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My impulse is to say that a baseball phenom pitcher can become a millionaire at 18 by just signing on the dotted line. Same with a 19 year old basketball player. Heck if some cute pre-teen chick has some dance moves, can hold a tune, and is in touch with the zeitgeist of her age-group, she can become a millionaire before she even has her first period. If we want to rewrite our laws of our land so that wealth is dependent on age or some arbitrary definition of 'how hard people worked for how long', fine. It's a huge departure from our capitalist traditions. But I'm sure we could make the economic transition eventually. Until then, you work - you get paid. If you get paid more than others now instead of later, than maybe they should have chosen a different career pather, or worked harder, or just plain gotten luckier. That's their problem. Sure. But then Alabama, Georgia, USC, OU, Clemson and Ohio State will say, "But if you come here, we'll pay for tuition, housing, and food. We'll also take care of scheduling your classes, getting your books lined up, and tutoring sessions (paid for by us as well). You will be coached by some of the best in the business (it will be their pleasure - ofcourse they are paid well themselves) along with free access to the gyms and professional S&C experts. Naturally all business expenses such travel to-and-from games and hotels are covered by us. Sure you could go to Texas, where they make you pay for and take care of all of that stuff yourself. But why would your 5-star self want to do that? I never heard anybody ever make the argument that the student athletes shouldn't pay taxes. It just doesn't make any sense. If you work in the United States and make money, you pay taxes. The end. In what interpretation of modern reality could that possibly not happen? Where did this idea even come from?

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And that's their problem to sort out. But if it does result in a ThunderDome situation, whoever grabs the pigshit powered chainsaw and goes after the NCAA is the one I'm rooting for.

There's only one reason the government wants that. If I were these social media companies, I'd find some poor low-caste rickshaw drivers. Pay them each a 1000 rupees, and hire them for these positions. They could even keep on being rickshaw drivers. It wouldn't matter as it would just be titles. Then when the government (inevitably) comes and arrests them for some anti-Modi tweets or whatever, just go out and hire some more drivers to replace them. Those companies could keep that up forever.

Presumably from the side effects of the moral boost of being just plain better employees. This increases loyalty, attitude towards customers, and attention to the detail and quality of their own work.

I've had both Boylan's: And Virgil's: here in the UK. Both excellent and I grab a four pack when I can get them.

As long as this part is absolutely insured, I'd be happy to just complain on message boards about the rest, but probably could live with whatever they come up with. But there should be no more special exemptions from following the law of the land for the NCAA (or the universities), from now and forever more.

She's playing a dangerous game. Wonder if she has had the wisdom to avoid getting that vaccine....

The vast majority of university athletic departments are supposedly operating at a loss, yet they can all somehow manage annual 5 and 6 digit yearly raises for their head coaches, assistents, and administrators. It may not be recorded on the books, but the cash is obviously there. I seriously doubt that scenario will ever playout for any school that wants both the money and the success that comes with grabbing/keeping real talent. Sure bigger schools with bigger boosters will do better. But that's already the case.

Yeah maybe... It's just... why doesn't Clemson already have 2 or 3 four/five star backs on the roster and on scholarship? And why wouldn't they have some pretty decent backups for those? Is there a recruiting issue? And if there is, what makes anybody think they'll have any better luck recruiting that two-star break out from < insert school >? I can see this transfer thing getting out of hand if teams are allowed to have limitless rosters with limitless scholarships, and extended game time by an extra 4 hours or something, so everybody can play and get 'exposure'. But I have not even heard a peep that any of those other kind of changes are coming down the line along with this. Which means the Bama/tOSU/Clemson/OU's of the world will still only be able to put so many people on their teams at so many positions, with only so much of a guarantee of playing time. There's no doubt your scenario is going to happen for those situations, that we know happen every year, where some team has a position that gets riddled with injuries and other issues, and that bigger name team reaches on down the heirarchy to pull some players up to fill in. And even that assumes they've got the scholarship/roster slots open (an injury doesn't necessarily open those up). However, I think the actual effect is going to be far more modest than some are predicting.

There is no penalty for athletes who transfer now. They can still graduate, go to parties, etc. The eligibility thing doesn't apply to coaches, regular students, research grads, etc., so that is just a useless comparison. I was just answering the previous question about subsequent transfers, not the initial transfer which, as you state, is now free of penalty. Presumably conferences, or perhaps even individual schools, will come up with rules for subsequent transfers. Who knows what that will look like? But I think it will probably be along the lines of the previous loss-of-eligibility-must-sit-out flavor. I also think that they won't last long either once properly challenged. Since one of the key original arguments for allowing this new rule change was that nobody else associated with a university has such restrictions/penalties, I suspect even the 'one-time-only' part is going to go by the wayside soon enough.

