OL and Safeties, Coaches Clanton and Broomfield, Players Tyler Miller, Marcus Neal and Jeremiah Cooper.

Clanton said that Miller is at 6’9” 340 now. Wants to work him on both sides for the flexibility, to appeal to the pros.

Didn’t flat out say it, but it seems blatantly obvious James Neal won the LT—and has improved.

Neal is at 335. Looks solid.

Center will be a tough fight. He said that Jim Bonifas is as smart as anyone, and knows the position.

Among the youngsters, the Helton twins are each working at both C and G.

I think he mentioned Garret Rutledge at RG, but apparently he’s a road grader. At 6’7” that seemed odd—but maybe that’s where they’re breaking him in for a year?

*Inference By Omission
When Clanton mentioned a LOT of IOL, did not mention Deylin Hasert. Still on roster, I assume he’s rehabbing.

When Coach Broom was listing all of the current signees, including those yet to enroll, he did not mention Mason Ellens. The (very stretch) inference here is that Ellens may be at corner when he reports.

Assuming he just didn’t slip his mind.

Ellens may wind up one of the fastest ISU football signees ever—my thoughts.

Coach Broom talked about how physical Marcus Neal is. Marcus said he’s working at Star, sounds like we might have a starter. Along with Coop and Ta’Shawn. I think Jamo Patton will still play a lot.

Sounds like Carson Van Dinter is an athletic monster, but still has some learning to do.

Cam Smith and Drew Surges in the mix, too.

Early enrollee Joshua Patterson working at FS.

Apparently along with WR, Ethan Stecker played DL in HS. Interesting combination. He and LaMarcus Hicks will arrive in summer.

I feel for a lot of these teams, especially in the top 10, they are projecting too many freshman in the starting lineup. Need to let the dust settle on the portal. But here we are anyway

Just booked a concert at the Ryman in Nashville for this fall, have only flown through there a few times, would appreciate any recs on hotels? Just me and the wife, I'm kind of a hotel snob so something downtown and bougie would be ideal. TIA.

This is fascinating.

Another flip from Notthern Illinois. And another Nebraskan.

Another lengthy safety. Offer from KState. Track athlete.

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Polls are starting to emerge for 25-26 with common sense picks and some real head scratchers...

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Dang.

Not really site feedback - just found this hilarious. The latest headline posted on CF landing page was cut-off and definitely had a click-bait effect on me (Why the f' are they giving up?)

From everything I’ve seen and read, so far Jefferson is staying with Iowa State. He’s a great player who can play all five positions. Fingers crossed !!

As we hit the final day of major college athletics until fall, I thought it would be a good time to ask this.

We have threads on each of these topics, and every decently long thread has one or more sub streams or conversations about issues, opinions, etc that circle back to semi-unrelated "gripes". I'm interested in seeing what people would choose if they could say 3 things they dislike, hate, is turning them off, etc the most with college athletics. I'm guessing NIL will be on the vast majority of lists so if you want to add a 4th, that's ok.

What are your 3 biggest "gripes" or "old man takes" on college athletics today.

A Few Examples:

• Selling alcohol
• Commercials
• Length of games
• Black uniforms
• Game times
• NIL (will be nearly universal)
• Change from student-first to semi-pro
• Open transfers
• Realignment (changes to who we play)
• Number of games or length of season
• Playoff construct
• March Madness construct
• Number of scholarships
• Recruiting process
• Ranking systems (AP, CFP, Coaches, etc)
• Crowd trends
• Streaming options, setup, etc
• Divisions vs Pods vs ?
• Etc

To help, this is mine...

I'm baking NIL into it so that is just a table stake hate for me.

1 - Football O/D Line Pre-Snap - I hate the amount of false start inducing movements and pre-snap hijinks now allowed on the defensive side when the offensive side can't even fart. I don't know the solution, I just hate seeing Offensive false starts because they blink when a LB starts running and lunging at them pre-snap.

2 - Realignment - Who we play and how often we play them used to be one of the most foundational aspects of fandom. Emotions were tied to each of your conference foes because of history. Rivalries should always be natural, not contrived (like Iowa vs Nebraska on Black Friday).

3 - Sport/Season Alignment - This is selfish and I know not practical for many reasons, but I'd love it if college football was August to January (add 2 regular season games maybe). Once that ended, basketball would then start and finish in late May. Those are the only sports I really care about and it seems like you miss part of the joy of BB starting when FB is still going with a lot on the line, and I hate the stretch from MBB to FB starting again.

Hoping for another successful Cy's House of Trivia this Saturday. Let's go!

Team Schmiedums here.

I recently switched hours at work and now don't get off until around 5:30. I used to get off at 3:30 and get my workout in. Howerver, with the new schedule I don't want to workout that late. So today I did my first morning workout. My muscles were not ready for this. I am 51 years old so it takes me a little bit longer to get going in the morning. Anyone else work out in the morning. Any prep ideas. How do you just wake up and start working out and a cold body?

Interesting piece from Kirk Goldsberry (one of the pioneers of NBA data visualization) in The Ringer. Basically argues that eliminating the corner three would result in more offensive creativity and more entertainment. He shows that the volume of 3s is way up (even by recent standards) while the league-wide shooting percentage is pretty stagnant around 36%, thus many more misses per game. His proposal is in the picture below.

Link to the full article



edit to add: I voted yes. The NBA is efficient, but often at the expense of entertaining. Needs a shake up to force more styles of offense. I'd also support making the lane thinner again

Masters Week is upon us. Other than on Monday (soften the course up a bit?) the weather looks like it will be pretty good. Cooler than normal.


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I know this is not breaking news now, but I ran across this clip of Daniyal, new head coach at North Texas. He will do great!

And, Eric Henderson, the new Drake coach. Drake is in good hands.

What a great hockey player and a great guy. Has been fun watching him play


Gretz is still the great one though.

Another rangy linebacker who can run. Cleaning up in Nebraska!

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Comments by Kelvin Sampson after beating Duke. Nice shout out to the Big 12 and the Big 12 season.

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I hope I’m wrong, but I’m hearing Jefferson got offered 3 million from another school and heading is their way. Not sure who the school is (LSU most likely), came from a very credible source. If true, I may be done with college athletics!!