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For the ridiculous number of lawyers in the room.. Has the "dog ate my exculpatory evidence" defense ever worked?

Well, shit, we can't expect TrumpCo to produce evidence of the overturned election when it was destroyed by the J6 Unselects.

Congrats! We’re gonna have to get a Surly ski day set up this winter.

Wait, I thought coaching was rochambeau?

Thanks for the pin, @blacklab

I know not to fuck with the Cali guitar cartel.

And nothing. That’s just the way things are shaping up. The question was asked a bit back why traditional powerhouse teams like AL were not going to be competitive in NIL vs teams like Texas.

Yep, rules/regulations could change things. But college football right now is a league without revenue sharing and no salary cap and a small # of schools in big markets that will be able to parley that into a significant talent advantage.

Douchenozzle Blues? I'd go, but I'm not in Austin. There are worse ways to spend a couple hours than ogling JoeB's guitars.

The Los Angeles metro area has a population of 12,870,000 people. The Tuscaloosa metro area has a population of 235,628 people. That's a 54:1 ratio. An effective pitchman in the LA market is going to command much more money than an effective pitchman in the Tuscaloosa market. People shouldn't think of NIL as the legal way players to get paid for their play from the disposable income of wealthy alumni ala SMU. They should think of NIL as a way for players to get paid as pitchmen by businesses out of their normal marketing budgets. There are bigger businesses with bigger advertising budgets in LA that would be capable of paying Matt Lienart a lot more money to endorse their products and services than Tuscaloosa's relatively smaller businesses with smaller advertising budgets would be capable of paying Jalen Hurts to endorse their products and services. Texas+Austin, USC+LA are going to be tough-to-beat combinations of NIL opportunity for players. Its going to be hard for teams like Alabama to remain competitive for the talent they have traditionally garnered against these economic behemoths. There's a reason Saban has railed against NIL, and its not because its effects favor him equally.

This should be another thread, but I would turn the question around. What schools are going to be able to compete with the potential NIL opportunities that will be negotiated for players from USC (Los Angeles market, no pro football team), Texas (Austin/Central Texas market, no pro football team) and Notre Dame (US Catholics)? I don't think its out of the realm of possibility that a star player at USC, Texas or ND could make fuck you money from their NIL deals without ever going to the NFL. I'm talking $10 million plus over their career at the collegiate level as a paid endorser. That's possible for a player at USC pitching to the Los Angeles market. I don't think that is going to be possible for a player at Alabama pitching to the Tuscaloosa market. And there will be a lot more additional NIL money available in the Los Angeles market for other players at USC than in the Tuscaloosa market for the other players at Alabama. Lots of teams have tradition, a rabid fanbase, a wealthy alumni base, a good TV contract and gobs of money to spend on a coach and his staff. Not every such team also has a consumer market that will allow for massive NIL deals for players. Those NIL opportunities are more and more going to decide where the top talent goes. Its a whole new ball game, and one Texas is particularly well set up to compete in and one in which Alabama isn't.

It’s the end of an era for all of College football and likely the moment that will be looked at as the official start of the NIL era. This was the best team of the past era in Alabama against an upstart that the NIL game favors in Texas — and the best team of the past era got its teeth kicked in. There are going to be quite a few teams like Alabama that were able to be good in the past era but who become Nebraska in the new era. Traditional power houses with a passionate fan base but who can’t compete with the NIL opportunities for players at places like Texas, USC, Notre Dame, etc…

Paywall.

Pretty sure they’d suck at Canadian football, too.

Well, we now know what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immoveable object. It wasn’t the flashiest part of the night, but man, there were so many replays where Sweat absorbed multiple blockers without giving an inch on the line. Impressive.

Same, I wish it could be stickied after every game.

No shit. 2 sacks vs Bama as a true freshman is quite the introduction.

Haven’t had this feeling since… Ohio State 2005.

Ewers, Sark and the D came to fucking BALL tonight. Bravo!

Just need some guys to catch these bullseyes Ewers is throwing.

Boop!