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Agree with @Murfdogg21 that NIL will not bring parity. It will enable teams meeting the following criteria to enter the arms race: huge alumni base wealthy alumni base - with money "sitting on the sidelines" administrations willing to follow/enforce the rules In general, NIL benefits Texas, Notre Dame, Michigan - and there may be others. To a lesser extent, it benefits Oregon and USC; they've violated the spirit and the letter of the law for some time, but have enough resources to accelerate their payment game. The reason UGA and Bama want NIL to be constrained and/or managed is that they realize their alumni bases do not have infinite funds - and the proud donor base has already been paying. We are in the early days of NIL and the largest funds are coming from money that has been sitting on the sidelines. At what point do donors start to assess the ROI of these investments? At what point does NIL impact a donor's willingness to fund football/athletics operations? Capital projects and coach salaries could be impacted. What could blow up NIL and college football as we know it? Bezos dropping $1B to make Princeton a D1 power or Musk dropping the same at Penn. Because they are in the Ivy league, it is unlikely. However, what if Jerry Jones, Rob Walton, and Jim Walton decided to endow the Arkansas football program? In total, they are worth $130B (Jerry's the poor one at $10B net worth). Again, it is unlikely, but Jerry might be willing to do it for his ego. @WBT said, "It's almost like ESPN's drive to make college football a regional sport (in a low population, low income region at that) is bad for business." When you look at the present outcome, that model is mind-boggling. I think they were following the NASCAR model. Also regional and in similar regions, (at one time) fans spent more of their disposable income on NASCAR than any other sport. However, NASCAR has parity.

Poor guy's dick has a toenail.

He is talking so much that it has almost become white noise for me.

In 1987, auto-admit was 1100 or top-quarter. If you were willing to take 2 summer school classes and get Bs, you were also in. SAT and ACT have become big business these days. They want you to take the test multiple times, buy their review materials, buy tutorials, etc. The SAT has been redesigned many times over the years. Aside from the 1600 -> 2400 -> 1600 scoring changes, the most profound change occurred in 2017, which resulted in average scores rising by about 40-50 points. Now, Johnny Average feels smarter than his also average older sibling. This is a good article charting the data: https://blog.prepscholar.com/average-sat-scores-over-time

Of the drive-thru burger places we've mentioned, I think PTerry's is near the top. @Harvdog did a really good assessment of Hop Doddy. For what it's worth, Larry Foles (Nick Foles's father) was one of the "innovators" behind Hop Doddy. Larry is one of the principals in "Guy And Larry Restaurants" and their portfolio includes Salty Sow and Roaring Fork (among others). The burgers at Roaring Fork are quite good...

I'll add to the fray here. I will not drop a burger place if the fries are shit. I'll just not order them again. Mighty Fine is well above average and consistent at that. Not exactly "fast food" though. I like Phil's, especially the Jollyville burger - french toast bun Dan's (or Fran's) is a great burger. HopDoddy is asymptotically approaching mediocre. The first few times was good and it has gotten less compelling each time. One of my kids ordered a burger "plain" from them. It was extremely unimpressive. And - premium pricing... In the 80s and early 90s, Fuddruckers and Chilis had high quality (and quantity) burgers. The ingredient quality fell off a cliff about 10-15 years ago. Fuddruckers had VERY good buns - and of course the pump jalapeno cheese. Whataburger has fallen off lately. The food quality has dropped. The service has suffered. I no longer seek it out. I liked Jewboy, but I do not view it as the transcendent burger that others do. First had In N Out in SoCal. First visit was OK. Second visit sucked. Will not give them my business again. If I recall correctly, PTerry's was modeled after In N Out after the Terry's tried to get In N Out to franchise in Texas. It's better than In N Out. Large nationals like Burger King, McDonalds, Hardees, Jack, etc. are typically at the bottom of the list for me. Their only advantage: reasonably predictable floor. They'll be mediocre to poor, but seldom worse than expected. Seldom better, too.

Carriker's take is interesting: cautiously optimistic. "Thompson chose Nebraska over [lists all the names Charles floated to the media]." "It's a QB competition. Gotta be open." Coming from Texas, son of OU QB - "Am I the only that feels like we might getting kamikze'd here? ... Let's take Barry Switzer's son..." Hilarious. Recurring comments about "waiting his turn to play" are interesting. Seniority should not be a criterion [or only one of many, many more] for whether he should play. We'd scrutinized Brown for years when he used that approach. Casey was waiting because Ehlinger was better. He was QB2 (or 1b) to start this year because - heading out of camp - Card was better. "Politics" to Charles Thompson is really him disliking Sark's merit approach vs. a seniority approach. I appreciate what he did while he was here and wish him no ill will - not that he would give a darn anyway Hook Em

Are there any specific concrete examples you can share w/o violating confidences, etc? I've heard comments about arrogance, poor effort, and lack of background study. There were reasons Card was named the starter at the beginning of the season and I have to believe they were more meaningful and sophisticated than, "everything being equal, start the young guy."

