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We are going to be ok at EDGE this season y’all:
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I'M PAT MCAFEE AND MY NORMAL VOICE IS YELLING! EVERYTHING IS A YELL!!!!! LET ME TELL YOU HOW PUMPED I AM ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!11
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You need to go smoke some of that weed and chill the fuck out. I never said cheaters don't suck, so get those words outta my mouth. I said the NCAA can't do shit about it, and that's by design.
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That means less than nothing. An asterisk, oh no! They can't take the trophy back. There is no effective punishment the NCAA can dole out. Post-season ban? Punishes future players who had nothing to do with the infraction. Punish the coach? Oh the one who is gone to the NFL now? Fines? UM will laugh at that and can afford it. Scholarship reductions? The boosters will replace them with NIL deals of equal or more value. If this were Texas we'd have our middle finger held high for the world to see as we basked in our championship. The UM alumnus I know are doing the same. If I ask them would they rather have a Championship* or Lloyd Carr the answer is crystal clear. So yeah they cheated and they got away with it. If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin'
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The NCAA doesn't give the title trophy, the CFP does. NCAA != CFP and the NCAA can't revoke a title they never gave for that reason. It's popular to bash the NCAA. Remember that the NCAA was created at the behest of and with the buy-in and support of the universities that created it, like UT and all of our new SEC friends, the B1G members, and so on. They created the NCAA to do what they struggled to do themselves but wanted, which was to provide governance and more importantly to be a punching bag for all the unpopular decisions they didn't want to put their stamp on, like scholarship limits, academic standards, retaining amateurism, and penalizing rule breakers. It's a heck of a lot easier to sit back and say "those corrupt fat fucks at the NCAA are holding us down" "They're the ones preventing athletes from monetizing their NIL!" Why do you think the NCAA did any of that? Why do you think they held on so long that they get bitchslapped at the SCOTUS? It wasn't for fun, it was because their membership wanted it. Now with all the money in major college football, there is a schism in the NCAA membership between the have's like UT in Power 2 and the have not's in the G7 and below. With the P2 programs turning profit it's no longer a "sports problem," it's a "sports opportunity" and the university presidents at those places are starting to care more. Board members like Eltife are even getting involved at a level previously not seen publicly. The power conferences are going to split off soon in football to establish more permissive rules for scholarships, recruiting, etc. They will form a new body, like the NCAA but just for major college football. The NCAA won't die, they don't even want to govern major college football because they don't make money on it and only get headaches. So yeah I can empathize with NCAA, they're stuck in the middle between stakeholders who want diametrically opposed things. They can't pick a winner because their membership is both. They can't split the middle either. Every choice is a losing choice for them. They've also had some truly foot-in-the-mouth leadership along the way too, which doesn't help. Also fuck you for making me defend the NCAA.
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2024 Fall Camp Thread - Bubble Wrap ALL THE RB
Horn of Gabriel replied to texifornia's topic in Football
I just want to know if they can pass pro. I'm not worried about their ability to run. -
Finally, FINALLY a game that accurately depicts college football. I for one appreciate having 5 of the top 5 Heisman candidates. I'm 3 games into the season and Trey Moore is a cheat code, I have about 25 sacks with him in 3 games. Looking forward to our 100 point MoV this year, anything less is a disappointment.
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Official Coach Sark Thread of Dominance—haters back off
Horn of Gabriel replied to SimkinsMan's topic in Football
Well that definitely won't be turned into a meme! -
If she's on metformin it's 99.999% gonna be Type 2. Which was always going to be anyway considering her age and genetics and the population at large. 9 out of 10 diabetics are Type 2. Type 2 usually presents later in life, and can be managed via diet and lifestyle - sometimes even eliminating the need for drugs, but not always. Type 2 is strongly genetically typed, so your kids will need to look out for it. Certain populations (Native American, Hispanic) are more susceptible. Type 2 you usually still make your own insulin, just your body becomes less and less sensitive to it. Drugs like metformin can increase your sensitivity, as can weight loss and changing your diet. Most Type 2's don't require supplemental exogenous insulin, but those who can't/won't make the lifestyle changes might require it. Type 2 is where the diabeetus memes come from. Type 1 (formerly "juvenile") diabetes typically presents in childhood/teens, but over the past few decades later incidences in life have become more common. I was diagnosed Type 1 at 29 years old, and didn't have symptoms until that year. Type 1 is not strongly genetically typed, my kids have only a ~3% elevated chance of getting it because I have it. They don't know the cause of Type 1, it's an autoimmune condition and theories range from a virus to environmental to stress. Regardless in Type 1 your body attacks your insulin producing cells and kills them off so as someone said upthread you must take exogenous insulin - as I do via an insulin pump. My insulin sensitivity however is fine, I just don't make any.
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Same. I do really like how they did the mini games, they're kinda fun and challenging to get gold, especially if you're against Georgia's defense.
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Official Coach Sark Thread of Dominance—haters back off
Horn of Gabriel replied to SimkinsMan's topic in Football
Pate is the worst of the college football commentators, except for all the others. -
The most unrealistic part of that video is Texas playing @ Tech. That ain't ever happening again.
