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Most league charters provide for teams having an exclusive territory. If another team wants to move in they have to get approval and indemnify the original team. Hartford has to be in the Sun’s region. If it is, the league would be hard-pressed to claim in court that moving the team there is...

I looked it up because I was sure you were exaggerating. You did. You rounded up. You should be fair to Ole Miss and acknowledge that the most recent set of published stats indicate its acceptance rate is 97.78%. Unbelievable. No flagship state university should be in the "if you can fill...

The $5 per game facility fee that's included in those larger fees definitely goes to UConn. It has been used as part of the financing for the enhanced athletic facilities on campus.

Last season was fun. Last season involved winning. Winning is fun. Being competitive is fun, as long as enough of those competitive games end with a W. The Huskies are walking a very fine line these days. Things are on the upswing. However, we also aren't far from 2023's 3-9. Having a...

Most of that is irrelevant. In today's college sports world reality there's a heavy weighting that should be included in the formula. The order of weighting in declining order of importance is: Football ----huge drop--->MBB---big drop--->WBB---->MHockey--->Lax/Soccer/Baseball/VB--->all else...

The Inn at Longwood is in the Longwood medical area about 1/2 mile from the ballpark. It's small and comfortable yet not far from the T to get around the city. They used to have good weekend rates but I haven't stayed there in a few years so YMMV. It's an easy walk right down Brookline Avenue...

Two nights before Thanksgiving in Amherst? I’d guess 247 if you count the players, coaches, support guys, ticket taker(s), vendor(s), announcers, etc. That’s 332 if you get to count the Bowling Green traveling party too.

How does he still have eligibility? He red-shirted in 2019, 2020 doesn't count, but he played essentially full seasons in 2021-2024.

Understood, but baseball is a different animal. First, MLB takes much of the top tier straight out of high school. Second, the vast majority of the best college players are again draft eligible and leave after junior year. Lastly, it’s a partial scholarship sport. D1 teams get 10-12...

I'd like to see some real evidence this is happening - D2 and D3 players moving into the full scholarship ranks in numbers significant enough to observably impact D1 high school FB recruiting. The difference between full scholarship football and partial or no-scholarship football is huge. I...

That makes no sense. Let’s suppose 5 players transfer from lower level FBS or FCS schools to an upper level FBS team. So the upper level team will bring in 5 fewer freshmen on scholarship. However, those lower level teams will replace those 5 lost scholarship players with 5 more freshmen...

This is a pipeline system. If the total number of scholarships available (capacity of pipe) is constant from year to year, then number in must equal number out. Kids can shuffle between a scholarship at school A to one at school B, but that doesn’t change the total capacity of the system...

Where’s the conflict? The Mike Farrell’s of the world focus their comments on the big schools of the world (more clicks). So it’s logical that he would see fewer offers at those schools to high schoolers as they replaced by players being “promoted” from schools lower in the totem pole...

True, but at the end of the day FBS programs will still have 85 (or whatever the new number is) scholarship players per year. Oddly, it will just invert the weighting. In the old days they had 25 freshmen and then had net attrition throughout the years (say 25, 20, 17, 15 and 8 where the later...

Using that logic no university has a significant presence in NYC and leagues should just ignore it. Yet every year schools trip over themselves to play at MSG and even a few FB games find their way to Met Life and Yankee Stadium. Why do they do that when they have such a small piece of the...