NFL training camps completed their first week after the end of the NFL lockout. There were some significant news surrounding NFL players, including the signings of DT Charlie Noonan and FB Jack Corcoran as well as injuries to WR Kenny Britt and OL Kevin Haslam.
Check below for updates and whereabouts on the former Scarlet Knights who have taken their game to the next level:
Knights In The NFL: Training Camp Edition
Rutgers football camp opens up today. While summer camp is important to all players and teams, it is even more important for a team coming off a 4-8 season as picked to finish last again by the Big East media. Rutgers has a lot of question marks. Today begins the process of answering those questions.
The 5 Rutgers Players Who Need A Good Training Camp
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Connecticut the Odds-on favorite to finish last by Bettors
No Love From The Media
Yesterday morning the Big East Media Poll was released and Rutgers came in last place in the preseason tally. Here is the complete ranking with first place votes in parenthesis:
1. West Virginia (21) – 188
2. Pittsburgh (2) – 162
3. USF (1) – 151
4. Syracuse – 98
5. Cincinnati – 96
6. Connecticut – 76
7. Louisville – 60
8. Rutgers – 33
For Rutgers fans it has been a long time since seeing those types of predictions, nevertheless a not too distant memory for many long time followers. It will be interesting to see how it will be framed among fans and whether Coach Greg Schiano can turn these prognostications into a motivational tool for a program that finished 4-8 last season after five straight bowl appearances.
Rutgers Fans
Last night as the Big East Media Poll leaked out on the internet and twitter, Rutgers fans on the nj.com Rutgers Fan Zone were asked what place they would have put Rutgers in the 2011 Big East preseason poll. As of 11 PM Tuesday evening 215 votes were cast and the results were as follows:
Third Place 21%
Fourth Place 17%
Eighth Place 16%
First Place 15%
Fifth Place 12%
Second Place 9%
Sixth Place 5%
Seventh Place 4%
With first and eighth place pretty even and with a combined 31% of the vote, you can tell there is a wide spread between feelings among even Rutgers followers. I must caution though, that Rutgers fan forums and message boards at times seem to be populated by fans that are anything but. However, with the top two vote getters equaling 38% of fans who are essentially saying the team will finish either third or fourth, the poll seems to have yielded somewhat reasonable results.
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The Oddsmakers
Beyondthebets.com took a look at four online sports books: 5Dimes, TheGreek, Bodog, and BetOnline.
They came out with the following observations:
Notice that Syracuse, picked to finish fourth by Big East writers, is listed sixth by three sportsbooks — Bodog, BetOnline and 5Dimes — and seventh by TheGreek. You can get Syracuse at +800 at BetOnline or at +1700 at 5Dimes.
Though the writers picked Pitt to finish second in the league, three sportsbooks have USF listed second and another has them in a tie for first at +250 with West Virginia.
Other notable differences?• BetOnline lists Rutgers at +1000, while 5Dimes (+2400) and Bodog (+2000) offer a payoff that’s at least twice as high.
• Cincinnati, which is picked to finish fourth at three of four books, can be had from anywhere between +500 (TheGreek) and +950 (5Dimes).
• Louisville is priced anywhere between +500 and +1100 at the four books, and one book, BetOnline, has given them the fourth-best odds to win the conference.
For the full results of this research go here.
One observations that I must add:
• Connecticut was picked LAST in three of the four sportsbooks and a very close second to last in the fourth.
Phil In The Blanks
So let’s take this one step further for another competing point of view. Phil Steele – who puts together one of the better preview magazines out there and with its information laden pages is undoublelty geared toward bettors – put his preseason rankings as follows:
1. Pittsburgh
1. USF
3. West Virginia
3. Cincinnati
5. Connecticut
6. Rutgers
6. Louisville
8. Syracuse
Wild Wild East
So what does this all mean? Well this is going to be another whacky and unpredictable season in the Big East. The only consensus is that West Virginia, Pittsburgh and USF are going to be good and the rest a crap shoot. Now remember before you mistake parity for mediocrity and start beating up on the conference, it is a young conference. There are a lot of young players, young teams and new coaches. Those who like to point to Oklahoma’s blowout of Connecticut in last season’s Fiesta Bowl, surely weren’t talking the opposite in 2007 when West Virginia did the same to the Sooners then. The Big East lost the coaching talents of Brian Kelly, Rich Rodriguez, Bobby Petrino and Mark Dantonio in a short period of time. Staffs and recruiting classes were jolted and reset. Now there are some new and talented blood in the coaching ranks with the likes of Skip Holtz, Charlie Strong, Butch Jones and Gary Patterson starting in 2012. You are seeing the beginning of another upward cycle for the league.
