So ... I came across this article - just ... let's say a dose of reality.

See this link: https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/20...10-million-roster-next-season-per-report.html

The key source I think has been reported on here on this site: CBS Sportswriter Matt Norlander's article of this past Thursday.

Nutshell:

1) 10 basketball programs will spend $10 million on their basketball rosters for this season (I guess revenue sharing and NIL combined): Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arkansas, St. John’s, BYU, Louisville, Michigan, Texas Tech, Michigan and Indiana.

2) 8 basketball programs will have an $8 million budget: Auburn, Connecticut, Florida, Houston, Kansas, Kansas State, Miami, Purdue, Tennessee, Texas, UCLA, USC, Villanova, and Virginia (Virginia?!!!).

3) By the lists above, 5 Big 10 teams will have a budget of $8 million or more.

4) Norlander's article proclaims near the end, without NIL (separate from revenue sharing, on top of revenue sharing) of at leasst $3 - $4 million, a high major program is in trouble. RU? maybe $1 million (not including the Vegas tourney, which is split evenly amongst all players, so not really a "recruiting" - i.e. "paying" resource).

Ouch.

College football has truly become professional football. Smh

QB Nico Iamaleava skips Vols practice amid NIL talks

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Stealing this from the War Room, but here are today's recruit visitors.

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Argue all you want about NIL and how the portal is the best thing since sliced bread etc.

If you spent X amount of money in the portal less than 1 year ago for EIGHT players and all 8 depart the next year, how is that successful for all the portal lovers on the message boards here.

I'll wait to hear how this doesn't matter and how HS recruiting is a thing of the past or not the right way to rebuild and sustain a program.....

And are you donating to a program 1 year later, after all of your money wasted, walks out the door??? So the coaches can ask for another couple of million to fill in the gaps......??? Good luck

I know there are the Baylors and Indiana programs that can reload their programs with billionaire donors, but even billionaire money spent, still needs to make sense.....

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Was our top Target. According to article. “95 % sure was going to Rutgers” before going back to Quinnipiac

Good News. “ RU was the most genuine” didn’t offer the most NIL but hey we’re Genuine- other suitors UConn, Kansas, Tennessee, Memphis

Credit to the kid for staying loyal, but it fits our nice guy coach narrative who Can’t close in this new wild Wild West no rules game

In the spirit of how the board is functioning these days, I leave you this. Watch it until the end. 😂😂😂

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Thread is on the football board. Felt like it belongs here too...

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are back on the diamond for the second game in their series versus the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Rutgers lost to Minnesota 3-2 in a pitcher's duel last night. Rutgers looks to even the series and force a rubber match. First pitch is at 3 pm EST. Lineups will be posted soon

Been watching the beautiful weather from Clearwooder (South Philly pronunciation for Clearwater) this week while we anticipated a nothing of a storm pass us.
Unlike the Mets and Yankees the Phillies didn't take a big swing in free agency. For the most part all the major players are still intact.
A do or die year with some major free agents after this season. Most notably is JT Realmuto. Along with Schwarber and Suarez.
They were play there first preseason game tomorrow and will be Televized live on Sunday.
Atlanta is still the favorite for the NL East but Phillies and Mets are right behind
Should be a great summer!

Last night was the 250th of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride!

You go Paul! You go!

Seems pretty popular. Doctors writing scrips like crazy. Miracle weight loss drug ?

Once again, Maryland quickly lands a transfer class that will help them succeed, while we have to settle for scraps. The only difference: Money.

The camera was down for a while but it is back. If you remember last year, the one little baby got picked on a lot and had trouble getting food from the parent. They both ended up being vibrant healthy birds. Thus far this year there are no babies yet.

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For all of you who have worn the Eagle, Globe and Anchor, thank you.🫡🇺🇸

And Happy Birthday!

Any good new songs or albums released this year?

Biggest surprise and solid release on June 23, 2020 by the band Hum (famous for the 1995 song Stars), which had not released an album since 1998.

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Car Seat Headrest has also released a new album, which is not as strong as the last album:

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Badly Drawn Boy- Banana Skin Shoes
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Elvis Costello- No Flag - very solid song

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BPMD- American Made

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Starting this thread back up!

It's officially transfer portal season (AGAIN) and there's a lot of movement expected this spring portal window, with a lot of teams expected to spend some serious money before the new revenue sharing deal gets put into place and others like Rutgers having to cut down their rosters to the new projected 105 total cap.

To make things easier for you, we here at The Knight Report have decided to make this the one stop shop for everything Rutgers Football and the transfer portal this offseason.

Below you can see which players have entered the portal, who's committed to joining the Scarlet Knights via the portal and which prospects that the staff has offered so far.

Rated 9th best wr in nation in 2025 per bvm sports. Jeremiah smith from osu at 1.