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Hopefully someone does a study

I would like to see a study done on how many "student athletes". Graduate who entered the portal 2,3 and 4 times during their college career, kids who played at multiple colleges. Transferring credits from one college to another can be a nightmare, imagine 4 schools in 4 years. I have a hard time believing most transfer players can stay eligible. I'm sure the graduation rate is very very low, the little bit of NIL money is blown and gone and college degree gone with it.

Greg Sankey

Sankey has been making the sports talk show rounds touting the SEC in basketball and its evident that the proof is in the pudding. What strikes me about Sankey is that he puts out directives in his conference and seemingly his institutions listen. Sankey acknowledged his conference was weak in basketball when he arrived ten years ago and then...fixed it! They were getting 3 teams in the tournament. Meanwhile the Hair was chillaxing with his Just for Men proud the MWC got 4 teams in and maybe won one game. My point is, maybe Gloria needs to get a cattle prod and make the lackluster institutions in her conference step it up. I realize she doesnt have the money the SEC does, but she sure as hell had better start raising some expectations.

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Ranking the MW basketball jobs

Chris Murray at Reno has been the best reporter in the league for a long time. I always put a lot of stock in his stuff as he does a lot of his own research.

Here is his ranking of the head coaching jobs in the MW based on budget, salaries, fan base, and history. Hard to find much to disagree with.

JJ Watt finally spoke the truth.....

"At some point the NCAA needs to drop the ‘student first, athlete second’ charade," the former Wisconsin Badgers star wrote. "Billions of dollars, NIL, transfer portal (free agency), traveling cross-country for midweek games…

"Education is not the main focus. Admit it and call it what it is. A business. Run it as such."

"That’s exactly my point," Watt added. "We’ve got kids who aren’t ‘making money’ and will never go pro, yet they are traveling across the country midweek for ‘conference games,’ transferring schools, sacrificing studies for sport, etc. None of this is about what’s doing best for the student."

The NCAA is a joke! Schools like Wisconsin have gone pro, let's just say it..........schools like Wyoming can't afford to go pro and yet they attempt to play the same game. The gap is too wide now, even if some don't like to admit it. The NCAA like it is presently constructed needs to be disbanded, and something else needs to be put in its place for the schools that can't afford to or don't want to go pro. The Super Conference can't come too soon. The worst part of this whole thing, this was started by some athletes who will get a lot of money, but it will also screw a ton of athletes who won't go pro and just want to get a good education. You have too many kids who get nothing but dollar signs in their heads and don't care about getting a good education which was evidenced by that young man who was mentioned in another article about why they like their coach, "He do pay....." This young man obviously never even visited the inside of an English grammar class. Collegiate athletics is just in a very sad state of affairs.

P.S. - When you have an outstanding collegiate coach like Tony Bennett that gets fed up and quits during the season, it should be a huge red flag. The NCAA and collegiate athletics is like a barrel of fish that has been left outside and turned into a stinking mess.

Sawvel Addresses Waylee and Harsh’s Exits: Not Caught Off Guard

Jay Sawvel revealed that one more player might enter the transfer portal, but said the situation is related to a family illness.

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