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Royalfan5

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  1. 25 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    yeah, so clamoring about 'pedophile rings' and child sex trafficking has suddenly seemed to dominate the feed for a couple of my friends in recent weeks...what's going on there? is it just Maxwell fallout, or has something else happened recently in the news?

    i mean, it's pretty much the most awful thing you could imagine...but i'm trying to gage if there's really suddenly some horrific uptick in what's happening...or if this is pizzagate stuff just resurfacing...🤨 

    and...WHY do i keep seeing vague sinister references to Tom Hanks??

    Because it's easy to scream about horrible things, and try to pin everything evil on people you don't like rather the accepting the reality that if a kids getting molested it's probably by somebody you know and trust, and probably ignored red flags about. It's a lot easier to believe that the big bad world is scary, and that your little bubble isn't, even if your little bubble is probably filled with fucked upness that you've just become accustomed too.  

  2. 5 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Taking Nebraska back would be akin to taking back your psycho ex girlfriend that left 9 years ago in search of some new dick, and talked mad shit on her way out the door. Now upon learning that the cocks aren't always girthier on the other side, she's back talking about the good times . Except those intervening years have been hard, and she's now packing an extra 50lbs and a meth habit. Yeah......taking her back seems like a GREAT idea. She absolutely won't be the same psycho she was 9 years ago. She's changed, lulz.

    Gained 50lb and has a meth habit, seems like it'd have to be one or the other. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Ted Dantzler said:

    Being a Kstate fan I agree with this 100%. They beat up on Kstate and the other Big8 schools (minus OU) for 60+ years, just pummeling our faces in while smiling about what great fans they are. When Kstate finally started beating NU consistently (5-2 from 98-04) they couldn't take it and fired Solich which started their downward spiral to where they are now. Then they left us and their 100+ year history with the Big8 schools to prove they were still relevant. 

    I would have loved nothing more than to have spent the last 10 years jumping up and down on their dying corpse as corn kernels shot from their mouth like BB's. 

    I want them back in the Big12 for that reason alone, to kick them while they are down until there is no more leather left on my shoes. 

    So I've more or less converted to being a K-State fan by being about to marry into it. It's amazing how much more fun it's been than having to deal with Nebraska fans and assorted bullshit, and MHK is a pretty easy drive. 

  4. 40 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Football or no, I think this is the end of Nebraska in the Big 10.  It was a mistake for both parties.

    The people in my office here in Lincoln did not see the humor in me pointing out that this was Tom Osborne's fuck up in the first place. 

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  5. 3 minutes ago, J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. said:

    Still can't believe Frost is that bad at corn after what he did in Orlando.  He had the worst coaching effect in FBS last year, -4 games!

     

    Well his dad couldn't win the second smallest 11-man class in the state with Scott Frost at QB so maybe it runs in the family. 

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  6. Hopefully we can get to the point where everyone can recognize the fucked up structure of college football is the biggest roadblock towards moving ahead at this point. Hopefully it doesn't get replaced with something just as fucked up, like when the Red's replaced the Tsar's unitary monarchy. 

  7. 20 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    No state bailouts!1!! 

     

    With the sudden manifestation of this right before the season started, there was surely nothing that could have been done. 

  8. 2 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Who else could get drafted at all in a reasonable position without a big next season?  I think that he is the extent of the list. 
    And- if college decides to play in the spring (they won’t) the nfl will surely push the draft back until after the season. They will want the tape and won’t want to take the injury risk. 

    Or they could do what baseball did and seriously shorten the draft and create a free agent free for all for the rest 

  9. Also at what point are we going to start seeing draconian budget cuts at the state and local level? The right wants to scream about defunding the police, but the economy is going to do that well before the left does. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, TXSG8R said:

    So raiding FEMA means we are going to have the biggest hurricane season on record, right?  

    They’ve already been talking about expecting to roll into Greek letters for storm names 

  11. 9 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Those schools will be the least receptive to a proposal that they increase their operating costs while giving half the revenue to the players.   They might even have a better argument for a force majeure claim with the lender depending on the loan agreement if there’s essentially a labor strike that makes football impossible.  Regardless, they’re only really losing if they thought the revenue would be substantial enough to cover the debt if they play, which probably isn’t the case if they can’t have fans at football games but still have to operate all their money losing sports.

    The court case on a labor strike by “amateurs” would be fascinating. 

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  12. 2 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    The players will fold.  They’ll have some way to save face and act like whatever fig leaf the schools give them really was a great deal, but ultimately (a) they want to play football and (b) they are the ones who stand to lose the most if they refuse to perform their side of the deal that got them into PAC 12 athletics in the first place.

    I mean, if there were ever a time when they could try to hold up the machine for some compensation it’s definitely now, but their problem is still ultimately that they need to play worse than the schools need them to play.  
     

    The extreme opening position might especially hurt them in this case, because like lots of businesses, I bet a lot of athletic departments probably would save more money if they have an excuse to cancel all sports instead of trying to go forward with only 25 % (or zero) paid attendance at games, reduced schedules that don’t fill up the usual tv contracts, etc.   If football is fucked this year anyway, then they definitely are better off pulling the plug on everything.   Don’t give them a reason.

    Except for schools that need revenue to service debt on CapEx. 

  13. At some point you’d think that going to an intramural and club sport model would serve the students of the university better rather than running two sports to fund other sports, which are made more expensive to run by being tied to those two sports. 

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