hmmm so Auburn has a slot........
Tell Moon to get on the phone with his ol A10 bud Hurley. REMEMBER: They had apparently collabed to do a game during the Covid impacted season.
I will try to reach out to the muss buss and see if the Trojans are on board.

USC needs 3 - offer to fly out there, play them, and no compensation needed.

Roughly half of the teams have officially released their schedules. Many others seem to be full or close to it based on leaks and piecemeal news.

Here's my updated list of P5s that appear to have slots left:

Arkansas (1)
Auburn (1)
Baylor (1)
NC State (1)
Oklahoma (1)
Oregon (2)
UConn (1)
USC (3)
Vanderbilt (1)

mr.spider said:

Maybe it's a good sign we didn't release the schedule before Labor Day? Maybe we're still trying to salvage the schedule. Which other teams still don't have a full schedule?

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I sure do hope so. Just having 2 power teams, any 2, show up would make it a lot more respectable.

Maybe it's a good sign we didn't release the schedule before Labor Day? Maybe we're still trying to salvage the schedule. Which other teams still don't have a full schedule?

Don't know who this guy is, but he is not high on our freshman. He has Neskovic ranked number 3 transfer in A10, with B. Artis in honorable mention list. I think this makes sense based on their collegiate production, with GW3 and Glou not having many minutes at college level so far.

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I know a few of u didn’t like or agree with me early this summer when I called vcu a10 favorite with best backcourt, but my takeaway here is the dreaded expectations. Again vcu likes them. Asks for them. Mentality.

Their AD’s past “Henrico” comments r goofy, but check out…

“I typically don’t love to say that we have a very talented team, not to put expectations too high on the kids. But this is also a group that wants high expectations. They’re mature, they’re connected, and they really like each other," said VCU director of athletics Ed McLaughlin.

“I think we have the best combination of four guards in the entire country. I would challenge anyone to find any team that’s got four guards that are better than the four that we have.“

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Eddie is a douche. He is the guy at the cocktail party, you start talking to and then realize this guy only talks about himself all of the time.

That said, what I like about VCU is they are always setting very high expectations and creating positive media narrative for their program.

Contrast that to Hardt, who rarely does media, and when he does he always is making some kind of excuse as to why we can't. Most recently, it was complaining about our OOC schedule is going to be terrible because a couple schools back out of handshake agreements. Hardt is the excuse maker, the debbie downer at the cocktail party.

This year

Harris told Al Sharpton she is in favor of slave reparations for Blacks.

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coloradospider said:

Virginia is ranked 13th in the nation for NIL
15. Michigan Wolverines: $493 million

14. Tennessee Volunteers: $500 million

13. Virginia Cavaliers: $516 million

12. Alabama Crimson Tide: $528 million

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Virginia is ranked 13th in the nation for NIL
15. Michigan Wolverines: $493 million

14. Tennessee Volunteers: $500 million

13. Virginia Cavaliers: $516 million

12. Alabama Crimson Tide: $528 million

From AGS SoCon thread

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Since folks in the CAA thread are picking Richmond without much commentary, I will give the bull case for Wofford and the bear case against Richmond, starting with the latter.

First of all, Richmond wasn’t an obvious playoff team for me last year. Maybe this is a hindsight is 20-20 thing, but hear me out. They finished the regular season 8-3, but played no team in the regular season that ended up winning more than 6 games. 4 of the teams they played combined for a record of 4-39 (all wins). They lost to 2 teams who finished the season below .500. They didn’t play, let alone beat, any of the top CAA teams during the regular season, and when they did, they were routed by Albany.

If you take an average team and gave them this schedule (beat 4 bad teams, and 6 teams sitting at 5-6 or 6-5), that average team would finish no worse than 7-3 on average 50% of the time (beating the 4 bad teams and splitting the average teams), so richmond finishing 8-2 isn’t indicative of being super good.

They didn’t even break the top 25 in STATS until playoff time, which tells me had they lost to either of elon or w&m they probably wouldn’t have made the playoffs. And before someone says “and W&M/elon would have taken their place”….no. Just no. Elon would have been on the bubble and maybe gotten in on SOS OOC quality losses, but if william and mary converted their 2 point conversion on rivalry weekend, both would have sat home.

