I'm starting a new thread to keep us updated on former Jays now in the Pros.

First up, former WSOC player Gaby has been playing pro soccer in Costa Rico and is on the national team vying fir the Women's World Cup!
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Baseball schedule released. Surprised we are playing UNL twice in Lincoln and only once in Omaha. Been the reverse for several years. Also playing UNO twice at Tal Anderson and only once at The Chuck.
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We are ready and live with website. Signups are open. Get on early as we are expecting a sell out again this year

Figured we could use a place to track who’s in the portal.

This is a guy I’d love to see us go after. Watched him play a couple times and I think he’s a pretty good player

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It was requested to start this thread. This is for general season info. Remember each game will have its own thread so please post game info in the appropriate thread. Closer to the season we will also start a Big East thread for Big East info

Jays took alot of BE awards this week
Softball - Player of the Week & Honor Roll
M-Tennis - BE Doubles Team and Singles Player of the Week

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Everyone-

Rivals has been purchased by the On3 group. This was announced on April 30th. I found out sometime later but have been trying to gather as much information on how this affects us. Certainly, all the questions haven't been answered but that how mergers work. I have been through a few corporately and usually in time most questions are answered--but frankly some never are and that's just the way mergers in the corporate world work. Fortunately, the important ones that affect us are all eventually answered, and most questions are more fear of the unknown more than anything else.

I will be posting articles explaining the merger in corporate terms as well as info shared on our publishers board where the On3 staff has been great with answering questions as best they could. A couple of names I am going to put out there that you need to know. Shannon Terry is the owner of On3. He was also one of the original founders of Rivals. So this is full circle for him and an awesome opportunity for him to get Rivals back to where it should be. More on Rivals later. The other name is Will Crall. He is president of On3 and a great guy. I just got off the phone with him and was impressed.

There are a wide range of sites with different levels of memberships and needs. The non-football ones have been the smallest category at Rivals, fortunately we have always been one of the most successful. Sites below a subscription level of 150 are lost leader in the current business model, however a key to current and future success is a robust message board. The new management loves what they see from us in that respect and that is 100% on all of you so great job and keep up the great discussion.

In speaking with Will his eagerness to understand our situation was incredible. No one at Rivals in the past five years ever bothered to
care. When I explained the growth of the Creighton community in the past 25 years he was surprised and that drove our discussion. So as of this moment here is where we stand--

=BJB will basically sign a new deal. We will remain basically the same but not under the bigger sites model-more of a contract labor model
=Plans were discussed and will be in place to drive membership-more on that after the merger is implemented.
=Even though posting stories and content is no longer a requirement, you will see an uptick as we want to continue to conform to what others have on their site. From my end there just won't be anymore "hey you need to post an article or else" stuff.
=This one I'm speculating on--our site will now be labeled under the On3 network
=the cool thing is you, as a member, will have access to both Rivals and On3. No one knows exactly how this will work. I've asked some publishers of bigger sites and they don't even know. Best guess by everyone is you will be On3 and it will be just like you are used to. But if you click on the high school recruiting link it will take you to Rivals to get your info. Portal rankings etc will be on On3. Look at this more as On3 is college, Rivals is high school.
=July 1st is the target date. you won't have to do anything. They will send out instructions when everything is going to happen and the move will happen. There is always great worry around these things but normally it goes really smooth. There will be plenty of support including myself to take care of any glitches.
=Huge benefits--1)we will have access to Joe Tipton and Jamie Shaw and their info. I have dealt with both over the years and they are fabulous sources of info. More inside recruiting stuff.
2) I will be reporting to someone new--excited for the era. There will be a layer of added support--helping us deal with issues ( I think most of you know what I'm talking about)
3) I think you will like all the plans for the layout and new setting options we will have.

Reach out and post any questions you have here. I will try and answer. Have to run an errand before the Creighton game but I will get to them. As well as I will post alot of info that I have received in different forms.

Thanks so much everyone--this will be great!

1st Serve in Lincoln Jays will play Penn State - then they'll face Texas and KU in Madison. Jays VB never back away from playing a big time noncon!
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Sorry been off the grid the last two days traveling.

Yes really big pick up and really surprised based on what I had heard. Great family and I knew they were impressed with everything at Creighton when I spoke to them last season. Was always told “we had a chance” but pundits thought he would head elsewhere.

Today we officially kick off the season of shows and our coverage of the 2024-25 season. Lots of cool stuff still in the works but can share this much with you so far.

First BJB Monday show kicks off today live at 6pm. We will have the newest grad assistant and longtime friend of the show Jahenns Manigat on to discuss his journey after CU what he has seen with this years team so far. We will also update fall sports and introduce some new things as well.

We will have a new segment on a regular basis called Dumb Basketball questions. Now first the questions really aren't "dumb" but to players n coaches they probably seem like it. These are questions about the inside workings of the basketball team and program and everything that goes into it. It can be anything at all that you may have wondered about. It may be what the strength n conditioning looks like, nutrition questions, how much time do coaches spend at the facilities, what do road trips look like, what do halftimes in the locker room look like etc. It can also be game day production related- keep these on a factual level (in other words don't ask a question like why is the blue crew still there?) To give you an idea we are going to kick it off with this question tonight--How does the academic schedule work for a player so that it doesn't interfere with the basketball activities during the season and all of the logistics that go with it??

You send questions via DM here, DM us on twitter or send an email to Bluejaybanter@gmail.com. We will get to your questions in the order they are entered. We will only use first names when asking the question. We are opening this up to the general public via social media as well.

Second, we are giving fans the opportunities to come on during a segment, give their opinions and ask questions. I know no one likes to come out from behind the computer screen but this will be a lot of fun and give us a chance to interact with viewers. Prizes for appearances. Contact us if interested in the ways we listed above.

We are also going to get our bold predictions segment going again. If you have any predictions on anything related to Creighton hoops give it a shot. We will keep track thru the season and the winner will win a prize yet to be determined. It can be game related. the whole season, it can be team or individual related, we will also take predictions on Big East teams and college teams at large. again contact us as listed above.

Excited about the season of shows and hope you watch!

Never too early imo. Here for it. Need a new asst coach and of course roster moves. Obviously, lost some great coaches over the years but from what I heard losing Miller will be tough. Heard Mac really depended on him. Had his imprints on everything. Interesting to see what happens.

Starting a separate thread for women’s hoops. Been told by several people closely associated with the women’s program that this should be the best team in CU history

Preseason ranked 22nd in AP n 23rd in coaches.

Let’s go!

Been awhile since we had one of these and soon we will need it when hoop season is over

To all my fellow Vikings fans on this board—-

Let’s effing go !!!!!!!!

A new thread for all VB discussion. A very brief front page story is up on the opening of practice.

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A much needed piece moving forward. What a job by the staff--coach Miller needs some kudos here too.

Front page story up

Most curious to see if our defensive strategies change next year

Nice pick up. Strengthens depth but also gives a couple of players opportunities to compete for significant playing time