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bad_teammate

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  1. No shit. That's Sooner Magic level luck right there.
  2. Absolutely fucking idiotic by Gbenda. Fucking moron
  3. no no no, let's twirl around in circles in the backfield for 3-4 seconds BEFORE doing something with the ball it's cute
  4. Let's roll with this. I'm calling the PR department to trot this out.
  5. What a cute little play to lose 100 yards
  6. They are going to rule it catch/fumble. No way they don't give bama this gift
  7. WR love to keep going outside even when they have a cutback lane and a clean block.
  8. It's self-selected; you even understand the mechanism of it. Jesus Christ. You look at your self-selected social media stream and are so gratified and validated by your echo chamber that you decide it is representative of the world. You're the intellectual equivalent of an Angel Reese layup. Athletes are, by and large, fairly stupid. They say and do dumb crap all the time and get roasted for it all the time. This isn't some kind of profound outlier. Rogers denied Sandy Hook. Irving has made a career of idiocy (I love him, though). Sprewell desperate to feed his family. Rodman went to North Korea. You're an idiot. But your stupidity is a separate issue from A'ja Wilson herself and what she's been saying. Happy to talk about that, too. As mentioned earlier, athletes are fairly dumb. The WNBA has been a small, insular community for a long time with fairly homogenous politics, so the kind of whining, lazy, self-serving thinking we see from Wilson here makes sense to me as a dumb athlete's take on a complex issue as would develop in an echo chamber like the WNBA has been up until this point. Racial privilege is a real thing and it has some terrible consequences, but not for A'ja Wilson and not in this world of professional sports. It is an important concept when it comes to who the cops will or will not shoot to death, but it's frivolous to bring it up when complaining about potentially having less access to high-paying advertising endorsements. It's shallow and vain and vacuous and stupid. Like athletes often are.
  9. This says far more about your self-selected social media world than it does about anything having to do with the reality outside your own head. Derka: "OH MY GOD A'JA WILSON IS GETTING UNIVERSALLY ROASTED!" 99.9% of America: "Who is A'ja Wilson?" I'm sure the people you follow, who also hate women's basketball with the fury of a thousand suns, are mad at women's basketball. Just like they were yesterday and they will be tomorrow based on literally anything they can find to get fuel into the furnace. What a unique and compelling revelation. I bet FOX will be mad at Democrats and MSNBC will be mad at Republicans today and tomorrow, too. There are interesting conversations to be had about how the inherently political nature of professional women's basketball as it's developed over the years intersects with this wider audience that Clark brings. An interesting one to me is how much those who use Clark as a weapon against woke-lib-minority politics actually like or agree with Caitlin herself as a person and whatever her views might be. How many times will Clark herself speak out against toxic attacks on her fellow WNBA athletes before the same brigade of social-media-fed angry white dudes throw her aside? I have a feeling she's extremely aware of how quickly love turns to hate and part of her rationale for keeping her head down as much as possible is to protect herself from that particular wedge of her "fan" pie.
  10. For the experts and lawyers, do the the upcoming changes (legalized pay-for-play) mean this will get cut out? i.e. - language in contracts saying that sitting out uninjured or even threatening to sit out for higher pay will lead to financial withholding or even penalties?
  11. Probably not that directly, but I think it's pretty foolish to believe there's no boost to Lambo's profile among its target segment (new money, flashy wealthy) when high-profile athletes are featured.
  12. A lot, yes, but not nearly "all". Verbal agreements were a major component in the final outcome. But definitely not a simple spit-shake on a 4-wheeler lol
  13. Ask Pennzoil and Texaco how necessary papers are when it comes to a contract. Billions can hang in the balance on a verbal agreement.
  14. I don't see how revenue sharing and university-funded NIL could legally preclude/negate 3rd party NIL deals. If Texas pays Manning $1M directly, what actually stops me from paying Manning $50k to show up to a few publicity events wearing my company's t-shirt?
  15. If he was offered money he never got, then his options were to do this or to sacrifice his final year of eligibility to further the career of the coach(es) who lied to him in the first place. Seems pretty obvious to me that he's making the right call IF he was lied to about money by UNLV. And I'm not going to ever be mad at a college kid for not being good at contracts and agents. It's up to the institution to safeguard all that and be a mile above reproach.
  16. "Putting all our hopes on a redshirt freshman was a fool's errand... this TRUE freshman, however, he's the answer to our prayers!"
  17. Imagine being in a position where you've paid that much money and you're desperately trying to draw fucking Bowling Green offsides. A&M is fucking dogshit
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