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  1. I keep coming back to- how can they be so cheap with the victims’ families, and then build a memorial to the victims? I can get the idea that they are supposed to be tight fisted with the university funding; but then to spend on a “look at me and how special I am” display? It’s like they really don’t care about anything substantive, and only the window dressing.
  2. I thought they capped their payment at $50k each, but it turns out the families sued and got a little more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna27422100 What is $2.1 M, less attorney fees, divided by 12? I’m pretty sure the Ags paid more for the memorial to the collapse.
  3. TAMU used sovereign immunity to avoid paying damages to the victims’ families.
  4. I’m a right wing reactionary (no Cloak Room), and I still get very annoyed by Clay Travis. (but thanks for the info!)
  5. I think the key detail is “daughters”. There were probably some tears as they convinced their father that they really needed and deserved it. Of course, he’s a shitheel for changing an agreement with his wife without telling her.
  6. Is he asking $5M per year? Or $5M spread over the remaining two years he will be in “college”? aLincoln?
  7. Found it- https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/hes-70-and-fairly-wealthy-i-met-the-love-of-my-life-three-years-ago-how-do-i-politely-ask-that-he-include-me-in-his-will-ddaa3ef6
  8. The story repeats time and again, because the fundamentals are ubiquitous- people are intensely attuned to their own needs. Elderly women, more than men, are acutely focused on “how will I be taken care of?” I wish I could find the link, but one of the newsfeeds pushed at work had a financial advice column where an aged woman wrote that her similarly aged boyfriend was the love of her life. He had a lot of money, with two children that had plenty of money on their own, but didn’t have her in his will! How should she talk to him about that? You see in that question all the markers- -She deserves the money -The children don’t need it Neither is for her to say. She doesn’t know the details of the children’s finances. They may be well off, but in incredibly stressful careers where having the option to retire earlier could be a life changer. I doubt she cares. She was around for maybe five percent of the life of “the love of her life”. The children were around for about 60-70%. She believes she deserves the guy’s life savings. Should she get it, I’m pretty sure in short order she will decide her children need and deserve to inherit it more than the guy’s children. It’s human nature. (the guy answering the column told her, basically, that she had no claim on the money and that she should focus on enjoying the relationship. I doubt she takes that advice, and bet that in short order she will be crying and explaining, through tears, that she is scared and doesn’t understand why he won’t do something about it, if he really cares about her).
  9. TAMU has never played a postseason game for a NC, or towards a NC, not in the Alliance Bowl Series, the BCS, the four team CFP nor the 12 team CFP. I count 28 teams that have: Miami, FSU, Florida, UGA (who really took a while to get there), Clemson, VT, PSU, tOSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Auburn, Alabama, LSU, OU, Texas, TCU, SMU, USC, ASU, Tennessee, UW, Oregon, BSU, Notre Dame, Indiana, Michigan State, and Cincinnati. Is that right? For all Ag delusions of stature and grandeur, that’s where the Ags slot- the bottom half of P4.
  10. Expected. I’m starting to fear that we’re not going to get that Biden-Trump golf ball driving contest that we were promised
  11. This isn’t a memorabilia item that I expect to appreciate, but it’s something I like. Bill McLanahan was an editorial and sports cartoonist for the DMN, and he did a weekly SWC cartoon. This is the original artwork for the one he did before the 1971 Cotton Bowl. I’m going to have it framed for my study.
  12. “Cult” it isn’t just a pejorative. It’s actually a pretty apt term. Years ago, my church offered a class on mind control cults- think Scientology, Hare Krishnas, that weird Church of Christ offshoot on campuses for a while. Anyway, it explained the traits and methods of mind control cults: Emphasis on conformity Lots of chanting (something about the constant expulsion of air from the lungs creates a near-euphoric state where the mind is more suggestible) Lots of jargon (using words in a different manner than their regular use also makes the mind more suggestible) Sound like anyone we know?
