Quote from: DuffMan on April 17, 2026, 08:30:13 PMThat was tough to watch/listen to. 

Dude makes a lot of social media content and yes it can be difficult to listen to with his delivery.

Like the title of the video says...this makes no sense:

https://youtube.com/shorts/HrQfUxg9mxo?si=qnP0AbHx9jVbFZRn

Quote from: GoldandBlueBU on April 01, 2026, 03:43:19 PMOr...I've been at this school working my ass off for 2-3 years and then they give a D1 transfer a wad of cash to come in.

I think you're looking at it through the lens of how we would've understood it.  Money in college sports is more and more normalized, and I'm guessing athletes today wouldn't be all that shocked. Sure, we wish D3 would remain a bastion of purity, but there will certainly be cases where money leaks in stuff like this will happen.
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Quote from: GoldandBlueBU on April 01, 2026, 03:43:19 PMOr...I've been at this school working my ass off for 2-3 years and then they give a D1 transfer a wad of cash to come in.

I think you're looking at it through the lens of how we would've understood it.  Money in college sports is more and more normalized, and I'm guessing athletes today wouldn't be all that shocked. Sure, we wish D3 would remain a bastion of purity, but there will certainly be cases where money leaks in stuff like this will happen.
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Or how D3 was supposed to be. Honestly I'm getting tired of just about every level of sports. The other day I saw a video of like an 11 year old doing a commitment ceremony for AAU basketball.

Quote from: BDB on March 31, 2026, 06:50:52 AM

Quote from: faunch on March 30, 2026, 09:03:27 AMWonder how the other guy feel about playing with guys getting $50K each and the rest of you are getting bupkis.

They probably feel like those guys worked their butts off to be that good and they are happy to have them on their team.

It's like looking at the student next to you getting a full scholarship because they worked hard in high school and another student is carrying a student loan but still got accepted.

Better opportunities, physical attributes, sure. But effort in all ways comes into play.

Some people just plain work harder than others and get compensated more.

Or...I've been at this school working my ass off for 2-3 years and then they give a D1 transfer a wad of cash to come in.

Quote from: sjusection105 on March 29, 2026, 07:53:56 AMCSS Men's Puck?

Nope...not a MIAC school.
If I recall the dad I know was told that the alum is ponying up about $300K....that should be enough to build one really good line and get a goalie. Wonder how the other guy feel about playing with guys getting $50K each and the rest of you are getting bupkis.

Quote from: faunch on March 26, 2026, 03:05:52 PM

Quote from: Retired Old Rat on March 25, 2026, 08:37:26 PMAs sort of a counterpoint to BDB, Johnnie Football Spring Standup

It is a fundraiser, but $250 is kind of steep.

Isn't it kind of ironic that Austin Murphy is the guest at a $250 a seat SJU fundraiser. If I recall from his book  he was tired of what had become of big time sports and drawn to SJU because of the simple way the Johnnies did things. It's crazy how things have changed in the last 20 or so years...If teams are doing nation wide recruiting and using NIL and the portal they won't be successful in D3.

Quote from: faunch on March 26, 2026, 03:05:52 PM

Quote from: Retired Old Rat on March 25, 2026, 08:37:26 PMAs sort of a counterpoint to BDB, Johnnie Football Spring Standup

It is a fundraiser, but $250 is kind of steep.

Isn't it kind of ironic that Austin Murphy is the guest at a $250 a seat SJU fundraiser. If I recall from his book  he was tired of what had become of big time sports and drawn to SJU because of the simple way the Johnnies did things. It's crazy how things have changed in the last 20 or so years...If teams are doing nation wide recruiting and using NIL and the portal they won't be successful in D3.

I'd like someone to point out where exactly I was complaining in this post? I was merely attempting to point out how D3 athletics, specifically football, has changed in the last 20-25 years. Austin Murphy came to SJU because of how John did things. There weren't fly in recruiting visits and SJU alums weren't hosting $250 a plate dinners to woo D1 transfers to Collegeville with the promise of cash in their pocket (I don't know for certain that SJU players have pocketed NLI $).
I didn't know John Gagliardi personally, I probably had two, maybe three conversations with him over my years at SJU. From what I've heard and been told about him it's a good bet that he would not have been a fan of the current landscape of D3 football.
I think a fair number of us that follow D3 sports do so because it was one of the last ve

Quote from: faunch on March 26, 2026, 03:05:52 PM

Quote from: Retired Old Rat on March 25, 2026, 08:37:26 PMAs sort of a counterpoint to BDB, Johnnie Football Spring Standup

It is a fundraiser, but $250 is kind of steep.

Isn't it kind of ironic that Austin Murphy is the guest at a $250 a seat SJU fundraiser. If I recall from his book  he was tired of what had become of big time sports and drawn to SJU because of the simple way the Johnnies did things. It's crazy how things have changed in the last 20 or so years...If teams are doing nation wide recruiting and using NIL and the portal they won't be successful in D3.

