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Happy Wednesday everyone

The college football spring transfer window's closing date of April 30 applies only to underclassmen.

Grad transfers will be given an extra day — through Wednesday, May 1 — to enter their name into the transfer portal, multiple sources clarified to 247Sports.

Graduate transfer rules have shifted considerably over the past week. Previously, grad transfers were not subject to the NCAA's transfer windows. They were allowed to enter the transfer portal at any time.

"Due to the timing of the adoption of Proposal No. 2024-5, postgraduate student-athletes in football, women's ice hockey, rife, skiing, women's swimming and diving and indoor track and field have until May 1, 2024 to provide written notice of transfer in order to be entered into the transfer portal before the start of the 2024-25 academic year."

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That's pretty clear. I think the reports of him coming back were BS. The rules are pretty clear at this point, Grad Transfers had until May 1st to get in the portal. There's no more open season rule for Grad Transfers. So whoever was spreading the AHB returning rumor was just creating something out of thin air, because someone in the know would've known that the deadline has passed. He'll be at SC this year and that should end this.

That's my interpretation of things, but someone may know something else or have a different rule? I could be wrong.

We should get our first look at the depth chart tomorrow. Before we get it, here is my first crack at predicting what the starters will look like:

OFFENSE:

LT
Monroe Mills

LG
Michael Gonzalez

C
Pete Nygra

RG
Renato Brown

RT
Jonathan Mendoza
OR
Rasheed Miller

QB
Tyler Shough
Pierce Clarkson
OR
Harrison Bailey

RB
Don Chaney
OR
Maurice Turner
Isaac Brown

TE
Mark Redman
OR
Jamari Johnson

WR
Jacorey Brooks

WR
Cataurus Hicks

WR
Chris Bell

DEFENSE

DE
Ashton Gillotte
Ramon Puryear

DT
Dez Tell

DT
Jared Dawson

DE
Myles Jernigan
OR
Adonijah Green

LB
Stanquan Clark

LB
TJ Quinn

LB
Ben Perry
OR
Antonio Watts

CB
Quincy Riley

CB
Corey Thornton

S
MJ Griffin
OR
Tamarion McDonald

S
Devin Neal
OR
Tamarion McDonald

P
Brady Hodges

K
Brock Travelstead

PR
Quincy Riley
Cataurus Hicks
Jimmy Calloway
Jadon Thompson

KR
Maurice Turner
Isaac Brown

Just read he is on the team not sure how but he will be playing

Davis will be at the combine Friday as a top 3 prospect and will be interviewed on the MLB network. If you're a Spectrum customer, that's channel 536.

I think Will Smiths success with the Dodgers has really propelled Davis in the minds of these GM'S. Louisville baseball is exploding in the big leagues.

It’s Taco Tuesday!
Each day I’m getting more and more excited.
Hope everyone has a great day

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Looks like Big 10 football out there. Smash mouth and check downs. Nobody is taking a shot. Is it lack of faith in the QBs? Overestimating the secondaries? Whatever it is, I don’t think we’re gonna learn much from this one other than GT has a good OL and they will lean on that. Need to rotate the DL in and out and hope they are tired out from their run of games to start the season. Only one other tough game against Cuse before us though.

I'm not liking this new TV deal and how it's going to really kick the ACC to the back of the line.

Look at Weeks 1-3 on ABC:
Noon- SEC/ACC, SEC/Big12, SEC/SEC
330- SEC/ACC, SEC/SEC, SEC/SEC
Prime- SEC/ND, SEC/ACC, SEC/SEC

On ESPN main:
Noon- SEC/ACC, B12/G5, ACC/G5
330- SEC/G5, NONE, SEC/G5
Prime- SEC/G5, TBD, SEC/G5
LATE- B12/G5, SEC/B12, G5/ACC


It really seems like they're trying to hurt out league. The SEC is going to be on every single ABC window the first 3 weeks. The only ACC games they have on ESPN or ABC that has an ACC team without a SEC team is Florida Sate vs. a G5 team and Stanford playing in a late game. Talk about bias. I know the $EC is a better league, but there's no reason that we should be getting the shaft on so many of these top viewing windows.