  13. Thanks. I listened to a clip of OU AD Castiglione explaining that a cap is coming, with enforcement mechanisms. I don’t know- I see some huge obstacles to work through… 1. Are teams from smaller conferences really going to accept smaller allowed revenue share with players? 2. Schools have to allocate the revenue share among athletes. If it is anything other than a “peanut butter even spread” among all sports and sexes, won’t someone be upset? 3. Castiglione says there will be an independent firm reviewing NIL deals for legitimacy, with significant penalty power. How will that work any better than the NCAA enforcing its rules against Auburn (Can Newton) and TAMU (Manziel)?
  14. I expect a slow (at least for UT) transition where funds raised by ADs end up being raised by NIL collectives instead. The LHF has 30+ years of experience in getting boosters and fans to contribute. I know the LHF and Bellmont do not want to let that money go, but I think competition will force it to. I think college ADs will have to become leaner and more efficient, now that the labor isn’t free.
  15. The Oklahoma governor signed an executive order allowing universities in that state to use their regular fund raising arms (Think Longhorn Foundation, as opposed to Texas One) to pay players. Here is a transcript copy from the Lehaman:Ikard podcast discussing it (they make a lot of assumptions about the future of NIL, collectives, give, etc.)
  16. No, I’m saying the B1G gets more media revenue because they deserve it- ratings, fanbase size, etc. it’s not some chance fortunate outcome There won’t be some point where the networks say, “What the hell are we doing, giving the B1G so much money? We should give some of it to the B12, because they’re so scrappy and exciting!”
  17. Thanks for the article. On the main board’s “Left Behind” thread, there are a lot of B12 fans arguing that the B1G has dull football, that it’s not so special. They don’t get that B1G schools get more revenue from media than any other conference for a reason. This trend will be very interesting to follow.
  18. The fucking B1G just had to throw Oregon a lifeline, didn’t they? They couldn’t let them go to the ACC, and be devalued as a poorer path to the NFL.
  19. Have you not realized that the LA wildfire is a huge disaster? That fire prevention and mitigation is as big of a failure as the levees in New Orleans during Katrina? oh, hell. Strike that. Y’all convinced me. This disaster was unforeseeable, unmanageable and unpreventable. All government offices involved did a great job.
  20. I heard on a (conservative) NR podcast a discussion about the length of time required for a controlled burn. Googling confirms the process of permitting and approval in California takes weeks to months, and that advocacy groups and neighbors get to challenge and one of the bases of challenges is impact to air quality.
  21. I love the undertone of “I liked it better when we were in the SEC by ourselves, and could be mediocre but still proud!”
  22. California bragged just a few short years ago about its budget surplus. California has an eleven figure (no lie) “rainy day fund”. Given that the damage from the wildfire will be at least five times as large as that fund, and given the environmental disaster (let alone humanitarian) this wildfire is, it’s fair to question priorities. Example- one argument against a controlled burn is the carbon released in the atmosphere from such a measure. Said carbon released is dwarfed by the carbon released by the wildfire. It’s time for the policymakers to re ask the questions and re run the math with the new known factors and variables.
  23. This may not be CR, but on the matter of policy and governance: On Ukraine threads, over the last couple of years, I have opined that supply policy should not be set by asking the question “How many artillery shells can the west produce readily?”, but rather, by the question “How many artillery shells does Ukraine need to win”. The former question wins political debates; the latter moves policy towards something useful. Similarly, on wildfire prevention and protection, the wrong policy setting question is “what emphases should be placed on competing interests, including wildfire prevention and protection?”, but rather, “What measures can be taken to reduce the risk of a wildfire approaching, and mitigate the damage it causes?” I have heard that it takes as long as three years in California for a controlled burn to happen, due to tiers of government approval with challenges from various groups and organizations. I’m not saying other groups shouldn’t have a say; however the process should be streamlined. Ron DeSantis is not the first Florida governor to perform well in a hurricane. Many predecessors, from either party, have done well. In Florida, a new governor knows, before being sworn in, that he will have to deal with at least one hurricane, and he will be judged by how he performs. California wildfires are on a different tempo. They may be several years apart. They will come, however (and water supply has been an issue for a century). Policy needs to be based on that understanding- they will come.
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