I increased my giving as promised when we moved up. Substantially. I won’t give to a new IAA football effort. Might designate to another sport or take more vacations. We are 1-AA already. The only thing missing is the jersey patch and the playoff. The substance of NIL vs. the form has created two d...

Our odds of making the CFP remain the same (for now), the postseason shifts from one bowl game (hopefully this year) vs. a G6 opponents to 2-3 games vs. the best G6 teams that season.

Division I-AA sequel. Yup. We moved up just to be in the second tier. I heard some of our experienced fans say that we would have to move up to be in the second tier way back in the 90s and early 2000s. It made sense. This was something the stay FCS crowd never grasped, it was a frustrating discuss...

https://www.footballscoop.com/2026/05/0 ... ll-playoff

If the AC commish is talking like this, it's coming.

Bowls are toast.

If Joey gets an App State Football congrats graphic, so should Castle. Joey is an alum. Was Castle not? He was in one of my grad classes, but could have been doing the simultaneous grad/undergrad thing. You are correct, apologies to Castle and congrats to him for that. I thought he left early.

T-Dog wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 26, 2026 1:27 pm

If Joey gets an App State Football congrats graphic, so should Castle.

Joey is an alum.

AppSt94 wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 25, 2026 8:36 pm

Imagine how many more guys would have been signed if it weren’t for the crappy talent evaluation of the former staff.

Double edge sword here. Imagine winning more games with that talent.

Or in this thread we could just say congrats to these players.

Really strange business model to pay backups at a college that most likely won't make the NBA. Where is all of this extra money coming from, who has millions sitting around to give to NIL? High worth individuals got bored with buying homes and cars and now brag about buying players for their alma m...

Who makes more, CJ Huntley at $225k for the Suns or Wilson, backup center at Syracuse?

Madness.

Ridiculous, we have failed if UNCW got a program before us.

My answer is the only way to win in the NIL world IS to throw money at it.

Now where was that lottery ticket...

Pre-NIL teams and programs differentiated themselves from others by quite a few variables: - Money spent - facilities - academics - tradition - coaches - talent evaluation (finding overlooked players in our case) - development of players App in football had an advantage in the bolded items over our ...

https://www.al.com/sports/2026/04/nick-saban-on-trump-executive-order-nothing-really-works-long-term-without-some-kind-of-regulations.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20it%20comes%20to%20(transferring)%2C,successful%20when%20it%20comes%20to Decent take here from Saban. Hopefully the momentum triggered by ...

Extreme cases would be closer to three years. One year is very common. I negotiate these very often. Every partner that I know at their respective law firm or CPA firm has to give a year's notice. Otherwise, they are subject to be penalized for their respective payouts. The firm can play nice and a...

Imagine having to give a years notice to leave your company or firm. Imagine having a non-compete agreement for 1, 2, 3 years. Yes, I can. It happens in corporate America on the daily. While im sure it exists in very niche positions, ive never come across a position that required a full year notice...

Geez that crowd is going to be extra lame.

The power schools don’t want contracts, shift just a small bit of leverage to other schools. Power they don’t want to lose.

At least someone is attempting use common sense. Imagine someone told you if you wanted to switch jobs you would have to sit out a year first. Imagine a group of people who are about free market pushing a law that limits the abilities of the labor to earn more money. Imagine a group of people who b...

At least someone is attempting use common sense.

Tell congress to do their jobs and pass laws.