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Kansas State AD Taylor reflects on his time as Deputy AD at Iowa after having previously served as AD at North Dakota State: "I tell people this all the time, but if you've already been AD and then become a Deputy, one, you have to check your ego. You're no longer in charge. But, you also are able to say things to your AD and challenge each other. Then, when you become an AD again, you really realize how important the people around you are and how much you really need their support and their trust." More from a conversation with AthleticDirectorU from the Women Leaders in College Sports National Convention as Taylor also touches on brand stability amid industry change, recruiting talented administrators to Manhattan & more. (link)
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Toledo AD Blair challenges all comers who think they have a BBQ recipe that can top his. Leading into tomorrow's football game against Bowling Green, Blair faced off with Falcons assistant running backs coach White, and turned to an appropriately named Rockin' Rocket Ribs solution. Blair on his enjoyment of spending time smoking meats: "I love the art of it. Feeding that fire. Play some music, grab a beer, and go." Check out the full recipe. (link)
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Tragic news out of Charlottesville as three people have been killed and two others wounded in a shooting late last night in Virginia's Culbreth Garage. UVa police are still searching for a man named Christopher Darnell Jones in connection with the shooting at the garage. Jones was listed on the Hoos' 2018 football roster. Classes have been cancelled for today. (link)
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ESPN's College GameDay is heading to Bozeman for the Montana State vs. Montana game this weekend. It will mark the show's 12th all-time appearance at an FCS game and the first involving Big Sky teams. Incidentally, Extra Points' Brown will also be on the ground in Bozeman for a previously scheduled trip. (link); You may recall the Big Sky's efforts to get the show to Missoula last year (refresher), but Commissioner Wistrcill was pleased with this year's news: "You know, we worked really hard last year - as everyone knows - trying to get it in Missoula. Felt like we had a great shot, but it didn’t happen. All the people at ESPN kept telling us to just keep at it. Just keep the social media push going. Keep people talking about it. Keep doing creative things, and so when I got the text this morning from my friends there at 6:15 a.m., I was speechless." Montana AD Costello said several ESPN folks arrived on campus by 9 AM Sunday morning to begin prep and he has big plans for analyst McAfee's antics for Saturday. (link)
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USA Today's Wolken with his Misery Index for Week 11: Texas A&M tops the list, followed by Oklahoma, Oregon, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. "Miserable but not miserable enough" teams include Illinois, Rutgers, Missouri, Baylor and Virginia Tech. (link)
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Coaches Wire...
+ Temple AD Johnson will look for a new men's soccer HC as current leader Rowland's contract has not been renewed. Rowland finished 24-43-13 in five seasons, including a 4-9-3 mark this year. (link)
+ Cal's football program makes a change on offense as OC Musgrave and OL coach McClure have been "relieved of their duties." (link)
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Additional updates from Law360 in the Gee v NCAA trial from last week as the jury heard "deposition testimony Thursday from a former assistant athletic trainer at USC, who said he didn't recall Gee suffering any concussions or head injuries." More behind the paywall. (link)
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Anachel CEO Cecil joins SBJ’s Elrod from the Game Changers conference in New York, where she talks about the impact social media has had on sports. “Like everything else, it has its positive and negative. For me and what I do, it completely changed my business. For the negative, we used to have 24 hours to respond to a crisis…today, we have less than 30 seconds. So, a penny of prevention’s worth a pound of cure for me. For me, I use digital technology positively that I’m able to tap in today to analytics. … So, if you say that’s white, and I say that’s cream, and a million people tell us that’s yellow, we’re going to say it’s yellow.” Asked what her first piece of advice is when confronted with a crisis, Cecil explains: “Number one, I think when people come to me they understand that I’m not in the judgment business, I’m in the fixer business.” Lots more. (link)
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TikTok will launch a podcast app. With 1B monthly users and 138M monthly active US users, TikTok recently registered a trademark for TikTok Music which, according to Podnews, "includes the provision for podcast content; and the company is already talking to record companies." (link)
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In case you missed Sunday's email...
