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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
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That makes no sense? Because, as great as Jeremiah Smith is, those funds could be applied to getting 4-5 other great, proven players. (it would be like trading Jokic for one second team all-NBA player, when you could easily get at least two for him). -
“Goodfellas”? ”The Big Heat”?
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Perspective- the Russian total population for WWI was 160M. They had 2M KIA in WWI (WWII was worse). The casualties from Ukraine are horrific to a modern, free country, but don’t expect it to drive change in Russia.
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My larger point stands. This league is just fine with generational talent finding its way to the Lakers.
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“NBA justification in approving this trade”? Easy. It’s the Lakers. Wilt finished with the Lakers. Kareem finished with the Lakers. Shaq spent most of his later career with the Lakers. LeBron is finishing with the Lakers.
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NCAA enforcement always relied on the schools submitting to it. That worked for decades. Then, Auburn (Can Newton) and TAMU (Manziel) said, in response to (well substantiated) NCAA allegations of cheating - “we’ll see you in court”. The NCAA has always been toothless without the schools willingly submitting. If there are ever to be rules, again, the enforcement body will have to be submitted to, willingly. My guess is that the rules will have to be set and enforced by whoever is distributing the money.
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Cutting the workforce (although- I would be in favor of a constitutional amendment barring unionization of any federal employees, including the postal service and military) won’t solve the budget issues. the dollars aren’t there. Cutting defense, even in half, won’t do it, either. The $$ aren’t there. It will take entitlement reform. That won’t happen until it has to happen, politically. (The GOP proposed a SS plan in 2005; the Dems used that as a scare to win the mid terms. The Dems have an announced SS plan involving minute increases in FICA and phased delays of retirement- they have never proposed it as legislation). The U.S. has one “get out of budget spiral hell free” card. The U.S. government is unique among nations in that it (the government) owns a ridiculous amount of land. It can sell some prime location military reservations and national parks and raise a couple trillion, when the shit hits the fan.
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If there were an NFL style draft of college football players, would Colin Simmons would go in the top 5? I think so.
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Handjob Helobious Is the Man!
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Georgia will be OK. Resource and alumni-wise, they are in the upper echelon of the SEC, plus that state is producing a ton of elite talent now, compared to 25 years ago. They don’t have Aggies, and their neighbor state rival doesn’t have to poach recruits from them to stay competitive. It is fun to see Texas approach its potential, though. -
Yeah, clearly, OU’s recruiting hasn’t taken a step up, nor has Texas taken a step down. Is it because OU doesn’t know how to allocate the funds, yet, between sports and players? Have their donors said they are out once AD money is in? I don’t know and am hoping someone can shed light on
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On Sooner Scoop, they are reporting that tomorrow’s OU regents meeting has a vote to approve transfer of funds from the AD to the OneOklahoma NIL fund, pursuant to the Okie governor’s executive order.
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I can’t argue with you, and I am very disappointed in where the U.S. seems to be on this. Ukraine needs Europe to step up, but I don’t know that they can. Internal politics makes it hard for the UK, Germany and France to make the required commitment and EU budgetary requirements (designed to support the Euro as a currency) gives all but the UK an excuse to not mobilize. You could argue that they are behaving worse than they did 1936-1938. Mark Twain is said to have stated, “History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme”. It’s certainly rhyming now. The only saving grace is that Russia has a schitzkrieg, instead of a blitzkrieg.
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Is it less cost efficient than the future we will be in, if Ukraine loses?
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I don’t know, so much, that “we” includes the U.S., anymore Three years ago, Russia was in a similar position to NATO, with respect to artillery production. As their initial schitzkrieg stalled, and the war settled into its current form, they also realized they needed more shells. Like Ukraine, they scrounged for shells from partners and used up stores. They also committed to production expansion. Now, Russia has all the shells they need, as inaccurate and unreliable as they are. As Stalin said, “Quantity has a quality of its own”. NATO/ the west/the U.S. could have matches (and exceeded!) Russia. Look at this list of ranked economies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) Russia has the 11th largest. I count five NATO nations with larger economies, individually. The reason that Ukraine’s allies aren’t giving more shells to Ukraine is not that they aren’t capable. It is that they prioritized other things higher. Russia can win this. If Ukraine’s allies continue to twiddle their thumbs and look at each other to take the lead, the Ukrainian defenses can collapse. If that happens, you will see a flood of refugees. Russia’s economy is a mess- high inflation, collapsing currency, high interest rates. Funny fact- Germany’s economy was similar in 1938: with the economic growth from rearmament stalling out, there were too many marks chasing too few goods (industry was hindered by troop mobilization). Taking Czechoslovakia solved the German economic problems; now there were plenty of good for the marks to purchase. The same thing can save Russia’s economy. The “west” better decide tout suite if that kind of future is unbearable. The time for doing something about it is almost past.
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