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  1. Strictly from a casual consumer standpoint, the biggest problem with Pac-12 to Apple TV is, I don't want to have to change apps to flip between games. It's time consuming and cumbersome. Having one app (say, YouTubeTV) open and changing inputs on the TV to get back and forth between "cable" and broadcast games is OK, but if I have to either a) tell Roku "quit YTTV, open Apple TV app, go to Pac-12 Football TV channel" (and vice versa), no fucking way. Nor do I want to buy another "box" (an Apple TV) just to be able to limit the switching to inputs, just so I can watch P12 games.

    This isn't an old man yelling @ cloud thing, either-- I like technology, I love the Apple TV unit but don't use one myself as I prefer Roku. I just don't KNOW of an easy way to add a Pac 12 on Apple TV game into that swapping rotation.

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  2. 11 hours ago, Randolph Duke said:

    The ags borrowed $350 million @5% (taxable muni bond) and scraped up $135 million in cash for their stadium.

    This is why I want to LITERALLY AND I MEAN THAT WORD LITERALLY kick in the balls any sportswriter I ever read who writes something like "Texas A&M threw $500 million at their stadium renovation, the Aggies are swimming in oil money, the Aggies are a big money program" etc etc etc.

    NO YOU STUPID FUCKS, America is a financialized economy in which EVERYTHING runs on cheap, easy debt. A&M doesn't "have" jack shit, it's just so fucking easy to borrow money in this slap-dick easy money economy that any entity wanting money can get it.Ā 

  3. 10 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

    going to college isn't about having fun or or how cool it is, its about growing up.

    partially true-- all of those things are inseparable when talking broadly about the benefits of "the experience" of going to college. I agree w the larger point, there are plenty of guys whose careers were actually truncated by starting them early. a bit like throwing a QB in before he's ready

    Ā 

  4. Two kind of funny things have happened to us during this whole thing.

    1) Wife and I were both in the process of rolling our 401ks over when the big drop hit. So we were inadvertently in cash, and said cash was then reinvested in pretty typical 401k ways from the approximate market bottom.

    2) My company went public a few years ago and it was announced earlier this year that we were being taken private again, at a modest premium over our mid-February stock price. The acquisition agreement had enough penalties in it to prevent an easy cancellation, meaning our stock price has barely budged from where it was in February when the whole thing was announced. So all of my equity in the company, stock and stock options,Ā maintained 100% of its value through the biggest stock downturn in forever.

    Obviously I'm way smarter than most people. Just look at how dumb-fucking-lucky I am.

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  5. 1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Iā€™m sure he can take his 400k and still have a blastĀ 

    but not that blast, which was my point

    there are all kinds of fun you can have, with or without money; most of the ones involving money will still be there for him in a year, or two, or three, but not the "freshman in college" one

    that's all

  6. 6 hours ago, realgreggym said:

    I have to believe but could be wrong but a college degree long term could be a better investment than getting paid for one year

    I really think that's unfortunately irrelevant to the discussion at hand, because it seems from afar that the Brown family's focus is 100% on him being a professional basketball player. Who even knows what he wants to do after basketball, if he's given it enough thought to weigh the option. It's probably charitable to think Brown even has goals at this point that require a college degree.Ā 

    The one thing I'd say is worth consideration is thatĀ even if Brown just goes one-and-done, he'd be able to come back to Texas or Michigan (the only two basketball programs he's considering that are attached to schools worth a shit) and get his degree when his playing days are done. Access to schools of that caliber is a lot easier to come by when you're recruited as a scholarship athlete in a revenue-generating sport. Not sure he'd have a lot of luck trying to get admitted to Texas or Michigan 12 years from now.Ā 

    But preserving access to a degree from an elite university is probably a pretty minor chip compared to maximizing his development and getting paid immediately. Hell, if they really cared about that sort of thing, Brown's shortlist would include Virginia and Duke instead of Auburn and Oklahoma State.Ā 

  7. On 4/16/2020 at 2:16 PM, Bitterwhiteguy said:

    There were reasons for Turner's unusual deployment. The short version is that the coaching staff didn't trust him to run the system because (from their view) he would go rogue whenever he felt like it, but because he was clearly the best player on the team they only had limited ways to try to rein him in. Him rarely starting was one of the methods they deployed. In short, the relationship was fraught throughout his brief Texas tenure.

