There were 25 Power Five commitments on Thursday:

Illinois will continue to watch this kid during the high school season. They aren't heavily recruiting him yet, but he's really coming on this summer.

Made a few changes to recruiting timelines, and added some top prospects from the class of 2026.

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How the preseason mags rank Illinois.

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This team is loaded but young. Can it win some tough games?

BB did a great job answering all the questions that Mulley and the boys had.

Looks like Cal and Stanford will have to amp up their travel budgets. Two Pacific coast teams now in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Any truth to this? Might be decommitting as well?

From reading online, it appears that a bill has been submitted to congress that seeks to amend the foreign labor issue with NIL deals.

This foreign Labor on Travel Visas previously blocked Chase and Edey from getting paid on NIL deals as Canadians.

I've also read that there is a difference between "Active" and "Passive" deals...

Any insights into this topic would be appreciated.

1. How are foreign players working around this now? (Can't tell that this congressional amendment this has passed yet)
2. Does a strategy exist to establish your NIL deal as passive, thus avoiding any "Labor' component?

Looking for an NIL/Foreign education from anyone with insights to this complex and rapidly evolving topic.

Cleary our foreign guys and the Russian that signed at BYU are comfortable that they will get paid, or they wouldn't have made the jump. Was there something done recently that got them comfortable.....

Thanks!

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This kid reminds quite a bit of Zachary Tobe. Long DB who will play boundary corner.

I’ve been a part of Rivals for a long time, and I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t totally understand how their class ranking works mathematically.

They have “stars”, number grades (5.5), and points…but the size of the class appears to be more important than the quality of the athletes.

What’s the story the Rivals rankings are trying to tell me? I’d personally rather have a smaller class of 5.8 4*s than a huge class of 5.5 3*s…But I don’t think Rivals sees it that way…

Any thoughts?

i thought we would get at least 4 more commits from last weekend.