One more thing...Mike Tirico has really become THE GUY in sports broadcasting hasn't he.

There's a bill going around in the Wisconsin state assembly that would address several open concerns regarding NIL and how it's handled in the state along with a few other collegiate athletics issues. 

One of those other issues is a change in funding for debt service on Badger athletics facilities to the toon of almost $15 MILLLION annually that would become tax payer funded.  Right now that money comes from the operation of the facilities (40% by law is required to be self funded by the athletics department) but this bill would eliminate that requirement and instead be paid for by Wisconsin tax payers. 

Basically, if the bill passes as-is, taxpayers are giving UW an extra $14.6 million per year to fund their bloated athletics budget. 

https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/college/uw/2026/02/19/how-proposed-bill-could-impact-wisconsins-nil-provide-public-funding/88750236007/ 

Link may be behind a paywall. 

Man, I am not a big fan of figure skating but Alysa Liu seems like an absolute joy.

It doesn't matter where they are, but as a Packers fan boy would I have some fun with it if they move to Indiana.

I bet players from Mars have incredible sparkles in their eyes.

A lot of handwringing for a football stadium, but this place will be a sight to see when Michigan throws a boat load of money at the Packers to relocate to the UP. 

Quote from: onepost on Today at 02:15:57 PMA buddy on mine in the know says we're currently second for Donovan Davis behind Wisconsin.
Not that it's some giant revelation, but man I'd love to win that recruiting battle and bring Davis in.

Thanks for passing along that tidbit.

This is truly the Scoopiest recruiting thread of all time. 

Quote from: Dish on Today at 03:12:20 PMI've come to the realization that I don't think I care where the Bears reside and play. Selfishly I would like AH because I'm close enough to get there in 20 minutes. That being said, I ditched my season tickets years ago and the in home viewing experience for football is too good for me to pass up. As the charter franchise, the idea of them playing in Indiana would feel odd (probably?). The aesthetics of downtown Chicago and playing on the lake would be missing from my viewing experience, but I would not miss making that walk from the Roosevelt station to the stadium on a cold fall/winter Sunday afternoon (on the rare occasion I go to a game).

It seems like the Indiana deal is too good to pass up. I don't really understand Pritzker's passiveness here, especially for someone looking to move on in two years. Maybe the ghost of Jim Thompson will stop the clock at 11:59 again once whatever "official" Illinois deadline comes up?

Perhaps I'm overconfident by having been proven right that the lakefront stadium was never going to happen, but I feel the same about Indiana. It feels people are making way more of what happened today than it deserves. The Indiana House committee was always going to forward this bill. And it's inevitable it gets passed by the full House next week and signed by the governor soon after. All of this has been known for weeks. And nothing the Bears said today can be a read as a commitment to that project, even if you squint really hard.

On the other hand, the Bears were in Springfield yesterday meeting with Pritzker's office and lawmakers about the bill they're pushing down there. And they asked that a House committee hearing on the bill scheduled for today be postponed so they could add some favorable tweaks.
I don't think the Bears are going through that if they're set on Indiana. They're just trying to extract the best deal they can out of Illinois while using the Hoosiers as leverage. I mean, the Indiana House committee passed this bill, the mayor of Hammond is having a press conference right now and where are the Bears? They're in Springfield. That seems to indicate their priority.

I could be proven wrong here, but this all feels like another bluff.

Quote from: jfp61 on Today at 03:05:30 PMWithout winning out. This is the single worst Marquette basketball season in the 21st century.

Let's see if they will be better than 1990-91.

Culture is how you act, interact, and responed.

They are changing their ways because they failed, not because they are pressing their advantages.

Sorry that this season doesn't make me optimistic

Does it really matter at this point why their roster building approach is evolving?

If you're looking at wins & losses right now to determine your optimism moving forward you're not looking at the right things.