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Cuban did an interview that he provided funding each of the last two years. He said in 2024 he gave a "big number". He was reportedly instrumental in bringing Mendoza in as well.
Stony Brook must have their NIL $$$ on point...
Yeah that's odd
"roasters".....they'll get afta ya!
If you're a surfer: Soup Bowls, Bathsheba
Schoodic Peninsula avoids much of the Acadia crowd. Its gorgeous.
Mark Cuban reportedly didnt bankroll them until this year, but they have a lot of rich alums, their business school is really well regarded.
Last time we went, there wasn't a pizza place that we were aware of. We always ate at Los Ojos anyway.
Not sure this works with motorcycles (have to secure them for at least one night). Havasupai Falls is incredible to go see. Its location is pretty cool.
Yes, which is why they recruit well, well some chicken and egg situation there
Hunting Island is great. Travel Trailer camping opens up a huge list of possibilities.
Townsend, TN and Cades Cove are legit.
Maine coast and lakeside combo trip is a good plan in summer.
Travel Trailer: I suggest an Airstream. Yes its costlier, they don't have a slide-out, but they last a long time. We love ours.
I've been wanting to go to the VLA! If you go during the week, there are guided tours, but if you go on the weekend, the gift shop is open. It's only when they have open houses that you can get both in the same day
From well above your comment:
Franklin is stacking the team with players about the same age. Young guys with 3-4 years of eligibility.
He wants to peak the team for the year his QB is on his last year of eligibility. In this case 3 years.
And then you wrote this:
Franklin himself said that when BOV showed him 'the folder' with VT's plan he was interested...he folder which went along with his take
If the 1st quote is true then VT and JMMF jointly have to have a plan in place which figures out how to keep a dominant %age of these players here for 2-3 years.
The 2nd quote says that serendipity occurred and that VT's and JMMF's strategy aligned. I can't imagine these would dovetail so perfectly, but maybe there was enough overlap that JMMF could help VT staff modulate their strategy to align with his and that resultant strategy has a better plan of execution success.
This makes the most sense to me. It's a long haul with some embedded risk, hopefully they have risk mitigation plans already in place - they will need them.
This strategy is far from assured. Strategy's based on the shaping functions in place now must be able to adjust to changing shaping functions - changing shaping functions will happen.
Wasn't Miami's coach recruiting coordinator for Saban too?
The issue with Miami is that they had a 10 year span that only FSU and Bama can match, but then a break for almost a decade but that was a 3 year run then nothing for 20+ years. They didn't have a massive rival keeping them out of things like OU/Nebraska, Mich/OSU, USC/ND due to FSU being down for a while too.
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Hokies!!
'95 Nebraska dog walked what people thought was the best team ever in the bowl gsme. They played 4 top 10 opponents that were undefeated outside of that group of 5 teams and the closest game was 44-21 and in total was like 172-69. This is a option run team that scored 62 on a run and shoot team. One game was closer than 3 scores amd it was 14 point victory.
You mentioned 2001 Miami which went like 9-3 if you remove all their offensive points from the games and one of those "losses" was to pitt which they beat like 49-3, and just didnt score on defense or special teams.
These were complete teams that its hard to see anyone be close to them. 2013 FSU had the largest margin of victory and 2019 LSU had the greatest offense ever, both I think better than this IU team but '95 and 2001 were something else.
DO OR DO NOT...
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Alberto Mendoza is transferring to GT.
I think how IU targeted transfers goes against how most people thought, but is this team really different than Bill Synder's philosophy with Jucos, or Jim Grobe RS every player except one (LB Curry). They built senior laden teams that others didnt replicate.
Im not sure what the difference is, is cignetti better at coaching, or was the field weaker due to NIL/TP or did IU have a better chance at filling holes due to NIL/TP.
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# | The 2026 Hokie Hype Train is now boarding. Make sure to secure your seat before we depart! *taps on 2014 results*
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# | The 2026 Hokie Hype Train is now boarding. Make sure to secure your seat before we depart! We only lost to the champion runners up by 17. We were right there, not blown out. A couple good portal pieces and we win this thing next year...
Too much?
I'd like to add to this that a major issue that's going to come out of this is Athletic departments are now going to be expecting coaches to win some kind of championship (conference, national, at least make the playoffs) by year 2 no matter what school they're at. For example Rutgers hires a new coach in 2027 and he's already on the hot seat and the end of 2028 because he hasnt made the playoffs.
I think a lot of good coaches are going to be 'on the hot seat' very early in their coaching tenure because AD's are going to say "well if Cignetti can do it at Indiana why can't you?". And I get the point of your article that 'anyone' can do it, But Cignetti wasnt joking when he said "I'm a winner, google me", he's literally won a championship at every level he's coached at. That's not normal, that's not even 'great'. He' might even be beyond the level of "exceptional". Because exceptional can still have multiple examples...He might be a "one time in a never again" field
I wonder how long it will be before universities start inserting Non-competes into the NIL contracts?
I.E. no in-conference transfers, no Miami since they are clearly predatory to others Rosters, ect.
They remain legal thanks to appeals court in Texas and doctors and nurses can be subject to them...so why not Football and Basketball players??
Wait....nevermind...they run fast and throw ball far so all of the normal rules of society and commerce shouldn't apply to them.../s