I'm going to say most schools probably won't dip into an endowment for this. It would seem ethically dubious to draw from the endowment to give an amount to an individual student any more than the cost of attendance.
Most of the endowments are comprised of restricted funds - money for designated purposes- that can only be spent based on the donors' restrictions. And much of the endowment is already going to student scholarships, so redirecting these funds would come at the cost of supporting the scholarships and thereby making a Michigan education out of reach for many more students.
Yes, there are billions in Michigan's endowment but it is a generational fund, meant to be there for students 200 years from now, not to ensure a national title in a sportsball game. Roughly 5% of the endowment can be used each year to ensure continuous growth. On a endowment per student basis, Michigan's endowment is $300,000 per student (Princeton is $3.8 million per student). If 5% is available from the endowment each year, then Michigan has about $15,000 per year, to support each student. That's not a lot, given the cost of college and diminishing support from the state.
At Colgate, there are 25 Division 1 sports (counting I-AA for football). Clarkson competes in D1 for only men's and women's hockey; DIII for all other sports.
If you look at the Women's Frozen Four this year, you have two B1G teams and Colgate and Clarkson. I'm not sure what the facilities are like at Ohio State and Wisconsin, but Colgate (enrollment 3,000) and Clarkson (enrollment 3,400) share facilities with equally strong men's teams, just one sheet of ice. The athletic budgets for these two upstate New York schools are a fraction of the the other Frozen Four teams, and yet, there they were competing against schools 10x their size.
It seems easily doable from both a facilities and financial perspective.
Remember when those two girls came up to you while you were waiting to board and said they liked you but didn't like your show? You handled that pretty well.
What many don't realize is that was the semifinal game. The US team still had to defeat Finland for the gold medal.
Several years later, I had a flight from Detroit to Albany. On the plane was the US national hockey team, the Soviet national hockey team... and MacGyver.
There’s an Adam Weitsman, a waste and recycling entrepreneur, who said he was paying $2 million directly to players and bringing high profile celebrities to games. The university was not comfortable with how he was going about bringing attention and money to athletes so he decided to focus on Binghamton University (for a remarkable and sordid tale of how trying to become relevant in college athletics, what happened at Binghamton about 14 years ago would make college administrators want to abandon sports altogether).
Where is the big money coming from? Not sure, but they do have many successful alumni in sports media. Plus, it’s the only relevant football in New York and New England.
Syracuse had two 4 stars since 2011. Now they have two already on the roster, plus McCord, two Georgia transfers, and a steady stream of 4 and 5 stars visiting campus and being “blown away” on their visit…to Syracuse…in December.
If the money is the same, I think the NFL would be more appealing, right? It's a player's dream to make it to the NFL and if you are all but guaranteed that you'll make an NFL roster, you go.
If there is damaging information about OSU/Day's link to the PI firm, I think the timing would be to wait until next week to maximize the distraction for OSU.
Can you imagine if there were computer crimes and the FBI is raiding the OSU football offices for several days preventing the coaching staff from entering the building?
Probably covered in the numerous threads but one of the early quotes in this article is that sign stealing is not illegal unless electronic devices are used in-game. I'm not a lawyer, but I would interpret that as in the current game being actively played at the moment. Recording signs from other games is irrelevant (in my biased mind), because no team would be dumb enough to use the same signs in front of 100,000 people game after game, right?
And maybe that's the uproar; teams are going to be exposed for using a picture of Taylor Swift and Snoopy in week one that is a QB draw, and are still using the same damn sign in week 4. What an indictment on how lame, unoriginal and incompetent teams' signs are.
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Mel-o-rail brings back memories of me, my son, brother-in-law and my wife walking around Disney World and every time we saw the monorail one of us would murmur "Monoraiiiiil", the other would chime in a bit louder, "Monorailllll", and the third, "MONORAIL!". And so it went, all day long, three of us walking around Disney anticipating the next siting of the monorail, and my wife just looking annoyed.
What if, perhaps just for football, you divide the country into say 8 geographic regions. You play 3-4 of your protected rivals in your geographic region (or traditional rivalries like USC-ND), then a different team every year from the remaining geographic areas. Think Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, South-Central, Midwest, Southwest, Northwest, Mountain West for your regions. Non-revenue sports keep their traditional conferences - this is only football.