I'm really at the point where we need to just blow up the ACC and Big 12 leagues that exist now and get the 16 best teams from both leagues to form a strong football league. The best 16 teams in the Big 12 and ACC would be a better league top to bottom than the Big Ten, they just have the better top teams but we'd have much better games top to bottom.

A few takeaways:

— Ahmari Huggins-Bruce isn’t on the roster ‘yet’ but Brohm emphasized the ‘yet’ part, to me.

— Jadon Thompson was the first receiver mentioned after Brooks and Bell. Also mentioned Hicks and Meeks.

— Isaac Brown continues to draw rave reviews from his head coach. While unproven, certainly sounds like they like the group as a whole.

— Brohm said Lacy WILL be back.

— Brohm feels like the defensive line has tremendous depth, says quite a few guys will play.

— There was another time to ‘crank it up’ mention, seems as if that’s the buzz phrase for Jeff this year.

— On TE: mentioned Redman and Johnson first, but said all five will see the field. (Kurisky, Skinner, Cummings)

It’s Monday morning for you poor souls that still work.
It’s post Sunday for me.
We are getting so very close.
Going to be a fun season.

Nick Saban looks thrilled to be sitting next to Pat McAfee. Saban is a stiff gradual replacement for Corso.

August 23rd

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Arrived tonight for his visit. Louisville is live in this recruitment.

Less than a week.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday.
I personally do not like noon games. I feel it will happen a lot more.

More and more I am reminded how few understand the concept of a “free country”

Poor Deion. Criticized by a media member so Colorado bans the guy indefinitely from asking questions. What a 🐟 🌮

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40967823/colorado-bans-reporter-asking-deion-sanders-questions

2023/2024

Transfers IN: & High School:
UofL 31/25 - Total 56---HS 18/14 Total 32
Cal 20/23 -- Total 43 -- HS 13/19 Total 32
Cuse 9/19 -- Total 28 - HS 18/23 Total 41
SMU 26/19 - Total 45 - HS 16/10 Total 26
GTech 16/14 - Total 30 - HS 19/23 Total 42
FSU 12/17 - Total 29 ---HS 19/23 Total 53
Mia 17/15 - Total 32 -- --HS 26/27 Total 53
UNC 10/10 - Total 20 --HS 21/28 Total 49
UVA 9/13 - Total 22 --- HS 20/13 Total 33
VT 9/7 - Total 16 -- --HS 27/16 Total 43
Duke 9/16 - Total 25 -- HS 26/16 Total 42
BC 9/10 -Total 19 -- ----HS 18/13 Total 31
Pitt 7/14 - Total 21 -- ---HS 19/21 Total 40
NCSt 6/15 - Total 21 -- HS 18/24 Total 42
Stfd 4/4 - Total 8 ----- HS 20/25 Total 45
WF 3/5 - Total 8 ------- HS 20/21 Total 41
Clem 1/0 Total 1 ------= HS 26/22 Total 48 Not a surprise!
He was a QB

Please share Comments. Analysis for reasons, etc etc

Note: I just posted (Friday) this on the Free Board too for their thoughts and comments.

The Tobacco Road stalwarts are lagging behind in portal usage especially Wake UNC, NC St, and Duke are middle of the road Miami and FSU are somewhat surprising to me. Others with a greater challenge to improve the W/L who have gaps are heavier utilizers and those who have experienced coaching changes during this time frame. are too.

CBS Sports design

CBS Sports college basketball insiders Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander spent a month surveying 100-plus Division I men's basketball coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled across the sport's landscape: some of the biggest names in college basketball, but also small-school assistants in low-major leagues. Coaches agreed to share unfiltered opinions in exchange for anonymity. We asked 10 questions and are posting the results over a three-week span.

At the professional level, everything is documented for salary cap purposes. So nobody has to guess, or wonder about, what the Lakers or Celtics are spending on players. We know. And nobody has to guess, or wonder about, what LeBron James and Jaylen Brown are making. We know.
College athletics remains different, though.