And then when I look at the stats from last season or the UVA game (with lots of salt, though UVA isn’t a powerhouse) there’s nothing on either side of the ball that screams dominance. Their QBs are a step down from Reece Udinski, and though a Russ Huesman team will feature a running QB prominently, this team doesn’t appear to light up the rush stats like those Chattanooga teams a decade ago. Huesman is a defensive guy at heart and i see the spiders running a lot of 4 man fronts this year (noticing a lot more of this at the fcs level recently with GW and Samford this weekend too), and I guess you could say overall the defense isn’t bad. But the last 4-6 games the Spiders haven’t been all that good on defense statistically, especially compared to the 4ish games where they played those awful 1-10 teams.

Obviously, all of this is caveated with the fact that it’s a brand new year and last year isn’t this year. But I feel confident in saying, regardless of the outcome this week, I’m not confident Richmond is a top 15 team.

The bull case for Wofford is pretty simple. We’re just better Our defense was pretty stellar last year, and will have less of a learning curve in year 2 of the system. We brought back most of our 2 deeps and got better in the portal. Against GW, we looked pretty good against the run, and only gave up 20 when we spotted the running bulldogs field position at the 40 or better for 3 of their scores (13 points).

And, to be frank, I don’t like taking high stakes bets personally (anything greater than $50 for me), but I would bet a lot of money that our offense this year will be much better this year as long as Odom is running the show and staying healthy. Last year our offense was pathetic, and we could really only score points if we got lucky or the other team got unlucky. On Thursday, it was the inverse, as we left anywhere from 13 to 17 points on the field by making mistakes like penalties and dropped passes (which will happen in August). That stuff is going to get cleaned up.

In the last month of the season last year, Wofford struggled, but without much of an offense, the last 4 games we beat Furman, won another game, pushed a top 20 Western team, and though i won’t pretend the mercer game was super competitive, we only lost by 2 TDs (and non-offensive touchdowns were the difference). Odom only played against Furman.

All of that said, believing in Wofford after the last 4 years is a gamble. There’s no conclusive reason to think we can win 2 straight. The safe pick is Richmond, for sure. But if you really think this will be a blowout, I don’t think you’ve paid enough attention to either team...”

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Am concerned about this kid and a few others getting poached before Dec signing.

I have been beaten down. Experience counts for nothing.

Agree, but not his choice I would think. Sure the schedule was settled long before he became HC.

Think he is a very good coach. He will do well at New Mexico given time.

VT4700 said:

Possibly. I guess because the remaining games are probably no better than the already announced ones, they will announce all the others when they announce the full schedule. We certainly don't need to hear an isolated "Spiders add Coppin St" to the schedule today.

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Yeah they could do that & wait with the A10 coming out soon, & try to hide the embarrassing ooc within the full schedule.

Tho I thought I read the opposite from u & others on here…we needed to announce or leak any known games for the amazing season ticket sales!

What I want to know is how UMass got a home-and-home with No. 11 Missouri, playing in Amherst this season.

UMass is more likely to be on the receiving end of buy-game guarantees with the big boys, then kicking a bit of back to FCS to fill out their schedules.

kneepadmckinney said:

This.

If we do happen to be on the bubble with a lot of wins and not much SOS, the move is a proactive media blitz to preempt the Jay Bilases of the world that say "they didn't play anyone." Go hard with "we called Duke on June 3rd. They declined a true home game. We called Wake in April, May, June, and July. They didn't return our call. We called Georgetown, Syracuse, UNC, Miami, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Villanova, Providence, Purdue, etc. They declined."

Assuming this is true, of course.

And also, this won't happen even if it should.

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if we called everyone, then we have a case. if we thought we were good with 2 tough games pencilled in (later cancelled) and stopped calling high majors, then we don't.

Spiderwiz said:

Best senior class ever is very achievable if they all have 5 or 6 years.

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so tired of the 6 year talk. everyone in the country got 5. do you really feel Grant had some advantage by playing 68 minutes freshman year before collapsing on the court, not able to do anything again for months?

AnnapSpider said:

I was at the UConn game vs. MD. We could beat U Conn.

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Benedictine could beat UConn.UConn trying to sneak its football into B12 by 2033. Carot is moving its basketball and other sports to B12 by 2025.

ncspiderfan said:

Montana State beat New Mexico in week 0, that is it.

One FCS got beat in OT I believe.

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Bronco,the 1st year HC at New Mexico,, shouldn't be playing an FCS team as his 1st game at a new school.