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The seventh part of the position analysis of the post spring depth chart has been published to nj.com this morning. This series not only reviews the spring performances and previews the upcoming summer camp, but also analyzes the spin around the individual units from both media and coaching staff.
The update can be found here:
Part VII – Analysis of Rutgers Post Spring Depth Chart: The Defensive Backs Released
For previous updates:
Part III – Receivers/Tight Ends
Still To Come:
Part 8 – Special Teams
Part 9 – Coaching
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Yesterday ESPN’s Big East Blog provided an up-to-date list of the undrafted free agents from the Big East who had signed with NFL teams. For many Big East fans some of these players were very familiar names from the all-conference lists over the past few seasons.
Undrafted free agents who are in high demand often times are able to pick from a group of teams – one of the benefits of being a free agent rather than a late draft pick.
Joe Lefeged (26) and Noel Devine (7) are two undrafted Big East free agents who have a good shot at making their NFL teams. Scout.com
Here is a look at five free agents from that list of Big East signees that have the best chance of making the club they signed with:
Zach Hurd, G, Connecticut, signed with Seattle Seahawks
Hurd is a perfect example of a player who benefits from being a priority undrafted free agent. He had several suitors including the Giants and was able to choose the Seahawks who provide the best opportunity. At 6-6, 315 pounds, Hurd is a big guard who is a good run and drive blocker. He gets low even at his size and could be an asset to a team that will need to run the ball to protect a suspect starter at quarterback – whoever that ends up being.
Joe Lefeged, S, Rutgers, signed with Indianapolis Colts
Lefeged is a hard hitting safety, who like most of Rutgers defense saw his play deteriorate as the season progressed last season. Though difficult to talk about, Lefeged appeared to have had his play affected by the devastating injury to teammate Eric Legrand. Now, nine months removed from the season Lefeged is ready to recapture the swagger that made him a feared hitter. He is also a good kick returner. If history is a guide, the three year starter for the Scarlet Knights has a good chance to make the Colts who are looking for secondary depth. The Colts currently have two undrafted free agents out of Rutgers: defensive captain LB Gary Brackett and DT Eric Foster. Undrafted LB Brandon Renkhart was also able to latch on to the Colts practice squad in 2009.
Noel Devine, RB, West Virginia, signed with Philadelphia Eagles
At 5-8, 180 pounds, Devine is small for a NFL running back. However, he tallied 4,315 yards, 29 TDs and nearly 6 yards a carry at West Virginia. He also returned two punts for TDs and is a good pass catcher. He is a very strong player who despite his size can lower his shoulder. Who could forget that performance against Oklahoma in 2008. However, injuries did slow him down his senior year and are probably the reason he was not drafted.
Size will be an issue but he is a playmaker. The Eagles also brought in Big East rival RB Dion Lewis in the draft so there will be familiar competition for Devine. However, the Eagles weren’t terribly thrilled will Jerome Harrison, who they brought over in a mid-season trade last year to back up LeSean McCoy. The Eagles seem to be stocking up on young, speedy and explosive players so this could bode well for Devine.
Dom DeCicco, S, Pittsburgh, signed with Chicago Bears
DeCicco, who started at safety the past three seasons at Pitt may remind some of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos safety John Lynch. The Bears ranked 20th in pass defense last season and are looking for fresh blood in the secondary. His hard-nosed style of play should fit well with the Bears and give him a puncher’s chance of making the team.
