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While SEC and Big Ten leaders mull major changes, a new Super League concept looms that could radically alter college sports​

Spearheaded by former Disney executives-turned-investment professionals, Project Rudy is a super league-esque concept — separate and more simplified than the one made public last week — that incorporates football programs of the four power conferences in a 70-team structure. The model preserves the four power conferences, expands the postseason, overhauls scheduling, tiers revenue distribution and, most importantly, infuses as much as $9 billion of private capital cash into the system.

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Over the last four months, athletic directors at more than 25 power conference programs have seen the presentation, many of them in person during meetings with Smash Capital representatives. Others only held phone or Zoom calls about Project Rudy, its name a nod to the famous Notre Dame walk-on, Rudy Ruettiger. Three of four power conference commissioners were shared details of the model directly from the architects as well (those from the SEC, Big 12 and ACC).

In a recent acquisition, the architects of Project Rudy successfully recruited to join their team one of the most respected people within the college space: former Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick. It is a stunning move for someone who just six months ago sat on the College Football Playoff governing committee as one of the most powerful decision-makers in the industry.

For those who were at the game you didn't hear the gem from Gus Johnson announcing the game...

Gus: "you know why I like coming to Penn State?"

Joel: "No, why is that?"

Gus: "because the phones don't work."

A truer statement was never uttered about Saturday's in Happy Valley. I haven't been to a game in a decade, but nice to see the more things change the more they stay the same.

Here's our class of 2025 one stop shop for all new offers, visits, graphic tweets, etc.

At the moment Penn State has 21 commits and is ranked within the Top 15 overall in the country per Rivals.

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What times do you suspect these games will start ?

Some insane ideas being floated around out there about college athletics as we know it.

70 teams and four different conferences.

well this isn't wrestling but I just had to say goodbye to my baseball hero growing up as a 10 yr old in 1960 the first time I saw Pete Rose play for the Reds I bacame a Reds and Pete fan for life he played the game the way it meant to be played he had faults as we all do but he played to win every day.I will miss Charlie Hustle!RIP MY MAN

Hit preseason game winning three. Hell of a shot!!

As a PSU fan I'm callig the team & coaching staff to bring WHITE OUT ENERGY against SoCal from start to finish of this game.

Not sure about the necessity of the thread, but as a few on another thread were asking about a few inside jokes, I thought I’d start a thread about some of the most popular so everyone is in the know...

-“insert name” IS BEATING NICO IN THE ROOM!...excessive rumors about mainly Suriano beating Nico in the room led to “everyone” beating Nico in the room. Apparently these were just ‘spykerisms’

-What mat are Carton and Pletcher on?...As someone else noted, Spyker may have been the starter on this as it was asked anout what mat these 2 were wrestling on repeatedly during last years NCAA tournament.

-George’s Barbershop references- the announcers of an early season away dual against Clarion repeatedly plugged “George’s Barbershop” and urged listeners to go in for a haircut and a shave.

Mike Evans is not impressed!...again noted earlier in another thread, Evans claimed that he was not impressed by Taylor and Dake during the season that he shared a weight class with them. It was blown up by slush’s fairly regular poll posts that were pretty funny.

-Raptor...apparently that’s Cassar’s nickname.

-illegal fist to the back...in a dual with Nebraska, the student U announcers were clueless and called for an “illegal fist to the back” at one pont during the Alton match. Video was recently posted of the Ruth match from the same dual, definitely worth a watch!

I know there are plenty more, but I figure this is a good start...feel free to add on, explain further, or correct any of my possible errors.

Can’t wait for the season to start!

WE ARE!

I don't see how shortening the window is anything other than causing more chaos and more frustration because now decisions are rushed but...is what it is

Not only did the Jets suck, he wore an unauthorized patch on his shirt.

BEG just got bigger and better with live calls on the show and an internet site.

