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I hope this doesn’t come across as patronizing or dickish, but as a Michigan fan I was impressed with RU tonight

Wimsatt is obviously young but super talented. QB is the key and he is good and only getting better for the next 3 years. And Schiano is a great coach. No coincide have played you boys close the past 3 years. Good luck the rest of the way. I honestly believe are close to getting to the same level at football as your excellent hoops program. Good coaching ….

Women's Soccer NCAA Tournament

Starting a thread about what will be our next game and that will be the NCAA tournament; I actually believe losing in the first round of the Big 10 tournament may be the best thing that happened to us and the main reason is it will hopefully give our 2 girls that have been injured for most of the year Emma Misal and Allison Lowery time to heal up their chronic injuries; and the biggest latest injury which really didn't look good at the time Emily Mason!! if we don't get her back healthy we will have a tough time making any type of run but for her she will have had almost 3 weeks to hopefully heal up but we won't know that till we take the field in our first round game
Also it will give the other girls time to so call recharge their batteries and be fresh for the tournament, so lets hope we can make a run in the tourney
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Some of my thoughts from last night

If you care.......

1. We have one of the best tailgating scene in the country. I have been to a ton of other locations but just walking around the lots, the boardwalk, ease of in and out ( yellow lot) and of course the weather is made just for us. Some UM fans and I were chatting on the Boardwalk while they were online at a food truck. They thought the whole set up was to notch.
2. For all of the complaining we all make about the pre-game show, me included, night games at the stadium are great entertainment
3. The drone display was awesome, great job to whoever came up with that. I not sure what it costs but cannot imagine it is real expensive, we should plan to do unique ones for each night game.
4. we had 4 UM fans sitting behind us , sec 125, they were very courteous and asked a bunch of questions. Best line of the night I heard was when one said to another, "this place is a lot of fun for the fans".
5. As someone posted, the first half IMO was what we are hoping for the next year or two. We are missing some major pieces, but we also have plugged some holes this past year. Hopefully the portal helps us next year and we don't lose any of our better players.
6. Gavin has a rifle that needs to be muzzled down but a few of his passes had a nice touch. We need a few more receivers that get open. All of his passes were into double teams, none of our guys are ever wide open.
7. We need to prioritize getting tights ends in the portal. Every Big 10 team we played this year their TE killed us.
8. Not sure who noticed when Gavin threw his first interception that Greg walked on the field and made sure he didnt get down on himself . Even though he threw 2 more I feel better after last night that he is our future at QB. As someone tweeted about Gary Nova's first year, it takes time and Gary ended up one of our best QB's ever.
9. Not going to get in some of the negatives, pretty sure other threads will do that. Bottom line, great tailgating, great weather, great half of football. Go RU !

NIL idea-go old school

This is something that I was thinking about....

We keep on trying to push people to "donate" to the NIL foundation, I know we have all done that here, but there are plenty fans that have never heard of the foundation plus alot of fans who just don't believe they should donate to the bank account of kids. Then you have literally hundreds of thousands in the area that are not really fans but will occasionally go to a game if given the opportunity or will follow a little only if we are good.

So why don't we talk to a card, hobby, or memorabilia shop around here, hell there's a popular one very close to me that I can ask, and set up an autograph signing session. Get 5 RU players, say Wimsatt, Brown, Lewis, Powell, and say Moses Walker, $25 for an autograph, $100 for all 5 plus a free photo with all 5 pictures on it to get signed. Advertise it as autographs of future NFL players or something like that.

-As I said we would need a shop that would do it, many of them do a great job at advertising autograph sessions on their own
-We would need to find an RU alum that would print like 5000 of these photos either cheap or free
-You guys would have to do your part by getting the word out to everyone, not just board members but talk to the person next to you at the tailgate or stands, or your friends who are not RU fans but like to collect memorabilia
-Find a way to talk to the donors who have not wanted to contribute to the fund but would pay for something knowing that the athletes worked for and is truly Name, Image and Likeness, not just cutting a check for nothing. Zap (sorry for calling you out) is an example of this. But I am thinking we can get a couple bigger donors who would pay for like a thousand signed photos under this premise.

There are many memorabilia places will have the person sign 5000+ photos, that is not uncommon. I know there is some overhead like the venue but do the math. 5000 x $100 is $500,000 for one long day of work.
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Mods: Question for Greg

Possible to ask him tomorrow if they told Gavin not to run or is it his decision as it looked like there have been times over the last two games that he clearly should have run.
Shouldn’t the other DC have to worry about him running just a little bit???

I mean Vedral ran more. I’m almost hoping they are holding him back (which I disagree with if he knows how to slide EARLY or run out of bounds. )

Keep your heads up, Scarlet Knights !

Keep your heads up, Scarlet Knights !

And I mean both the players and fans. They made things happen in teh 1st to hang with and even lead a legit number 5 team. If they can do it for a half, they can do it for a whole game. I suspect we.. meaning THEY.. are just missing a few pieces. Some depth.

I hope everyone sees what is possible. Focus on the positives.. eliminate the negatives... (oh my god.. that's some show tune lyrics, isn't it?). Well, it is a common expression for a reason... it makes sense.

You can do a lot with HOPE. So have HOPE.

Everbody KEEP CHOPPING!

BB Recruiting Programs beginning to separate for Dink Pate

Pate finished his second game of the weekend with 27 points, and Rivals caught up with him afterwards. The talented guard said that Arkansas, Kansas, Georgetown, Alabama, UCF, Rutgers and Texas have been recruiting him the hardest as of late. Pate has an unofficial visit to Wichita State on Sunday.

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