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There is always a point where a public area meets a protective area. That is where this happened. It’s not like the guy was walking around an inner protective zone.

They probably saw him approach, identified the gun, started giving verbal commands, when he didn’t stop or listen they shot.
If it’s not in a holster on your hip it should be put away. Treating a gun like a cell phone is ridiculous. Yes, it’s a pain to put on a belt when wearing shorts and a t-shirt but not carrying the weapon secured to your body is asking for trouble on multiple fronts.
Football will definitely not be a major sport in 100 years. As the op pointed out, less youth participation will lead to less viewers in another 3 generations. Then it becomes a niche activity. And the safety issues will keep rearing its head to change rules etc.

Our generation may not like it but soccer will take over within the next 3 generations. I know that’s been said for years and it’s been said because it’s happening. My town did not have soccer leagues or in schools when I moved here in the mid 80’s. Now, 40 years later and every field in town is now used for soccer leagues.
If anyone is melting it is this board. The past 2 years have seen thread after thread of you SEC homers whining because you are no longer given a free pass to get into the Natty. Now that you have to earn it the SEC has been shut out 3 years in a row. Heck, the little ole ACC has had a more recent team in the Natty than the mighty SEC.

Maybe your league should stop whining and start winning games that matter. While you still care about FLA/UGA or Bama/Auburn the rest of the country has moved on to higher stakes.

Why are you guys so scared of a 24 team playoff? You don't think your top 6 teams could survive?
You guys are funny. Did a UGA fan really post he was tired of seeing 26 year olds while he was barking loud watching Stetson win back to back without a degree in hand?

And Bama fans saying they are getting disinterested at the same time their team is getting boat raced by 35 by freaking Indiana.

You guys have no clue how stupid you sound. It's easy being a fan when you win. I don't see Kentucky, Arkansas, Vandy, Indiana, Virginia, NC State, GT fans whining and acting like kindergarteners. It's because they are true fans who aren't rooting for their team only when they win.

Next year if we end up with a Bama/UGA National Title game everyone of you band wagon fans will be here chirping and we won't hear one word from you how other teams got hosed.

If you don't like your team anymore then freaking leave. You'll be easily replaced by fanbases that are growing. Indiana just "took over" Mercedes Benz which many of you brag about doing every year. Clearly, it's not that hard to do if the freaking Indiana fanbase just did it. It's all about winning and your teams no longer have the monopoly on paying players and winning. College football is going thru its greatest revival ever and many of you are whining because it doesn't help your team. Pretty funny stuff.
This is a direct result of the ESPN/SEC corruption of the past 25 years that you guys were fine with. ESPN’s manipulation of the polls to put teams in the BCS and 4 game playoff led to all this.

The SEC was simply to manipulative in their quest for power and as they won Natty after Natty due to poll manipulation then they screamed and shouted in everyone’s face about it. The other conferences are now responding with silent acquiescence to the BIG because of it. I’m a southern homer and even I want the BIG’s plan to succeed because I’m tired of the SEC/ESPN duo controlling the sport.

You guys brag about your teams and claim every loss is a good loss yet Miami lost 2 ACC games and yet those 2 teams won’t be granted top 10 preseason rankings yet ESPN will tell us half of the top 10 next season should be SEC teams. It’s absurd and the public now recognizes it. If the ACC showed as poorly in the playoffs and bowl games as the SEC did you guys would be laughing. The only teams from the SEC who should be preseason ranked in top 10 are UGA and Ole Miss due to both QB’s returning and their play. Yet ESPN will tell us that A&M, Texas, LSU, Bama, and Tennessee should all be up there when none of us know what those teams will actually look like.

And this is all based on being ranked highly allows you lose and drop a little and recover much faster. Take an A&M and Louisville. A&M will be preseason top 10. Louisville will be around 16/17. Louisville looses early and possibly falls to being unranked and it would take 2-3 more wins to get back. A&M losses an early game and drops to 12 and w8nsins the next week and gets back in the top 10. The public sees the total corruption.
The real battle is going to be what poll and how they create that poll to determine the rankings. The BIG won’t let the current status of 10 SEC teams being ranked stand to their detriment. That’s gonna be the behind the scenes battle.
Dude, it’s autocorrect. If you hadn’t noticed it happens a lot. I’m a SEC/ACC southern football fan. Grew up in Mobile yelling Roll Tide, went to GT, and now live in Georgia. As a sports fan I can discuss rationally. And the direction of this sport is moving away from what it has been.

Sure, I enjoy watching SEC fans lose their minds because many have been over the top for 20 years. Now, that the BIG has won 3 in a row and SEC schools are just handing out crippling contracts to coaches that no one knows if they will win at a higher level, it’s just odd.

Now we have a thread bragging about number of players invited to a combine as if that matters. College football is not the NFL. I root for ZERO GT players in the NFL because I don’t care about the NFL or players not in my teams jersey. But it is funny that the conference with the most invites was the worse P4 conference in the post season. That is on the coaching in the SEC no different than the years the ACC sucked in bowls was on their coaches. Just take it for what it is. Next year if an SEC team wins the Natty you guys can go back to ragging on everyone else.
Exactly. Now the question is did they make actual smart hires based on deep analysis or did they just go and buy overpriced meat heads?

I personally think the best SEC hire in recent years is Elko. He can flat out coach and A&M is gonna be a tough nut with him.

I don’t see any other recent hire as bringing their program to a higher level.
Every coach every game should try and score as many points as possible. They get paid to coach their team for 60 minutes.

And in the old days you did it to win the beauty pageant. Today you do it to get an invite.

