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8 hours ago
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How good can Rutgers football's offense be? Here's what the unit looks like with camp starting
LAS VEGAS – One of the big questions facing Rutgers football with the Scarlet Knights set to kick off training camp is just how good its offense can be. Rutgers has continuity at quarterback with Athan Kaliakmanis returning. It has an offensive line that's continued to make progress, though it'll be missing a major piece. It has solid wide receivers, and added another via the transfer portal. And it has high-quality running backs, though it has to replace one of the most prolific backs in program history. Coach Greg Schiano is optimistic about the unit's potential, but he's also not glossing over the loss of talent it needs to account for. 'This could be a good offense,' Schiano said in a meeting with local reporters at Big Ten Media Days. 'But everything's got to go just right to be really good. We've got to stay healthy, guys have got to develop at the rate we expect them to.' The Scarlet Knights made substantial progress last season in Kirk Ciarrocca's second year as offensive coordinator. Rutgers averaged 28.9 points per game, the most since 2008. Kaliakmanis was at the middle of that, throwing for 2,696 yards and 18 touchdowns. But so was Kyle Monangai, who rushed for 1,279 yards and 13 touchdowns. Rutgers will undoubtedly miss the standard and example that Monangai, a seventh-round draft pick by the Chicago Bears, on and off the field. 'We lost one of the best players to have played here in Kyle Monangai,' Schiano said. 'Not just his on-field performance – I spoke to some people out in Chicago and they're saying, 'This guy is unbelievable. His preparation, his professionalism.' So we lost a very important player there.' The Scarlet Knights return Antwan Raymond, Ja'shon Benjamin and Sam Brown. They also brought in FAU transfer CJ Campbell Jr. "I feel like we haven't missed a beat," Kaliakmanis said. "We're good. They're working really hard. We have a great running back coach in Coach (Damiere) Shaw. He gets their best out of them every single day. That's all you can ask for." Rutgers at wide receiver needs to replace Dymere Miller and Christian Dremel, but has a talented group returning including Ian Strong, KJ Duff and Ben Black. The Scarlet Knights also added North Texas transfer DT Sheffield. It's also going to help to have Kenny Fletcher back healthy at tight end – the Delran product showed promise at the position after moving over from defensive end, but he suffered a season-ending injury in the sixth game. He caught 20 passes for 137 yards and two touchdowns until the injury. 'We lost a couple (of players), but I think we have a lot of returning players,' Schiano said. 'Kenny's on schedule. We thought Kenny started very well. We added some players that I think can help. We'll see. The O-line has a chance. But I think replacing Hollin is not a little thing.' There's no doubt about that. Pierce, who signed with the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent, started 50 consecutive games with the Scarlet Knights. He was an anchor for the line at left tackle. 'Every week you take him for granted – I didn't take him for granted, but a lot of people did,' Schiano said. 'He got better and better and better.' Tyler Needham is likely the leading candidate to take over at left tackle with training camp set to begin, but nothing is guaranteed. If everything does go right, Rutgers' offense has a chance to be highly productive. It's come a long way in the past couple seasons. The Scarlet Knights also substantial talent, but they added some too. How much better it can be will soon be determined. This article originally appeared on Rutgers football: How good can offense be this season?