I'd like someone to point out where exactly I was complaining in this post?
So I guess making an observation is akin to airing grievances (Yes I know that Festivus is in December)? Maybe this December one of those grievances won't be another Johnnie playoff loss.

I was merely attempting to point out how D3 athletics, specifically football, has changed in the last 20-25 years. Austin Murphy came to SJU and wrote a book because of how John and the Johnnies did things. There weren't any whistles and he was "Winning with nos. It's was about he purity and simplicity of D3 football.
There weren't recruits flying into visit and SJU alums weren't hosting $250 a plate dinners to woo D1 transfers to Collegeville with the promise of cash in their pocket (I don't know for certain that SJU players have pocketed NLI $ but I'm guessing there has been and will be).
I didn't know John Gagliardi personally, I probably had two, maybe three conversations with him over my years at SJU. From what I've heard and been told about him it's a good bet that he would not have been a fan of the current landscape of D3 football.

I think a fair number of us that follow D3 sports do so because it's one of the last vestiges of unadulterated college sports. Yes it's still "non-scholarship" but let's not fool ourselves...with NLI we seem to be trying to close the barn door after the cows are already out of the barn.
And it isn't just football.
A coworker's kid was offered about $50K and has "signed" to play D3 hockey for a team that had 6 wins this season.
Apparently a wealthy alum is big puck fan and is has the funds to try an build up the program.

Quote from: Retired Old Rat on March 25, 2026, 08:37:26 PMAs sort of a counterpoint to BDB, Johnnie Football Spring Standup

It is a fundraiser, but $250 is kind of steep.

Isn't it kind of ironic that Austin Murphy is the guest at a $250 a seat SJU fundraiser. If I recall from his book  he was tired of what had become of big time sports and drawn to SJU because of the simple way the Johnnies did things. It's crazy how things have changed in the last 20 or so years...If teams are doing nation wide recruiting and using NIL and the portal they won't be successful in D3.

Apparently CSB and SJU are now hockey schools.

Quote from: DuffMan on February 28, 2026, 10:27:45 AM

Quote from: faunch on February 26, 2026, 08:20:47 PMAgreed...I could probably be convinced to pay $100 for conference football if it got CSS to improve their ****-y production.

Video production or on-field production? 

Not sure which might happen first? Maybe they're intentionally keeping the video production so poor to keep people from seeing how bad the on-field performance is.
I'm guessing SJU is not terribly interested in having conference wide PPV for football as it might cost them some revenue.
I would really love to know how much revenue SJU garners from the PPV football webcasts.

Quote from: DuffMan on February 26, 2026, 04:14:23 PMI get that you want it to be free, Faunch, but it costs money to produce these streams.  Do you think the schools should just eat the cost?  How much would it actually cost you to go to the game?

I'm not saying that I like having to pay, but if the option is paying for a decent broadcast vs. watching a CSS Football stream, I'll gladly pay the $10-$15.

It kind of sucks that the streams for hoops and hockey are free all season and then they charge for the playoffs. I'm not that invested in this season's SJU hoops team to fork out the $$$ to stream it.
I wonder how much money they'll actually make of the basketball and hockey playoffs.
Agreed...I could probably be convinced to pay $100 for conference football if it got CSS to improve their ****-y production.

This MIAC charging PPV for conference basketball playoffs....also women's basketball, and men's and women's hockey playoff streams are also PPV.  Johnnies and Bennies have teams in 3 out of 4 of the playoff tournaments.

$10 per game...$25 for all games.
Thoughts?

Quote from: OzJohnnie on February 23, 2026, 06:39:14 PMThe SJU home schedule is excellent this year. I'll be subscribing again and up at 4am on a Sunday for these games.

I don't understand why we host BU, GAC and Concordia this year and were on the road with them last year. Figure out a way to make a schedule where the top 5 teams play 2 on the road and 2 at home against each other each season.

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Quote from: art76 on February 22, 2026, 10:38:21 PMhttps://www.d3football.com/notables/2026/02/walker-leaves-division-iii

His stock was never going to be higher, and he stays in the middle of a recruiting footprint he knows well. Big question is whether his OC goes with him or not?

Pioneer League has won 2 playoff games in 13 seasons. If Walker can win one in the next year or three his stock will skyrocket and bigger jobs will open up for him.
The pace and speed of the UWRF offense was impressive. They didn't give defenses a chance to make substitutions let alone even catch their breath.

Quote from: BDB on February 14, 2026, 02:01:05 PMGuessing they are announcing the addition of women's flag football.

That would be an announcement but I'm not sure it warrants Major Announcement status.

UW-OshKosh social media has a teaser post of a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT !!!
Any idea what that might be?