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I really wish ESPN wasn’t part of the formula, at least in basketball. They just don’t put the same number of eyes on these kids as the other services, particularly down board kids, and they’re gonna skew some results. Not like it matters in any substantive way but it is annoying.

KU will be a really interesting job to watch when it comes open. Pre-NIL it was 1 of the big 4 jobs. Now I kind of don’t think so. I’m not sure at this point it’s any better a job than IU, which is really good with a high ceiling but not UK/UNC/Duke. Their fans will be talking about a Oats/Golden/Hurley type and I’m willing to bet it’s gonna be closer to DDV.

Per Ryan McDivitt and a couple of other places, Allmond’s plan is to announce 10/13, which evidently is his birthday. Was hoping for sooner but there ya go.

Imagine this will be Self’s last year. Legacy is secure. NIL has mitigated some of his advantage. Has had a pretty decent array of health stuff. Has young grand kids. Would be really good on TV. Would be stupid to push the envelope and he’s not a stupid guy.

Down from 15 to 7. Not a super shocking list though I would have assumed Xavier would be a finalist.

1st one I thought of was Kamara. Would think a pass rusher’s phone would never stop ringing.

He mentions planning to see his brother play several games at Dayton and I thought, man, that’s kind of a hike. But, oh yeah, A-10, so LaSalle and St Joe’s, Fordham wouldn’t be a bad trip, right, George Mason, GW,. That actually works pretty well for them.

Wow, 49% on over 6 attempts per game is, yeah, that is some freaking shot making.

https://www.on3.com/college/usc-trojans/news/alijah-arenas-injury-update-usc-star-suffers-torn-meniscus-will-potentially-miss-2025-2026-season-per-report/ USC freshman Alijah Arenas suffers a meniscus tear. Given that he was almost certainly going to be a 1 year kid I doubt seriously if he’ll play this year now even if he can.

Nice read. A lot to chew on. Will say this, if Jackson’s dad isn’t exaggerating and VCU outbid everyone else by a country mile, they overpaid. He’s a talented kid, but imho he’s not special. Dollar for dollar I’d take Moody over Jackson without a thought.

https://x.com/IndianaMBB/status/1948077785882546678/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1948077785882546678&currentTweetUser=IndianaMBB Drew getting his mic time

https://www.on3.com/teams/indiana-hoosiers/news/elijah-sarratt-praises-fernando-mendoza-at-b1g-media-days-hes-a-great-quarterback/ Sarratt being highly complimentary of Mendoza at B1G media day.

I’ll go to my grave on this: forget years, age is the factor. Give players unlimited eligibility until the day they turn 25 and their eligibility ends that day. No exceptions or cutouts. If they reclass and start at 17, fine give them 8 years. And they get 1 free transfer on their own and another whenever a HC leaves and other than that they sit a year and it counts within their eligibility window. There, just took 150 pages of the NCAA handbook and distilled it down to 5 sentences. And the lawyers around here will tell me why that’s a legal nonstarter, and I’m sure they’re right, but this is such a cluster and the NCAA has to find a way at to simplify this joke they’ve created.

https://www.rockytopinsider.com/2025/07/23/international-tennessee-commit-ethan-burg-granted-multiple-years-of-eligibility/ Here’s the story. Apparently UT was afraid he might not get any eligibility at all and were only hoping for 2 years at the outside. But Luke Goode played 10 games at the end of a season instead of the beginning, so screw him.

Really feels like U of L against the field here but IU has a strong pitch. We’ll see. Would bet on Rippey over Kinney.

Could absolutely be a piece of it. Also broke down and looked at Wikipedia, HATE having to do that, and saw he was part of the original Texas Tornadoes with Freddy Fender and those guys and I used to listen to that stuff once in a while.

Haven’t watched games of Keita yet, may do that tonight, but in watching some stuff of him last night I would think there is no way he’s a reclass candidate. He’s really young and a mile away physically. But as run/jump athletes go, he’s got that stuff.

Some AD at a school with resources is gonna overlook winning the presser and hire that guy and solve his HC problem for 15 years. Love the guy. May not be a perfect fit everywhere, but in the right job he’s gonna kick everybody’s a$$.

Hate not getting the kid but I’m a big Shaheen Holloway guy so I’m ok with him landing there.

Has set his 1st 2 officials, per London: Arkansas 9/20-21 UK. 10/10-11 So I imagine we’ll know in the next week or 2 whether this is actually a thing.

The Big 12 unanimously turned down Memphis trying to buy membership by offering something like a quarter billion in revenue enhancements and foregoing of rev share. You know your program’s got a problem if 250 million can’t buy you in.

He’s not replacing anyone as nearly as I can tell. Looks like they just created a seat for him. No clue what the circumstances are but it may be as simple as him getting down there and realizing McMahon’s in even worse trouble than he thought, and I think that dude’s dead man walking, and him just trolling for lifelines rather than having to do it all again next offseason.

Happy for Ya. Always liked him and Woody screwed him pretty good. I’d take that job over LSU in a second.

Check out the highlight vids Mike has posted. Not saying he’s that player, of course not, but he looks a fair bit like Kobe looked at that age.

Congrats! How long have you been waiting?