And what most of you forget running up the score is a win win for both teams because it forces AD’s and coaches to actually work for a living. If every game were 27-23 then you’d have a lot of comfortable mediocre coaches still coaching. The best thing that happened to my team was having Notre Dame and UGA humiliate us on national TV in back to back weeks. While it sucked to watch it also forced change and led us to a 9 win season and respectability on the field and in recruiting.

Donnan lost to GT 3 years in a row which led them to Richt which led them to Kirby so while some losses are painful they also help.
Yet, for years when SEC top ranked teams like UGA beat GT every year I never saw you guys putting disclaimers on your chest thumping when you had the upper hand in head to heads or bowl games. Now that it’s been reversed you guys act like middle school girls saying things like “but Indiana was ranked #1 and Bama was only the 4th ranked SEC team”.

Do you even hear yourselves? A guy just made a middle school argument as to why INDIANA, freaking Indiana, beat BAMA by 35. Seriously, SEC homers- you gotta wake up at some point. The only person I’ve seen really acknowledge and accept the world has changed is Kirby Smart. He’s the SEC’s ONLY chance to slow this slide. But even as good as he is can’t make players better than they are - at least the past 2 seasons. UGA was young last year and returning a lot of talent so we’ll see what they do next December and January when it matters.

As for criteria as to which is the best conference - the criteria is the same as to what SEC fans set it to be the past 25 years - dominance in the post season and Natties.
This simply shows that SEC coaches are getting exposed for the none genius’s they are now that everyone can cheat. If the SEC is losing this many games while still having the “better prospects” just wait another couple years when the BIG continues to buy up the southern talent and even ups the combine numbers, The SEC coaches won’t have a chance.

At some point you guys in the SEC will have to admit your coaches and agents are ripping you off big time. I give Kirby his props but outside of him and the Vandy coach the rest are just fluff with little of anything other than being from the Saban tree and they are fleecing you with these contracts and buyouts. The shine is off the SEC and your AD’s need to do better than hiring the next meathead like Deboer who in the past could keep the bagman system working. Other coaches and schools have proven to be much better at working this new NIL era - it’s not just about money but making the right use of that money.
Eric Heiden was a beast. If not for the hockey team he would have been what the games were known for like Mary Lou was. He was a physical specimen and changed the game as after him you had more beastly dudes than skinny ones.
Not a good look but the freakery is funny. When will you guys accept that the outrage cycle is about 2 days. Sure, it will go thru the usual liberal Sunday news shows and by next Wednesday the cycle will have moved on to the next outrage.
It’s only trending down for fans of teams trending down. Listen, I like both Bama and Clemson as I like most southern teams except when playing my school. But for every game there is a winner and loser. The fans of teams who have been conditioned to win (primarily because their coaches paid players to sign) are the only ones making posts about “giving up”. We just saw a season where you had a lot of fanbases who had the their best season in years and loved it - Indiana, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, GT, Ole Miss, Duke, etc.

I totally understand Bama and Clemson fans being pretty salty these days. Both were at the mountain top for a long time, now both are looking in the mirror and not recognizing the reflection. But to say things like it’s only gambling keeping the sport up shows you aren’t paying attention outside your front yard. Indiana just took over Merceds Benz stadium in the heart of the SEC. Heck, my school a mile down the road has never done that - but we would if we were 15-0 because people will spend to root for a winner. Clemson is a perfect example. They were up under Ford, down for awhile, the back up, and now down.

We are in the baby steps of a new era which has occurred many times in college football (forward pass, integration, bagman, now NIL and portal). Teams will learn to adapt or take more losses. My team did not adapt during the changes in the 60’s and 70’s and we fell from a top 15 power to an afterthought in a span of a decade. But the sport stayed strong. College football is doing great and gaining interest with the new playoff system. And each time it expands it will do even better as more fanbases get excited.
Some of you don’t live in reality. The SEC is no longer seen by anyone but you as the premier conference. No one is buying your BS anymore. It’s been 3 years since you had a team in the Natty. Saban is long gone and UGA, your champ, lost to ND and Ole Miss the last 2 years.

I’m a southern homer and take pride in southern football, but the SEC and their fans have gotten soft. You can’t take facts and just want to live thru your past glory. You have a lot in common with Notre Dame.

Whining about more losses in a 9 game schedule is as soft as Lebron. The playoffs will expand so more losses isn’t an issue. What you are really whining about is your advantage is gone vis a vis the BIG. How about y’all just nut up and win post season games. No one cares about the regular season or if you go undefeated or 9-3. Win the meaningful games and build your trophy case.
This stuff is just stupid. Kirby looks way better than most of us if we had to deal with moronic players trying to shake you down after every game. The problem the SEC has is he is young and has already owned the SEC so everyone can keep spending millions trying to find what UGA already has.
WG,
You really still believe that regular season out of conference games mean anything? Or games against Georgia Southern or whatever directional we all play for an easy 2 wins count?

The old days of a beauty contest are over. Regular season wins only matter if they help you get a bid for the playoffs. As the playoffs grow and auto bids increase then out of conference games will prove to be even more worthless.
Sure I would have celebrated but we weren’t going to the ACC champ game either way. And I sure didn’t see UGA fans celebrating. It was by far the most odd GT-UGA game I’ve been too. Both fanbases whining the entire game about their own team and stupid play calling. Then when it was over everyone just walked out of the Benz like they were leaving church because ultimately we all spend hundreds of dollars for a nothingburger. At least you guys had the playoffs to look forward to.
Sure I would have celebrated but we weren’t going to the ACC champ game either way. And I sure didn’t see UGA fans celebrating. It was by far the most odd GT-UGA game I’ve been too. Both fanbases whining the entire game about their own team and stupid play calling. Then when it was over everyone just walked out of the Benz like they were leaving church because ultimately we all spend hundreds of dollars for a nothingburger. At least you guys had the playoffs to look forward to.