Coach Bill Lewis

North Texas @ Arkansas: UNT + 7.5 UTEP @ Tennessee: UTEP + 29.5 Tulane @ UAB: UAB + 3.5 USM @ App State: USM + 15.5 UTSA @ K-State: UTSA + 21 ODU @ Charlotte: ODU - 2.5 Bethune Cookman @ FAU: No Line Yet MTSU @ Georgia: MTSU + 31.5 Marshall @ South Carolina: Marshall + 13 WKU @ Louisville: WKU + 22.5 U Mass @ FIU: FIU - 4

Sad.

Concussions are always a serious matter. Good to see this young man has recovered.

Found this on the C-USA board and thought it was interesting. Nebraska is a team that used many transfers over the years. Senior safety Tre Neal and sophomore linebacker Breon Dixon are both transfers and figure to play this year. Even Scott Frost was a transfer. While Nebraska has capitalized on gaining transfers, they have also lost players to transfers. One of those came at the cost of an unfair loophole in the NCAA transfer rules. Redshirt freshman Tristan Gebbia was locked in a tight quarterbacks race with true freshman Adrian Martinez. After it was announced on the Sunday before the season opener that Martinez would be the starting quarterback, Gebbia took the backup role well and said he was going to keep fighting for the job. Those feelings changed quickly as he skipped practice Monday and later announced his intent to transfer. While it is not foreign for players to leave after losing a quarterback battle, it was strange at how late in the transfer process Gebbia left, since most schools had already closed enrollment for the year. The way the current transfer rule is laid out, a student who wants to transfer must sit out one academic year, meaning he or she must be enrolled at the university they wish to transfer to. Gebbia was released from scholarship on that Tuesday, one day after enrollment at Nebraska and other semesterly schools closed, meaning he could not enroll. If he wanted to go to one of the semesterly schools, he would have to enroll in the spring at that school and sit out for the spring and next fall seasons. He would then be ineligible for two football seasons and he would lose a year of eligibility. This is where quarterly schools enter the conversation. Quarterly schools are set up on a quarters basis as opposed to semesters and their enrollment deadline is later in the year. This means he would only have to sit out the standard one year that every transfer must sit out. There are six quarters schools that have Division I FBS programs: Louisiana Tech, Northwestern, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford and UCLA. read more: http://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/bov...8f939.html

“We could do better if we have a president with some vision. I don’t care if the other institutions around the nation has adopted,” Lipsey said. “We need to recruit those kids and make LSU competitive with Florida, Georgia and Texas.” All three of those flagship universities had adopted “holistic admissions.” But Lipsey pointed that those more populous states have far more students and more options. LSU’s actions will end up cherry-picking students who otherwise would gone to one of the statewide schools, like the University of Louisiana in Lafayette or the University of New Orleans, or one of the regional four-year institutions, like Nicholls State or McNeese State, Lipsey added. After nearly 30 years of rejecting out-of-hand applicants whose ACT failed to meet the minimum, LSU is embracing a “holistic admissions.” Greater weight will be put on personal recommendations, student-written essays, and outside activities, as well as continued emphasis on grade point averages, thereby opening LSU’s doors to students who test poorly but otherwise have good credentials. read more: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_1b805e18-b06c-11e8-8e21-8fec99aa852c.html

Jeff Sagarin's Week 2 C-USA Results are in 80 - Marshall 82 - UNT 86 - FAU 89 - Tech 98 - UAB 108 - Southern Miss 115 - WKU 125 - MUTZ 128 - FIU 153 - Texas University branch at San Antonio 166 - Rice 177 - ODU 184 - Texas El Paso

Look at the Mean Green representing: Read more: https://www.sbnation.com/college-footbal...eek-1-2018

https://issuu.com/lmcbride/docs/2018_football_magazine-sm

USM, FAU, FIU, Marshall, La Tech, MTSU, and UAB. NO UNT??? http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...rojections

Friday 8/31/18 WKU @ #7 Wisconsin 8:00pm EST - ESPN Saturday 9/1/18 Florida Atlantic @ #5 Oklahoma - Noon EST - FOX Marshall @ Miami (OH) - 3:30pm EST - ESPN+ Charlotte vs. Fordham - 6:00pm EST - ESPN+ ODU @ Liberty - 6:00pm EST - TV TBA FIU vs. Indiana - 7:00pm EST - CBS Sports Network Middle Tennessee @ Vanderbilt - 7:30pm EST - SEC Network (alternative) Louisiana Tech @ S. Alabama - 7:00pm EST - ESPN+ Rice vs. Prairie View A&M - 7:00pm EST - ESPN+ Southern Miss vs. Jackson St. - 7:00pm EST - ESPN+ UTEP vs. Northern Arizona - 7:30pm EST - ESPN3 North Texas vs. SMU - 7:30pm EST - Stadium UAB vs. Savannah St. - 8:00pm EST - ESPN+ UTSA @ Arizona State - 10:30pm EST - FS1

Bad timing this is. Suspended Quandary Griggs has been. Read article: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.sunherald.com/sports/college/conference-usa/university-of-southern-mississippi/article216509490.html

Pete Thamel says Seth Littrell is a candidate to look for at th Kansas job: https://sports.yahoo.com/college-footbal...08676.html

