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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By Realist77, 4 weeks ago
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| Just to play devils advocate, the D-3 decreased travel costs would make soccer and tennis more viable financially. Trips to Wabash, DePauw, and Rose-Hullman etc. as opposed to MVC school trips. And I... | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By MWsportsfan, 4 weeks ago
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| I think this is realized by some, not by others. These "minor" non-ticketed sports tend to have athletes that are good students, and want to be there as you mentioned. They make awesome self-starters ... | ||
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RE: Portal Watch 2025
By RS1207, 4 weeks ago
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| Cooper has signed with Wake Forest according to on3 website. | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By jd24, 4 weeks ago
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| This is within my "sorting itself out" theory expressed somewhere on here. | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By VUIndiana, 4 weeks ago
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| Agreed! Soccer and tennis were an enrollment draw, and honestly those students were some of our brighter bulbs for whatever reason. I was always impressed with the work ethic and general intelligence ... | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By valpo15, 4 weeks ago
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| Not only football -but most of the sports we sponsor are just an extension of enrollment.It is bringing students here that pay...give em a few sheckles of "scholarship" money so their mommy and daddy ... | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By VUIndiana, 4 weeks ago
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| In fact, maybe the 'tuition remission' type of benefit that universities often offer employees could be one way to get players to stick around for longer and not just transfer every year! If instead o... | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By VU2010, 4 weeks ago
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| @mj08 This is such a great point! All about perspective ... many ways to skin a cat, as it's said. | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By VUIndiana, 4 weeks ago
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| Yep. Now that the illusion/aura of the scholar-athlete model is busted and it's clear to everyone it's just a short-term contract job, there's going to be some kind of reckoning as society decides jus... | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By MJ08, 4 weeks ago
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| I think the “supply” of available players is going to be greater than the “demand.” There are 363 D1 teams each with 15 roster spots for a total of 5,445 positions. Once a program with a large NIL p... | ||
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RE: Women’s hoops keep moving along
By ValpoGuy35, 4 weeks ago
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| "I honestly thought we would have the new coach in place by now...The Victory Bell had some interesting possibilities and a few non starters. Castator has left but she took a leave late in the season ... | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By Usc4valpo, 4 weeks ago
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| @rezynezy - I would not say Indiana is a blue blood in the past couple of decades. | ||
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RE: New Episode of the March to the Arch Podcast
By Marcharchpod, 4 weeks ago
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| Final episode of the season, where we put a cap on all things 2024-25 MVC Hoops. We break down all the postseason games, give our final thoughts on each teams 2024-25 season, and look ahead at the pot... | ||
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RE: Returning Players For 25-26 Season
By VU2010, 4 weeks ago
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| Is it fair to assume the Valpo football team, from a financial standpoint, is only solvent because of these players not being on athletic scholarships & thus helping with enrollment? | ||
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RE: Portal Watch 2025
By VULB62, 4 weeks ago
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| @cautioushorse1 Your comparison to Nottingham Forest is seriously flawed. Nottingham Forest does not have to also run and support a non-profit university and all that entails. Bottom line is that D-... | ||