Revenue is shared per game with a some revenue sharing in each region. More match-ups that rarely occur today will happen throughout the year. You lose, perhaps, conference titles but with an expanded playoff, maybe conference titles become less important anyway (what will it feel like when Oregon wins the Big 10 title for the first time in our current format?). As it is the tradition of conferences is all but gone. Maybe this will preserve it for all non-football sports.
And if he stayed at Michigan and got a 7th career ending hamstring pull the story would be that Michigan forced him to play because they needed cornerbacks and rushed him onto the field too soon because players are just a cog in a big machine.
My question/challenge is what is the minimum amount I would need to win to start sharing with relatives outside my immediate family, as in: sister, nieces, nephews, in-laws, etc. That stress prevents me from playing.
And with this team, he was 2 games out of first place in the B1G with two games to go that were OT losses. For want of a few more points throughout the season, this year's team could have been B1G champs. If Collins stayed, I think Michigan would have at least tied for season championship, even with Diabate and Houstan gone. That's not failure.
I don't get why so many fans turn on Howard. He's only a few years removed from National Coach of the Year, and we would probably still be talking about how great this season was if Juwan had the team he thought he'd have: Diabate, Houstan, Jett, Dickinson, Collins, Kobe... that's a pretty solid line-up right there. Yet some Michigan fans ignore how the season turned on what little Howard could control: unexpected departures of guys that could/should have been stars in their sophomore year.
Without analyzing it, I'd say that formula worked for Villanova when they won the NCAA tournament a few years ago. They had mostly 3-4 year guys and I don't recall if anyone on the championship team held much NBA interest, nor did they have a top recruiting class in the prior years.
That's what I posted when news that it was a 'Notre Dame academic issue', so either I guessed correctly, or I just created news that the ND podcast picked up as fact. Either way, serves them right.
Wow, that was... a lot! I can't recall such a lengthy, positive and highly ranked list of recruits in a long time. Thanks for putting that together, Seth. I blew well past my lunch break to finish it.
But one issue: these kids being relevant on the field in 2026. That would mean I'm cheering for them when I'm... <moves the pill box aside to check the desktop planner> ...60 years old. That's a 6 with a 0 after it. That can't be right.
It could be something benign like not having 2 years of a foreign language (I don't know if that's a requirement), or enough high school science or art credits.
I recall a recruit at Wisconsin having a similar issue that was a "Wisconsin specific" issue, and the kid went someplace like Northwestern or Stanford.
Hell, I think Notre Dame still makes you pass a swim test to graduate.
I never understood how he could recruit players when his press conferences humiliated and belittled his own players on a regular basis.
But he and his wife, like a lot of long-time coaches, did a lot of charity work in the area, and he is the only coach many in the Syracuse area know, so he's got that going for him.
I dig the Central Command method. I like having a few targets chosen for me rather than scrolling through the long list. But I like keeping things simple.
What makes Saratoga unique is that the racehorses are walked right through the picnic grounds. You are literally within arms length of these beautiful horses. I’m no expert on horses, but the first time a racehorse walked by me at Saratoga, I was surprised how I could see every muscle and vein in those horses.
Plus, you can walk to the track from downtown Saratoga, which happens to be an amazing small city.
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I'm going to say most schools probably won't dip into an endowment for this. It would seem ethically dubious to draw from the endowment to give an amount to an individual student any more than the cost of attendance.
Most of the endowments are comprised of restricted funds - money for designated purposes- that can only be spent based on the donors' restrictions. And much of the endowment is already going to student scholarships, so redirecting these funds would come at the cost of supporting the scholarships and thereby making a Michigan education out of reach for many more students.
Yes, there are billions in Michigan's endowment but it is a generational fund, meant to be there for students 200 years from now, not to ensure a national title in a sportsball game. Roughly 5% of the endowment can be used each year to ensure continuous growth. On a endowment per student basis, Michigan's endowment is $300,000 per student (Princeton is $3.8 million per student). If 5% is available from the endowment each year, then Michigan has about $15,000 per year, to support each student. That's not a lot, given the cost of college and diminishing support from the state.
