InkStainedWretch

I agree with you. You sleep in your own bed, you ride over there as a unit, you do your business and you come home. Plus I guarantee you with a police escort they will be moving along at a pretty good clip.

I think people are just freaking out because of the tradition of going the day before and spending the night in a motel, and here DeBoer is bucking tradition. You couldn’t do this if it wasn’t just 80 miles but it seems to me that you can control the environment/variables better this way. Travel is always a PITA.

In the unlikely event this becomes law, five years down the road when the true ramifications of it become evident, all the fans who are ejaculating over it because they think it’s going to restore the true and righteous way of players being unpaid serfs (don’t pull the “college education” crap on me, expensive as that is it’s a pimple on the arse of how much cash is being generated by this stuff) dominated by coaches channeling Sgt. Hartman out of Full Metal Jacket and risking life and limb like gladiators for fans’ entertainment will be singing a different tune.

Care to make a small wager? :cheers:

The reality is that these people don’t give six sh*ts about college athletics other than the political hay they can make out of. Including Trump.

They know that there’s a bunch of anger out there from fans who are mad because they think something has been taken away from them that never really belonged to them and that they never in actuality had a tangible ownership stake in. And they’re wanting to capitalize on it for cynical political reasons.

All that’s needed is to fix the Wild West portal.

As far as the other stuff, the idea of this being “amateur athletics” sailed way over the horizon decades ago and it’s time to drop the charade and accept that these programs are nothing more than PR entities for the universities … it’s paying off big for Bama, we’re going to get to 50k enrollment … and it’s irrelevant whether any of these athletes can spell cat if you spot them the t and the a, let alone play like they’re “students.”

You know the Supreme Court could overturn any “antitrust” stuff that comes out of Congress, don’t you? They can do what they want with legislation and the vote that triggered this was 9-0.

For those who haven’t heard, Gordon Johncock who had some good NASCAR runs … finished fourth at Charlotte one time in Junior Johnson’s car … and won two Indy 500s, the worst one ever held and one of the best ones ever held, died today at 90.

He was like Tim Richmond, he didn’t know a lug nut from a rear view mirror but he could drive the friggin’ wheels off a race car.

I guess Foyt and Rutherford and Mario are the only ones left from that era of Indy to NASCAR crossover.

I know they also have a great QB but we are going to beat their arse pretty good. I can offer no concrete reason. I just have a feeling. Of course maybe it’s indigestion.

I’d kick onsides and try to run it up because USC has been such A-holes.

It’s a RPO not a specific designed play call. 12 should have exercised another option.

And it happens. The thing is we competed, we didn’t look clueless. We just didn’t connect.

That’s the problem, the people who want a damn 72-3 Saban special every week.

We’ve never been out of control of this damn game for a second.

This … it’s like a reflex action, “Run the damn bawlll Pawlll.” :rolleyes:

Thank you God