Spring Roster posted including transfers and 11 early enrollees.
2024 players with eligibility left who weren’t among the known transfers that are not on the roster are OLs Ben Decker and Michael Popov.
We apparently do not currently have a designated WR coach looking at this roster.
I wouldnt be surprised if chris hudson get the wr coach
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Did anyone attend the zoom call that can give a recap or was sharing of call content discouraged?
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Note: I moved this post to the Zoom Call thread where it properly belongs.
Several of us were on the call - it was recorded. Nothing was said that I heard about confidentiality. Quite a bit discussed. Chuck said he was taken by Baylor coach Dave Aranda’s experience in Waco and his conclusion that to survive and thrive you have to adapt to the way things are, not to the way you wish they were. Football has tried to reload for this season rather than rebuild. Lots of former four stars coming in.
Looks like we’re trying to position ourselves to end up in the top echelon of D1 football and basketball when all the dust settles - quite possibly not even in the MAC. The AAC and ACC were both mentioned.
NLI $ will need to be increased significantly. But the Red Brick Legacy fund is now a 501 (c) 3. An anonymous donor recently made a $250k donation.
We will also need a significant upgrade in student/athlete housing and training table options. Some stadium upgrades will be necessary. We will need to alter our scheduling model to be able to avoid as many buy games with top P4 teams as we’ve been scheduling. It’s hard to make the playoffs when you start 1-3.
A new hoops arena will be a welcome addition but NLI will be critical to hoops success. Chuck and Travis working in lockstep together with David Saylor and President Crawford.
Il let others chime in now and I’ll try to answer any
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Discussion of the Zoom call moved to the Zoom call thread.
Lindenwood plays at App State before us.
Chuck’s update interview today is classic Chuck!
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Lindenwood. Until now never heard of em.
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We scheduled them for our 2025 FCS a couple years ago. They play D1 hockey now.
More focused on NIT than football 
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- Started with Miami basketball.
- The team couldn’t beat a junior high football team right now.
- Adversity will come quickly at Camp Randall.
- Finn is still in his phone as “Dequan Finn - Martin Luther King High.”
So yeah, exactly what you would expect from Coach Martin.
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Relatively new FCS program out of Suburban St. Louis. Moved up from NAIA to DII to FCS in short order but still not great in football.
Chris Vaninni of The Athletic has posted a list of the 20 best G5 coaches. Four MAC coaches made this list: Candle, Martin, Lembo, and Creighton in that order. Candle was #12 overall and CM #13.
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Does anyone know when the Spring Scrimmage/Showcase is going to be?
April 26th
Big Ben ranked 32nd out of all college QBs in the 2000s, this among non-power teams (behind Kellen Moore and Case Keenum).
And ranked 20 spots ahead of Eli… just to bring back that 2003 debate.
4/8 update