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santo said:
Which Ohio State WR is Stroud going to try to recruit here? lol
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His best friend tank was from the University of Houston and despite his injuries was a pretty good draft pick. So I'm thinking perhaps a wide receiver from a Texas school?
Hint the team I'm thinking of also has a bull as a mascot.
 
TheRealJoker V2 said:
He runs a lot and passes a lot. I actually think that pace and tempo could go well with DeMeco’s SWARM defense. Why not put both opposing units in a pressure cooker and annihilate our opponents?

www.elevenwarriors.com

New Ohio State Offensive Coordinator Chip Kelly Has History of Leading Elite Offenses, Especially in the Run Game

Chip Kelly’s track record of success at Oregon, UCLA and in the NFL includes five seasons in which his offenses led the FBS or NFL in rushing yards per attempt.
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I didn't realize BO'b took the job at Ohio State, then stiffed them 3 weeks later.


What a guy.
 
steelbtexan said:
He got a HC position close to home at Boston College.

I dont blame him for taking a promotion that's close to home.

Are you saying you wouldn't have done the same thing?
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It seems like the closer to home position was available at the time he chose Ohio State?
 
Question for those who not long ago stated that Walter football.com was the most accurate in the draft. What are your thoughts on his most recent mock draft of this week?
 
I like his Texan picks but I’ve come to believ that Booker will be a top 15 pick. The 2nd is a good pick if we go d at that time. I think the tits will draft Abdul Carter so the mock he has is close to what i agree with. For sure the pokes will draft Jeanty. This all will change during the combine but he is right on about Texans OL needs.
 
I guess this was inevitable.

Great Blue North Draft Report - Covering The NFL Draft

News, Opinions, Updates, Information and Analysis of The NFL Draft.
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Top college QB ‘holding out’ … Star Tennessee QB Nico Iamaleava, a top prospect for the 2026 draft, was a no-show at the Vols’ practice session earlier today amid an on-going dispute over his NIL contract. Put simply, Iamaleava wants to renegotiate his current NIL deal with the school; the school doesn’t. And with the spring transfer portal set to open next week (April 16th) there’s some real nervousness in Knoxville how this all ends.
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TheRealJoker V2 said:
Sad story all around. From the inexcusable action that left someone else dead to the waste of ending his own life.

www.profootballrumors.com

LSU WR Kyren Lacy Passes Away At 24

Former LSU WR Kyren Lacy, a 2025 NFL Draft prospect, died by suicide at age 24. More at Pro Football Rumors.
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People make terrible mistakes.

A very sad ending for this young man.
 
In bipartisan effort, five Senators discuss college sports compensation
By Mike Florio
Published April 14, 2025 08:04 PM


The NCAA has only two viable solutions to its current chaos — a nationwide union or an act of Congress.

At a time when multiple bills are circulating in the U.S. House of Representatives, five Senators from both sides of the aisle have been discussing legislation that would regulate compensation in college sports.

Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports reports (via Sports Business Journal) that Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticu), Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), Chris Coons (D-Delaware), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) have met several times in recent weeks in connection with a potential bill. Per the report, Cruz and Booker are viewed as “essential to any advancement of a bill.”

The bill, if it moves forward, is expected to have three major components. First, federal preemption of any state-based NIL laws. Second, a declaration that athletes are students and not employees. Third, and most importantly, a limited antitrust exemption that would allow the NCAA and the major conferences to enforce eligibility and transfer rules without fear of liability.

Without some sort of antitrust protection, any rule that applies across independent collegiate institutions would violate federal law. Without a multi-employer bargaining unit (which allows the 32 NFL teams to make rules that would otherwise violate the law), a Congressional exemption to the existing antitrust principles would be needed.

Absent either, the chaos will continue.

Some would say Congress shouldn’t get involved in free enterprise. The schools should, in theory, compete with each other for players. The players should have maximum freedom of mobility. And if the various universities want to impose restrictions, they should embrace unionization.

An antitrust exemption would essentially protect the universities from themselves, limiting the rights and the compensation of the athletes.

So if Congress is going to get involved, maybe Congress should include a provision that, you know, forces coaches to honor their contracts and not hopscotch from school to school. If it’s fair for the players, it should be fair for the coaches.
 
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create
Vanna Bonta
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Report: Multiple programs are waiting for Nico Iamaleava’s NIL demand to drop to $1 million
Published April 15, 2025 04:16 PM

Don’t make a power play if you don’t have the power.

That’s the lesson former Tennessee quarterback (and current man without a college football country) Nico Iamaleava has learned in recent days. He had a $2.4 million NIL bird in the hand in Knoxville. His effort to beat the bushes for $4 million caused the bird in his hand to fly away.

With North Carolina reportedly out and only Tulane and UCLA currently linked to Iamaleava, Pete Nakos of On3.com now reports that multiple schools are waiting to see whether his price falls into the range of $1 million.

