I wonder how the breakfast with the president went this morning....

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11 former football players were to have a breakfast meeting with Dr. Bradley today.....I haven't heard how things went.....hope everything went well and cordially.....

i plan to be at the scrimmage tonight.....hope to see a lot of friends there.....
 
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It went very well tom...I am sure you have gotten reports...I don't think it is public info but it went very well and everyone walked away smiling...And I will say that I am very Glad to have Dr. Bradley and Ron Prettyman at the university.
 
I heard good things from some of the former players who attended....

and there may be something in the paper soon about it....but the guys I spoke with at the scrimmage Saturday night seemed to be very happy and enthused about transpired at the meeting.....

and I also had a nice short chat with Ron Prettyman during the scrimmage.
 
i didnt get scooped....i dont cover isu....duuuuh....lol.....

i cover the colts.....todd is the isu beat writer....not me....lol.....as a matter of fact, i helped line up one of the former isu players for an interview with todd.....so there....lol.....
 

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the webpage has not been updated....as of yet.....

still have stuff on there from friday night's high school games......
 
I'm curious as to how the University responded to the idea that they change the out-of-state rules to be more reflective of what other schools in our conference are doing. I gotta think that would be a huge step to putting us on an even footing with the rest of the MVFC.

Any news on that front?
 
Like the article said, this meeting was long overdue. I am pretty confident that some real progress was made. Could someone enlighten me on this one-year residency rule that has ISU at a disadvantage?
 

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TJames said:
i cover the colts.....todd is the isu beat writer....not me....lol.....as a matter of fact, i helped line up one of the former isu players for an interview with todd.....so there....lol.....
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Its ok Tom wink wink we understand LOL
 
Bally #44 said:
Like the article said, this meeting was long overdue. I am pretty confident that some real progress was made. Could someone enlighten me on this one-year residency rule that has ISU at a disadvantage?
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Yes, some of our peer schools count out of state players as "in state" after residency for 12 months. Currently our athletes are considered out of state the entire time they are here (4-5 years!). This is important because out of state players actually cost more to the team and count for more scholarships. For example if we filled the team with 100% out of state kids we would lose several full scholarships according to NCAA rules as out of state players at FCS schools just simply count as more than 1 scholarship (it's some weird formula). The hope is that ISU can change the policy (at ISU) to count these kids as in-state after 12 months of residency allowing Trent to offer more scholarships (theoretically he could offer 63 full scholarships but currently only if they are all from Indiana...this amount reduces each time you add an out of state kid) and he could do it cheaper internally at ISU. The NCAA doesn't regulate how a school counts it's student athletes after 12 months. Effectively he would have more scholarships and greater flexibility on recruiting. It's a HUGE step in the right direction if it goes through and would give our coaches more weapons to be competitive! This is my basic understanding…I could be off on a detail or two…feel free to correct or comment on this.
 
Not that I care...but wouldn't ISU have to change that policy for ALL students? I am all for the change, don't get me wrong, but it isn't a simple as just football, right?
 

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Yes, some of our peer schools count out of state players as "in state" after residency for 12 months. Currently our athletes are considered out of state the entire time they are here (4-5 years!). This is important because out of state players actually cost more to the team and count for more scholarships. For example if we filled the team with 100% out of state kids we would lose several full scholarships according to NCAA rules as out of state players at FCS schools just simply count as more than 1 scholarship (it's some weird formula). The hope is that ISU can change the policy (at ISU) to count these kids as in-state after 12 months of residency allowing Trent to offer more scholarships (theoretically he could offer 63 full scholarships but currently only if they are all from Indiana...this amount reduces each time you add an out of state kid) and he could do it cheaper internally at ISU. The NCAA doesn't regulate how a school counts it's student athletes after 12 months. Effectively he would have more scholarships and greater flexibility on recruiting. It's a HUGE step in the right direction if it goes through and would give our coaches more weapons to be competitive! This is my basic understanding…I could be off on a detail or two…feel free to correct or comment on this.
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IS45, thanks for the reply. It actually makes sense but as Sack says, it could apply to other students as well. I wonder how the other schools answer the same question? Since the majority (or close to it) of ISU players of my generation were from out of state, I wondered how it was handled then? As budgets have tightened over the years, I know that the out-of-state recruits have dropped drastically in the past decade. Interesting question for discussions here. The out-of-state numbers in the late 60's and early 70's were also MUCH higher for ALL students than currently and maybe some of that off-set the added expense for athletes, but have no facts to back that up.
 
Football is here to stay. Time to promote it and time to WIN. If we win the games we are SUPPOSED to win early in the season, as I said earlier in the week, Homecoming will be the largest crowd in a decade. The alumni and the city are ready to have some fun. GO BLUE~
 
I already plan to be at homecoming. Would love to make it to more home games than that, but I'm keeping it realistic.
 
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