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One anecdote only, but one I see in my community repeated over and over - my former neighbor girl, recently graduated, is playing basketball for something called "Central College" in Iowa. She's a 5'7" forward who, while she started for her high school team, was perhaps the 4th or 5th best...

Baseball and softball, with all the travel and spending a big chunk of spring semester down south, can't be cheap.

I think the same thing could be said about any sport, even non-revenue sports, at any collegiate level.

I can't imagine that would be a desirable result. It's hard to imagine the allure of playing FB for a MSUM without a scholarship would be a great as playing for a UST or Drake. Any perceived tangibles and/or intangibles just don't seem to be there. Most Pioneer teams are private. Morehead...

I think that's been the discussion in other threads. How many nonschollie guys on a roster x tuition, fees, etc.? But surely there are immense costs of running a FB team even if the players are paying their own way through school?

The school and community profile says so. But for all the success the school has had on the court and on the field since joining the NSIC, the community takes very little notice and offers only minimal support. But then again, maybe its a matter of "if you build it, they will come." The same...

Not really, at least in terms of debt to equity ratio. Ag lenders have per acre lending limits thanks to the mistakes of the late 70s and early 80s. Farmers have incredible equity their grandfathers would never have dreamed about. The typical "small" farmer I work with has a net worth of...

There are ways around the pay wall. But even with those methods, the content across the entire publication wasn't worth the tap into incognito mode or a site scrubber.

Is gray shirting still a thing?

I'm sure covering high school sports is exactly what these guys imagined themselves doing at this stage in their careers. It would suck to be mid-career in the dinosaur media.

Someone has to start the thread drift - I was at a non-football event at Mankato State a few weeks back and man, Blakeslee Stadium is an even bigger trash heap than I remember. There certainly isn't any bonding money for capital projects these days, particularly for athletics, so the state...

There's no way Brosmer is the backup to JJ but the thought the Sam Howell won't be the backup is picking up a lot of steam.

Doesn't factor farmers who make their wife a farmer for purposes of doubling the already generous farm subsidies to circumvent the AGI limits ($900,000 per producer!).

Might want to check the victim card. Dylan Raiola was a lot higher rated and this guy had him 15 last year. Michigan guy this year is 12.

Farms have been getting bigger since farming began. The size of farms has never been static. Old McDonald style farming is inefficient and impractical.

Farmers who own "thousands of tens of thousands of acres" are just farmers and aren't "conglomerates" or "super farmers" they are farmers. They are just garden variety farmers and sometimes maybe their grandkids in a family farm operation. It's not Unilever, Cargill, Walmart or KraftHeinz...

One could argue that with the amount of money FB generates that B1G refs could and should be full time employees. Do they get paid for training?

I work with farmers on a daily basis. The idea of the "family farm" is antiquated. Even small farmers are worth several millions of dollars and while commodity prices are currently low, producers can insure revenue. Frankly, I see farmers that fail and it has nothing to do with size and...

I know Willie is old and baked, but farmers are doing just fine.

Uhhh....where?