Jock Sanders, WR, West Virginia, signed with Tampa Bay Buccaneers
At 5’6”, 180-pounds the odds are stacked against Sanders. Rutgers fans will remember the plight of Tim Brown, the diminutive speedster wideout who had a tremendous senior season in 2009 but went undrafted and after a fairly good camp was let ago among the last cuts. Sanders, though, has one thing Brown didn’t have – he is very good return man. The Buccaneers are a young and upcoming team and a player like Sanders who could provide a spark in a multitude of ways maybe something they are looking for. I can very much see Sanders following the career path of former WR Darius Reynaud who has been able to hang on with the Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants over the last three as a return man and reserve receiver.
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On a breezy but perfect football Saturday in October 2013:
“And that is another Rutgers first down” yells the HighPoint Solutions Stadium public announcer. Junior Running Back Savon Huggins gets up and heads back to the huddle after a seven yard gain in the first quarter of a Big East conference game with Pittsburgh.
As Huggins heads back to the huddle he gives a high five to Junior Wide Receiver Miles Shuler before patting Redshirt Freshman Guard Derrick Nelson on his back. Nelson was on his way back to the sideline after subbing in a play for Redshirt Sophomore Guard Kaleb Johnson who was injured on the previous play. Johnson runs back on the field and takes his familiar place along side Redshirt Senior Left Tackle Andre Civil and Redshirt Senior Betim Bujari – who is spotting Redshirt Senior David Osei for the series – in the huddle.
Huggins is now back in the huddle and gives a nod to his former high school teammate and Redshirt Sophomore Right Guard Keith Lumpkin. Lumpkin gave the key block to spring him open for his first down run.
Senior Quarterback Chas Dodd steps into the huddle and leans over and calls the next play. Redshirt Junior Brandon Coleman smiles as it is another play action pass that should leave him in single coverage across the middle. He has already burned the Panthers for a 34 yard slant and run for a touchdown earlier the quarter.
Bujari warns Redshirt Senior Right Tackle Antwan Lowery to look out for a blitzing Pittsburgh Linebacker. Lowery agrees and the team’s offense breaks the huddle.
The ball is snapped. Dodd drops back, this time Coleman is covered and so is Shuler covered deep. Dodd dumps it down to Junior Tight End Tyler Kroft for a 9 yard gain.
2nd down and 1 at the Panthers 47……
Key Offensive Line Verbals
If you are able to imagine yourself seeing a typical play going down as the above representation then you are starting to see what is being formed with the latest offensive line recruits. With Monday’s verbal commitment of Derrick Nelson, a 6-4, 280 Offensive Lineman from Washington D.C., the future of the Rutgers offensive line is starting to take shape. Within the past month Rutgers has received three key offensive line commitments. Nelson, Brandon Arcidiacono who is rivals.com 7th ranked Center in the nation out of Archbishop Wood of Pennsylvania, and 4-star Offensive Tackle Chris Muller also out of Pennsylvania, make for a tremendous trio. Combined with 2011 recruits, 4-star Offensive Tackle Keith Lumpkin and 3-Star Guard Kaleb Johnson the future of the offensive line is looking up. Additionally, promising players from the 2009 2010 class like Antwan Lowey, Andre Civil, David Osei, Betim Bujari and Chris Fonti still have several years of eligibility left.
Now it is time to close our eyes and imagine. Here is my projected lineup for the Offensive Line in 2013:
Starting Lineup
Andre Civil LT
Kaleb Johnson LG
David Osei C
Keith Lumpkin RG
Antwan Lowery RT
Key Reserves
Betim Bujari C/G
Derrick Nelson G
Chris Muller T
Brandon Arcidiacono C
Let me know what you see when you look into your crystal ball for 2013.
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated since originally published. It was an oversight to not have included Antonio Lowery, Andre Civil and David Osei – all current Juniors, but with Sophomore eligibility in the original post. My apologies – 2013 seems so far away and these guys will still be there? A mistake that is actually a good thing! Good to see we will have some depth in the OL in the upcoming years – and perhaps a strong line as well.
Former St. Peter's Prep standout Keith Lumpkin will be protecting Senior QB Chas Dodd in 2013.
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The fifth part of the position analysis of the post spring depth chart has been published to nj.com this morning. This series not only reviews the spring performances and previews the upcoming summer camp, but also analyzes the spin around the individual units from both media and coaching staff.