Reuters
16 hours ago
- Sport
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Big Ten Media Days: Tony Petitti pushing for four automatic bids
July 23 - LAS VEGAS -- At the Big Ten's first-ever media day in Nevada on Tuesday, a portion of commissioner Tony Petitti's opening address suggested College Football Playoff odds are stacked against his conference. "It's really simple math," Petitti said at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the first day of the Big Ten Media Days gathering. "With 18 schools (in the Big Ten) and nine conferences (eligible for FBS playoffs), we're losing nine more games to start." Nine- vs. eight-game conference scheduling is a debate predating any iteration of the playoff, beginning in 2006 when the FBS season expanded to 12 regular-season dates. Petitti's position that playing more conference games than the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference puts Big Ten teams at greater risk of stumbling has merit when referring to the Bowl Championship Series and four-team playoff for reference. Most notably, teams from the old Pac-12 -- one-third of which the Big Ten absorbed -- routinely missed out on national-title opportunities because of conference losses. Ironically, though, the 2024 season played out much differently: It was the SEC's eight-game schedule and playoff hopefuls Alabama, Ole Miss and South Carolina being tripped up that impacted the bracket. Meanwhile, the Big Ten's Indiana Hoosiers reached the playoff despite finishing the regular season with no Top 25 wins and two defeats total of conference opponents that produced winning records. The commissioner defended Indiana's playoff inclusion, noting that, "when Indiana's schedule was made ... (there) were the two teams that played in the (national) championship game the season before, Michigan and Washington." Be that as it may, the Hoosiers finished with a Sagarin strength of schedule ranking of No. 66, easily the worst of the power-conference playoff teams. The nine-game slate did not hurt the Big Ten in 2024, but Petitti inferred the Big Ten beat the odds. To adjust the odds going forward, Petitti's math factors into a postseason equation the commissioner has touted throughout the 2025 offseason: 16 equals four times two. With talk of expanding the College Football Playoff to 16 entrants after just one year of the 12-team format, Petitti is pushing for a format that grants both the Big Ten and Southeastern Conference four automatic bids. That ensures the two most prominent leagues in the sport comprise half of the field every year. The Petitti plan also includes the concept of a play-in round where conference championship games currently reside on the football calendar, the weekend after the Thanksgiving holiday. He presented the idea as something "fans will really gravitate to ... providing games that are do-or-die on the field." Petitti's suggestion faces resistance, including from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey. At his conference's media days last week, Sankey pushed for a playoff format with automatic qualifiers for five conference champions -- as exists now in the 12-team Playoff -- and 11 at-large berths. As for Petitti's position on when to reformat the postseason, the commissioner sounds content on slow-rolling it. "I'm not going to put any deadline on it," he said. --National champs tabbed as unlikely underdogs Before a rematch on Aug. 30 in Columbus, plenty will be made of Ohio State's 28-14 win over Texas in January's Cotton Bowl, which propelled the Buckeyes to the national championship game against Notre Dame. At Big Ten media days, however, Ohio State coach Ryan Day made clear the marquee matchup on Week 1 is a new chapter. "The team we have currently wants to leave their own legacy behind, and they made that clear a week after the national championship game," Day said. "We've said it before, we're not defending national champions, because we're not defending anything ... We're looking to attack." It's not uncommon for spokespersons of highly regarded and championship-winning teams to claim to be an underdog, even if the role does not fit. But despite rolling through the inaugural 12-team playoff with four double-digit-point wins, Ohio State was unveiled at Big Ten media days as an underdog in its own conference. The Buckeyes garnered 431 total points and 10 first-place votes in the league's preseason media poll, sitting in second behind Penn State with its 435 points and 11 first-place votes. Reigning Big Ten champion Oregon is third at 405 and two. Ohio State returns the Preseason Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year in wide receiver Jeremiah Smith, but the quarterback targeting Smith remains undecided. Day said at his session on Tuesday candidates Julian Sayin and Lincoln Kienholz head into August in a dead heat. The two are vying to replace Will Howard, who passed for 289 yards and a touchdown in the Cotton Bowl win over Texas. The new QB1 will share a backfield with new primary running backs, too, as Quinshon Judkins -- who scored two Cotton Bowl touchdowns -- and TreVeyon Henderson, who went 75 yards on Howard's touchdown pass vs. the Longhorns, are gone. The roster turnover at skill positions explains Ohio State's polling at No. 2, but hasn't entirely relegated the Buckeyes to the role of underdogs. As of Tuesday, they are consensus three-point favorites vs. Texas. --'Stand up' for the Big Ten Ahead