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Prior to yesterday's win over Oklahoma, ESPN's Thamel reported on College GameDay that the future of West Virginia FB HC Brown was on shaky footing & further, "Sources have told me that if Brown is gone, (WVU AD) Lyons may not be around to hire his successor." The Mountaineers improved to 4-6 with the victory over the Sooners and close by hosting Kansas State & traveling to Oklahoma State. (link)
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The NCAA Men's and Women's Cross Country Championship field is set with 31 teams selected to participate in each championship, 18 of which received automatic qualifications from this weekend's regionals. The Northern Arizona men's team, which has won five of the last six titles, will be there, as will defending women's champ NC State. Fans may watch action from Oklahoma State's Greiner Family OSU Cross Country Course in Stillwater live on ESPNU and the ESPN App beginning at 10 AM ET on Saturday, November 19. (link)
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One-off situation or an example of how high-profile former student-athletes could be integrated during their off seasons? Former Oregon WBB great Ionescu will join the team's support staff in a part-time capacity as Director of Athletic Culture. Ducks HC Graves: "There is no better person I could think of for this position than Sabrina. Sabrina exemplifies what it means to be an Oregon Duck and she represents everything our program is about. Even in just a part-time capacity, she will have the ability to make an immediate impact on our student-athletes and our program as a whole. She truly is a basketball icon that will be able to connect and develop our players off the court." (link)
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The New York Times' Witz on UCLA's struggle with home football game attendance: "According to data released through a public records request, the school gave away an average of nearly 25,000 free tickets per game in 2019 and 2021. ... Those free tickets show that even though U.C.L.A.’s attendance in 2019 and 2021 are the lowest since moving to the Rose Bowl, the bottom line has been even worse: Tickets sold accounted for less than 80 percent of the announced attendance in both seasons. The number of free tickets given away this season is not available, according to a university spokesman." (link)
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Former Penn State Director of FB Communications D'Elia gets the profile treatment from The Athletic's Snyder. Once former Nittany Lions FB HC Paterno's right-hand man, D'Elia is also known as the "architect of Penn State's White Out." D'Elia hadn't worked at Penn State since February 2012 until a few months ago when PSU AD Kraft reached out. Kraft: "Guido is kind of a legend in our world. You look at what he’s done to create game day experiences everywhere. I’m evaluating everything and looking at how we do things. Everything we can do we can get better at. Even though we have a famous game day experience, we always have to look at how we elevate ourselves. I had admired him for so long. So, if you’re going to be at Penn State, why would you not go talk to the brain behind so many things here, you know, from the game day experience to the marketing side?" Lots more on D'Elia's strategy. (link)
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USA Today's Berkowitz with FB HC bonus updates from the past few days... North Carolina's Brown picks up $200K with the Tar Heels' win last night, which clinched the ACC Coastal title. Likewise, Coastal Carolina's Chadwell takes home $200K for the Chants securing a spot in the Sun Belt title game; Georgia's Smart sees $100K added to his pot as the Bulldogs are headed to the SEC title game to face LSU, while Tigers boss Kelly gets $75K for his team's spot in Atlanta. For bowl eligibility: Purdue's Brohm ($150K), Florida's Napier ($100K), Iowa's Ferentz ($100K), Fresno State's Tedford ($75K), Marshall's Huff ($50K), San Diego State's Hoke ($50K), UConn's Mora ($25K), James Madison's Cignetti ($10K) and Houston's Holgorsen ($10K). Boise State's Avalos gets $10K for the Broncos sixth Mountain West win of the season. Oregon State leader Smith gets a one-year contract extension for a seventh regular season win, which takes his deal through February 2029. The additional year is scheduled to be worth $4.75M, guaranteed at $2.85M. South Alabama's Wommack picks up an additional $25K raise in future pay as the Jaguars get their eighth win, now has a one-year contract extension, with a $50K future raise, plus a $25K bonus this season. UTSA HC Traylor gets $25K for the Roadrunners eighth win on the season. (link)
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On the Mend...
+ For a third straight week and the fifth time this season, ESPN College GameDay's Corso was not part of the show. (link)
+ According to the school, UCLA DC McGovern was "out" for a third straight game as the Bruins faced Arizona last night. (link)
+ Nebraska OC Whipple got wiped out by Michigan's Henning on the sideline during yesterday's game. (link); Whipple had x-rays done during halftime, but no further word on his condition. (link)
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Also Noticed...
+ In what could be a protocol change after the Michigan State fracas, Michigan waited until every Nebraska player had exited the field before heading into the tunnel following yesterday's game. (link)
+ NCAA National Coordinator of Officials Shaw explains several calls from the first week of the month with rules review #10. Among them: sliding ball carrier, targeting, forward pass and ball position. (link)
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In Today's Total Campus Report...
+ Louisville is reaching the finalist stage of its presidential search, with multiple candidates currently interviewing for the position, per UofL Spokesman Karman, who confirms that the Board of Trustees is on schedule to name a president by the end of the calendar year. Interim President Gonzalez is expected to return to her role as provost when a new president is in place. (link)
+ West Virginia President Gee joins Kansas State Vice President for Research Rosowsky and Ohio State CHRR Director Gavazzi to pen an op-ed for Inside Higher Ed on the need for colleges and universities to invest in "identifying, owning and living their brand." The trio suggest institutions continuously host listening sessions and engage in ongoing dialogue with stakeholders to have a sense of what nonacademic community members really want from their school. Per a recent study by Gee and Gavazzi, U.S. residents reported they expected higher education institutions to split taxpayer funding with 50% going towards teaching, 25% towards research and 25% towards engagement. (link)
+ Washington State released four strategic priorities as part of its Strategic Plan Annual Report for FY 2021–2022: an increase in total R&D expenditures by 5% from $357.6M to $375.5M; reducing the retention gap between the general student population and first-generation and underrepresented students by 1% per year; establishing metrics for community engagement efforts; and reducing demographic reporting unknowns for faculty and staff to 10%. (link)
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