On Tuesday morning, a literal dark cloud hovered above the building that houses the office of University of Tulsa athletic director Derrick Gragg. At the same time that the TU campus was soaked with rain, and as Gragg provided a fairly startling revelation about his department, there seemed also to be a figurative dark cloud above Golden Hurricane sports. Not true, Gragg said. TU’s current budget situation is a difficult circumstance, he acknowledged, but not a crisis. What would qualify as a startling revelation? Specific numbers aren’t known, but recent budget cuts have affected all aspects of TU’s operation. In an effort to avoid a reduction in services for student-athletes, Gragg said, Hurricane football coach Philip Montgomery, men’s basketball coach Frank Haith and Gragg himself all have accepted pay cuts. At the major-college level, this could be unprecedented — that a football coach, men’s basketball coach and an AD simultaneously and willingly absorbed salary reductions for the sake of the greater good of a money-starved school’s sports programs. “Basically, the budget reductions to me are a microcosm of what’s going on, not just at TU but across the country at a lot of different places,” Gragg said. “We’re like a lot of other athletic departments — we’ve been asked to tighten our belt. Full article link: https://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/tusportsextra/bill-haisten-derrick-gragg-philip-montgomery-and-frank-haith-accept/article_833b8a0b-9b60-5982-be6d-ecda78465987.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true

BOCA RATON — After months of searching, Lane Kiffin has finally found his graduate transfer quarterback. Former Arkansas and SMU quarterback Rafe Peavey has officially joined the Owls as a grad transfer and is immediately eligible to play. Peavey was cleared shortly before Tuesday’s practice and took reps with the first, second, and third-teams. “We’re always looking for people,” Kiffin said, “and we had looked for a while for the right fit of a quarterback due to numbers once Jason (Driskel) left.” Peavey, 22, was a perfect four-of-four for 116 yards and a touchdown in three games last season. A former three-star recruit from Missouri, Peavey transferred to SMU in 2016 and mainly served as Ben Hicks’ backup last season. Redshirt junior De’Andre Johnson is currently battling redshirt freshman Chris Robison for the starting quarterback job. Kiffin said the addition of Peavey is “not any reflection upon” Johnson and Robison’s performances. LINK: http://faufocus.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2018/08/07/florida-atlantic-adds-former-arkansas-quarterback-rafe-peavey-as-graduate-transfer/

Here are some projections for CUSA standings in 2018 WEST Overall Conference UAB 9-3 6-2 North Texas 6-6 4-4 Louisiana Tech 6-6 4-4 Southern Miss 6-6 4-4 UTSA 4-8 4-4 Rice 4-9 2-6 UTEP 2-10 0-8 http://mikedropsports.com/cfb-records-conference-usa/

So so sad what is happening to this game!! http://www.espn.com/college-football/sto...t-one-game

Saying that it is tougher becaus they have to play Memphis and UCF instead of C-USA programs.

Most of you could care less about CUSA (I don’t blame you), but I’m a nerd and this conference fascinates me this season. I touched on how good the East is above and the top teams in the West are not too far behind. I could see any of the top 3 winning this division. UAB, fresh off it’s death sentence by Alabama/Bear Bryant’s ghost (look it up), will build off their magical season in 2018. The Blazers return the 10th most production in the country, I am just a bit concerned with their secondary. QB Mason Fine returns for North Texas and may score 75 points a game. Skip Holtz’s (shout out to Lou, the greathest college football analysth off all thime) Louisiana Tech will look to top both North Texas and UAB (play them in back to back weeks, tough!) to return to the CUSA championship game. Holtz has spent a lot of time at LT and a good season will help his resume to potentially get a shot at a better G5/low-teir P5 school. Southern Mississippi will have to find a QB if they want to threaten anybody. UTSA, a favorite of mine in 2017, is going under an overhaul, returning the 4th least production in the country. Frank Wilson, a name that was thrown around at a few P5 schools looking for coaches, has recruited incredibly well for the Roadrunners, so he will have the talent. I love the hire of Mike Bloomgren, the former Stanford DC, by Rice. He has first hand experience in dealing with a school with high admission standards and recruiting. His rebuild of Rice will take a few years, but I am excited to see if he can make Rice the Stanford of CUSA. As I mentioned above, UTEP is going to be god awful. Full link: https://bars.tl/P0QoXilvIO

C-USA West will have their media day starting at 2pm central on ESPN3.

Attendance from the 2017-18 season for NCAA hoops is attached: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/m_basketba...ndance.pdf

Another rule change to ponder during the off season. It seems to me this one favors the bigger conferences but certainly that is up for debate. All teams will get to play more of their players which is a positive. Thoughts? https://247sports.com/college/texas/Article/Texas-Longhorns-Football-New-redshirt-rule-hottest-Day-1-topic-of-2018-Big-12-Media-Days-119850103/

C-USA title odds from Lost Wages: FAU 5/6 Marshall 9/2 La Tech 8/1 Middle Ten 10/1 North Texas 12/1 UAB 20/1 Southern Miss 30/1 Old Dominion 35/1 UTSA 50/1 WKU 80/1 FIU 100/1 Charlotte 300/1 Rice 500/1 UTEP 750/1