FIFY. Imagine one of Eddie Reese's swimmers pulling any of the crap AB pulled. Goodbye! [edited for clarity]

They overlapped for Brown's first 2 years. 2010-2011 In 2010, Pittsburgh had Mike Wallace, Hines Ward, Emmanuel Sanders, and Antwan Randle El ahead of him. Brown had 16 receptions for 169 yards. 5-90 in postseason. They lost to GB in the super bowl. In 2011, Brown had 69 receptions for 1109 yards and 2 TDs and was named team MVP. 2nd leading receiver with largely the same WR room. Jericho Cotchery replaced Randle El. Arians had to have known him in Pittsburgh. I do not know when his erratic behavior became more apparent, though it's pretty clear Tomlin managed him fairly well.

Adam works at ESPN. I sometimes watch ESPN. Adam is a lying cockbag. ESPN will protect the NFL shield.

In general, AB's past behavior makes it difficult for him to be a credible or sympathetic character. You cannot be an asshat in 99% of your life and expect for folks to immediately align with you on the 1% where you are being totally honest and sincere. And Arians knows this. Let's assume AB is telling the truth here. His histrionics forced this whole episode to be played out in public. And likely made him persona non grata for every other team in the NFL (not really if he can still play). It's not in his nature, but if he had let this play out by seeking the counsel and assistance of his attorney and of the NFLPA, the Bucs might end up with serious sanctions, etc. and may have mitigated additional damage to his career.

Definitely not something new for Arians. Another tweet:

The only sentence he actually wrote: "Business gonna be BOOMIN!" He asserts that Arians gave him the throat slash gesture. If true, it's on video somewhere. If FOX does not have it, there are 50k+ cameras in that stadium and SOMEONE has it recorded. That would definitely help his credibility.

Sorry - Utah thrashed Texas 19-5. And I am not sure it was that close.

ISU and WVU lost. Your highlighting is wrong.

He did. Producer whispered in his ear and he corrected it. Who really believes Klein drove to Lincoln to recruit Martinez? Sheesh.

Oldest played HS lacrosse and we went through a handful of the recruiting roundups when he was a senior. One was managed/hosted by Gerry Byrne, who was a Notre Dame assistant at the time. During the recruiting info session, he said exactly that. In fact, a very good portion of the UND team that year was paying near full freight to go to Notre Dame and be a D1 athlete. Only 1 guy was on full scholarship - and he got it for being a football player. He did not directly say it, but the implication was that you are better off spending money on SAT prep than lacrosse prep if your primary objective is scholarships. I've mentioned before, but same son played MCLA (fairly competitive club) lacrosse at UT. You had to pay to play (need to pay the coaches, travel, etc.) and the team was chock full of players from all over the state, California, and the occasional D1 transfer. Most years, they were quite competitive, as were OU, Texas State, and Aggy. One year, they played BYU and Utah. Utah was 1 year away from being D1 and thrashed them. That team was the epitome of lacrosse - undersized, athletic, skilled, rich white guys. Back to @Codaxx point.... My son was one of the larger players (not as big as Burke, though) and he could really take advantage of weaker competition with his size. He'd camp out on the crease and an attack or middie would wait for a double-team and pass it off. Many a goal were scored using that tactic. You get the shit knocked out of you a lot, though, with that tactic. And against more skilled competition, you'd revert to a decent offense.

In Austin, Henna Chevrolet will pay $500 over Carmax offers. Aggy is taking the same approach: we want you and will pay you $X or Y% over the highest offer. They let everyone else do the hard work of assessing market value - then outbid.

Yeah - screw Brian Davis. Unwilling to give his own opinion on Marion - a clear positive addition, but will give an opinion if it is negative on Texas. All he had to do on this is remove the word "considered" and he creates a positive spin - and it is from his perspective. Lest we believe this is a headline writer's fault, here is the 2nd paragraph: It's an overall shitty sentence that is capped w/ zero ownership of anything. "considered" and "what he calls" are ways of deflecting ownership. I'm no professional writer, but this reads a bit better: More succinct. Active voice.

Just received an email that Disney and YTTV have settled. The suffering is over - for now.

If ESPN were not a subsidiary of Disney, I could have seen them going to a sub-only option years ago. For many customers, ESPN is the only reason they have cable. A streaming subscription only option would definitely change the dynamics - if such a thing were to ever exist. Most of the cable providers are the "rails" for broadband delivery. The prices/costs of broadband delivery are somewhat balanced by the revenue going into cable. The back-room conversations between Disney and Google are not necessarily as important as the backroom discussions between Disney and the large broadband and cable providers. Streaming ESPN to me over YTTV is provided by Spectrum - and I am only paying for broadband. I suspect these guys are pressing Disney to put the screws to the major streaming providers. Guys who "own the rails" here are the ones with the real power - for now.

It might take about 50 years for that plan to take effect. Anyone over 10 years old knows to type disney.com or espn.com to figure this out. I might try the free 30 days HULU sub.

Thanks. Mis understood your statement....

What is his major, then? Seriously curious.