Yes, schools are now using money to secure commitments via NIL deals -- and the dollar-amounts connected to those deals are sometimes reported. But, honestly, who knows what's true and what isn't, what's real and what's fake, what's accurate and what's exaggerated? One coach put it this way when we asked for some insight about which schools are capitalizing most with strong NIL packages:


"This answer varies from week to week," he said. "One week on the road you hear Washington is offering a kid $2.3 million, then you hear Kentucky and Louisville have offered more. At this point, no one knows what to truly believe with agents involved and trying to drive prices through the roof with false information."


That's a common opinion in the industry.
Few coaches try to pretend they're completely sure what to believe as it pertains to what schools are spending on NIL and what players are getting in NIL. They know what they read. They know what they hear. But, nearly to a man, they are something less than certain that everything they read and hear is true.

That acknowledged, we still wanted to know what coaches are hearing about different schools' NIL packages as they navigate this new and often chaotic world. So, with that in mind, we asked more than 100 college basketball coaches the following question:

Which three programs do you believe have the best NIL situations?​

(Other programs that received at least one vote: Arizona, Florida, Georgetown, McNeese State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Villanova, Washington.)

The takeaway​

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Please note the way the question was worded.
Matt Norlander and I didn't ask coaches what they know about NIL, if only because we already know that nobody really knows what's true and what isn't. Instead, we simply asked them to tell us which schools they believe have the best NIL situations based off of what they encounter and hear on the recruiting trail.
We asked for lists of three.

Unsurprisingly, Arkansas easily appeared on the most ballots. In what is certainly a related note, the school hired Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame coach John Calipari away from Kentucky earlier this year.
"You know Cal," one coach said. "He's not going anywhere unless he has everything in place."


That's certainly true.
Calipari has even hinted at as much while contrasting the differences between the NIL resources he had at Kentucky with the NIL resources he's been given at Arkansas. That's not the only reason Calipari made the intra-conference move -- or even the main reason. But it was likely a prerequisite to Calipari leaving UK after a 15-year run that was mostly good but had fallen off in recent years, evidence being that the Wildcats haven't made the Final Four since 2015 or the Sweet 16 since 2019.

Exactly what Calipari has at his disposal for NIL via big-money boosters and corporate support remains unclear -- but what our poll shows is that basically everybody is operating under the assumption that the Razorbacks are heavy players in the market. It's those funds that allowed Calipari to build from nothing, in a matter of months, what I believe should be a preseason top-15 team and legitimate Final Four contender.

One other interesting thing about the results of our poll is that the programs coaches largely believe are swinging the biggest NIL sticks are either blue bloods and/or schools employing new coaches. Our top-five vote getters -- Arkansas, Kansas, BYU, Kentucky and Indiana -- all check at least one of those boxes. Kentucky checks both. And only six programs appeared on more ballots than Louisville, another traditional power with a new coach that is desperate to return to relevance ASAP.


"They're handing out f-cking money like it's Monopoly," one coach said.

As someone who watched the Louisville program crater over the past two years, I, for one, say good for them. Louisville should be handing out money like it's Monopoly. It's an ACC program with a large and proud fanbase that's been through a lot over the years -- everything from the end of the Rick Pitino era to the surprisingly disappointing Chris Mack era to the disastrous couple of years Kenny Payne was in charge.

Simply put, college basketball is better when Louisville is good.
I sincerely believe that.

So spend away, Cardinals!

A sentence like that might've prompted an NCAA investigation 10 years ago. But what used to be outlawed is now allowed, encouraged and, broadly speaking, necessary to consistently compete at the tip-top of the sport. Like many coaches told us, what schools can and do offer in NIL can vary from one month to the next. But the largest brands, and the proudest programs with new coaches corporate partners want to set up to succeed, currently appear to be the biggest players -- though most coaches seem to think this same question a year from now would likely provide different results based on how the next 12 months unfold.