The update can be found here:
Part V – Analysis of Post Spring Depth Chart: The Defensive Line
For previous updates:
Part III – Receivers/Tight Ends
Still To Come:
Part 6 – Linebackers
Part 7 – Defensive Backs
Part 8 – Special Teams
Part 9 – Coaching
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Yesterday ESPN’s Andrea Adelson was brave enough to take her individual rankings of each Big East position rankings to the coaches in her Big East blog. Now she somewhat sidestepped actually ranking the individual coaches, and instead took the following approach:
I am going to look at each coach and the likelihood he could be snatched away from the Big East, from highest probability to lowest.
Nevertheless, the debate raged and it was a bloodbath in her blog’s comments section. Now, I somewhat agree with her approach, as if it wasn’t difficult enough to identify who the best current coach in the Big East is – though I have my biased opinion – imagine ranking all eight of them?
So I’ll throw out my own approach. I say “can we all get along?” How about instead of ranking the Big East coaches, we create a super staff of all the Big East coaches? Take all eight – heck I am feeling good so throw in TCU as well – all nine coaches, and create a fantasy coaching staff? Here is my take:
Head Coach
Greg Schiano, Rutgers
Entering his eleventh season at Rutgers Greg Schiano has twice (10) the years of experience with his current team than the rest of the Big East coaches combined (5)! Doug Marrone of Syracuse is the second longest tenured coach in the Big East with just two years under his belt. Of course the knock on Schiano is that after ten seasons he still has not won the elusive conference championship. This rings especially true with the Big East having a down season last year in which a not-so-spectacular rival in Connecticut took the title.
However, while Schiano’s game day coaching can be questioned, no one can doubt that he is a program builder. Rutgers was at the bottom of Division 1 football when he took over and he guided them to their first bowl game in nearly 30 years and only their second ever. The Scarlet Knights went on to go to four more in a row before taking a step back last season.
The suit and tie is a perfect image as Schiano will be CEO of this venture.
Schiano is as detailed-oriented as you can come. He runs a clean program – you will be hard pressed to remember the last time a Scarlet Knight was in trouble with the law. He set a foundation for academic support that has led to a #1 and #2 finish in Academic Progress Rate the last two seasons. He created traditions from scratch at Rutgers including helping brand the block R, urging fans to wear red, a pre-game Scarlet Walk, the pre-game burying of the Ax, and promoting a stadium expansion – all elements that have made game day in Piscataway among the best in the conference.
For our coaching staff we want to look at Schiano much like his mentor at Penn State – Joe Paterno. He is the CEO of this program. With so many good coaches on his staff he will take a hands-off approach and leave the day-to-day coaching and game-planning to his staff. This will go on until he decides it his time to retire and ride off into the sunset.
Assistant Head Coach/Head Coach-in-waiting/Offensive Coordinator
Dana Holgorsen, West Virginia
Holgorsen will be Schaino’s Offensive Coordinator. He will also be Assistant Head Coach and the coach in waiting as Schiano ages. Coach H should be happy in this spot as he understands this is what his original role was meant to be when he first arrived at Morgantown.
Of all the coaches in the Big East, Holgorsen is the one who has perhaps the biggest reputation on offense. In his first season at Oklahoma State his Cowboys’ led the nation in total offense, averaging 537.6 yards per game, were No. 2 in passing offense, averaging 354.7 yards per game, and No. 3 in scoring offense, averaging 44.9 points per game. Holgorsen was also offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Houston prior to OSU. During his two-year tenure with the Cougars, his offenses posted impressive numbers, accounting for 563 yards of total offense per game, passing for 433.7 yards per game and totaling more than 42.2 points per game. His offense ranked No. 3 in total offense in 2008 and No. 1 in 2009.
Since we don’t foresee Schiano’s wife digging up stories of Holgoresen partying at the Jersey Shore this marriage should work. Just keep him away from Atlantic City.
Offensive Line Coach & Recruiting Coordinator
Doug Marrone, Syracuse
Marrone will bring a high level of experience as an offensive line coach. Marrone was a three-year letterman at Syracuse as a lineman. He then moved on and played professionally with the Dolphins and Saints for two years.