It’s a new wrinkle in the NCAA’s NIL dynamic. Now that a player can play the leverage game, there’s a chance he’ll overplay his hand. Iamaleava apparently has.

The $4 million he wants seems to be nowhere to be found. The $2.4 million he had may be gone for good. And the entire exercise will raise the stakes on his ability to perform well enough to position himself for an NFL career that, given the ongoing surge in quarterback salaries, could pay him a lot more than $4 million.

For now, it looks like he got bad advice, or that he ignored good advice he received. Regardless, Iamaleava has left money on the table that he quite possibly will never see. And he’ll eventually be landing in a place where he’ll need to establish himself all over again in the hopes of laying the foundation to play quarterback at the next level.
 
TheRealJoker V2 said:
BB was the last person I thought would take his girlfriend to work with him:

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Bill Belichick's Girlfriend Jordon Hudson's Role in UNC CFB Program Detailed in Report — Bleacher Report

One month after North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick requested members of his staff to include his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, on any emails being sent to him, details about her role with the football program have come to light.
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People dont know how much family means to Belichick. Employees his sons everywhere he goes, now his GF. He took the North Carolina job so that he could leave a legacy job to his son Steve.

The media gives you what they want you to think about Belichick. He's actually quick witted and looked like he is fun to hangout with while fishing with Jimmy Johnson on Johnson's boat.
 
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UCLA, Tennessee swap quarterbacks
Published April 21, 2025 07:47 PM

There are no trades in college football. However, two programs have performed a de facto signal-caller swap.

With Tennessee quarterback Nico Iamaleava transferring from Tennessee to UCLA, UCLA quarterback Joey Aguilar is now transferring to Tennessee.

That’s the word from Pete Nakos of On3.com. Wake Forest and Tulane also were in the mix.

Aguilar had transferred from Appalachian State to UCLA earlier this year.

It’s one of the basic realities of college football in the NIL era. Unless and until the universities recognize a union or Congress provides an antitrust exemption, the NIL-fueled chaos will continue.
 
Texas will spend $35-40 million on its 2025 football roster
Published April 30, 2025 01:47 PM

Horns down payment.

Via Kirk Bohls of the Houston Chronicle, the University of Texas will pay $35 million to $40 million for its 2025 football roster. The number includes what likely will be $20.5 million in revenue sharing plus NIL payments from the Texas One Fund.

The spike in money for the players apparently will be a one-time thing, since many schools will be phasing out their NIL collectives in lieu of revenue sharing until the pending antitrust settlement.

Texas won’t disclose how many players will make at least $1 million. Quarterback Arch Manning will be the highest paid Longhorn “by far.” All of his money comes from NIL deals done separate and apart from the school.

Manning will be starting for the first time in 2025. Despite the fact that he’s the betting favorite to be the first overall pick in the 2026 draft, he could still choose to come back for 2026.

While $45 million seems like a lot, remember this. The NFL’s initial per-team salary cap, way back in 1994, was $34.6 million. This year, it’s $279.2 million.

Thus, even though college football players finally will be getting paid, it’s still a lot less money than what is and will continue to be available to NFL players.
 
Just because it is already being posted. A WAY TOO EARLY 2026 1st round (for the heck of it).

www.usatoday.com

Way-too-early NFL mock draft 2026: AI predicts the entire first round

The 2025 NFL Draft just finished and we're already turning the page to 2026. Here's how Microsoft's Copilot AI views the first round next year.
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Pray this is not the type situation for next year. OL...again and #19 way to early. We will have a 20-some pick and with luck a late on or a 20-some.
19. Houston Texans: Spencer Fano, OT, Utah
New year, same problem. The offensive line remains a priority for Houston and they take care of that by taking the tackle Fano out of Utah. Like that family vacation you booked way-too-early to save on hotels and flights, C.J. Stroud can't wait and will probably spend all season saying, "Are we there yet?"
 
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Report: UNC bans Jordon Hudson from the football facility
Published May 9, 2025 09:37 AM

North Carolina apparently do not believe that any publicity is good publicity.

When it comes to Jordon Hudson, the 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicity for UNC coach Bill Belichick, recent publicity tracing to her involvement in a disastrous CBS book-tour interview has been bad for everyone. Except perhaps for her.

Via AwfulAnnouncing.com, the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out includes a strong claim. Per Torre, it’s been bad enough for North Carolina to prompt the Tar Heels to give Hudson the boot.

Specifically, Hudson reportedly has been banned from the football facility.

“Two sources at the University of North Carolina tell me that there has been a decision that was made last week by the higher-ups inside the athletic department that had hired Bill Belichick to be the highest paid public employee — not just coach in the state of North Carolina at $10 million a year — and that decision was that Jordon Hudson, she is no longer allowed in the football building,” Torre said. “She is not allowed on the football field.”

