Every UAA school had layoffs in 2025.  I am not surprised that they signed with Flo, though officially, they said that the funding was secondary.

Merry Christmas all.

I am not sure if this was mentioned, but the University of Illinois press published a book on faith and college football.  Wheaton College gets a chapter along with Notre Dame, Baylor, BYU, Liberty and a few others.  It could be interesting, I have not seen any reviews yet.

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c046872

Also, Larry Kindbom published on a book on leadership several weeks back.  I have not had a chance to read it yet, but I can attest to the fact that he is a really good writer.

https://www.amazon.com/WINNING-LOSING-ARE-IMPOSTERS-LEADERSHIP/dp/B0FR9CJPR1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=226MD2MU9YYMG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.7Dq3nhcnpZFl7grEYUIoTw.egxMhG4FC9ehed4QPbYFKCj4wykbH40zzB8MoAarig0&dib_tag=se&keywords=larry+kindbom&qid=1766763326&s=books&sprefix=larry+kind%2Cstripbooks%2C187&sr=1-1

Quote from: Kuiper on December 08, 2025, 03:36:41 PMI don't think they put a ton of effort there, but they do show up in my feed during the season with clips and photos every week.

I hear you, I am just not impressed by the social media strategy or the reposts.

The promise was for non-live and feature-style coverage and that is my benchmark.

But someone else suggested that it was about giving the schools more resources to produce the coverage, so I don't know.

Quote from: Kuiper on December 08, 2025, 12:02:33 PMThe truly exclusive content is on social media and halftime segments where they show highlight clips and player spotlights from FloSports broadcasts.

True, though the lack of content on social media was what prompted me to post.

In Division III soccer, as you know, Flo had four teams from three client schools in the Final Four and only one post about the Emory men making the Final Four.  That is until 26 minutes ago.

Maybe they do more on Instagram or I missed something.

I assume that all Flo Sports writers are freelancers, but hard to say.

Flo has 18 conferences along with multiple team events among other things.

The margins must be too small to properly staff the content teams.

Quote from: Kuiper on December 06, 2025, 01:39:51 PMThey do have articles that I suppose are exclusive in the sense of being written by Flo staff (and maybe you have to be a subscriber to read them), such as this one about the Emory men's and women's soccer teams making the Final Four

They do have some articles, but not enough to get them out of the F tier.  And when they do, quality-wise, they are terrible.  They also have original content on social media, but those are limited.  For example, just one Tweet about Emory Men's Soccer even though three client schools had made the Women's Final Four.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on December 05, 2025, 11:19:55 AMThe job of college President these days is almost 100% fundraising - they hire specialists to do the academic and organizational stuff - not a world that seems super exciting to me!

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The same is true at many medium and large institutions as well.

A past provost at Washington University used to introduce himself with a line about how no one knows what a provost does, then he offer a long list of job duties that included practically everything at the university other than fundraising, government affairs, endowment management and maybe a few others areas.

As Fall sports begin to conclude for the season, I am going to assign Flo Sports a failing grade for exclusive content. The UAA and others leagues promised that this would be a value-ad for subscribers.

Technology-wise, the live stream has been better lately, so there is that.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on December 05, 2025, 10:35:54 AMTrinity posted some snow pics this morning on their Insta, looks like 2-3" but not sure where they were taken.    Forecast doesn't show much in the way of measurable precip the rest of the day.

Best of luck this weekend @RonBoerger.  As much as I would like to replay that game again in St. Louis, Trinity looked crazy good in the two games I watched.  Better than any other opponent the Bears played in my opinion.

Quote from: ziggy on December 04, 2025, 02:21:19 PMEdit: also wanted to add that Calvin is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and as part of that celebration they are hosting something like 30 alumni gatherings around the country. I had the opportunity to attend one of these this fall and I was a little surprised how little if felt like a veiled fundraising barnstorming tour. It felt very much like a face value engagement to connect with alumni and talk about Calvin's past, present and future without a sales pitch for financial support. More to the point, while there was a nominal fee as part of the registration for the event it couldn't possibly have covered the cost of the venue and food.

This is how most colleges and universities are doing fundraising in 2025 in my limited experience.

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Quote from: Gregory Sager on December 02, 2025, 10:37:56 AMI've been assiduously studying women's flag football games on YouTube in preparation for North Park's WFF debut this spring, trying to learn the lingo and see how the sport-specific rules shake out in actual game play so that I can call the games without stumbling around and looking like a tyro.

What I've mostly learned is that the Mexicans are really, really good at women's flag football, and Diana Flores is the Tom Brady of this sport.

I just assumed that flag football was mostly driven by the American suburbs, but that is interesting.

Mexico has a surprisingly long and proud history of men's college football, but I really had no idea that they were so dominant in flag football.

Apparently, flag football is also coming to the Olympics or maybe has already been an Olympic sport.

I love that North Park has a Norwegian on the squad.

Yes, Aurora Drangevag is NPU flag football's version of what I call the "Random Scandinavian Factor" of North Park athletics. Seemingly every sport on campus that doesn't involve bats and gloves has to have at least one Norwegian or Swede on the roster, regardless of whether or not the sport is popular in Scandinavia -- and at one point a few years ago we did indeed have a Swedish baseball player.

Because Aurora's high school was named after Edvard Grieg, I'm hoping to talk NPU's flag football head coach Ramon Palma into having the Vikings run out onto the field before games with "In the Hall of the Mountain King" blaring over the P.A.

That is awesome!

Quote from: scottiedoug on December 02, 2025, 12:13:21 PMI played a lot of intramural flag football in college. It is a serious game and fun to play and watch and pretty "safe."

I did as well, though just to be clear, I do not think anyone suggested that it was anything less than a serious sport.

I am all for the expansion of athletic opportunities, including the move of sports from intramural or club to varsity status.

Badminton, cricket, pickleball, ultimate, keep the varsity sports coming.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on December 02, 2025, 10:37:56 AMI've been assiduously studying women's flag football games on YouTube in preparation for North Park's WFF debut this spring, trying to learn the lingo and see how the sport-specific rules shake out in actual game play so that I can call the games without stumbling around and looking like a tyro.

What I've mostly learned is that the Mexicans are really, really good at women's flag football, and Diana Flores is the Tom Brady of this sport.

I just assumed that flag football was mostly driven by the American suburbs, but that is interesting.

Mexico has a surprisingly long and proud history of men's college football, but I really had no idea that they were so dominant in flag football.

Apparently, flag football is also coming to the Olympics or maybe has already been an Olympic sport.

I love that North Park has a Norwegian on the squad.

The Future of Division III is Women's Flag Football, Chapter 2.

The momentum for Women's Flag Football keeps building as the ECAC is partnering with the New York Jets ownership to build a league.

Jets owner Woody Johnson, through the Betty Wold Johnson Foundation, is making a $1 million investment to support the creation and operation of the women's flag league. Each participating school will receive a grant to help offset costs such as equipment, uniforms, coaches' salaries and travel.

The initial group of schools that will compete in the first season includes Allegheny College, Eastern University, Franciscan University, Kean University, Long Island University, Mercy University, Mercyhurst University, Montclair State University, Mount St. Mary's University and Penn State Schuykill.

https://kstp.com/ap-top-news/jets-and-ecac-launch-largest-collegiate-womens-flag-football-league-in-the-us/

Quote from: SimpleCoach on November 22, 2025, 02:10:58 PMCortland can thank the Augsburg keeper for the PK.  Dumbest thing Keepers do.... leads to a dumb decision...

I missed it, but decided to go back and watch after your post.

That was seriously dumb.

Is that something that others keepers do, because I have never seen that before?