Alums relaunch: Reclaim/Join/Give me the bird Topic

Previously Committed Owner/School selected You can reclaim your school(s) and spot(s) or choose another school. We would like to open up anything not reclaimed by Tuesday Jan 13th at 11pm ET. Anyone joining for the first time can select a school right now not listed below. You can scroll in this thread for a listing of school (roster) ideas, there are a lot of great suggestive options listed by school and some of their finest NFL players. See full details at the beginning of this league forum on page 1.

All previous owners below have been sitemailed.


1- PsychoWarper- University of Southern California.
2- PsychoWarper- University of Washington.
3- cellkev- University of Miami. RECLAIMED.
4- cellkev- Purdue University
7- Poddy: Pennsylvania State University
8- seay00: Stanford University: RECLAIMED.
9- seay00: University of Illinois: RECLAIMED.
10- specsman: University of Michigan.
11- danpsull71: University of Wisconsin. RECLAIMED.
12- danpsull71: Clemson University. RECLAIMED.
13- coolmay_one: University of California, Berkeley.
14- soxyport71: Syracuse University-
15- Kilgore- Auburn University, RECLAIMED.
17- Scottedward: University of Cincinnati. RECLAIMED.
18- Scottedward-:
University of Oklahoma. RECLAIMED.
19- gyrene: University of Notre Dame. RECLAIMED.
20- gyrene:
University of Georgia.
21-
sjstapleton: University of Pittsburgh.
1/12/2026 5:20 PM (edited)
I will reclaim Stanford and Illinois as my two schools. Happy to drop one school/spot to make room for others.

Jim Plunkett and Jeff George leading my squads. Richard Sherman and Scott Studwell anchoring the Defenses.
1/12/2026 1:18 AM (edited)
I'll reclaim the Miami Hurricanes.
1/11/2026 7:43 AM
Canes taken. Reclaimed by cellkev. Pretty cool seeing Irvin and Ray Lewis and Edge being at every CFP game like a diehard fan.

I’ll update the above listing of teams/owners and page 1 within each day until we get it done and filled. As long as that takes this go round.

70 mil cap. Just 1 rep needed from your chosen school for Offensive Line, defense, and Special Teams. Should you not have an NFL Kicker or Punter, you can choose anyone NOT from the other schools within the league. When submitting the team, we have each team post their OL rep, Def rep, ST rep, K rep or stand in, P rep or stand in.

page 2 has my Stanford team. Page 7 has great examples of school reps.
1/11/2026 9:18 AM (edited)
This is a great tool for creating your rosters. Just select a college and you can see every player who played in the NFL from that school.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/
1/11/2026 9:47 AM
Sweet! Glad to see this back, seay00, I’ll reclaim both of mine.
1/11/2026 10:44 AM
I will give up, University of Tennessee & Kansas State University and not participate.
1/11/2026 3:14 PM
I want to reclaim both of my teams. OKLAHOMA and CINCINNATI are both still sitting in the team center waiting for the return of this league.
1/11/2026 3:28 PM
Noted! Updates made on all.

Follow what cellkev posted. We collectively can help each other on roster building. This is successful with many co-commissioners within the group adding their input and wisdom.

in the coming days, we can get a new league number and post our team reps here. And extend the reclaim period if necessary for another week or so. I figure that new owners joining for the first time would want to play based on the concept and not just on availability of a certain school. All open for discussion. If you want in, we will accommodate and make it happen.
1/11/2026 6:27 PM (edited)

Representatives for the Fighting Illini:

Off Line: G- Nick Allegretti. 2021 Kansas City Chiefs OL
Defense: LB Scott Studwell. 1989 Minnesota Vikings Def.
Special Teams: HB/RB Johnny Counts. 1963 New York Giants ST.
Kicker: Neil Rackers
Punter: Steve Weatherford

For the K and P, if you can't find one for your school that played in the NFL, then you can choose someone NOT from another school selected. Feel free to post your representatives in this format. Many of you can find your previous post of school reps to assist the rebuild. If you have the same reps as Scottedward does, then just repost, or post saying: see page-- fill in the blank for my 5 school reps (designate if the K/P are your school or not).
1/12/2026 1:18 AM
Posted by Scottedward on 1/11/2026 3:28:00 PM (view original):
I want to reclaim both of my teams. OKLAHOMA and CINCINNATI are both still sitting in the team center waiting for the return of this league.
This is simply Amazeballs. This is the coolest forum post in the history of WIS. I feel like a turd throwing in the towel last time!
1/12/2026 1:40 AM (edited)
I'll run it back with Auburn again. I'd rather not take a 2nd team, but if we get closer to filling the league I may reconsider.
1/12/2026 11:13 AM
Posted by kilgore on 1/12/2026 11:13:00 AM (view original):
I'll run it back with Auburn again. I'd rather not take a 2nd team, but if we get closer to filling the league I may reconsider.
Fantastic. Got it. Auburn reclaimed!

Arkansas available.
1/12/2026 5:18 PM
Miami Hurricanes
O-Line - 1962 Dallas Texans (RT Charlie Diamond)
Defense - 1993 Houston Oilers (SS Bubba McDowell and LB Michael Barrow)
Special Teams - 2013 Washington Redskins (KR/PR Santana Moss)
Kicker - Dan Miller
Punter - Rick Tuten
1/12/2026 6:35 PM
We actually have the same league number from before- soxport71 (Syracuse), gyrene (Notre Dame), and specsman (Michigan) are waiting on us!

I will sitemail the league number to all the previous owners now.

*** For anyone new joining, just post and claim your school for now, you will have 14 days to post your 5 reps. I will send you the league number thereafter to enter your team****
1/12/2026 9:58 PM
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