of December's Citrus Bowl, a lion's share of attention focused on whether participating South Carolina should instead have been preparing for a playoff game. Overshadowed was an Illinois team that had its best regular season since 2007. The Illini proceeded to beat the Gamecocks, 21-17, for the program's first 10-win finish since 2001. With the win, Bret Bielema's squad contributed its own measure of bragging rights for the Big Ten in its ongoing war of perception with the SEC. "I learned early in life, right, if you don't stand up for yourself, no one else will," Bielema said on Tuesday. His stance is that the Big Ten is in a position to tout its quality off the field, but that starts by backing it up on the field. Big Ten teams have some high-profile opportunities to do just that opposite the SEC early in the 2025 campaign, starting immediately with a playoff rematch between Ohio State and Texas. The showdown between the reigning national champion Buckeyes and preseason SEC favorite Longhorns sets the stage for three straight weeks of noteworthy Big Ten vs. SEC matchups. In Week 2, Michigan travels to Oklahoma. Week 3 features Wisconsin visiting Alabama. --Field Level Media
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19 hours ago
- Business
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House attorneys, power conferences work out deal to relax NIL collective roadblocks: Sources
LAS VEGAS — Less than a month into the implementation of the House settlement, college sports' new enforcement entity is adjusting its approach. Attorneys for the House plaintiffs have struck an agreement with the power conferences and NCAA officials to amend the decision-making from the industry's new enforcement arm, the College Sports Commission, related to how booster-backed collectives can compensate athletes. Multiple sources spoke to Yahoo Sports under condition of anonymity. As part of the agreement, the College Sports Commission is expected to treat collectives or any 'school-associated entity' in a similar fashion as other businesses when determining the legitimacy of third-party NIL deals submitted to the CSC's NIL Go clearinghouse. This is a change from the CSC's previously publicized approach. According to a memo sent to schools two weeks ago, the CSC — created and administered by the power conferences — explained that it has denied dozens of athlete deals from collectives because it is holding collectives to a higher threshold, announcing that businesses whose sole existence is to pay athletes (i.e. collectives) cannot meet the definition of a 'valid business purpose.' House plaintiff attorneys Jeffrey Kessler and Steve Berman took issue with that interpretation, sending to the NCAA and power league officials a letter demanding the guidance be retracted and suggesting those rejected deals be reinstated. Kessler, in his letter, threatened to take the issue to the magistrate judge, Nathaniel Cousins, who is presiding over House settlement disputes. Some of the NIL deals that the CSC rejected while applying the previous guidance will be re-evaluated based on the new approach. The interpretation of the 'valid business purpose' rule is not insignificant. It is one of two measurements used by the new CSC's NIL Go clearinghouse to determine the legitimacy of third-party deals. The second is a Deloitte-created 'compensation range' standard that deals must fall within. The change to the valid business purpose standard potentially opens the door for the continuation of school-affiliated, booster-backed collectives to provide athletes with compensation that, if approved by the clearinghouse, does not count against a school's House settlement revenue-share cap. This provides collectives a path to strike deals with athletes as long as those transactions deliver to the public goods and services for a profit for the organization, such as holding athlete merchandise sales, autograph signings and athlete appearances at, for example, golf tournaments. The resolution creates what administrators term more of a 'soft cap' as opposed to a hard cap, as SEC commissioner Greg Sankey described it last week in an interview with Yahoo Sports. The expectation is that collectives will create legal ways to provide additional compensation, as Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti described Monday in an interview with Yahoo Sports from Big Ten media days. 'When something works, it gets copied,' he said. 'Things happening out there to provide additional NIL deals for student athletes that make sense and are allowed under rules, you're going to see more versions of that.' The change also, at least for now, prevents a legal challenge from leaders of a group of NIL collectives who began drafting a lawsuit against the CSC's approach. Over the last four years, collectives have served as the driving force for schools to compensate athletes, raising millions in booster money to provide schools a way to recruit and retain players. However, the CSC's original interpretation of the 'valid business purpose' definition, and resulting denials of collective deals, speaks to one of administrators' goals of the settlement — to shift athlete pay from these booster-run organizations to the schools, which are now permitted to directly share revenue with athletes under the capped system that began July 1. That said, many schools are still operating their collectives as a way to, perhaps, circumvent the system. For example, schools continue to operate their collectives — some out of fear that others are doing the same and some believing that the settlement will fail under the weight of legal challenges. 