re: Ben may get 100 mill + on shoe deal

I love the Simmons complaints here. You idiots can't even reach a consensus on what he did "wrong". In the same thread you have those claiming he wasn't selfish enough:

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Our superstar didn't play up to expectations, had multiple opportunities to exert his dominance, and failed to do so while obviously deferring to lesser players on several occasions. He doesn't get a free pass for that

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And others claiming he was too selfish

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How do you design a Ben Simmons shoe.

Is there a manufacturing process that basically eliminates the wearer from contact with any other surface.

I got it, its a freaking hover shoe. That way it doesn't have to work in conjuction with any other shoe. It can be declared the greatest shoe on the planet in spite of flaws that prevent it from performing the essential functions of footwear.

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Maybe one day the idiots on here will realize that Simmons put up numbers that EVERY COLLEGE HEAD COACH would dream of having their guy put up. The problem was not Simmons, but the fact that LSU has an AWFUL head coach. One who has never won anything of significance in 16 years as a HC and one would would have never been considered for any other power conf. job but LSU. Jones could get the top High School player in the country for the next 4 years and still not do much (if any) better than he did last season.

I applaud the kid, who could have gone to any school in the country, for coming to LSU to play for an absolute joke of a head coach. He committed a year before signing day and never wavered from that commitment even after watching Jones underachieve with an All-SEC frontcourt. He had multiple opportunities to express regret or anger with his coach, teammates, etc., and he never did.