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  1. I wonder how much Adelson paid him to go away and keep quiet that the trade was her idea?
  2. He can do that but LSU can legitimately sue and argue that 200k at ESPN is far less than he’d get if he pursued a coaching job diligently and in good faith. He can’t be forced into any particular job but he has to consider the possible reduction of the buyout if he takes a “break” at a significantly lower salary. Schools might not bother to pursue the claim especially if they think it’s temporary and that he’ll go back to coaching for a high salary within a year or two and also to avoid pr issues but it would be a legitimate claim under the contract. I’m not aware of any situation in which a buyout was paid over several years with legitimate mitigation calculations, they always settle, because that’s what the clauses are designed to accomplish. The for cause stuff is ridiculous though and makes them look really bad. It also appears to be diminishing the possibility of a settlement. I doubt it will affect the hiring process though, they’ll throw a ton of money at someone who will take it expecting to win and not have to worry about buyouts.
  3. Bullshit, you fucking liar. I guess the Mormons have finally joined mainstream evangelicalism when it comes to this shit.
  4. "Kelly’s contract contains a “Duty to Mitigate” clause. This clause explicitly requires Kelly to “exercise due diligence and good faith in seeking qualifying employment so long as the liquidated damage obligation exists.” Or, in simple terms, Kelly has to look for another job, and any money that he gets paid from that job would then be used to reduce LSU’s payment." https://huddleup.substack.com/p/inside-brian-kellys-54-million-lsu Thus, he can't sit on his ass and demand full payment. And he can't just go to the local juco and take minimum wage as an "analyst" and collect the balance from LSU. He has to exercise "due diligence and good faith" and therefore he has to actually try to find a good high paying job. If he claims that he tried and struck or could only get a low paying job he needs proof. The fact is that someone would hire him as a HC and pay him well this cycle. He can either let that process play out and if he gets paid less than the buyout collect the balance from LSU, or if he does not want to pursue new employment at this time, take a settlement. The clause is designed to incentivize both sides to settle for a reasonable amount.
  5. I didn't post the video of him crying about cloak room shit. And yeah, calling someone a "communist" who "hates america" is dangerous political rhetoric. The fact that you likely believe it proves the fucking point because neither is remotely true.
  6. Oh you have a concern about dangerous political rhetoric? Yahoos saying stupid shit that puts people in danger? Okaaaaaaaaay …. Full. Fucking. Cloak room. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/11/06/dave-portnoy-zohran-mamdani-barstool-new-york-move/87132339007/
  7. I think they can get a high level coordinator and is probably the best move imo.
  8. This. Fans need to start “Sell the Team” chants. Be as unrelenting as Fire Nico. She told Nico to do the trade, you’ll never convince me otherwise. Even if I’m wrong they still need to disappear for me to give a single fuck about this franchise ever again.
  9. That’s exactly how this is supposed to play out. He has a duty to mitigate so will never get the full amount. He can argue that he ruined his own reputation and isn’t worth a whole lot but somebody will/would hire him at some level. He can’t just do nothing and get the full amount, he’s supposed to at least try to find employment. And yeah, this cycle, he’ll get a job somewhere that will likely overpay and he could end up way better off by taking a settlement. If they are truly lowballing him though he can make them litigate but he’d also be in a position of having incentive to not get a good job. The “for cause” thing is so dumb, they’ll never win that, even if there’s something it didn’t come up at the time they fired him, it was purely wins and losses which is not cause or moral turpitude.
  10. I think Adelson told Nico to trade Luka to the Lakers specifically and to get whatever he could. Any other owner would have fired him by now for literally the worst trade in modern sports history. If it's solely to stop the chants, yeah she's gonna need to pay him off very well or find him a cushy landing spot.
  11. I didn't read it as Michigan and USC would be kicked out if they don't agree, but that they would not get a distribution, and that their membership may become an issue in 2036 when the media deal expires. I don't see any way PE tries to kick them out now or in a decade. They are too valuable to the overall product. If speculation is correct that the PE people do promotions to increase the overall value UM and USC might get some freeloading benefits but they also did not take money up front so I don't see PE being too upset. I'm almost certainly missing something here in the details because the articles have not been clear ant PE is not something I know a lot about in detail. Just intuitively though, a onetime payment of $135M per school doesn't seem like a whole lot for such a monumnetal and long term change in structure.
  12. You can bet on individual pitches? Like $4,000, win or lose with one pitch? That's fucking ridiculous.
  13. Realignment really is a bunch of fucking horseshit. How is this even possible?
  14. He's also married to a woman who was raised Muslim, and his mother is Hindu married to a Muslim, yet neither walk around in burkas, but John Rocker says he's gonna make all women in NYC wear burkas. These people have literally lost all sense of common sense and human decency.
  15. I agree, I've been following baseball and softball more closely and get way more excited about because we have legitimate shots at a national title every now and then, but even those sports are being affected. Tech bought themselves a softball pitcher who got them to the finals. SEC is throwing money at baseball players. One of Cody Campbells things is saying that this new model will kill the other sports. College athletics weren't set up to make profits, they were a cost same as the costs of other clubs and teaching in general. Football and to a lesser extent mens basketball becoming a monolith of profitability seems to me to be somewhat accidental. I personally think that football and maybe mens basketball should be removed from university athletic departments and set up as for-profit entities. The rest of the sports should be part of university operating budgets and should have have to be profitable or rely on football profitability for their continued existence. I think it's a justifiable use of general budgets because those sports provide skills for those involved. I think someone said it earlier but I've also interviewed ex-college athletes for work and they are always impressive and stand out in many respects.
  16. It's purpose was obviously to encourage grown ups to come to the table and negotiate a solution that gives the minority party something if the majority party doesn't have a supermajority. Adulthood left the building long ago and had its corpse burned to nonexistence around 2016.
  17. I've seen some Kreischer clips and watched the Cabin series on Netflix while high at a friend's recommendation and find him pretty funny. Also never noticed him being overtly political and didn't know he was close to Rogan. I can see him being a little one note in the long term but I also don't delve deep into stuff so it hasn't affected my view of his comedy.
  18. Way better than recent years. No telling how much better but we will compete and I think there’s a good chance we’ll be in the running for a tourney bid. Too many new players to know for sure at this point. I saw one game before the renovation, I was in high school and didn’t have any real college loyalties. My friend’s dad had tickets and invited me to a game. I enrolled in 2000, the first season with the raised roof. It was packed and rocking most games. Loudest I ever heard was when we beat Missouri in the first game after the plane crash.
  19. Bucky ball sucks. Go Pokes
  20. RFK got his name on the last stadium, feel free to pursue that path.
  21. Fernando Mendoza? Pedo fans gonna call ice
  22. What part of Islamastan is that?
  23. Wouldn’t mind some mamdate with his girl. Sharia me timbers!
  24. I disagree that MAGA is going anywhere. They'll bicker over shit but will always align come election time, at least national elections and swing state elections.
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