He also will be a perfect fit as a Recruiting Coordinator. He is young and energetic and Syracuse has jumped out to a decent recruiting offseason in 2011. While possibly an urban legend, it is said that while interviewing for the Syracuse job he impressed when it was learned that Marrone had kept a folder of current high school players in the Syracuse area to get a head start in recruiting. It is in his Wikipedia profile so it must be true.
As a former player in the World Football League he should have no problem logging miles while spanning all over the whole Big East map.
Running Backs Coach
Butch Jones, Cincinnati
Jones has had a great deal of success as an offensive mind as well. However, he only had two years as an actual offensive coordinator at Central Michigan before becoming head coach after a two-year stint as receivers coach for Rich Rodriguez at West Virginia. So when you throw in the fact that he was an accomplished running back himself, this is the perfect position for him. As a player at Ferris State, Jones ran for over 2,000 yards in his junior and senior seasons. He also had 1,000 yards receiving in his senior season.
While never working for Schiano, Jones also has a connection with Rutgers, having earned a job as a defensive assistant right out of college in 1990.
Wide Receivers & Tight Ends Coach
Skip Holtz, South Florida
Holtz was actually a walk-on receiver at Notre Dame for his father, Lou Holtz. He can draw on that experience to teach the wide receivers and tight ends on this team. He did also hold the position of receivers coach at Notre Dame at one time as well.
Having Skip on the staff will also help with the ESPN talking heads, as dad Lou will be glad to chat up this Big East All-Star squad in their quest for a National Title!
Defensive Coordinator
Charlie Strong, Louisville
This one here was a no-brainer. Strong is the most accomplished defensive coordinator on the staff, having held that role at two SEC schools. Strong was a DC at South Carolina and Florida for nearly a total of ten years before finally getting his chance to be head coach at Louisville.
He is also a very good recruiter with ties to Florida – a pipeline for many in the Big East.
Defensive Line coach & Special Advisor
Paul Pasqualoni, Connecticut
As the oldest member of the staff, Pasqualoni will be called upon to coach the Defensive Line. He most recently held defensive coordinator positions for the Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys over the last two seasons. This is where his consulting will be an asset to Schiano and Strong.
Of course as the former head coach of the Syracuse University football team from 1991 to 2004, and current Connecticut head coach he knows the landscape of the Big East well.
Defensive Backs Coach
Todd Graham, Pittsburgh
For many in the league they know Graham as the guy who will be bringing a spread offense over to Pitt. However, Graham is actually a defensive guy. He was a two-time All-NAIA defensive back. After a brief stint in the NFL and a high school coaching gig he became the linebackers coach under Rich Rodrigues at West Virginia in 2001. The following season Graham was assigned to defensive co-coordinator before being hired by Steve Kragthorpe as the defensive coordinator at Tulsa. He eventually took over as head coach when Kragthorpe went on to lead Louisville.
Graham will be a natural here coaching the position from his playing days.
Special Teams
Gary Patterson, TCU
Ok, we are well aware of Patterson’s accomplishments at TCU. He is also off to a terrific start as a recruiter this season with his BCS conference label on his tie. However, the Horned Frogs are technically not even in the league yet. So he will have to take his lumps and coach the special teams. He is a defensive guy so this shouldn’t be beneath him.
He’ll log plenty of miles recruiting Texas for this all-star staff!
So there you go, a Big East fantasy staff. Now enjoy breaking down how you would put together yours!
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College Football has always been a business. It is just becoming harder to not notice now. This Tuesday it was announced Rutgers Stadium will now be called High Point Solutions Stadium, after a naming rights deal with the company was struck.
In reporting the story ESPN’s Andrea Adelson noted in her Big East Blog:
Rutgers becomes the 15th school to play in a stadium with corporate naming rights. Five of those schools play in NFL stadiums. That seems to be more the norm in the Big East — five of the league’s eight teams now play in stadiums with corporate names.
One of those 15 is the Scarlet Knight’s conference rival Syracuse. Syracuse actually closed the first ever college-venue naming-rights deal in 1979. Before opening in 1980 the Syracuse based Carrier Corp. an air-conditioning manufacturer, paid a one-time $2.75 million fee for naming rights to the new Dome.