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Castle has a good floor with his defense and athleticism. I wonder on his ceiling, I think he can be a starting PG in the NBA and hopefully will really soak it up from Chris Paul this year. His handle is good but he's tall + vertical in his lean and dribbles a bit high, better defenders will rip him. TBH I read him as a good handling SG who could take PG minutes but not the primary ball handler role...but am willing to see where it goes. If he wants to be a true PG and develops that way, awesome. His skillset today to me seems 3 & D + explosive slasher with good vision more than PNR God + primary ball handler. Then again Tony didn't really have the "assist PG" early either he was more of a penetrate to score and then dish to a wide open Duncan and "no-matter-what-don't-turn-over-the-damn-ball" after Pop bashed that into his skull.
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I have a friend who is breaking out on her own as a personal trainer after a few years working for the Globogyms. She'd like some help from a lawyer looking at her waiver to make sure her bases are covered. She's in Austin area. Any recommendations?
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Deion Sanders "Coach Prime" Now At Colorado
Horn of Gabriel replied to Don Johnson's topic in Football
Not sure all his teammates not going to his concert is the flex he thinks it is -
Never let Steve Patterson see this
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How do you really feel though? In the context of draft picks vs. a known quantity, Young could be a deal if we got him for the right stuff. Draft is lotto ticket and it's kinda like funding a startup company. Out of 10, 2-3 will bust, 3-4 will be so-so, two will be above average and one will be HOF level. Young is not HOF level but he's between that and "above average." And he's also still young. I wouldn't give two first round picks but a first and two seconds I might think about. I'm guessing that Pop can get some more defensive effort from him, and his ability to beat his man and create chaos in the lane + vision would unlock Wemby more. Add some shooters (much easier to find) to do 3 and D and all the sudden you have a team. It's about chemistry and effort from there. Great Spurs teams of the past 25 years have never been all young guns, it's always been a combo of veteran leadership and young blood. If we're building mostly via draft we get another year of drafting, another year of "learning what works," followed by a year of "now that we know what works let's learn to play together," followed by a year of "let's fine tune the chemistry and find the missing pieces." Pretty soon you look up and Wemby is in year 6-7, he could be getting frustrated as would the fans and you know he'll have people in his ear about NY, LA, Miami, etc. And that's IF there aren't injuries along the way or an uncle that pops up. Whatever, this isn't in my circle of control, and there's so much luck involved as well as everything else - why worry about it? Just enjoy watching a generational talent while he's here and hopefully he turns into something amazing. In the pantheon of basketball fandom I'm playing with house money as a 40 year old Spurs fan at this point.
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We couldn't get a country star?
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Damn I'm glad I got under the shade during the Herman era 😖
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The real reason college football will fail
Horn of Gabriel replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in Football
Donation is already non-deductible? Also any school in the B1G, SEC, B12, or ACC if you broke out football alone would be profit making. ISU as an example will be $31.7MM/yr on the new B12 TV deal, and they're bringing in $16.19MM in football-only ticket sales. That's $48MM in revenues before we even get to brand licensing, etc. They're not spending that on football. Campbell makes $4MM/yr, with a $3MM assistant pool. So that's ~$7MM. The 85 scholarships true cost is incremental to the university to let an extra student or two or 85 sit in courses. Their internal cost is no where near what they charge students in fees, which ISU pegs at $22,295. Their true cost is less than that but let's apply that full amount here, $22,295 * 85 = $1.895MM. ISU's total spend on all sports team travel last year was ~$7.5MM, let's stick football with half of that or $4MM. Now we're up to ~$13MM in expenses against almost $50MM in revenues. Even if you add in capital expenditure amortization like stadium costs and other facilities, overhead for AD staff, etc, there's plenty of room for "profit." But if you don't believe my back of the napkin math, the Iowa St. student newspaper published all of this data for 2023. Football had $53.2MM in revenue against $27.7MM in expenses, a profit of $25.4MM. Today, Athletic Departments don't ever turn a "profit," because they want to be non-profit. But they have to spend the money; in cases of smaller schools the football overage fully funds everything else aside from Men's basketball which generates about 2x its cost. In larger "more profitable" ADs like UT, Ohio State, etc we've traditionally spent that money on coaching and the facilities arms race. Or in the case of UT we turn some money back over to the academic side. Out of curiosity I looked at a few other smaller teams... Boise State, Mountain West Conference Football-only expenses: $18.4MM Football-only revenues (TV, ticket sales): $25.6MM Surplus: $7.2MM Florida International University, Conference USA Football-only expenses: $13.3MM Football-only revenues: $11.8MM Surplus: $1.5MM Texas State, Sun Belt Conference Football-only expenses: 13MM Football-only revenues: $3.8MM Loss: $9.2MM There is some level where football can't stand on its own, but the line is drawn further down on the list than you might think. And even those who turn a "loss" make up the gap with student fees if they have sufficient desire to keep the program. -
Fans wearing long sleeves? To a day game? At Texas? WTF, will not buy.
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The real reason college football will fail
Horn of Gabriel replied to BurntOrange&White's topic in Football
Staples said on the Feldman pod that it was likely to be structured as a sort of loan. You get $xxMM now and the PE firm wants 20% of your growth over $x/year going forward for a period of time. Kinda like a tax or Income Sharing Agreement (ISA). That gives a way to ADs to sell it to their president as "free" money with downside protection (if you don't grow you don't pay), and the PE firm is betting that the growth in college football is going to continue and they get a cut of it.
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