'We know that some people are saying, 'We're not worried because we don't think they can really enforce it!'' Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin told Yahoo Sports last week from SEC media days. 'They don't think NIL contracts are going to get kicked back (by the clearinghouse) or they think they're not going to be able to win long-term (legal challenges) because of players rights.' Ultimately, Sankey suggested, schools hold authority to control their own affiliated collectives. 'For how long have people been begging for guardrails?' Sankey asked. 'Well, now we have guardrails. Those broadly across the country that claim they wanted guardrails need to operate within the guardrails. If you allow what's happened to continue to escalate, there would be a very small number of programs that would be competitive with each other and we'd not have a national sport or a national championship.' The resolution may not completely end what will likely be continuous negotiations over particular enforcement rules between the power leagues controlling the CSC and the House plaintiff attorneys, who hold authority and veto powers over various aspects of the settlement. Petitti cautioned Tuesday that more such negotiations are expected in the future. 'I don't think it will be the last time that an issue comes up in the process,' he said. 'The settlement approval came later than expected. It compressed the time period.' The guidance change may also not prevent future legal challenges over other enforcement aspects, including Deloitte's compensation range concept or the appeals arbitration system that athletes can use for deals denied a second time. The CSC, in its first month of existence, is reliant on athletes submitting deals. Athletes are required to submit any third-party deal of $600 or more to an NIL clearinghouse, NIL Go. Those deals flagged by NIL Go are sent to the CSC and its new leader, Bryan Seeley, to determine an enforcement decision. As of two weeks ago, more than 100 deals were denied and at least 100 more were under review. More than 1,500 deals had been approved.
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a day ago
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What's the answer to college football's playoff problem? Big Ten commish points at 'play-in games' for his rationale
LAS VEGAS — A month ago, as he tuned into a College Football Playoff meeting through Zoom, Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti felt a wave of sudden enlightenment wash over him. As he watched CFP staff members share potential changes to the criteria and data used by the selection committee, as he witnessed mathematicians deliver ideas on adjustments, Petitti pulled away from the Zoom and had a thought. What the heck are we doing? 'I found myself sitting there thinking that play-in games seem so rational as we look at folks talk about points and subtracting numbers and adding numbers. I'm thinking, 'This is the rational system and the one where we play games is radical?' 'I admire the work they're putting into it and all the stuff they're talking about and adding and subtracting and listening to mathematicians and scheduling experts. But all of that is more valuable than two teams playing on the field? OK.' In an interview on Monday with Yahoo Sports from the site of this week's Big Ten football media days, Petitti emphasized that his league's position on a future playoff format remains unchanged — a position, he says, that is unlikely to change until the power conferences agree to play the same amount of conference games (nine) and until the selection process is rectified. The conference continues to support a playoff structure with more automatic access spots as opposed to the so-called '5+11' format that features more at-large selections. The Big Ten's long-discussed playoff format — a '4-4-2-2-1' model — would grant four automatic qualifiers to the SEC and Big Ten, two each to the ACC and Big 12, one to the highest-ranked Group of Six champion and three at-large selections. The model, vehemently opposed by the ACC and Big 12, would reduce the subjectivity of the selection committee, incentivize more perennial non-conference matchups and, Petitti says, provide an avenue for inner-conference play-in style games pitting, for instance, the third-place Big Ten team against the sixth-place finisher and the fourth vs. the fifth for spots in the playoff. Any format with a bigger at-large pool such as the 5+11 — it grants qualifiers to the top five conference champions and 11 at-large spots — relies too heavily on a subjective selection committee, he says. Petitti believes proposed alterations to the data used by selection committee members to seed teams and determine at-large selections remains 'incredibly incomplete' and, he suggested, may never reach the point of satisfying his membership. 'I've heard my colleagues around other leagues say that a lot of work has to be done to the selection committee and that's where I have a hard time on what that actually means,' Petitti said. 