lsufanva

She is the stereotypical black woman. As we all know stereotypes exist for 2 reasons. 1, they hold truth. 2, the majority of whatever group said stereotype applies too continue to allow the minority to dictate how society judges the group. It's on them to change the perception. Instead they stay silent.
Can't help those that choose not to help themselves. Instead they'd rather defend these idiots as some show of unity that clearly doesn't exist based on other stereotypes associated with that particular group of people. Then predictably everyone outside that group is racist for calling out the problems the group itself refuses to acknowledge or do anything about. Perpetual victims victimized by those that look like them. Never any personal accountability.

These days that's legally part of recruiting so I'd say it's an aptly named board. No different from pro free agency, management companies chasing clients, corporations searching for the best and brightest there is amongst major competition. All of them, along with many others, "recruit" as part of their business models. Money is always part of it.
Why should adulthood start at 18 for everyone but college athletes? In fact me and you could start our professional career before 18 if we so choose. What makes us different? Even these athletes would be accepted if they worked at McDonalds but how dare they make money off a skill they have that few others do. The colleges and boosters aren't being forced to pay. Every university around could drop the sport. Wonder why they dont?

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The school itself does not spend NIL

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Yet. Whenever this judge decides to accept the deal. And still with a percentage of football revenue built in to take care of the other non revenue sports. And those non revenue sports will be given more scholarships than they'll use. The school, i.e. football, will foot those bills. The outside will be what gets you the kids you really want and then be able to keep them.

Now do the suburbs. Those are the ones buying the tickets and driving the ratings. Inner cities, any of them, don't drive markets. Outsiders that travel into the city do. Sports would die if only supported by the cities they represent.

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The silver lining is that even if you miss out on high school prospects, you can take their money and go out and get a proven college player from the g5 of FCS who is hungry to prove themselves.

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That is less talented and not anymore guaranteed than the hs kid. Nic Anderson was our prized portal wr and he was running at the bottom of the 2s and with the 3s all spring. Also continue the Hankton trend of not developing the talent he has recruited and not having depth without overpaying in the portal. Yet the mantra around LSU boards remains "I'll never worry about WR at LSU". Obviously the coaches do indeed worry about wr.

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What made college football great is pretty much dead.

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What made it great was illegal. Bottom line. Most criminals enjoy the life crime offers them until they're caught.
The schools, conferences and NCAA were making billions off kids they didn't have to pay. Room, board, scholarship, about 100,000 grand a year I'd guess. 85 players would be 8.5 million a year. Now they're conceding a percentage of the money which for the SEC is about 20 million per, max as its capped at that number. They concede that much. How much are they holding? How much have they made over the years if they're wiling to concede to jump from 8 to 20? What entitles them to keep that money? We seem to forget who the real bad guys are in all of this. The schools, conferences and NCAA. Blame them for ruining the game not the kids actually playing. Their greed is solely responsible for the dilemma the game now faces. If they were sharing all along it wouldn't have elicited the anarchy the system currently faces. Extortion being challenged by blackmail.
The mind blowing part is that the powers seemed to have been surprised about being called on their extortion. They had to see this coming and should've planned accordingly. Seems they were betting on privilege getting them through it unscathed. Seeing as the original O'Bannon case is decades old now, it worked for awhile. Then the "woke" agenda proliferated our great country and even the "woke" aren't safe from the crowd leading that charge.

All that to say, I agree the game we loved is ruined. The disagreements are about the responsible parties.

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There's nothing there, it's really expensive to do it, and failing would be embarrassing.

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So why do we plan to go back? The $ excuse, laughable, for a country that wastes trillions on climate change, trans studies and such things as Sesame St in Zimbabwe or wherever. Money is never a good excuse for the US.
As for the lack of scientific benefits, why go back then? Obviously something is there they're interested in.
Fear of failure is exactly the reason for the fake. As for Russia not calling us out, who'd believe them? Certainly not a country, at the time, educated to hate Russians and communism. Remember the McCarthy era?
And, as 9/11, covid and other such grand conspiracies have shown, the world as a whole, enemies and friends, don't stray from the official narrative. The US is quite the bully so it makes good sense that Russia or anyone wouldn't pick a fight they couldn't win. Or we'd just throw money to make it go away. It's what we do.

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Honest answer, he was likely the oldest when the first arrived. The rest all fall in line.

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Agree. He likely sets the tone quickly upon a newbie being introduced. And word gets around.

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Umpires are like law emforcement. You just cant argue with them

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Sure you can. Granted, there is a proper way to do so.
If a person of authority is clearly wrong and has it pointed out, that doesn't not give them the right to then approach the situation aggressively because their pride is hurt.

Cop, umpire etc, their authority is bestowed upon them not granted through birth. Meaning they are human, make mistakes and not immune to having their authority challenged. In this situation the umpire chose to double down on his errors, abusing his authority, when if he, as the person of authority, had handled the situation properly, no harm, no foul, everyone moves on and it's all much ado about nothing. Instead we are discussing it today. The person of authority is the root of the problem here. That shouldn't go unchallenged. Respecting the title of authority is far different from granting those with it unwavering authority over you.

And we spend post after post bickering about college qbs making a paltry 4-5 mil a year if they're elite. In the NFL average gets you 50. Amazing what perception is capable of.