Torre predicted we won’t “be hearing much from Jordon moving forward.’”

Hudson had been largely quiet for the past week or so. However, she already has retweeted a message that criticizes the report that she has been banned from the UNC facility. Here’s the message she amplified: “We live in a culture much too rife with lazy conspiratorial thinking so I try to be very careful when speculating about where real nefariousness exists but this one feels like someone is trying to put the screws (no pun intended) to Belichick and Hudson is part of a bigger plot.”

It’s unclear whether this means Hudson disagrees with the report, or whether she objects to the end result: That she’s no longer welcome in a workplace where she was never actually employed.

Torre aded that “Bill Belichick’s family is extraordinarily concerned by what has transpired,” and that there is “deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.”

The family, according to Torre, is also doing their homework on Hudson.

This will now go one of two ways. Either it will all die down. Or it will all get worse. If it’s the latter, it could happen quickly.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Report: UNC bans Jordon Hudson from the football facility
Published May 9, 2025 09:37 AM

North Carolina apparently do not believe that any publicity is good publicity.

When it comes to Jordon Hudson, the 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicity for UNC coach Bill Belichick, recent publicity tracing to her involvement in a disastrous CBS book-tour interview has been bad for everyone. Except perhaps for her.

Via AwfulAnnouncing.com, the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out includes a strong claim. Per Torre, it’s been bad enough for North Carolina to prompt the Tar Heels to give Hudson the boot.

Specifically, Hudson reportedly has been banned from the football facility.

“Two sources at the University of North Carolina tell me that there has been a decision that was made last week by the higher-ups inside the athletic department that had hired Bill Belichick to be the highest paid public employee — not just coach in the state of North Carolina at $10 million a year — and that decision was that Jordon Hudson, she is no longer allowed in the football building,” Torre said. “She is not allowed on the football field.”

Torre predicted we won’t “be hearing much from Jordon moving forward.’”

Hudson had been largely quiet for the past week or so. However, she already has retweeted a message that criticizes the report that she has been banned from the UNC facility. Here’s the message she amplified: “We live in a culture much too rife with lazy conspiratorial thinking so I try to be very careful when speculating about where real nefariousness exists but this one feels like someone is trying to put the screws (no pun intended) to Belichick and Hudson is part of a bigger plot.”

It’s unclear whether this means Hudson disagrees with the report, or whether she objects to the end result: That she’s no longer welcome in a workplace where she was never actually employed.

Torre aded that “Bill Belichick’s family is extraordinarily concerned by what has transpired,” and that there is “deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.”

The family, according to Torre, is also doing their homework on Hudson.

This will now go one of two ways. Either it will all die down. Or it will all get worse. If it’s the latter, it could happen quickly.
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CloakNNNdagger said:
Report: UNC bans Jordon Hudson from the football facility
Published May 9, 2025 09:37 AM

North Carolina apparently do not believe that any publicity is good publicity.

When it comes to Jordon Hudson, the 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicity for UNC coach Bill Belichick, recent publicity tracing to her involvement in a disastrous CBS book-tour interview has been bad for everyone. Except perhaps for her.

Via AwfulAnnouncing.com, the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out includes a strong claim. Per Torre, it’s been bad enough for North Carolina to prompt the Tar Heels to give Hudson the boot.

Specifically, Hudson reportedly has been banned from the football facility.

“Two sources at the University of North Carolina tell me that there has been a decision that was made last week by the higher-ups inside the athletic department that had hired Bill Belichick to be the highest paid public employee — not just coach in the state of North Carolina at $10 million a year — and that decision was that Jordon Hudson, she is no longer allowed in the football building,” Torre said. “She is not allowed on the football field.”

Torre predicted we won’t “be hearing much from Jordon moving forward.’”

Hudson had been largely quiet for the past week or so. However, she already has retweeted a message that criticizes the report that she has been banned from the UNC facility. Here’s the message she amplified: “We live in a culture much too rife with lazy conspiratorial thinking so I try to be very careful when speculating about where real nefariousness exists but this one feels like someone is trying to put the screws (no pun intended) to Belichick and Hudson is part of a bigger plot.”

It’s unclear whether this means Hudson disagrees with the report, or whether she objects to the end result: That she’s no longer welcome in a workplace where she was never actually employed.

Torre aded that “Bill Belichick’s family is extraordinarily concerned by what has transpired,” and that there is “deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.”

The family, according to Torre, is also doing their homework on Hudson.

This will now go one of two ways. Either it will all die down. Or it will all get worse. If it’s the latter, it could happen quickly.
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Or did they?
 
Errant Hothy said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1920867396329394262

Or did they?
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The PR for Belichick re. his GF is still not good.

