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Anyone else kinda done with college sports? The NIL has just made it minor league pro sports and there is no reason to watch minor league pro sports when major league pro sports exist.

Honestly, one of the big reasons to not consider this in the past was the downgrade from MVC to MAC athletics outside of football. But the MVC has been significantly downgraded in the last few years and making the jump to the MAC may help hedge the NIL jumps.

Built just in time so the players can enjoy it for a year until they get their next free agent contract in 2025.

Absolutely correct. While racism is notably less prevalent now than 50 years ago, to suggest racism is more or less dead in America is objectively false.

I feel the entire country is waiting for everyone to stop pushing back against everything and refusing to find common ground. Not everything needs to be a fight, especially when cooler heads prevail. I have no interest at all in Illinois State being the national figurehead that "pushes back"...

Honestly, we no longer live in a society where whether you did something or not is good enough to defend yourself. It is good enough to defend yourself from prosecution, but not persecution. We live in the court of public opinion and as such, you need to see best case and worst case scenarios...

Guys, this is central IL. I think all of the people spiking the football right now are maybe not living in the reality that someone did probably drop a racially charged term in that crowd. Whether the investigation found proof of that or not is another thing, but there are good ol boys (and...

At the risk of sounding like Crazy Mark, I have been reading lots of quotes from MBB and FB coaches these last few months and they are getting much more open about their opinions that the NIL is killing college sports and making it impossible for 90% of coaches to do what they were hired to do...

This SHOULD be a 15+ point win and we should be able to get some good minutes for guys off the bench here.

I think you can't overlook branding on your resume. USC is not only a national brand, but it is about to become part of the big 10, which will be the new gold standard of football conferences (I look forward to your angry letters about the SEC). A young coach now has HC experience and will...

Purdue Global is only loosely affiliated with Purdue. I worked for a company that did admissions for both Purdue Global and several programs at Purdue Online (two different bodies). Purdue Global is formerly Kaplan University and runs a for-profit model hidden by the Purdue name. Credits...

My thought about bringing Bradley back to Horton is that BU is one of the only games on the schedule that still sells 7000+ at RBA. It is hard to give up an extra $75,000 in revenue in the name of nostalgia. I do think, however, you can play a B-level rivalry game there and now lose as much...

Ahhhh, it is a separate link! Love it! Thanks, team!

So, quick question- The Horton game is the only game on the calendar I dont think they sell public tickets to. How would one gain access to this game? More than that, this has become a crown jewel of not just our basketball schedule, but our athletics calendar. The fact that we do this only...

I didnt get a chance to catch the game yesterday, but know we won just by looking at how many pages of replies there are. We tend to be a great deal more interested in responding to complain than to give praise. Well, allow me. - You had 5 players in double figures yesterday, 7 players...

So you guys that are calling for heads to roll after 1-2 years dont ...get it, do you? A coach does not come in an suddenly 2 star players turn into 4 star players. And it takes years, not months, to build culture. It takes buy in from team, from fans, from HS coaches, recruits, high schools...

This seems like a VERY evenly matched game and winnable. If ISU was to win this and finish with 7 wins, would you guys consider this season a W even if the birds are not in the playoffs? It would be a shame that 1 point against EIU, of all schools, would be the dividing line for playoffs vs...

I have always hated the "We didn't win well enough" argument. You won a D1 game and the first day of March Madness every year will tell you that college basketball comes with no sure things. Taking a big first half lead and then not really losing control of the game at any point after that, to...

I've made this argument in the past: The grass is always greener. I personally think firing the winningest HC in the history of the program on the back of a winning season not only is dumb, but paints the people that demand he be fired as complete morons. This is the hardest conference in...

This weekend marked the 100th win of Brock Spack's Illinois State head coaching run. He is now 100-69 helming the ship (a 59.2% WP) with two conference championships, a national title appearance and what looks to be, with a win on Saturday, 11 of 15 seasons being winning seasons. I know that...