Crowknowsbest

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Our governor at the time was gen x.

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You act like a single state governor was responsible for that decision.

Kids will be reading about the ineptitude of the entire political leadership group in history books in 100 years.

I agree with others that dilapidation and government taking is the goal. There is enough literature out there on rent control at this point that no serious person actually thinks it works for its stated purpose. Mamdani has basically said as much with regard to government control of the housing stock.

Mom instagram is a scourge. The particularly nefarious ones are the ones which basically broadcast their kids’ childhoods as content for public consumption, all so they can get sponsored by shitty household products.

The more the current situation unravels, the more convinced I am that there is no healthy way for what are now pro sports and the universities they are tied to to coexist.

The “best” option I can come up with, in crude terms, is that some new league entity is created with an anti-trust exemption from Congress, and the schools sell their football assets to that new entity, possibly with some kind of long term licensing agreement for branding purposes. Men’s basketball is trickier because it has less of its “own” facilities and infrastructure at most schools and would therefore be harder to divest. On the other hand, the NBA already has a development league, so maybe that can just be expanded with college basketball staying intact in a revised form.

All remaining college sports shift to a D3, non-scholarship model.

This would be a drastic change obviously, and I don’t expect that any college admins would go along without being legally forced to.

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So she didn’t die and 2 football players weren’t involved?

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No player involved played another down for UGA.

ETA: that also doesn’t have anything to do with this case, whatsoever. I know you’re pro NIL and all that, but I’m confused why you would stake out a position in favor of this idiot.

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uhhhh what?

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In a rush to condemn UGA, the post you’re replying to has fabricated certain key details.

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Would get sued for collusion.

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Is only agreeing to play by the rules all these schools, including TT, agreed to collusion?

TT is going to be playing a clearly ineligible player. Why would other league schools be forced into transparently illegitimate competition?

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Then they should have enforced their rules equally instead of being arbitrary.

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They’ve never been arbitrary about this particular rule, to my knowledge.

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Texas Tech booster + board chair Cody Campbell's statement to @On3 on injunction: "This unfortunate situation is the outcome of a broken system. I’m doing everything I can to fix it, but until there is a permanent solution, Texas Tech and its student athletes have to do the best they can to navigate and compete amid the chaos that exists in the reality of the world we live in."

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I would like to assure Cody Campbell that Texas Tech does not have to do this to compete. His hypocrisy would embarrass even the most morally repugnant politician.

Another path could be for other schools to refuse to play Texas Tech. Courts can’t force them to play.

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The almighty dollar is king. If these corporations can save some money by building a bland box instead of a building with a little character by removing anything not crucial to the function of the building, they will do it every time.

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This cuts both ways though. If consumers/renters valued the architectural details and were willing to pay the higher rents required to finance the higher costs, more beautiful structures would be built.