At Colgate, there are 25 Division 1 sports (counting I-AA for football). Clarkson competes in D1 for only men's and women's hockey; DIII for all other sports.
If you look at the Women's Frozen Four this year, you have two B1G teams and Colgate and Clarkson. I'm not sure what the facilities are like at Ohio State and Wisconsin, but Colgate (enrollment 3,000) and Clarkson (enrollment 3,400) share facilities with equally strong men's teams, just one sheet of ice. The athletic budgets for these two upstate New York schools are a fraction of the the other Frozen Four teams, and yet, there they were competing against schools 10x their size.
It seems easily doable from both a facilities and financial perspective.
Remember when those two girls came up to you while you were waiting to board and said they liked you but didn't like your show? You handled that pretty well.
What many don't realize is that was the semifinal game. The US team still had to defeat Finland for the gold medal.
Several years later, I had a flight from Detroit to Albany. On the plane was the US national hockey team, the Soviet national hockey team... and MacGyver.
Is there a UFR version of Viagra? I'm going to need to last 4 hours to take all this in.
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There’s an Adam Weitsman, a waste and recycling entrepreneur, who said he was paying $2 million directly to players and bringing high profile celebrities to games. The university was not comfortable with how he was going about bringing attention and money to athletes so he decided to focus on Binghamton University (for a remarkable and sordid tale of how trying to become relevant in college athletics, what happened at Binghamton about 14 years ago would make college administrators want to abandon sports altogether).
Where is the big money coming from? Not sure, but they do have many successful alumni in sports media. Plus, it’s the only relevant football in New York and New England.
Syracuse had two 4 stars since 2011. Now they have two already on the roster, plus McCord, two Georgia transfers, and a steady stream of 4 and 5 stars visiting campus and being “blown away” on their visit…to Syracuse…in December.
If the money is the same, I think the NFL would be more appealing, right? It's a player's dream to make it to the NFL and if you are all but guaranteed that you'll make an NFL roster, you go.
You hearin' me, Marvin?
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If he can't remember our name, maybe Cade should Google us.
If there is damaging information about OSU/Day's link to the PI firm, I think the timing would be to wait until next week to maximize the distraction for OSU.
Can you imagine if there were computer crimes and the FBI is raiding the OSU football offices for several days preventing the coaching staff from entering the building?
Probably covered in the numerous threads but one of the early quotes in this article is that sign stealing is not illegal unless electronic devices are used in-game. I'm not a lawyer, but I would interpret that as in the current game being actively played at the moment. Recording signs from other games is irrelevant (in my biased mind), because no team would be dumb enough to use the same signs in front of 100,000 people game after game, right?
And maybe that's the uproar; teams are going to be exposed for using a picture of Taylor Swift and Snoopy in week one that is a QB draw, and are still using the same damn sign in week 4. What an indictment on how lame, unoriginal and incompetent teams' signs are.
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Mel-o-rail brings back memories of me, my son, brother-in-law and my wife walking around Disney World and every time we saw the monorail one of us would murmur "Monoraiiiiil", the other would chime in a bit louder, "Monorailllll", and the third, "MONORAIL!". And so it went, all day long, three of us walking around Disney anticipating the next siting of the monorail, and my wife just looking annoyed.
Maybe they plan to use him for some cross-field throw back plays that need some blocking to set up.
Or they need good blocking since he might not be as shifty or elusive as some KO returners, but once he's up to speed, he's tough to bring down.
Is there a team that will be the TCU of this season? Who is under-ranked, or not ranked, who will have a great season?
What if, perhaps just for football, you divide the country into say 8 geographic regions. You play 3-4 of your protected rivals in your geographic region (or traditional rivalries like USC-ND), then a different team every year from the remaining geographic areas. Think Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, South-Central, Midwest, Southwest, Northwest, Mountain West for your regions. Non-revenue sports keep their traditional conferences - this is only football.
Revenue is shared per game with a some revenue sharing in each region. More match-ups that rarely occur today will happen throughout the year. You lose, perhaps, conference titles but with an expanded playoff, maybe conference titles become less important anyway (what will it feel like when Oregon wins the Big 10 title for the first time in our current format?). As it is the tradition of conferences is all but gone. Maybe this will preserve it for all non-football sports.
