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Texas Wahoo

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  1. From what I can tell, the land was donated to the government for the housing of Veterans and for whatever reason the Department of Veteran Affairs decided to lease it to UCLA, Brentwood School, etc. Presumably they did not want to build housing there (probably the neighbors worried about having formerly homeless vets living in affluent areas), so they leased it at what is clearly way below market rate (at least in the case of the Brentwood school). A group of veterans sued, saying that the land was not being used to house veterans, and the judge agreed. From the first page of the Judge's order:
  2. Antitrust violation. If all of the big tech companies conspired to keep wages down, former Google employees could still sue, even though they voluntarily agreed to work for Google. It's the same for college athletes. They can sue because the schools/NCAA conspired to keep their wages down (by limited/banning NIL and prohibiting the schools from paying players what they are worth. It is not a contract issue, it is an antitrust issue. You cannot contract around the antitrust laws unless it is in the context of negotiating with a union. FYI, from the Judge in the House case in a denial of a motion to dismiss. It summarizes the argument pretty well:
  3. Transfer windows shortening, but they are keeping the second window for football.
  4. I mean, probably in the same situation. If it would have been a first down, you definitely take the points off the board.
  5. It looks like he played in five games (before the bowl) last year.
  6. It is pretty funny if they are not going to broadcast big home games for any of the West Coast schools because it does not fit in their window and then they have Friday games that Michigan and Nebraska have basically said they refuse to play in (anymore for Nebraska). It seems like they are paying for tOSU and Michigan home games and then a bunch of filler.
  7. Fox must have gotten a lot for trading away the first selection this week.
  8. I always assumed they were not in the MWC for other sports because the MWC did not want them for other sports because of the huge added cost of traveling to Hawaii for every sport. Obviously the calculus is different now that the MWC needs another school, but it is still a pain to fly to hawaii for tennis, volleyball, etc. from Wyoming, New Mexico, Reno, etc.
  9. It's probably a bit of an upgrade, but not enough to make the move.
  10. Definitely sounds like the Pac-12 is hoping to get more concrete media numbers and then going back after one or more of the AAC schools.
  11. Good to hear, as UTEP fits better there.
  12. I don't necessarily dispute that a playoff is better than bowl games, but all but two bowl games had better ratings than the FCS championship game last year. Obviously, you would expect a G5 playoff to get somewhat better ratings than FCS, but I think the bowls are buoyed by being in the same group as the P4, so people that wouldn't normally watch G5 teams will watch the bowls because it is all part of the same system.
  13. Doesn't look like it:
  14. This is why the most reasonable explanation for the whole situation is that during the recruitment, Marion told Sluka that there would be a QB competition, but if he ended up being the starter, he would get $100k in NIL. That would explain why nothing was in writing. UNLV would have told Sluka that it could not be in writing because such a contract would be invalid, but they would put it in writing if and when he won the starting job. He won the starting job and kept contacting UNLV and the collective about the money and they kept blowing him off, so he left. Either Marion did not tell others about the promise, or they figured that they could come up with the money if necessary and did not. We will likely never know exactly what was said and by whom, but that explanation makes the most sense to me.
  15. We’ll never know either way. However, the fact that the NFL needed a rule to prevent players from getting drafted out of high school suggests that teams would be drafting those kids if there wasn’t a rule. Given how hard it is to find a QB, I bet Arch would have gone pretty high straight out of high school just on potential.
  16. Baseball is an interesting example, because I wonder how many more young players would get a shot in the big leagues if the compensation structure was not built so that teams benefit from keeping them in the minor leagues longer.
  17. Obviously not Texas-related, but this story about UCLA losing access to their field is wild.
  18. Too good not to share with the football board:
  19. There's always an uncle...
  20. As long as you have cable (or a cable-like streaming serveice), it is probably better. It looks like CBS Sports Network games are not on Paramount Plus, so if you don't have cable, it looks like you're out of luck.
  21. If the NFL had to allow its teams to draft high school athletes (and they do not because they collectively bargained for the three years out of high school rule), they absolutely would draft high school athletes, especially QBs. In this scenario, they obviously wouldn't play in the NFL right away (although great WRs might play as rookies out of HS), but the NFL would develop a system to train them up and then play them when they are ready. Do people really think that not a single team out of the 32 franchises would spend one of their seven rounds of draft picks on Arch Manning out of high school? They would do it just to take the chance on the upside, because they are unlikely to get that chance if he goes to college, unless they have the number one draft pick. Like in the NBA, eventually the teams will start drafting more and more younger players just to stash them for the upside and to keep them away from their competitors. Of course, this will never happen, because the NFL prefers to forbid it so that the players can be developed by the colleges and they do not have to waste that money. The NFLPA also has no incentive to change it, because they would have to give up something in exchange and none of the NFLPA players are in high school or college, so fuck them kids.
  22. It looks like all 20 of the newly sublicensed games will be on CBSSN, while the six already agreed to will stay on CBS, at least according to Paramount. https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-sports/shows/college-basketball/releases/?view=110338-cbs-sports-and-big-12-expand-partnership-with-multi-year-agreement-for-additional-mens-college-basketball-games
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