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'stache

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    4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Just a simple clarification. For the first time ever, schools can spend their own revenue, up to $21M, on payments to athletes.

    The NIL model of compensation is not so limited. But it is ostensibly to be coupled to a NIL consideration and is not ostensibly directed by the university or team.

    The NIL collective, which I think Campbell primarily employs, does kind of skirt the intent of NIL. But err'one uses em.

    That's my understanding, the revenue share is limited to $20M (approx.) and there is no real limit on NIL but they have a "clearing house" that is meant to ensure that NIL payments are actual market value for NIL and not pay to play. But that's fucking absurd and will never hold up in court imo. If Big Red Sports and Imports wants to give a guy $3M in exchange for a 10 second radio spot what legal basis can there be to deny that payment? Neither the player nor the company ever agreed to be hamstrung by a "clearing house" nor did they agree to arbitration as discussed on the linked article. And isn't market value whatever someone is willing to pay? If not Big Red Sports and Imports in Norman that player probably could get a similar deal from some cheesy car dealership in Baton Rouge. I'm kind of a broken record but the reason salary caps and other limitations work in the pros is the collective bargaining agreement where the players agreed to those limitations in which they negotiated and usually receive higher salary caps (and therefore higher paychecks). Without that the NCAA and whatever other entities are created to try and limit this stuff will fail in court. I can even see federal legislation failing to reign it in based on constitutional rights to economic freedom (that's a bigger discussion for a different time just throwign it out there because it's definitely an issue).

    https://www.sportico.com/law/analysis/2025/arbitration-nil-clearinghouse-lawsuits-1234855588/

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    1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Indiana looks like an unstoppable force. Of the teams left, Miami is built to turn the game into a rock fight like the Big Ten CCG and somehow stumble into a NC. It would be very unsatisfying, like those NYG Super Bowl winners that derailed clearly better NE teams. Except it would be screwing up a magical year by a non-traditional power. Open question as to whether this is a better system than just matching two teams that had magical years.

    Other scattershots: Lots of griping about the G5 and then a blue blood SEC team and a consensus first round bye pick looked equally inept. And the cold truth is that only ND and Texas have a legit case to complain about being left out; you could have put them in place of Bama and TTU just as easily as JMU or Tulane.

    But ND and Texas are also capable of laying eggs against both good comp and mediocre comp, as demonstrated by the regular season. The uncomfortable reality is that there is no good way to get to the top 4, 12, 16, 24– whatever— without some arbitrary cutoffs and also letting in some teams that aren’t great. There aren’t 12 actual NC contenders.

    Finally, this is the tweet of the year and 95 percent of CFB analysis whether on message boards or from “ball knowers” boils down to this.

    1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    The hot takes of “FRAUD!” every time a team loses is so tiring. It needs to go away in 2026

    Scoring 3 or 0 makes you a fraud tho

    I was having this discussion yesterday, it’s gotten so annoying. Also overreactions to every result and extrapolating it to certainties. What’s really being exposed is the absurdity of realignment, mega conference scheduling, and having to make decisions based on subjectivity and speculation. Aggy and Ole Miss had weak SEC schedules, one flailed out immediately the other is in the semis. Miami didn’t even play for their conference title because of a five way tie atop the ACC and is in the semis while also putting to bed any argument that they didn’t deserve the spot. The Big 12 got one team in which is probably right and isn’t the first CFP shut out, the other two were in the 4 team setup with much larger margins of victory, not to mention that ASU played well just last year. Now we have the bye teams losing (except IU). It all supports my plan to do away with CCGs and have a playin round the first week of December of the 9-24 ranked teams, then a 16 team playoff with games weekly instead of huge time gaps between rounds. I agree with Lanning that the NFL should give December Saturdays back to CFB.

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    I wish they would spread out the better bowl games instead of waiting until after Christmas. Most of the games before yesterday (other than the CFP first round) were totally uninteresting and I guess what this thread title would consider the "shitty" bowl games. I'm not saying they should be done away with but why not TCU v. USC on Dec. 23 in addition to Western Kentucky v. Southern Miss? Some of today's slate would have been nice before Christmas too. If there's money to be made from the .500 team matchups from the supporters of those schools and casual people tuning in when work is slow that's fine but I would really prefer the better matchups not be so condensed into this week.

  4. 4 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

    Did they get those letters pressed on at the kiosk in the mall next to the guy selling cell phones and the Orange Julius stand?

    I don’t know who makes them but they were the official shirts from the Fiesta Bowl given to the players after the game and heavily marketed thereafter. I’m sure there are some folks in the third world still wearing the Stanford version.

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  5. Asking fans to travel to potentially 3 straight neutral sites is fucking insane. I’m pretty sure the venues and the “committee” (whoever gets those profits) make their money from local corporations and richers buying up the suites and lower level seats without caring who ends up playing the games. The venues are making their dough and any $50 tickets they can sell to the plebes is just some extra pocket change.

  6. 3 hours ago, GenXer said:

    Or, an understanding of history and its subsequent effect on current day.

    I always have this loaded up for whenever a stupid (my dad or his buddies) start berating woke. Being from oklahoma, there is an inexplicable soft spot for the plight of native americans amongst the most ardent right wingers.

    The set up: The cherokee were one of the five “civilized “ tribes as I learned in oklahoma history. They took the US to the supreme court to prevent their land from being taken. The cherokee won their case in the supreme court. Then andrew jackson sent the us military to force the cherokee to walk from south carolina, traverse the mississippi river, and walk to oklahoma along what is now known as the trail of tears. Many died along the way.

    I then pose the question: do you believe that the cherokee were put in a disadvantageous position?

    The answer is always a “well.. yeah”

    My response: “congratulations! You’re woke!”

    With a big motherfucking smile.

    Can't say I'm in regular contact with people like this, but a very common response I hear to this stuff is that the Natives lost their wars and should be grateful they weren't completely wiped out. They don't deserve special treatment because of their race (and as someone who works in this area I have to always try to correct people that Native American is not a race is a polical classification).

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