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Bad idea. I see the SEC just suspended a ref in football. I wouldn’t be shocked if they weren’t at least investigating a gambling angle there. The widespread legalization and integration by the leagues of gambling has created a situation where it has permeated every facet of sports. It’s nearly statistically impossible that you haven’t watched a game where a player or official were compromised. They should be looking to draw more distinct boundaries, not loosen them.

If we’re 100+ ranked in Def-E I’ll have one foot out on the devries project. Iowa probably averaged a def efficiency rank of 100th or worse. The was lots of consternation at the prospect of a Chris Collins hire. For reference, their worst year out of the last five or six years in defensive efficiency was 73rd. Every other year they were around 50 or better. They do not have more talent than us generally. 50th-ish in Def-E plus a top 25 Offense gets us to the tourney pretty easily. A Fran-esque defense of 100th or worse (puke) in Def-E and we better be pushing a top 5 offense.

That would be bad because Fran was a horrible defensive coach. Maybe worse than your namesake.

I assume the BoT has to sign off on this so not that big of a deal. But that’s a nice little piece of self-dealing if you are Whitten/Dolson…lol

Iirc, he started really slow in one of the Caribbean exhibition games. From there it’s been shot selection. He’s taken a couple of really deep 3’s. A couple stupid shots will throw off a small sample size. Assuming the staff reigns in some of those ridiculous heat check type shots for non-exhibition/non-cupcake games and I’d say he probably gets to upper 30’s or low 40% from 3 on high volume which is about what you’d expect for a good high volume 3pt shooter in the B1G. I’m more worried about defense and being able to score when the deep ball isn’t falling with this group.

Texas is not good. O$S is gonna stay #1 for the season and only have one decent win over an Illinois team we embarrassed.

I know. But that was in a cable world. Also Connecticut gets you the nyc market the same as NJ. Also the NYC market for cfb really doesn’t matter.

Yea…kind of dumb in retrospect. Would have been better off getting UConn.

Michigan looked a little rough without wolf and godin from the 5min I watched

I can’t believe how good of a shooter he is. Not for a big but for a freshman. He’s been a dead-eye from deep in all these exhibitions. I’m sort of excited for the Baylor exhibition. Last night did nothing to dispel fears of how we hold up athletically especially on the defensive end. Most of the scouting seemed accurate. I don’t have a ton of worry over guys like Alexis and Conerway. But Tucker, Wilkerson and Bailey are gonna have to be at least serviceable team defenders.

Official box score

We’re obviously gonna shoot it. Some of these lineups are pretty small tho, so we’ll see how we defend when it isn’t an naia school. I mostly like what I see. Offense will only get more cohesive as the year goes on.

I was thinking the same thing. Usually they are awful. These guys sound more professional at least.

In my defense, the Marian Sabres of Fon du Lac, Wisconsin were 16-10 last year. I’m blaming Siri. 20-4 for those of you following at home. Competition is about what you would expect.

Tucker with the first seven points by himself

Ok, apparently I suck at Google searches. The broadcast said they won 11 games last year.

Marian was 16-10 last year Fwiw.

I believe in negotiations they call that “leverage.”

I didn’t see a place to input a code. Did you use the app?

If he didn’t far exceed expectations last year and then go on the road and get our first top 5 win ever, he wouldn’t have gotten the raise. Two way street working in his favor. Saban once extracted a raise when boosters were griping over a regular season loss—just on principle. Life in the big leagues…

I honestly didn’t think he would leave. I didn’t anticipate that rather huge raise but he’s likely earned it. Full steam ahead

Crazy. But if—and not a very big if—he gets them back to the playoffs again I’d say he deserves every penny.

Great news and good luck to both of you and anyone else out there facing anything health related. There is a lot to look forward to this season hopefully!

It’s kind of amazing how often that worked for guys.

My inclination was the same. But the top B1G schools seem to be putting a little distance between themselves and the non Texas (oil money) SEC schools in terms of funding. I literally don’t know enough about it, but I could at least see a scenario where Penn State is an optimal job finance wise in a way that a place is like Ole Miss is not. If Day went to the NFL I bet Kiffin would jump at Ohio State in a heartbeat, for example.