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The World Cup has been great all around. The US team played good except for Belgium. A B for them and hopefully they can build off it. The game experience A’s all around. I think having games in cities like Indy where you could enjoy a walk to several pubs/bars after could have made it an A+. The international fans experience has been awesome. Many expressed great enthusiasm for outreach country and it was great to see how people are great when you get politics out of things and just enjoy different cultures and their people. And the best part, it provided a fun distraction while we wait for our version of football. What a great summer. Let’s land a local 5* receiver, start summer camp (we have that right?) and get this 3.0 version of Cignetti ball started.

Had not thought about the ‘22 class missing both of these. Have to agree on the lawsuit coming.

I did not read the final version but thought it was not open to kids who eligibility expired already in 26

The Tartan Army was great though and even being outnumbered 70/30 they were loud and fun. We got lucky with a cool night in Miami too with temps around 87 when the game started.

Is it weird to reply to your own post? Nah.. Apparently, it seems a 4 year D2, NAIA or D3 athlete can move up to D1 for a year 5. Talked with a couple coaches and while the player has to be able to offer something, if they can, it could work.

It has been so cool to see all the these venues packed. We always enjoy watching the World Cup games but having them here and having so muc enthusiasm has been awesome. We are headed down to Miami this week to watch Brazil vs Scotland. I will be wearing yellow behind the goal, should be easy to spot right?

Any idea if a kid who has played 4 years at the NAIA level would be able to benefit from this at the D1 level? Granted that would be a step up but there are some NAIA/D2 programs in soccer at least that can compete with lower level D1 programs. Just curious as my daughter has been a 4 year starter at the lower level but wants to go on to grad school and we wondered if this might be a path for her.

How did his index for this year play out? Was he on to something and can we have some reason for a better season

49ers would be nice

Do other schools know the portal is open?

Was just an attempt at humor

I heard it was Kenny who is out of town. The staff is full on secrecy mode and Kenny was down in Louisville walking around telling people he was a recruit from Alabama.

Would be nice to see Sherrell commit too. I know some, many, think this helps but just hoping that is the case. They seem to be different players so he does not on the surface look like a replacement. I guess if Sherrell isn’t sold on us he will schedule a visit somewhere

Did Carr get a staff to help research all the potential players out there? Recently He seemed to lead the evaluators vs doing the evaluations and I wonder if has a crew helping.