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With 14 single-plays, I don't really think competitive balance is impacted much however you do it. When we had 7 double-plays, 3 away and 3 home, the league was more susceptible to a scheduling imbalance by who you played only once.

Would you think the 3 home and away opponents for the 4 newcomers will be each other? That would make sense to me to be true every year, but maybe the conference is thinking differently.

Not specifically aimed at you, but I've seen some comments about being against intra-conference transfers. I'll point out that MN just got one of those from Oregon.

Maybe it was a typo, but your previous post said 5%, not 50%, and that's what prompted me to reply. Agree that not all starters are of equal importance, but certainly those I put in my list were roughly equivalent to the Hawkins and/or Payne losses. Some of those guys were on the list of...

I'm not really trying to weigh in to the bigger fight going on here, but off the top of my head in the B10, you've got Perkins from Iowa and Omoruyi and Mag at Rutgers leaving for bigger paydays (perhaps other factors at play, too). OSU lost Gayle, Key, and Okpara and Michigan lost McDaniel...

It's what pussies do.

That Leicester year was a complete outlier (and fantastic). I think of the big 6 as the two Manchesters, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs. Add Newcastle as a johnny-come-lately to the big spenders. The list I'm looking at has those as the top 7, all above 565m euros. The richest of the...

Well, taking away any of the NIL influence, I think Buzz Williams and Payne might be a pretty good match. I don't know how well a lifelong Minnesotan does in College Station, though - a completely different vibe. That seems to matter less these days, though.

Hepburn was almost certainly tampered with, whether it ends up being Louisville and/or a package deal with Fidler. Not Storr or Essegian, though. As for Hawkins, MSU wouldn't surprise me - they've been mentioned for the Hepburn/Fidler package, too.

The correct term is relegation, but, yes, that does add a lot of intrigue - it's not a perfect parallel. But what is a parallel is the hopelessness of regularly competing for a title or even a top 4 or 5 finish (which qualify for Champions/Europa League). Hey maybe college football is already...

Anyone else follow the English Premier League? There's 6 teams out of the 20 that far outspend the others and the champion is almost always one of those 6. If another team jumps up and does well, their best players immediately get snatched by the bigs - sometimes during the year. Yet, it's...

Better make sure Asuma is still on board.

I have no idea of the academic standing of any of these guys coming in for Michigan (though the Yale guy is probably in good shape), but I'm reminded that Caleb Love wasn't allowed to become a Wolverine during the previous coach's reign. My guess is that whole thing isn't a thing for anyone...

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I was witness to an exchange between a reporter and Payne at the Big Ten Media Day where the reporter asked something along the lines of who’s your favorite Gopher of all time (or who’s the best - in that vein). He couldn’t come up with anyone. He explained he wasn’t into the history...

There are rumors that he may stay with Omaha - and some of the powers that be (money-wise) in that town may be footing the NIL bill.

Georgia Tech, Cal, Houston, Cincy, & Utah are all public schools in metros. You can make the case that Michigan and Colorado are in the outskirts of major metros (esp. if you're counting Rutgers). UCF is in the B12, so that counts.

The poster did say he wasn't a transfer at the bottom of the embedded tweet...

Washington had a coaching change - this was predictable. I would guess most kids choose coaches rather than schools, and most/all new coaches have their own ideas about the type of player they want, too. With the portal, I gotta think it's harder for an incoming frosh to attract a P5 offer at...

For ADs in today's world, I think it's gotten really difficult to identify a coach in either basketball or football who a) has head coaching experience, b) has been involved in and had success in portal recruiting at a P5, ideally with average-ish NIL resources, c) has a winning track record...