Curtis Lowe

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If we get the opportunity to play 12-16 games we will need all the bodies we can get. 115 man roster so take who you can

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Not sure where you are getting the 115 roster size, but everything I have read from NCAA through the media states the roster limit for football in 2026 is 105 total roster spots inclusive of any walk-ons and scholarship players.

[ HonestGame.com article on NCAA roster limits for 2026-2027 academic year

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If another playoff expansion happens, which it will, then the idea of a bowl game is essentially killed

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The "meaningless bowl games" will survive as long as there is a need for:

1. Content to fill a broadcasters network schedule that will generate viewership;

2. That said viewership will result in advertising revenue to the broadcaster/network.

Bottom line: It is all about $$$$s and a tried and true formula for creating the inflow of $$$$$s to the networks, schools, conferences and charities that are supported by the various Bowl Committees.

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The field is named after him already.

LSU has honored Skip his entire life, and will never stop. We don't need all these rant geniuses coming up with new ways.

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1. His jersey and number have been retired for baseball.

2. LSU has named a street for him.

3. LSU has elected him into its Sports Hall of Fame

4. LSU has named the field at Alex Box after him.

5. LSU has erected a statue of him.

Not much more a school can do to memorialize and immortalize a person.

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That said, there are plenty of hard throwers who never had arm issues. Pedro never did. Clemens never did. Nolan Ryan never did until his last pitch when he was like 44 years old. Randy Johnson never did until his last season in baseball when he was 45. Aroldis Chapman never had any major injuries to his arm. Verlander didn't have any issues until he was almost 40 years old.

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Lefty Carlton over 30 starts from age 22 (28 starts/30 appearances) to 39 with sub 3.50 era all but a couple of years and 200+ IP in all but 2 years with a majority over 250 IP.

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Is there an example of a PE deal benefiting the customer? One?

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Every one of the big Tech companies that are household names (including but not limited to: Tesla, Google, Yahoo, Intuit, AMD, Paypal, etc., etc. etc.). Do some investigating on the Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park Private Equity firms, that are sources of pre-IPO funding for start-up tech firms to get from idea to implementation of the technology. Private Equity drives technological advancements. Hell, Spaht's firm was instrumental is driving and advancing "block-chain" technology.

Conversely, there are "vulture" PE firms which give the whole industry a bad name and I think that that is what is driving the negative views of a possible deal between LSU athletics and PE.

If this is true, it will be interesting from a tax point of view how this deal shakes out and if LSU athletics and TAF can continue as not for profit entities.

Mark Eaton

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beat his pro offer.

Well in order to do that, LSU needed $16,000, so that wasn't too difficult.

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Seattle had a little over $601,000 (including the $150,00 that did not count against the bonus pool) to offer as a signing bonus to either of the two flyers that they took in the final rounds of the draft (Santarelli and/or Shouse).

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Tommie Frazier discussion over

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The first name that come to mind as an answer to the question. Admittedly, I read through only the first page, but one name I have not seen mentioned for consideration is Thomas Lott the mid to late 70s Oklahomo QB.

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Let's say you withdraw an even $3,000 per month. $36,000 a year. Lets say 40% is taxed and you actually receive $21,600 a year. We're gonna need you live util around 87 for you to not take a total loss

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There is a serious issue with your calculations and understanding of how income is taxed.

1. You are not paying a 40% federal income tax rate on Social Security. 40% or higher may be subject to income taxes depending on other taxable income, but the tax rate will be much less than 40%.

2. Total benefits of $36,000 annually will be subject to medicare part b payments of $2,220 per annum to be covered by Medicare. Assuming no voluntary federal income tax withholding, monthly net benefits from Social Security will be (3000-165) $2835.

3. The following example comes out of tax return prep software.

Single 67, taking standard deduction. and also withdrawing $5,000 from Qualified IRAs and 401ks per month.

Total income would be 96,000 (36000 + 60000)

$30,600 of the 36000 social security benefits would be taxable....so adjusted gross income would be $90,600.

less standard deduction of $17,750 and less $5,064 of enhanced deduction for seniors (max is $6000 but limited to 5064 by adjusted gross income exceeding $75,000).

Taxable income would be $67,786 ($90,600-17750-5064).

Federal income tax on same is $9825. The effective tax rate is slightly over 10% in the given example (nowhere near the 40% you were claiming).

ETA: The highest federal tax bracket is 37% and a single person's taxable income would have to exceed $626,350 to reach that tax bracket and then only taxable income in excess of $626,350 would be subject to the 37% tax rate.

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Kurt Warner. University of Northern Iowa. Sat the bench til gis senior year and was named conference MVP that year. Turned out to be a pretty good NFL player.

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Even better grocery bagger.

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Why does Baker struggle with Mobile QBs?
cajuntiger1010
Can anyone who knows ball here give a good answer?

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I was always told to never answer a question with a question, however sometimes that is the only way of illuminating a situation.

Go back and look at Nick Saban's losses after he got Bama rolling. A single common element of these losses were mobile QBs.

Why did Nick Saban struggle with mobile QBs?