willie

You are not talking about a schools general endowment fund. One could endow a specific scholarship thru an athletic department for a special purpose. The great T Bone Pickens set up a special athletic fund at Oklahoma State but that was not part of the schools general endowment. That fund which used some creative funding ended up collapsing.

I will also add the university is potentially going to lose many millions of dollars in research grands due to DOGE. Finances at the university could become very tight.

Filling the team with a couple of players who will never see the floor makes no sense to me unless Schertz goes May and says these players can help. What happens to the walk-on's ? Are they out of a job? Give it up on the Endowment Fund. I guarantee you no university is using general Endowment money to support athletics.

The downside is that it cost the university some money. While not a big deal in the total budget it does cost.

I would be shocked if we filled 15 scholarships.

You are going to die on this point aren't you. Hope someone does a study of those going up vs those going down.

There is quite a a bit here I disagree with. First Ekker was actually a pretty good game coach. The fact that he ever won a game against some of the best teams in the country with the talent he had was amazing. David Burns was probably the only decent recruit he ever had. Now if you want to criticize recruiting and off the court stuff Yes. Don’t forget his budget was zero. Second . Swope gets an A- in my book. Bad turnovers keeps him from an A. Third. The Amari for the last 6 or so games was a very good basketball player. His ability to to get to the rim and finish was very good. His defensive footwork for a freshman was superior. I think he showed all league potential at the end. Finally Pikaar at 6feet 11 inches with long arms and some mobility has great potential. My biggest criticism of Schertz is he didn’t play him more. Hope he stays because I believe he can contribute as soon as next year.

???????? Or is the blue font.

We are talking about Pakaar. Brockhoff would be Jim Bean or something off the rail.

Maybe but do you trade in you bottle of Old Forester 1910 hopping you can find a bottle of Pappy’s

Maybe. But they aren’t here.

Agreed look at it in a month but so far I haven’t seen too many power 5 names on here.

You are forgetting Roe V Wade was settled law. Not trying to be political just pointing out nothing is certain

Question for 3* I think. Just saw that 37.5% of the starters in the sweet 16 came from lower programs. I believe in the past you told us that the portal would work both ways. That high major recruits who didn't make it at the higher level would move down to the mids and would thrive. You may have some names of this happening but it seems to me it's been players like Casey. I don't think it's been a two way street.

I find it interesting that Duke is making the sign freshman work while Kentucky/ Calapari gave it up. We will see if these freshman can win it all.

From watching both of our portal guys in the preseason and early games I don't think we are losing much. Not sure how the game works but it wouldn't shock me that both were told their NIL money would be limited.

I was also there. Have to admit we got some good homecoming from the referees. My justification was this was only fair for the homecoming Missouri got in Columbia during the 3 game series for the men.

Question . What kind of NIL would an A-10 woman's player command? Anything?

Best BLT in town.

You get credit. I didn’t buy it Though Missouri was very good but obviously they couldn’t play slow.

I am not trying to be overly cute but Why?

So how do you know who is leaving? I would like to think there is a certain amount of honor that you wouldn’t contact a player until they declared.

Portal doesn’t open until next Monday.

I kinda see your point but how about football players who opt out of bowl games or register for the portal. Why play a game if your players don’t want to as everyone is a free agent.

So who would you play as an independent? Once non con is over how would you get a game. ND had to affiliate with the ACC for those reasons.