Great article with a couple different outlooks from Coaches, Boosters, etc. on how to use NIL. I was going to paste a couple quotes I found interesting, but there’s about 30. Definitely worth a read

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Khalifa is redshirting this season along with guard Kobe Rodgers.

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Seems like this is going to happen soon. We’re one of the 20 in the big 12 right?

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Today, Cal, SMU, and Stanford became official members of the ACC.

Even Rivals has them listed under the ACC.

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Andre Parker told me he's planning to visit Louisville later this month. Doesn't have an offer from the Cardinals yet, but has notable offers from Michigan State, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pitt, and others.

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Gongora 11th round Orioles.

We should hear more names today as the day wears on. Anybody know about incoming transfers or high school signees getting drafted?

The ACC days are next week. That can only mean football practice is about to start.

"We like to have a balance on our roster," Kelsey said, noting the transfer portal and international players, along with high school prospects. "But there is nothing, nothing, nothing more important than the grassroots relationships with the high school coaches in the greatest basketball state in the United States of America."

The Cardinals hosted coaches from 30 different schools in the area and had over 100 people from the schools in attendance to watch the workout.

Among the schools in attendance were coaches from Jeffersonville, Ind., Male, and Trinity, along with plenty of others.

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Fall practice will start pretty soon.
These are the type of days I remember in hs football. 2 a days and no water.
Those were the days.

It’s Monday!

Very good addition! Nothing to complain about this one. It’s unlikely but hopefully we can add some more dudes like him

Happy Sunday everyone

Ulrich will compete in the women’s discus throw, becoming the first Louisville track & field athlete to represent the United States at the Olympics.

I'm gonna post a more comprehensive analysis of the sports budgets on either the free basketball or football forums. But since we've been talking baseball money on active threads here, I thought I'd briefly discuss the baseball numbers...

YOY the baseball operating budget for 2025 is up 17%, in line with the overall athletics department. That's a large increase, way outpacing inflation.

If you want to evaluate where the baseball program is in 2024, you really have to look at more data. While the 2025 budget is up a lot, the rate of growth since 2018 and adjusting for inflation is a paltry 0.7% annually. If you look at the seven years from 2011 to 2018, that annual growth rate was 7.6%.

So the annual rate of growth in the baseball budget has declined by 90%--from 7.6% to 0.7%--in recent years. In my opinion, you don't need much more evidence than that to tell you why baseball is struggling. We've essentially stopped giving baseball any funding above inflation for a long period of time...

Jeff Brohm just spoke to the media for 30 minutes or so.

Here are a few items that were newsworthy:

- M.J. Griffin is fully healed from his injury.

- Renato Brown is nearly healed.

- Ja'Corey Brooks is back to 100 percent after being limited in the spring.

- Said that the RB room is Maurice Turner’s and that it’s his time. But said they are four-deep there. (Turner, Don Chaney, Keyjuan Brown, Isaac Brown)

- Brohm confirmed Pierce Clarkson is the No. 2 behind Shough and pretty much confirmed there will be packages for him.

7 weeks

Happy Friday!

Maybe I’m just a prisoner of the moment but I can’t remember our football recruiting ever being this quiet. Literally the only info I’ve even been able to get was hazard and qusienberry a week or so back and that we feel good about May and still trying to get chastan Brown. July is prime decision month as hundreds of dudes fly off the board and we’re potentially on verge of heading into fall with 12 maybe 13 guys committed.