'In talking to some of the folks in our room, our ADs that have been on that (selection) committee, I've yet to hear someone say they need more data or stuff to look at. You can come up and make metrics, but ultimately it's just people evaluating what's put in front of them.' While acknowledging that his league must agree with the SEC on a playoff format in order for it to advance forward — the two conferences control the matter — Petitti says he's OK with the playoff remaining at 12 teams next season instead of the proposed 16-team expanded model. 'Earlier on, we felt expansion would be a good thing, but we're not going to expand unless we really feel like the format and access makes sense,' Petitti said. 'It has to make the regular season better. If it doesn't do that, why are we doing it?' Such a possibility — remaining as a 12-team playoff in 2026 — is growing more likely by the day as the two conferences remain at an impasse, both with one another over the number of conference games they play (SEC eight and the Big Ten nine) and with the CFP's selection process. The SEC is yet to decide on whether it is moving from eight conference games to nine in 2026, though signs point to the conference remaining at eight games at least for next year, especially if the selection committee process is unsatisfactory. Even SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said last week during his media days there's 'not a lot of warmth' from the football coaches in adding an extra conference game. The head coaches hold sway in the conference. In fact, their pushback to the Big Ten's 4-4-2-2-1 model in May shifted the league's consideration of that format. Meanwhile, neither league seems necessarily agreeable to proposed alterations to data changes in the selection process. The CFP staff proposed to commissioners an adjustment to the committee's strength-of-schedule ranking that gives more weight to games played, for instance, against the top 30-40 programs in the country. Secondly, a new data point, 'strength of record,' has been created that grants more weight to good wins and doesn't penalize as much a program for losses against ranked or top teams. Petitti is unmoved. He is against widening the at-large pool from seven to 11 teams as it gives the 12-member selection committee — a rotation of mostly athletic directors and former coaches — more authority. 'It's not that we think the selection committee does a poor job. I'm just not sure how you make it better. The more teams you add, the more tough decisions you create,' he said. 'We're going to give the committee more to do? What's the reason to do that? Giving them more work to do and more discretion?' Despite the disagreement with the SEC, both commissioners say that they continue to speak regularly and the two leagues remain close. Petitti hopes the conferences can hold a third joint athletic director meeting soon. 'Anybody who is writing that the fact we might not be on the same page today on format changes means we don't have a great working relationship is in the wrong place,' Petitti said Monday. Said Sankey last week: 'There is no rift between the SEC and Big Ten commissioners. We have different views. That's OK.' They disagree on something else too: the timing of the transfer portal. A committee of power conference football administrators and athletic directors is expected to make a formal recommendation on the portal soon. The expectation is for a single portal in January. The Big Ten remains the only FBS conference that is against such a move. Big Ten coaches and administrators are pushing for an April portal. 'That's not where the other three (power) leagues are,' Petitti said. 'At the end of the day, when you govern with others, there are going to be issues where you know you're going to have to agree that your position wasn't the one adopted. But having player movement occur during the postseason seems something that is not ideal. It puts players in tough spots. It's not good for the game.' In an interview with Yahoo Sports last week, Sankey said he was seeking a portal date that is 'the right thing for the educational enterprise,' and both leaders believe there should be a single portal as opposed to the two currently existing. 'We have to get back as a collegiate enterprise to say we have a responsibility and expectation that you pursue your education in a consistent way,' Sankey said. 'Transferring every semester or five schools in five years is not consistent with those objectives.'
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3 days ago
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Baseus Expands Smart Security Lineup with Sun-powered S2 and S1 Lite Cameras
LAS VEGAS, July 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to keeping your home and loved ones safe, you need to rely on a trusted brand with advanced features. Baseus has become a pioneer in the security surveillance industry and has pushed boundaries to create products that are both innovative and practical. Now, the company is launching the Baseus Security S2 Outdoor Camera 4K in white and its Security S1 Lite 2K Outdoor Camera to introduce a new level of solar-powered security to your home. In a day and age where criminals are getting smarter and crime statistics are rising, it's important to choose the right outdoor security camera to protect your home. The Baseus Security S2 Outdoor Camera 4K comes with several innovative features to keep you in control of your safety. To get a better understanding of how this security camera elevates your lifestyle, let's look at some of its main highlights. 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