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Brian Fantana

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  1. It really just goes to show you how badly Kliff ran this program into the ground when you consider the QBs he coached at Tech, an eventual #1 overall pick and a legit transcendent once-in-a-generation talent in Mahomes and he couldn't reach .500 in conference play.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Thermos H. Christ said:

    Why would the scholarship benefits become taxable? Pretty sure lots of non-athlete students have income from other sources, and that doesn't make their scholarships taxable income.

    Why would the question be whether they can earn more than what they get now? Are they going to stop getting what they get now? And why would that be the case? If the school can afford to hand out scholarships now, they can afford to hand out scholarships whether or not the athletes have income from third parties. It's irrelevant.

    If you have a job as a scholarship student, then your income does become taxable at a certain threshold (I'm not sure of the actual number). I imagine the same would apply to scholarship student athletes that get money from endorsement deals, etc.

  3. 2 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Rasir Bolton (Penn State transfer) was granted immediate eligibility for us, which is awesome.

    We should be a decent, just off-the-bubble type of squad that finishes a game or so above .500 in league play.  I have a feeling that despite having less overall talent, this team will be far more enjoyable to watch than last year's up-and-down talented, but wildly inconsistent squad.

    Tech is waiting for a waiver for Joel Ntambwe (UNLV transfer). Legit could be the difference for us in the hunt for another Big 12 title. I feel like the NCAA is going to screw him though, just a gut feeling.

  4. 4 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Tech is laughably bad.  

    That's the good thing about having a good basketball program now. I can just watch good football games and not give a fuck about how shit our football program is now.

  5. KU breaks the rules but let's not pretend there's any moral argument against allowing college athletes to profit from their skillset. I'm not going to pretend to believe that a former player giving a current player a few c-notes or a pair of shoes is some hellworthy trespass either.

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  6. 26 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    Fellow player from high school days? Tech? pro days?

    Details are short, but that's some coward shit all the ways through on multiple levels.  Just wondering from what part of his past this cat was from.

    Fellow player as in someone who played in some of the Dallas leagues with him.

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  7. Someone on the Tech rivals site is reporting that the shooter was caught at the airport trying to leave the country, and that it was a fellow player. As yet unverified but pretty shocking, if true. That video seems to me like it was not a robbery. Thieves probably wouldn't have chased him down the street.

  8. It was Nick Valdez and Dre and, from what I remember, they missed a shootaround before a road game in Austin. Knight told them they could rejoin the team after running 1500 full court sprints over 48 hours or something like that. Valdez immediately quit the team, and Dre did his punishment because he didn't want to disappoint his momma or his teammates.

  9. Aside from his family, Coach Beard and Coach Knight have to be devastated about this. They turned that boy into a man and thought very highly of him. I never heard a bad thing about Dre. I hope they dedicate this season to him.

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  10. 8 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Talk about doubling down on stupid.  These are WIRELESS.

    fucking lol

    See it's comments like these that make it abundantly clear that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. I work in advanced wireless R&D, I can assure you I am aware of the difference.

    I told you earlier that the price tiering and gouging that occurs in the wireless arena is already bleeding over into ISPs and will get worse if there is no regulation. Not only that, but the line between wireless and direct line ISPs is blurring more and every day and within a decade they will be synonymous, just like what happened with cell phones/landlines.

    There's a reason the US is effectively the only country in the world with ISP data caps (they do exist to a minor degree in a few other countries, but on the upstream side only), which make no fucking sense at all with modern Internet infrastructure, yet we they are now pervasive among American ISPs for no good reason other than to bilk the consumer out of more money. Net neutrality is simply a means to protect the consumer from predatory practices.

  11. 1 hour ago, Incredulity said:

    Talk about pantsing yourself.

    yup, I’m the one who doesn’t understand.

    Leftist fucking drivel. 

    I'm still waiting to hear your explanation of why regulation to prevent telecom companies from fleecing their customers is a bad thing.

    15 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Of course you do.

    A Wikipedia link, really?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/technology/FTC-says-ATT-deceived-consumers-on-unlimited-data-plan.html

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2019/08/19/wireless-carrier-throttling-online-video-pervasive/Kduc91RgQ3AxM8UEhItYoM/story.html

  12. 7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Now, I understand that streaming video, without regard to content, has been throttled on wireless networks for technical/bandwidth reasons.  That is more similar to what NN aims to prevent, but still isn't unlawful if all streaming video is throttled.

    When comcast starts letting NBCVideoNow get full bandwidth, while restricting Netflix and HBONow, that would be illegal under NN.

    Yeah, that is what I meant. All streaming is not throttled, not all the time, and not if you pay enough. That's the current state.

    Edit: For example, ATT's $40 unlimited plan only allows streaming at 480p, even though you have access to much more bandwidth than that, but you can pay more to stream faster. That's the desired endgame for ISPs, at best.

    Not all of them do that, Google Fi doesn't, for example, but there biggest telecom companies already do this crap.

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