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OT: Spiderverse movie

I’ll use the SM pun and say this new movie was AMAZING. I was way, way overstimulated after the movie was over. But they did it.

It arguably is better than the original. I just wanted at least a good follow-up to the 2018 movie, but for me this was even better. The visuals are works of art to me and feels like you are watching a comic book come to life.

I’ll leave the spoilers out for now. See it….

Regionals Scores Updates

Currently

Campbell losing 5-0 to Central Conn ST
WVU up on Ball St 7-5
Charlotte up 5-2
UCONN tied 5-5 with Fla A&M
UNC up 1-0 over Wright St
George Mason over Northeastern 7-1
Coastal over UNCG 9-0 and UNCG coach got tossed for chirping from dugout
OU over Army 8-1

Campbell is shocking...I thought they had a chance to win that regional.

**** A new official visitor to add ****

We have one more official visitor to add to the list ...

We are told Searcy (Ark.) Harding Academy linebacker Wyatt Simmons is en route and should arrive in about 45 minutes.

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Simmons is traveling in after taking an official visit to Auburn. Arkansas is slated to draw one later this month.

Here is what we wrote on Simmons in first detailing Clemson's interest our May 22 Insider:

Two weeks ago, Simmons (6-3, 215) was an unknown with zero offers ... because he had not put together any film. Which in itself is further shocking, and maybe doesn't even really add up, because his father is a D3 head coach.

Then Simmons posted highlights on Twitter, and the floodgates opened.

It won't surprise any of our readers that Oklahoma dove in headfirst -- although Ted Roof is the one who made the in-person eval, not Brent Venables.

But so too have Florida State, Auburn, Miami, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Oklahoma State and Mississippi State.

(Wes) Goodwin didn't get to see Simmons work out, we are told.

Yet we would tell you Clemson interest is high and could escalate as the summer goes on. Our understanding is Simmons reminds the staff of Baylon Spector.

High praise.


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**** Big 12

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Big 12 open to further expansion, commissioner Brett Yormark says

By: Sam Cooper - Yahoo! Sports

The Big 12 is open to further expansion.

As the conference’s spring meetings wrapped up in West Virginia on Friday, first-year commissioner Brett Yormark met with reporters via video conference and was clear that the Big 12 has interest in adding additional members to the league.

“We have a plan,” Yormark said. “We have an appetite to be a national conference in our makeup from coast to coast. We love our current composition, love the four new schools that are coming in the next month. However, if the opportunity presents itself to create value, we will pursue it. It is a focus of ours.”

Two summers ago, charter Big 12 members Oklahoma and Texas set off the latest wave of conference realignment by deciding to depart for the SEC. With those two officially leaving the Big 12 in 2024, the conference responded by adding former independent BYU, as well as Cincinnati, Houston and UCF from the American Athletic Conference. Those four will become official Big 12 members on July 1, giving the league 14 members for the 2023 football season.

Yormark has consistently voiced a willingness to bring in additional schools and said Friday that there was a “great discussion about expansion” among the Big 12’s presidents and athletic directors this week. The so-called “four corner” Pac-12 schools — Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah — have come up repeatedly as rumored possibilities over the past year. The Pac-12 is in a vulnerable state as it loses USC and UCLA to the Big Ten and struggles to finalize a new media rights deal.

More recently, multiple outlets have reported that Gonzaga and UConn are also on the Big 12’s radar. Gonzaga is a basketball power out of the West Coast Conference that does not have a football program. UConn, the defending national champions in men’s basketball, left the AAC for the Big East in basketball and plays football as an FBS independent.

Yormark said Friday that further strengthening an already-strong conference in men’s basketball could be beneficial.

“We do see the upside in basketball moving forward,” Yormark said. “We think it’s undervalued. There’s a chance for us to double down as the No. 1 basketball conference in America. Football is the driver and we all know that. We’re exploring all options and all considerations at this point in time.”

Yormark said Friday that the Big 12 will distribute approximately $440 million to its 10 members from last year for the 2022-23 fiscal year. At $44 million per school, that’s a record for the conference and includes both Oklahoma and Texas. Last year, the Big 12 gave out around $42.6 million per member.

Back in October, the Big 12 agreed to a new media rights deal with ESPN and Fox through 2030-31 that is reportedly worth more than $2 billion.

Commit Predictions for OV visitors

We all know the success last year's lone OV weekend produced with 14 commitments over the course of the summer. This year we may not see quite that volume, but let's just hypothetically say that roughly half of the 20 uncommitted prospects hop on board. Who would those 8-10 be in your eyes?

List of uncommitted visitors:
Bryant Wesco-WR
Alex Taylor-WR
Cam Coleman-WR
TJ Moore-WR
Mike Matthews-WR
Bray Staley-WR
Michael Uini-OL
Fletcher Westphal-OL
Casey Poe-OL
Jameson Riggs-OL
William Satterwhite-OL
Ronan O'Connell-OL
Eddrick Houston-DE
Darien Mayo-DE
Sammy Brown-LB
Wyatt Simmons-LB
Corian Gipson-CB
Ashton Hampton-DB
KJ Bolden-S
Ricardo Jones-S
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