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North Carolina says Jordon Hudson is “welcome” at the football facilities
Published May 9, 2025 11:35 AM

It’s been two weeks of P.R. mud for the Tar Heels. And two weeks of mopping it up.

On Friday morning, North Carolina issued a statement in response to a report that Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicist has been banned from the football facility.

“While Jordon Hudson is not an employee at the University or Carolina Athletics, she is welcome to the Carolina Football facilities,” the statement explains, via Chris Vannini of TheAthletic.com. “Jordon will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities for Carolina Football and the University.”

While the development will be regarded by some as a refutation of Pablo Torre’s reporting, this seems to be a carefully worded potato/potahto situation. Especially since the statement begins by pointing out that Hudson “is not an employee” of the school.

While she surely hasn’t been told that visiting Belichick at work would amount to trespass, she quite possibly has been told that, as someone who isn’t employed by North Carolina football, she should not be working for North Carolina football. No more emails. No more meetings. No more anything that an employee would be doing on behalf of the football program.

You know, the way it already is for every other coach of every other major college or professional football program. By saying Hudson “will continue to manage all activities related to Coach Belichick’s personal brand outside of his responsibilities” at the university, UNC is pointing out that she will be doing nothing as it relates to the interests of the university.

That’s the news. Not that she’s forbidden from setting foot in the building. That she’s expected, as a non-employee of North Carolina football, to act accordingly.
 
For Bill Belichick and North Carolina, June 1 looms large
Published May 10, 2025 08:48 AM

Bill Belichick’s commitment to North Carolina came with a clear caveat. His contract contains a buyout clause.

When it comes to that buyout clause, the most important date is June 1, 2025.

On that day — only three weeks from tomorrow — the payment necessary for Belichick to exit the deal plummets from $10 million to $1 million.

Initially, that reduction was viewed as a quick and easy path for Belichick to get back to the NFL. Now, it becomes Belichick’s potential escape hatch from what may have become a bad relationship.

Setting aside whatever cracks in the foundation may have previously existed, Friday could be the day when it all came crashing down. Pablo Torre’s reporting, which basically stands for the idea that Belichick was told his 24-year-old girlfriend can’t work for the football program any longer, could be the thing that gets her to do something like what she reportedly did at his recent CBS interview.

Stand up, proclaim “Bill, we’re leaving,” and storm out.

In three weeks and one day, he can walk away with the stroke of a seven-figure pen. What’s $1 million to him? He has already made more than that since taking the job, given that his annual salary is $10 million.

With the current buyout at $10 million, Belichick couldn’t simply up and leave in response to whatever has happened to date. On June 1, he can.

Even if he doesn’t, it gives him a little leverage. If UNC makes demands he doesn’t like, he can remind them that all he has to do is write a check and he’s gone.

There’s a chance that, at this point, the school might welcome that. Maybe they’d even tell him to keep his $1 million. Maybe, at some point, they’d even give him $1 million or more to go.
 
Everyone knows that the North Carolina Tarheels are a college team, right? Because I keep seeing North Carolina football posts in the NFL forum.
 
Report: NCAA considers lifting ban on pro sports betting
Published May 11, 2025 07:55 PM

At a time when plenty of NCAA rules have fallen, another one could be going.

Pat Forde of SI.com reports that “[m]omentum is building” toward the NCAA lifting its ban on gambling on professional sports.

The Division I Board of Directors took initial steps in that direction last month. It’s pending before the Division I Council, which is scheduled to discuss it this week.

Current rules prevent athletes, coaches, and staff from betting on pro sports that are played at the NCAA level, including football.

It’s a stark difference from the manner in which the rules-obsessed NCAA used to operate. Perhaps after a series of antitrust losses in court, the governing body for college sports is running scared.

The development raises two potential concerns for the NFL, if the prohibition is lifted. First, every new crop of rookies will have been permitted to bet on the NFL. It will become critical for the league to ensure that they go cold turkey.

Second, college players have relationships with NFL players. It opens another avenue for inside information to make its way to college players who will be looking for an edge — especially as it relates to prop bets. All it takes is a text message, friend to friend, and a Saturday player will know something that could be very useful on Sunday.

Allowing betting on pro sports greatly streamlines NCAA enforcement efforts, since the only concern will become whether college athletes bet on college sports. Likewise, the sportsbooks with which the NCAA is partnering will be glad to pocket some of the NIL money that college players are now making.

Until the government shuts the faucet, that is.
 
Lucky said:
Everyone knows that the North Carolina Tarheels are a college team, right? Because I keep seeing North Carolina football posts in the NFL forum.
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I have no problem posting here on Belichick.. But it can be confusing as to where to place posts regarding him. His book relates mostly his NFL history. He is the GOAT NFL coach. He continues to imply that he is likely trying to work his way back to the NFL. I guess until that happens, I'll post here regarding his related news. :tiphat:
 
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