The Orangemen may want that deal back soon. The Rutgers arrangement is reportedly for 10 years and for $6.5 million dollars. While Syracuse’s 1979 agreement did not lead to any copy-cat deals at that time, it appears thirty plus years later, selling stadium rights will be a trend. All nine of the college football only venues to have sold their naming rights since Syracuse have done so in the last five years. What does each of those universities have in common? Each deal came in conjunction with or soon thereafter a stadium expansion or renovation project. The stadium formerly knows as Rutgers Stadium was expanded in 2008 to add club seats and then completed an expansion to reach a capacity 52,454 in 2009.
What is Next? Carpet Depot Field?
Kristi Dosh of the Business of College Sports compiled a list of all the naming rights deals for both college football stadiums and arenas. She notes that Comcast paid an additional $5 million for naming rights to the court at the Comcast Center – the home of the University of Maryland’s basketball team. The High Point Solutions deal is only for the naming rights of the stadium. Rutgers can still sell the naming rights to the field turf the game is played on. Premium seating and clubs have sponsors in stadiums across the country. So do Press Boxes. How about a quarterback sneak into The AutoZone End Zone for a score?
The Growing Price of Keeping Up With The Joneses and Huskers
For years the University of Nebraska was lauded for its superior training facilities. Nowadays state of the art workout facilities are the norm around most big programs. Recruiting lounges are springing up everywhere. As each school gets one it becomes more of a necessity than a luxury. All of these additions and excesses have to be paid for. Corporate sponsorships and private donations come a long way towards that. Furthermore, the more that state budgets get slashed, publicly-funded state schools like Rutgers, will have to look elsewhere, especially those in politically charged states like New Jersey.
More Coming To The Party
With the current economic conditions and the rising costs of running a football program you would think many colleges and universities would be rethinking their participation. Think again. Eight schools are set to add football programs in 2011, creating a total of 36 schools that will have added or will be adding a football program in a six year period. Not all those are slated to make the jump to division I or FBS status. But the larger universities like Old Dominion University, University of Texas at San Antonio and University of South Alabama are expected or have already agreed to. This is in addition to division 1-A or FCS schools that are mulling the move up as well, such as Villanova University, University of Montana, and UMass.
Sponsorships And College Football Are Not New
Corporate sponsorships of College Football Bowl games have been going on for awhile now. Auburn beat Oregon in the 2010 Tostitos BCS National Championship Game. A scan of the over thirty bowls last year included the GoDaddy.com, Military Bowl Presented By Northrop Grumman, and Beef ‘O’ Brady’s St. Petersburg to go along with the more familiar ones like the Capital One Bowl, Discover Orange Bowl and Progressive Gator Bowl. Of course it wasn’t always like that. In 1986 El Paso’s John Hancock Sun Bowl became the first corporate sponsored bowl. Then the Sugar Bowl became the USF&G Sugar Bowl in 1988 and the dominoes kept falling from there. Now the question becomes where will it end?
Everybody Is Getting Some, But Me!
The recent Ohio State tattoo scandal has brought some back to the table to debate the amateurism status of college football. That is a much larger debate, and frankly, not one worth having. It is not happening anytime soon unless you have a plan to pay all student-athletes and not just football players. If you had a chance to watch ESPN’s documentary on the University of Michigan’s Fab Five in the 1990s, former player Jalen Rose brought up an interesting reflection. After completing their whirlwind freshmen season the reality of the business of the sport hit them. They barnstormed in Europe playing in packed arenas and then when back home walked by stores with countless displays of Michigan merchandise. In fact, sales of University of Michigan merchandise went from $1.5 million per year to over $10 million per year shortly after their first season.
Imagine how amateur the college football player of ten years from now will feel when he comes out of the Athlete’s Foot Locker room for player introduction on the Nathan’s Hot Dog Jumbotron and onto the ABC Carpet Field at the Bank of America Stadium at the University of North Carolina Charlotte on NBC/Comcast’s Wednesday Night Football brought to you by Facebook.
Laugh now. But that is how it will be. Rutgers did the right thing here for its program. Others will continue to follow suit and should. With many athletic departments operating in the red how can universities stand to leave money on the table. Just know with each passing season the business side of the game will more out in the open.
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