it doesn’t seem too different than a CBA). I’m much more curious to see what can be worked out about the first point.

The first point was always the big piece of this that was designed to eliminate shadow or back alley NIL deals. The ones who opposed that were the big schools because it eliminated a competitive advantage that they had over teams. The revenue sharing creates a scenario where you will eventually (likely) have market rates at certain positions around the country. And because schools will have to use money, in many cases from their collectives to put towards the max of 21 million in revenue sharing, it minimized the power of the collectives from an NIL perspective.

I firmly support that the payments for NIL purposes need to be for valid business purposes. That was one of the critical pieces of what this entire settlement of the House, Hubbard, and Carter cases were structured around. Part of the settlement was having an independent third party auditor evaluate that the deal was fair market value for "valid business purposes," as you allude to. Essentially meaning the days of a school with deep pockets calling up the best player not even in the transfer portal and offering him 750k to transfer with no valid business reason are over - or should be permitted this all goes through as planned.

I don't like where this all ultimately landed in terms of the money side of things, but if this reigns in NIL some and puts more transparency on things based on the revenue sharing approach and audited NIL deals, it is positive on the basis of where we are at currently.