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  1. 2 hours ago, Texzilla588 said:


    The risks they take? To play football? High school cheerleaders have a higher rate of serious injury. We have soldiers in Syria taking incoming fire every fucking day. They don’t get a couple mill. Cops don’t start at that salary. Or electricians. Fishermen. Lots more dangerous jobs. Oh they also got the opportunity to get a free college degree in there.
     

    At the end of the day, there are only 1696 men every year that can call themselves active NFL players, a majority of which do not have guaranteed contracts.  In comparison, there are approximately 2400 Navy SEALs currently serving in the US Navy.  Texas has approximately 140,000 licensed police officers.  Risk isn't just mortality rate, it's also the return on the work you've invested and the likelihood of long-term success versus the chance of losing everything you've put in to making it.  There are many, many less risky ways of making a million dollars than playing in the NFL.  Playing a pro sport isn't a game to them.  Being a professional athlete or entertainer is really hard, and it's a shame more fans don't appreciate that. 

  2. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    It's almost as if you haven't read what I wrote.

    I've read it, I just take issue with your focus on the money and comparing these men to average Americans.  The players earned the money, and truth be told, it isn't enough compared to the risks they take.  Getting fleeced out of the money they actually get to keep is just the tip of the iceberg of the dirtiness of professional sports.  

  3. 49 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Of course you need an income producing career.  HS teacher, car salesman, insurance, whatever.  But $2M in the bank when you're 25 years old is WAY better than the vast majority of Americans.  Let's not understate the amount of financial fuckery that goes on.

    Except that $2M is best case scenario for a vast number of players. The point I was trying to make is that, even in the NFL, you have a bimodal distribution of compensation that is far worse than people realize.  By promulgating the idea that every draftee is set for life, the system fucks these players just as much or more than their own financial stupidity, and that's after they survive the gauntlet of challenges just to make it to being drafted.  These players also have worked a fuck-ton harder than the average American to get where they are at 21-22.  And let's be honest, how many of us didn't just blow everything we had at that age?  Billionaire owners are getting rich, the cream of the crop talent gets paid the fuck-you money, and everybody else gets churned out with hopefully a little to save to get them to their pension and a decent interview story.      

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  4. 20 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Yeah, I know these guys live in a world that goes through money like shit through a goose, but a few mil SHOULD be able to set a smart person up for life.

    It never does.  Maybe they're not smart.

    The average NFL player plays 3.3 years.  For every guy that hits a second contract, many more wash out after a couple of years.  Once you figure in the agent, taxes, and living expenses, a player taken after the 2nd round would be lucky to have 2 million in the bank at the end of his rookie deal.  It's a nice nest egg, but if you're trying to live off of it the rest of your life, you're looking at about 60-80K a year (3-4% of 2 mil) to live on without touching your capital. If you get chosen in the first round or early second round, yes, that's life-changing money if you can hold onto it.  But everybody else, unless you hit that second contract, odds are you're going to need an income-producing career after the NFL to live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.        

  5. 3 hours ago, Park Gothic said:
    • Blue seemed (emphasis on seemed) to have a lot of attitude problems coming into the program. Do we know he's gotten over them? Success can trick guys into thinking their work is done, and Blue seems like a sucker in that regard.

    See for yourself:

     

    I thought he handled himself well in the interview.  I'm not worried at all about his commitment to the team.  

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  6. 17 hours ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    Imo, we sign both. If anything, the portal gives more reason to join a 2 QB class, not less. Out of high school, you can choose where you think gives you the best opportunity to be developed. When you fail to win the starting job, you find an ideal offense with an opening at QB. Literally the best of both worlds. 

    Even if we don't sign both, what do we lose if Lacey bounces? A generational prospect? No. The chance to land Ryan Williams? No. We lose a good QB prospect, but that's it. Choosing not to recruit Russell creates more downside risk than losing Lacey. Imagine impacting your relationships at Duncanville, Dakorien Moore, THSCA, etc over trying to keep KJ Lacey committed. Malpractice. 

    There aren't many schools that create more buzz for backup and redshirt QBs than us with Sark.  Malik Murphy was still pretty raw when he transferred and he still had his pick of starting opportunities.  

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  7. There's been some smoke here and there that Bo Davis and PK were butting heads because Bo wanted to coach the whole D-Line.  Choate was PK's guy, and Sark replaces him with Nansen, who is a fit for Sark because of their prior relationship and presumably knows PK because they were both PAC guys.  Maybe Kenny Baker was a name they kept hearing, so they brought him in and everything just clicked.  I hope it works.  Only the coaches CDC know what the process was, so time will tell.  

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  8. 10 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Was Wright the one who got the nickname "chips" while he was in school? IIRC it was something derogatory about him cashing all of his chips and not giving it everything in the weight room. Not that it matters and not that I'm against the potential hire, but am I remembering that correctly?

    Rod was playing his senior year with a torn rotator cuff, which nobody knew about until the draft.  That's why he went in the 7th round and why he missed his rookie year because he had surgery after the draft.  

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  9. After watching both the Rose Bowl and our game, I think our 3rd seed ranking was dead-on accurate.  Washington and Michigan are a year ahead of us and it shows.  Ewers has the potential to be the best QB in CFB next year.  With some quality transfers and the continued development of our returning players, next year looks bright.   

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  10. This OTF/IT thing is interesting.  Maybe it's just me, but I noticed Bobby and Gerry having some issues over the last two weeks during their shows.  There was this weird dynamic where Gerry would interrupt Bobby or vise versa.  It even appeared that Bobby would steal things that he knew Gerry was going to say, based on pre-show conversations.  The last time Eric was on with Bobby, and he's been on less and less (thankfully), you could cut the tension with a knife.  I'm not so sure Gerry will be back, but maybe he and Bobby are still cool and this was just tension from the situation spilling over into the show.  

  11. 7 minutes ago, EsophagealFeces said:

    You guys are missing the point. It matters because Sark is a head case.

    You act like we haven't been skeptical of Sark up until recently.  This fanbase is jaded about coaches, man.   But I tell you what, we certainly aren't going on to UNC message boards complaining about Mack Brown or FAU boards complaining about Tom Herman.  That's called "living in your head rent free."  

     

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