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There are similarities. Scandal plagued program that's claimed multiple scalps. Trainwreck of a basketball program (hockey way underperforming too). But on the plus, they're riding one of the better runs (for them) in the past 5 or so decades of football. They have a president and chancellor...

Anybody know how Minnesota's AD search is going? Are they as incompetent as we are? Are their fans approaching meltdown and rebellion too?

Student enrollment has virtually nothing to do with athletic programs. If anything, larger enrollment would be a benefit for a school without scholarships, in the same way that larger high schools tend to have more good athletes by the simple law of averages. I knew Whitman in college (very...

Think of it this way: how happy would you be if we fired Groce and hired the basketball coach from Wheaton College? Or hired our next football coach from Milliken? The difference between D3 and major D1 is so far apart they aren't even the same thing. D3 has no scholarships. Even NAIA...

Great article, thanks! Impressive stuff!

As someone who doesn't follow tennis, can you elaborate on how Tiley turned the Australian Open into a premier tennis event? Wasn't it always a Grand Slam event? Has it somehow passed Wimbledon, the French or the US Open in stature? Again, not a tennis guy at all, but I always felt like...

Don't know Illinois' FOI laws, but I know a lot of schools conduct their informal interviews out of state to avoid FOI rules. In Florida, for example, media have the right to sit in on interviews. (This actually happened at Florida State two ADs ago, when they hired Randy Spetman.) Might have...

Never going to happen. First, hockey is way too expensive. The insurance for players is on par with football, and the equipment is on the high side for sports too. Second, hockey requires a lot of scholarships, which means an equal number of new scholarships for a women's sport. Penn State...

This is another problem Illinois has long had; they absolutely refuse to think outside the box and lead from the front by paying big money for anything. I remember the year before Self left for Kansas there was a rumor that Tubby Smith was about to get fired and Kentucky would be coming after...

Absolutely. When what you've been doing hasn't worked for 20+ years, why would you keep going to the same well? It'd be like insisting all our football coaches come from the Lou Tepper coaching tree.

But why would you want a jersey of the greatest college FB player ever when you can have a jersey of an average player from a bad team???

Uniform creator I'm sure everyone has seen this before, but how great would it be if Nike or the DIA or someone made a page like this for fans to create their own look with the new uni combinations? http://www.thedevilswear.com/