LSUFreek

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Now let's bring back 24 hour Walmarts.

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It was probably a coincidence, but all but one Walmart stopped 24 hour shopping in Greater New Orleans when Katrina hit in 2005. (The Kenner location stayed open 24 hours until around 2010.)

I get why the stores affected by the storm would only reopen with limited hours, as workers weren't back, but the unaffected neighboring cities had a massive influx of residents/potential employees and the stores still cut down store hours.(???) Walmart as a company must've been looking at cutting hours and jumped on the opportunity.

Then it took another disaster (COVID) to make it a permanent nation-wide.

In 1984, Hokie as a Saint led the NFL in rushing average with 6.0 per carry. This was in the era when defenses were built to stop the run.

That year had some all-time greats, too. Eric Dickerson (a record 2100+ yards), Walter Payton, John Riggins, Marcus Allen, Tony Dorsett, etc. and ratio-wise, Hokie was outpacing them all. Beast!

Apparently, LSU has access to their own rev-share (revenue from tv contracts,etc shared amongst all SEC teams). The amount available for football is $20.5M annually in June. (IIRC, the number for basketball is $10M or $15M.) I wanna say that rev share has to be spent before being allowed to use NIL.

For supplemental NIL, LSU uses a sports agency that has aggregated a gazillion companies that are willing to pay for an athlete's endorsement. The packages can be diversified. For example, if LSU wants to offer a prospect $1M NIL package, he might get the bulk of it from say, Raising Cane's and some car dealership, but the rest might be comprised of 10 smaller businesses that the athlete also has an minor obligation to represent in some way. All NIL deals have to be approved by some regulatory clearing house

If I'm not mistaken, the new rev share rules effectively outlawed the use of collectives (where fan or alumni or or business donations could be be put in a money pool to pay out to prospects they want.) I believe colletives & TAF funds now have to be used on ancillary projects, like say, stadium upgrades, arena renovations, etc.

LSU can use up all of their annual $20.5M rev share in one class, and if they want more prospects the same year, they can basically give an I.O.U. to a signee willing to wait a few months until June when LSU gets access to another $20.5M. I think LSU dipped into this upcoming rev share funds to sign a lot of their $40M+ portal class.

That's my understanding. ButI could be wrong in parts.

Kiffin is gonna need Kevlar on Sept. 19th

The Anti-Kiffin conglomerate had already used that analogy when he was denied coaching in the playoffs:

"It's like a man who cheated on his wife with the next door neighbor and then wants to move in with the new hot chick. But, first, he wants to spend Christmas season with the kids. Of course, the wife shouldn't let him stay."

(Yet, Tulane allowed double duty for Jon Sumrall/Florida, JMU for Bob Chesney/UCLA, UNT for Eric Morris/Okla St, etc..and nobody said shite about them sticking around through the holidays "for the kids" before leaving for a hotter chick.)

Damn, he was my favorite RB to watch last year. He's sort of a throwback Emmitt Smith. His balance is next-level. He never gives you a good angle to tackle him, so he ends up breaking arm tackles and having 300yard games. Here's to a speedy recovery.

Texas Tech has a statue of cowboy/entertainer Will Rogers riding a horse and positioned the arse of the horse directly pointing towards Texas A&M & College Station.

Makes me really like Texas Tech.

Well, that explains the Coaching Changes rumor that Kiffin was looking to add Brice Brown to the staff was pure bullshite:

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I like the fact that when she catches the ball above her shoulders, it doesn’t come down before she shoots

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Moreover, she can catch. Far too often, Koval (& sometimes Knox) have hands of stone on passes & rebounds leading to missed opportunities: scores/possessions/jump-balls...