And if he stayed at Michigan and got a 7th career ending hamstring pull the story would be that Michigan forced him to play because they needed cornerbacks and rushed him onto the field too soon because players are just a cog in a big machine.
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My question/challenge is what is the minimum amount I would need to win to start sharing with relatives outside my immediate family, as in: sister, nieces, nephews, in-laws, etc. That stress prevents me from playing.
This needs to be bookmarked to show all the critics who question why we recruit the player, not the stars. Good shit, smotheringD.
And with this team, he was 2 games out of first place in the B1G with two games to go that were OT losses. For want of a few more points throughout the season, this year's team could have been B1G champs. If Collins stayed, I think Michigan would have at least tied for season championship, even with Diabate and Houstan gone. That's not failure.
I don't get why so many fans turn on Howard. He's only a few years removed from National Coach of the Year, and we would probably still be talking about how great this season was if Juwan had the team he thought he'd have: Diabate, Houstan, Jett, Dickinson, Collins, Kobe... that's a pretty solid line-up right there. Yet some Michigan fans ignore how the season turned on what little Howard could control: unexpected departures of guys that could/should have been stars in their sophomore year.
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Without analyzing it, I'd say that formula worked for Villanova when they won the NCAA tournament a few years ago. They had mostly 3-4 year guys and I don't recall if anyone on the championship team held much NBA interest, nor did they have a top recruiting class in the prior years.
Everybody is working on their "JD Comin' " post for Friday.
When I read "Vernon Tucker, JUCO Linebacker", my brain thinks:
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There's going to be flaming coolers of poo on his doorstep after that quote.
That's what I posted when news that it was a 'Notre Dame academic issue', so either I guessed correctly, or I just created news that the ND podcast picked up as fact. Either way, serves them right.
Wow, that was... a lot! I can't recall such a lengthy, positive and highly ranked list of recruits in a long time. Thanks for putting that together, Seth. I blew well past my lunch break to finish it.
But one issue: these kids being relevant on the field in 2026. That would mean I'm cheering for them when I'm... <moves the pill box aside to check the desktop planner> ...60 years old. That's a 6 with a 0 after it. That can't be right.
Are you saying it's French?
Markley is where I learned I had to say I was from UPSTATE New York.
It could be something benign like not having 2 years of a foreign language (I don't know if that's a requirement), or enough high school science or art credits.
I recall a recruit at Wisconsin having a similar issue that was a "Wisconsin specific" issue, and the kid went someplace like Northwestern or Stanford.
Hell, I think Notre Dame still makes you pass a swim test to graduate.
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Does Grecian formula work?
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I never understood how he could recruit players when his press conferences humiliated and belittled his own players on a regular basis.
But he and his wife, like a lot of long-time coaches, did a lot of charity work in the area, and he is the only coach many in the Syracuse area know, so he's got that going for him.
I dig the Central Command method. I like having a few targets chosen for me rather than scrolling through the long list. But I like keeping things simple.
Seems like we need to have a winning record for the remaining games (regular season and BTT).
Go 1-1 for the last two games, then we probably need two wins in the BTT to finish 3-2 in the last 5 games.
Go 2-0 for the remaining season, we could probably survive getting knocked out of the BTT and end with a 2-1 record.
Finish the regular season 0-2, we probably need the 3 wins in the tournament, if not winning it all.
Perfect. Then he would forever be Chainsaw Jim Harbaugh.
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Learn it. Know it. Live it.
Never forget it.
Now, I will say that perhaps Texas hates us less than they do Texas A&M and can work with us. Maybe Tennessee since we gave them Joe Milton.
But always remember: Nobody likes us.
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What makes Saratoga unique is that the racehorses are walked right through the picnic grounds. You are literally within arms length of these beautiful horses. I’m no expert on horses, but the first time a racehorse walked by me at Saratoga, I was surprised how I could see every muscle and vein in those horses.
Plus, you can walk to the track from downtown Saratoga, which happens to be an amazing small city.
John F. Kennedy went there. Not sure how many stars he was.
Just got my third star and now I'm feeling a bit full of myself.
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I'm in the same boat as Carolina Maize. I've been vetted for awhile but no orders.
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