Coaches? I think not so much. You guys got the Tech Basketball coach recently. I know OU has supplied a number coordinators in the past. As for regular students, 37% will transfer at some point. Multiple times? No idea. Research grads, administrators, university staff, etc... - not even sure where you'd find those numbers.

As coaches, regular students, research grads, assistant coaches, administrators, staff, etc... are allowed to transfer without penalty as much as they'd like, I don't think there will be any restrictions on how often they can transfer. It's just that they may face a loss of eligibility for subsequent transfers, assuming they aren't already graduates - the rule of which hasn't been affected. I personally think that even the 'one time' bit of this is doomed, and probably in short order.

Don't know if this is available stateside. But this is what we keep stocked now as it's the best American style one available: They have an Australian one here: That stuff is undrinkable to me and my heavily influenced young'uns. But it seems to be selling I guess or else they wouldn't keep it on the shelves. There is another American style: It's fine, but just doesn't quite have the proper kick that an A&W/Barqs/Dad's root beer has. (Hard to get here)

If I was the media, I'd take the opportunity. I'd call out that mayor's blasé attitude about ignoring terrible crimes happening under their watch, and I wouldn't let up until that attitude demonstrably changed with real action. I'd focus this discussion on an industry that is clearly destructive and exploitive, on a massive scale, of young Asian women, and I would do it while you have the nation's attention. But I'm not. I'm just some anonymous poster on a tiny corner of the internet. The media has clearly decided what it's going to focus on. And the lives and outcomes of these thousands of women isn't going to change one bit as a result.

As tragic as this situation is, it is also a Golden opportunity to shed some light, and perhaps even meaningfully deal with, the sex trafficking/trade industry of young Asian women. Whatever posts we (and many many others) have had in the past certainly were agreed with and then forgottern. It happens. It's life. But this is now a real chance for real dialogue about an obviously uncomfortable but on-going subject. And people might finally do something more than just agree-and-forget. Instead, we're going to talk about white sex-depraved Baptist extremism. What a world we live in.

We can go off on tangents if that's what we chose to do. It seems the media has made its mind up on that. But the fact is that this particular branch of the industry is well known for its terrible acts of human trafficking and often times brutal sexual exploitation of young women. I know everybody wants to make this about race right now. But these women, not only the victims of this crime, but the many who are still victims of the of the crimes that put them in this vulnerable situation in the first place, deserve better. It looks like all of that is going to be swept under the carpet for a media-driven agenda is being entirely innappropriately applied in my opinion, and does a disservice to the Asian community.

Sorry, but that's ridiculous. If a business called 'Young Asian Massage' opened up in my jurisdiction, it would blow the fuse out of my radar.

Having lived in three countries, and spent significant amounts of time in several others, I really don't think that's true. All the other countries I've been to have kids who are just trying to get along from one day to the next the same as ours, many with the same kind of stories in their backgrounds. It's just that when you try compare the educational systems, you end up with apples/oranges that skew the appearance of 'results' - often wildly. This is especially true in countries where you have academic and non-academic student/school separation at age 10-12 and/or possibly later (again) at age 15-16. America's school system is always compared against those school system paths with the more academic kids. And there's never an attempt to capture and compare the overall which includes those kids who go the trade-school/remedial routes, or drop out altogther. Makes for great bi-annual headlines I guess, but I wonder what a true comparison would look like, and even if such a comparison is truly possible or fair.

I'm in the United Kingdom.

Just a bit of followup, wife was able to walk-in and get the Astra Zeneca vaccine a little over a week ago. She was sick with a fever and body aches for three days, and her arm and shoulder were likewise sore for another two more. Today (9 days I think) is the first day that she feels fine and looks fine. She's now looking forward to getting the second one over and done with. Me, I'm going to wait for the J&J one to be approved here and probably go for that. I figure that by the time whatever category I belong to finally gets the go ahead, it should be availiable.

My mom questioned if I was really hers when she finally realized that I don't like coffee.

This is the only proper one I can get here in the UK - imported from Texas. All of the others are basically a BBQ flavored English Brown sauce (not necessarily bad at all, but not truly BBQ sauce).

Just got a call from the wife. She was able to walk in and get a vaccination at a designated pharmacy (Everest) here in Manchester, UK. She's a health care worker so she was already priority. But the fact that she could just show up like that is something new for me to hear about.

These kind of got trashed for their poor metrics on nutrition (ultra-high everything bad for you). Which probably tells you everything you need to know about how delicious they were.