As Director of Operations for Mens Basketball per On3 Sports.

Andrea Lee is having a very good open thus far. She's been in and out of first place during the first two rounds. She started round two on fire with 4 birdies in a row, but was a little shaky coming in. She's in 2nd by herself heading into round 3.
Lancaster GC is playing very, very tough. The cut was +8!!!! In round 1, Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko were +10 and Rose Zhang was +9!!!
Megha missed the cut by one shot. Albane made the cut and is T16th with a +3. To show how tough it was, 70 players were +10 or higher after two rounds, The greens were fast and hard. As Gary McCord once said, “I don’t think they mow these greens, I think they bikini wax them.”

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Gavin NIx is down to six

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Commitments should be their own thread.

Assuming we offered on his visit and he committed on the spot - we would be P4 offer #17. Niiiice.

Stanford released men's and women's soccer schedules today. they are here:

women

Men

My big reaction is that the ACC move is totally different for different sports. For soccer, travel is completely manageable. The Men have 14 home games! Only play 5 away and that's at Clemson, Notre Dame, (both before the first day of fall clases), Virginia, SMU and San Francisco. That's 4 plane flights and only single games on all 4 of those trips. They may have 5th flight for the ACC Tournament which they can definitely make. Clemson, ND, UVA and SMU are traditionally good soccer schools so its kind of a highlight set of road trips. Get Duke, NC St., UNC and Cal at home as conference games. ACC soccer is very good so this schedule is strong, but not crazy for travel and hardly a stretch in terms of missed school days.

Women have it a bit different but 12 games before fall class starts. They do play Thurs/Sun Wake and NC St. and Louisville/ND. Have a tantalizing home Thur/Sun of Duke & UNC. They probably fly to Southern CA early for SD ST. and Fullerton. Fly to Wake?NC St. for games. Fly to Louisville/ND. Fly to Dallas for a one off SMU. Play SJS st., San Francisco, Wazzu, USC, Santa Clara, St. Mary's, Irvine. Its totally manageable.

Football will be manageable.

Curious to see how the ACC sorts out schedules for basketball, baseball, softball as they all look much harder in terms of travel and number of road games for Stanford.

Stanford has announced more kickoff times.

We know you wanted more kickoff times 🏈

Sept. 7 vs. Cal Poly - 4 pm PT (ACCNX)
Sept. 20 at Syracuse - 4:30 pm PT (@espn)
Nov. 29 at San Jose State - 1 pm PT (@CBS)

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Just read on the news that Stanford had just added a graduate transfer named Jaylen Blakes from Duke. He is mostly a defensive specialist but has played over the past few years in almost every games but does not appear to be a scorer. Should still be helpful as we try to vastly improve our defensive capabilities.

Firing this up now. 6:30 PM PT on ESPN. Win or go home.

Here's a great primer for those interested. Really awesome data:

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Didn't even make her top 12.

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Bill Walton died today at 71, he was still young and my favorite announcer especially representing the Conference of Champions. He was the only announcer who when I watched a game he was the color guy I learned something that had nothing to do with basketball or sports in general. Extremely smart and knew something about everything. So young to pass away with so much more to offer. Very sad day.

Next weekend...

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New Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest movers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-24
Adam Gorney's position-by-position thoughts: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-breaking-down-the-new-rivals250-for-2025

I found this post on Twitter/X about how much each sport costs at the Power 5 level.

Here's the Department of Education site on Equity in Athletics. Just enter Stanford and after a couple of clicks you'll get to the data as of the fiscal year that ended 8/31/2023. There are four tabs across the top.

From my reading, it looks like the average P5 school spends: $44M for football (Stanford = $33M), $12.3M for men's basketball ($8M for Stanford) and $5.9M for women's basketball ($8M for Stanford...!). Lots of other interesting tidbits, such as - after removing the big 3 sports - women's sports revenue dominates men's at Stanford (which could be related to more women's sports than men's, but I'm too lazy to check).

Obviously, the devil is in the details, but it goes a long way to understanding the AD's priorities (assuming my reading is correct!).

I’ve arrived on The Farm. NiJaree Canady will get the start in the pitching circle for Stanford against LSU. Winner goes to the College World Series.

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Died at age 71 of cancer. I didn’t know he had been sick. He may have been difficult to listen to announcing a game, but he was a one of kind legend. RIP.

Thoughts on all the top quarterbacks at the Memorial Day weekend event: