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  1. 2 hours ago, Apex73 said:

    I agree but it is kind of like he doesn't have the right to say it when the saints say you gotta walk that back to protect our brand.  

    The NFL told players to STFU to protect its brand. That was a big part of the problem.

    2 hours ago, Apex73 said:

    I understand they have a right to protect their brand.  Doesn't change the fact that he had to change what he said according to the narrative.  So its basically like I said, your'e not allowed to have the opinion if it gos against the narrative.

    You keep saying “the narrative” as though it’s just something made up out of nowhere. What you’re really talking about is very strong feelings by a lot of players in the NFL. Dismissing it as “a narrative” is just as tone deaf and insulting as Brees dismissing the reasons repeatedly given for the kneeling as not disrespect for the country and soldiers etc. 

    Brees had every right to double down if he wanted to and others would have the right to hammer it as dismissive and insulting. He didn’t do that and I hope he’s genuine about it.

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  2.  And Kansas’ part of this did in fact include payments to players who then played so were ineligible. So even a “lone actor” defense is weaker because the program benefited on the court. They have five level 1 violations. The NCAA is already throwing out “each case is different dont consider this precedent” (which in and of itself is absurd because if you are enforcing rules and regulations is sort of a big deal in every democratic form or rules enforcement that precedents matter). If KU gets the same or less it will be so absurd I just won’t be able to care anymore. Which sucks because I love my school and our teams and I hate to stop supporting them but any and all joy is just absent with this type of rigged dumbshittery.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Dude, what? Of course cheating happens, but even the FBI concluded that he was operating solely on his own behalf and the NCAA concurred in their own investigation, so I'm not sure where you're getting basically any of this. Basically everyone involved agreed that OSU was a victim in this case.

    And agreed we never played an ineligible player. The reason you punish the institution for “lone actors” is because the school gets a competitive advantage by paying players, cheating academically to keep them eligible, having ineligible players winning games for you while the rule followers suspend their own, shit like that. It’s also to encourage compliance offices to work extra hard. We had one player who received $300 and compliance found it out immediately. We reported it, made him pay it back, sat him three games, and the NCAA cleared him to play again.

    Evans was committing a federal fucking crime to enrich solely himself. The fucking FBI didn’t know about it until someone ratted them out in an SEC ( Securities Exchange Commission) investigation. What in any of NCAA compliance training makes one to expect them to have the training or ability to complete with the F B FUCKING I and the Securities Exchange Commission in investigating federal financial crimes! Where is school compliance supposed to fit into this discovery? This makes no fucking sense other than the NCAA being shitheads as usual to non bluebloods.

     

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  4. I mean, if punishment is to deter future problems, how is this going to help programs find out about coaches acting alone through conspiracies with others? I mean, when the school participates in cheating and attempts to hide it, that is what punishments are for. Evans' conspiracy was intentionally designed to avoid being caught by the program compliance office!!!!! It's not like them turning a blind eye the entire thing was designed to not be found by the school officials!! And it wasn't found out by school officials until the FBI was tipped off to federal crimes by individuals not schools. I'm just completely dumbfounded.

  5. I've been wondering if I was missing something, if maybe Boynton played a role that had not yet been disclosed, or if there were recruiting issues that had just not been made public. Nope. NCAA agreed that Evans acted alone, for his own personal gain, and that the program did not benefit in recruiting or otherwise. I truly hope other programs will come out and hammer the NCAA for shit like this from the NCAA. The rules are designed to avoid competetive advantages through cheating. THAT DIDN'T FUCKING HAPPEN HERE!!! I seriously cannot wrap my brain around this nonsense. Please blue-bloods, speak out! This is fucking absurd!!!!

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  6. When OSU signed Gerald Green but he went pro, the one-and-done rule was enacted shortly thereafter. When OSU was screwed by the voters in 2011 with Alabama making the BCS title game, a four-team playoff was enacted the following year. If there is any justice in any of this, the NCAA will have its balls chopped off for this type of overzealous shit and reforms will happen, and like the past examples, if and when it happens, it will be too late for OSU to benefit. 

    I read a little more on this and I still can't wrap my head around why the program needed a quasi-death penalty. The old jokes are seriously being proven true yet again (punish the lesser because of corruption among the blue-bloods to show they "care" about the rules). I just don't get it, and I really hope there is outcry outside of OSU for this ridiculous over-policing. We should have seriously just paid players outright for five star recruits. There is literally nothing worse that could have happened.

    I seriously may be done with sports. I'm finding that the cancellations haven't affected me very hard. I really only follow OSU football, basketball, and baseball, and the Dallas Cowboys. If Mike McCarthy sucks as bad as Jason Garrett, I'll seriously find something better to do with my weekends.  

  7. 3 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    For a little more perspective, Baylor received essentially the same punishment for their coach covering up the murder of one player by another.

    Don't forget he tried to promote a lie that the dead kid was some sort of drug selling gangster. Oh 

  8. I seriously don’t understand. What Evans did was to benefit himself not the program. He was brought here by Underwood. The player was suspended for three games internally for what was found at the time. If KU isn’t shut down permanently I may just stop watching sports altogether.

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  9. 1 hour ago, wild_turkey said:

    I understand why Brees feels the way he does about the flag and why he wants to stand. That’s normal for him and many Americans.

    But his comments show that he disapproves of Kaepernick or any other playing kneeling, which is dismissive of their cause and completely insensitive to the current problems surrounding race in our country. He picked the worst possible time to voice his opinion and it was completely unnecessary. It’s not like a reporter caught him at the end of a game. He did a Zoom interview with Yahoo of all things.

    He’s been vilified and he has now apologized. Hopefully people accept the apology and redirect attention where it’s needed because I also don’t think we as a society should ostracize people for isolated mistakes. Then again, I’m not black and I don’t presume to speak for black people on how Drew Brees should be viewed moving forward.

    I think the flag is very important as a symbol of our nation, but I think our nation is currently broken and needs fixing. I don’t expect everyone to want to respect the flag currently, but my hope is that we can improve ourselves to the point that we all feel united in the future and we can all stand proudly together. We obviously aren’t there yet. We have work to do.

    This. He’s been told that it’s not about disrespecting the flag or the country or soldiers but about calling attention to inequities that need to be redressed in this country. Surely he knows or was told that there are plenty of black grandfathers who fought under that flag and were greeted back home with dogs and hoses for sitting at a lunch counter. This has been debated for years now and here we are with him yet again claiming it’s disrespect and dismissing their stated intentions. Saying he “missed the mark” is vague as hell. And it’s hard to take him seriously since “the mark” has been stated over and over and over again since Kap first kneeled. This apology may be good enough to move forward peaceably in the locker room but I’m skeptical he truly gets it now after all these years.

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  10. 15 hours ago, Blotto said:

    This one cracks me up. 2nd video in the embed, the husband just leaves.  4th video, after the cops wont come in a timely fashion, she asks the chick she is harassing if she would walk to the cops with her. Here's the  a photo of the chick she was harassing, because.....tits.

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    If she doesn't want to be hassled, she should stop being so rude.

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  11. So he went to two churches, and neither expected or wanted him there. It's almost as though he doesn't have a regular church that he could go to and be welcomed, yet the idiot religious types insist he's more christian than Obama and the libruls. Why didn't he just go to one of those fraudulent fuckstain megachurces in Dallas and Houston where they would be more than happy to embrace him and use the photos for tax-free fundraising?

  12. 17 hours ago, blacklab said:

    I knew someone would complain about the wording of the poll, and I knew which way they were going to vote

    examples of current events I consider ok:

    • Protesters were moved out of the way for the president to move
    • The president had a photo op at the church

    actual examples of political talk from last night discussing the same event:

    • Why do y’all argue with that meth headed fascist?
    • You are a dumbass
    • Bro do you even orange man bad?
    • List the virtues of Jesus Christ’s teachings that Donald Trump embodies....
    • Yeah says the party of civil war cosplayers when they can’t get their hair cut 
    • Yeah, says the party of actually burning shit down.
    • Says the party that embraces white supremacists and turn a blind eye to their instigation 

     

     

    This seems like a fair split. But even the first too, the snowflakes will still "aaaaagh CR motha fucka AAAAAAHHHH!"

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  13. 10 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    A reminder to every member of the military:

     

    Remember the first three words of that Constitution you've sworn an oath to defend: "We the people."  Don't fucking forget it.

    And from the UCMJ:

    When Barr, or Trump, or Esper, order you to violate the Constitution.....don't.  Refuse the order.  Record the order, and all interactions related to the order.  Obtain legal counsel promptly.  But keep your oath.

    You realize his cult thinks that people who make their dear leader look bad are domestic enemies, right? Our hope is that a significant few in high positions interpret it correctly and see what the history books will day. They need to stand up to him and refuse unconstitutional orders to use military force against their own citizens within their own borders. And no resigning. Refuse the orders and make him try to fire you publicly. See whose loyal to the people and who is loyal to the traitor in chief.

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  14. 5 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

    I would challenge this. And I would preface with saying I get where you are coming from and I think it's an intuitive stance based on what we know of a) human history b) the human condition and c) the conflation of an idea of private police with private prisons (not saying this is you, but it struck me as an obstacle to overcome in the hearts and minds of folks).

    I think there could be an argument made that public police is worse for black people than any forecasted model of what private police would look like, if approached from the ground up and transformational way I generally spoke about.

    You cannot convince me that the absolute worst of unregulated capitalism would not infect this proposal. The private prisons analogy is unavoidable. I'm sure they didn't start from the "ground up" with a policy that people in prison would be a financial benefit to private shareholders, but here we are, and private police would be the same.  The second you throw in profit and loss statements, it's no longer a police force, it's a business. As a practical matter, I think you would have a legal obstacle in delegating the state's police powers to a private corporation (which I believe is a problem with private prisons too but not as clearly as privatizing the active exercise of police powers).

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  15. Here's a thought. Defund police, shrink these police forces, reallocate to other areas that can help. We don't need police monitoring traffic and responding to every person in distress. Fund other agencies to try and prevent these things in alternative ways and respond in ways that don't require armed police. Make armed officers smaller more elite for use in limited circumstances that require it, with higher pay, higher prestige, and in return they will be held to a much higher standard for their deadly conduct. Include a much higher payout on death to the family. Being part of this armed force comes with risk that needs to be accepted and acknowledge, not something that you feel you need to use force to protect yourself at all costs. The focus should be on the people you are policing, including those who have acted illegally.  

    https://newrepublic.com/article/157875/pandemic-right-time-defund-police?fbclid=IwAR2uLKdJwwWqZoCubbp7TELGKuBUiACdTCwBUayFICVQqVRDhZajenzc790

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  16. 51 minutes ago, GopherRock said:

    Bob Kroll and the MPD union finally break a week of radio silence. File this under T for tone deaf. 

     

    So it's a political organization. One would expect at least half of any group of people to be of a different political view. That is concerning.

    Edited to avoid a CR issue, despite the fact that this statement includes a direct political message

  17. Just now, Chuckie Finster said:

    So, uh, who is ready for the battle at the White House tonight?
     

    “Protest peacefully and you’ll be heard.” LOL!!! No, you’ll get mocked. There is literally no hope. Burn it all down.

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