    I'm not saying the inmates should run the asylum, but this confirms what I suspected and blamed on Barnes. Without having read that summary of Turner's relationship with the coaches, IĀ stillĀ would have guessed at it, because the way Barnes used him seemed like a cutting-off-nose-to-spite-face move all the way, in terms of starts, minutes played,Ā andĀ how Turner was actually used in the offense.Ā 

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  8. 3 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

    Maybe it's because I was still in eighth grade, but when I was 18 years old there's zero chance you could have gotten me to turn down $400,000 plus endorsements plus becoming a professional just to go to college for a few months to play a season that might not even happen.

    I think it depends what the people around you were telling you. I know my inclination would have been to take the money, and I don't know what my Dad would have told me. I know whatĀ IĀ would tell me, now, but then that gets into the idea that every decision good or bad leads you to where you are in a given moment and I wouldn't change anything about my life right now, ergo I wouldn't tell hypothetical 18-yr old me "don't go to Texas, take the money."

  9. 3 hours ago, Kermit said:

    These kids donā€™t have a normal college experience. Itā€™s a fucking job.

    well, it's certainly going to be, shortly

    Again, I am not saying he should choose college. Everything he and his father have said so far makes it clear this is a transactional decision for them. I am saying that conceptually, there is a relative utility in choosing that experience over a single year of making money. There isn't NO REASON TO CHOOSE COLLEGEFE!!!!!!!! and it's not ZOMG SO FUCKING STUPID!!!!!!! for someone to decide an experience is more valuable than money foregone.Ā 

    Brown gets one chance to experience collegeĀ in whatever way he'd experience itĀ as a freshman, normal or otherwise. Looking at it from the perspective I have, which isn't anything like Greg Brown's perspective, there are obvious attractions to either decision. He wins whether it's heads or tails.Ā It's a luxury to have a choice between those options but it is a valid choice either way.Ā 

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  10. I am not arguing Brown should pick college ball over the G League, or that playing for a shithead like Shaka Smart is particularly enjoyable.

    But a lot of people would trade $400,000Ā over the course of one year of their lifeĀ for a year of being an 18-yr old college kid. If you're Greg Brown, you'll get about 40 chances to make $400,000 (or $90,000 if we want to fixate on that number). You get one chance to be a college freshman, doing college freshman stuff-- which was a fucking blast when I did it, I can only imagine it's even more fun when you're semi-famous as a varsity athlete.Ā 

    Of course, if we're dumb enough to shut down college campuses for an entire semester or academic year, then his decision is an obvious one.

  11. 12 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    If a school with a small student population (14,000) and incredibly deep pockets, plusĀ a huge medical school like Duke can't handle it, how are all the other schools hoping to pull it off?

    But they could handle it, or handle what we were initially told all of the shutdowns and social distancing were intended to handle. Now they're trying to handle "no one should ever get sick, we must try to prevent any case of Coronavirus from ever happening", which isn't remotely feasible.Ā 

    So I say , cancel everything requiring large public gatherings for another 18 months. Let's wait until we have a billion testing kits in reserve, and our double-blind clinical trials on the Coronavirus vaccine are successfully completed, and our gigantic 17-stage plan and $19 trillion Congressional Reopening America For Business Act are passed.

    And then we can do the whole thing again in 2022 when a new virus pops up.

    Because we're a nation that acts like it's run by Karen the Soccer Mom.Ā 

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  12. 4 minutes ago, Goodman said:

    This is so very aggie. "They gave us $670M to build 100K empty facility and say a bunch of stuff that make our cult feel great. Once Johnny decided how to hide the money we quietly went away and provided other shinny objects....If the feds want help, they can send us money and people to do it. We did our part, the facility is here."

    reminds me of a story a former coworker told me, about six months after I left a big IT company, they'd hired this airhead to run my former department and she loaded up the gravy train for all her asshole consultant buddies, one of whom signed a contract to "design" a web portal for the department. The consultant went off and did her thing and then came back a month later and proudly presented her design, on two PowerPoint slides. Slide 1, here's what it looks like, slide 2, here's how long it will take to turn what you saw on Slide 1 into an actual functional web portal.

    everyone in the room was like, "um, where's the actual design. like... did you actually build the portal? is there a website you want to show us?"

    consultant: "no.... design.... slide 1.... see, this is the design."

    She got paid, I was told, a quarter million for two PowerPoint slides. Her "design" was a mockup of a webpage.Ā 

    I don't think she was an Aggie but she certainly had the act down.

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