Although I see the crew of BEG seems new and much to learn their topics, to me, seem to be better and more fun than flo's. They are new and young with alot to improve on but I think this is gonna be a better product than flo.

Website and their podcast is worth looking into if you haven't yet!

Thier podcast is good but thier website actually looks killer good, this is info of mine about the website is me only looking at it for 10 sec on my phone while they were talking about it, looks awesome so far!

Since we are in the hurricane season, thought it appropriate to include a few tid-bits of information on the calculations of pressures created by various wind speeds and the Degree of Destruction generated.

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A typical adult's body has a projected frontal area = 8 sq. ft.
Wind pressure developed by 180 mph wind speed = 80 psf
Therefore:
If you were standing outside during this event, you would have to resist 640 lbs +/- of load (two Pro-DL) [8 sq.ft. x 80 psf = 640 lbs]

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Several years ago, I spent four days in Albany, NY studying wind science. The classes included wind speeds, wind pressures and their impact on structures.
the classes were taught by Drs. James R. McDonald and Kishor C. Mehta, both were head of the Steering Committee on DOD.

The project (DOD) was conducted under the auspices of the Wind Science and Engineering Center at Texas Tech University. Drs. James R. McDonald and Kishor C. Mehta are Co-PIs on the project.

I believe you will find the first link below very interesting; it deals with the degrees of destruction on many different houses, buildings, trees, etc. and the damage caused by various wind speeds.
View Pages in the appendix A-1 to A-66.

The second link is a graph of wind speed vs. pounds of pressure per sq ft

The third link is a typical calculation of wind speed to find wind pressure.

LINKs:
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/efscale/ef-ttu.pdf




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November 9th vs. Washington (WHITE OUT)

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Login to view embedded media Signing Birchmeier in the 2023 class was a major win for head coach James Franklin and the Penn State staff. He was one of the most heavily recruited prospects in that recruiting class and finished the rankings cycle at No. 40 in the Rivals250.

Since then, Birchmeier has played a total of 16 snaps in his college career and doesn’t seem to be within shouting distance of playing this season. He used his redshirt during the 2023 season and is using one of his four years of eligibility riding the bench this year while Cooper Cousins, J’ven Williams and Dominic Rulli seemingly pass him on the depth chart.

Login to view embedded media A four-star in the 2022 recruiting class, Cross looked like the next man up in a long line of impressive tight ends at Penn State. Instead, the Wisconsin native has been overshadowed by the likes of Tyler Warren, Theo Johnson, Brenton Strange, Khalil Dinkins and Luke Reynolds.

Cross has the talent to contribute but it’s hard to find playing time when competing with a tight end group like the one Penn State has assembled. He’s played just 24 snaps in his career with the Nittany Lions.

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ALLAR FILM STUDY - UCLA

See link above. With no obvious storyline, we finally got a chance to put Drew Allar under the microscope and examine his upper- and lower-body mechanics, mental processing, accuracy, etc. Back in July Codutti did a long video on the same subject using Allar's 2023 film. He still has a few bad habits that spring up every now and then, but for the most part, he's made huge strides under Kotelnicki...the biggest being his willingness to throw balls downfield when guys are "college open" rather than "high school open."

Phone service is not really any better inside the stadium, despite the "new network".

Entry via Gate B is ridiculous, especially for these stupid noon games.

I can't recall seeing the field in such poor condition after only 3 games.

Pribula needs to stay on the bench until mop up time.

We don't seem to go for blocked punts, nor do we seem to block well/cleanly, nor do any of the annointed punt returners seem to have any vision whatsoever.

The students come late and leave early, even when the weather is nice.

And finally, UCLA's cheerleaders are the REAL deal.

Otherwise it was a beautiful day in State College, and I don’t really care if we cover spreads for degenerates or not!

That might be tough to recover from. There could be lots of 10-2 teams scrambling for a playoff spot. We still have OSU to face as well as tough road challenges at USC and Wisconsin. A slip up in Morgantown might be the daggar in our playoff heart.