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  1. 8 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    That's true but I think we are just caught up in a broader trend that is touching every team in CFB. Unless you are in the playoff, why bother jeopardizing your career in the Raisincanes.com Bowl or the C&DScrapMetal.com Bowl? It flies against all the logic we claim to adhere to in America. 

    Most of these guys are mercenaries. By necessity, they use these colleges as conduits to making it to the NFL. It's a dumb system that is not in place in any other country and it is really corrosive -- I believe a lot of really talented football players never get a chance to show their talents because they can't get into a college, which is like demanding that would-be physicists and chemists and engineers complete a Marine Corps obstacle course in order to obtain their degrees, but I digress. 

    Top soccer players in Europe and South America don't have to go to college to get over the hump from teenaged legend to pro. Why do we demand that here? 

     

    It's an attempt to give someone a free education, and options with their life other than sports. So if they are injured, isn't it more useful for them to be college educated and have a career they can fall back on?

  2. 9 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    The NFL really doesn't care about rah-rah college spirit because the know the parameters are different when there is money on the line. I don't like NFL football, and I love college football, but I can't argue with the logic from either the players or the GMs in the NFL. It's a dangerous game, careers are short, and people want to get paid to play it. 

    And used to love NCAA hoops too, but I haven't given a shit about them in 20 years once the one-and-done shit became the norm, because the product on the court is so much worse than it used to be. Unless the NCAA starts paying players, or allowing them to be paid by boosters, or allows them to sell their autographs and jerseys and shit like that, we'll be looking at one-and-done football too. 

    I hate the NFL as well, I follow different college players from Florida and Texas that I like, but the NFL is too rigged for me.

    I understand people want to get paid to play it, but do the cost analysis of being a team player, you play one more bowl game, one more season at Texas...

    You go from being drafted round 6 to being drafted round 1 or 2.

    You go from making $2M signing bonus and $1M guaranteed to making $400k. The money is at the top, the guys drafted at the top are players you can build a team around, AKA TEAM PLAYERS.

    Sports CoD 4 27 17

    http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-draft-contract-values-2017-4

  3. 1 minute ago, Neonmoon said:

    So a coach says to (Insert Name - NFL scout/current players - whatever source you want to believe) that previous players were selfish for not playing in bowl game. Also known as thinking of themself before the team. 

    Player tweets about how Coach sucks for saying that. Demonstrating they are thinking of themself and not the team

     

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  4. 1 minute ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Maybe so, but look at the numbers. 2016 and 2017 draft classes were....not stellar. Same as a few before 2015. Goosegg in 2014. Nothing in rounds 1-3 in 2012. No offensive linemen drafted for a decade. If you believe D'Onta Foreman's HS coaches, Mack did his level best to run him off too. He only wanted Armanti, and if he'd gotten his way, we would have had zero picks last year as well. 

    Maybe Mack was just thinking long-long-long term plans. Ensure the next guy gets fired, come back and linger around for the following coach to lean on. 

    Prove it was Mack's excellent assistant coach management that was winning all those games.

  5. 1 minute ago, Newdoc said:

    Not really. It needs to go through the court system. We aren't Syria and Iran.  I'm glad this got press and hopefully this doesn't get law enforcement brotherhood treatment. If guilty, and it looks like that is the case, then I hope he spends forever locked in a closet and isolated from the world.  I could also support castration.

    Detention officers aren't exactly in the law enforcement brotherhood. 

    Castration eh? Honestly I think don't waste the money torturing this fuck by keeping him alive in any way. A .22 to the dome costs a dime.

  6. 12 minutes ago, Iconoclast Texan said:

    I don’t get why Houston sports radio is considered to be trash but many of y’all. I lived in Philly where WIP is the king and all they talked about were the Eagles abd some manufactured controversy of the day. I listened to Austin sports radio and Erin Hogan and guys like that were just meh and worse than the guys in H-town

    For sure Austin is worse. But 610 is OBSESSED with the Texans and they always act like these piece of shit QBs are just going to come in and run BoB's offense and everything is going to be great. Maybe it's what they are told to do as official Texans radio but it gets fucking old. Plus they ignore the Rockets because after Nick Wright interviewed Morrey the Rockets bailed them. 

    Plus they are a bunch of queer aggys I think.

  7. 1 hour ago, tokamak said:

    This is exactly what's going to happen. I'm pro-legalization, but let's all stop pretending that corporate interests aren't going to figure out a way to fuck it up once it actually happens. They'll probably "compromise" and leave it illegal to grow your own or something.

    And give you some GM seeds you have to buy yearly with your permit, license, registration, forms, taxes, regulatory fees, ect...

    Also big pharma will get in there some way to compensate for people self-medicating with weeds instead of buying their drugs.

  8. 14 hours ago, Yarbr said:

    I'm guessing big tabocco gets in to it soon.

    Also big alcohol will be damaged by this. Hard to say if that's a good or bad thing. It will defiantly be a bad thing if the cigarette goons use their money and influence to somehow fuck up weed and force a shit ton of additives and rat poisons in the "legal" dope.

  9. https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/galveston/news/article/Galveston-police-to-reveal-notable-development-in-13009109.php

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    Eight months after the naked body of a toddler washed up on a Galveston beach, police have finally unraveled the mystery, announcing the real name of the Houston boy and the arrest of his mother and her girlfriend.

    The 4-year-old boy - known for months simply as "Little Jacob" - has now been identified as Jayden Alexander Lopez. His mother, 34-year-old Rebecca Rivera, and her girlfriend 31-year-old Dania Amezquita Gomez have been arrested in connection with the case.

    "While my job is to investigate these types of crimes, it is especially difficult when the victim is a defenseless child," said Bryan Gaines, the supervisory senior resident agent at the FBI office in Texas City. "No one reported Jayden as missing, no one was looking for Jayden. Jayden had no advocate other than us. Somebody took a beautiful, innocent child and discarded him in the ocean like he was a piece of trash."

    A beach-goer initially spotted the boy's naked body on Oct. 20, 2017 along the water in the 700 block of Seawall last fall. But authorities couldn't match him to any missing children and there were no obvious signs of trauma on his body.

    Im curious about the father, grandparents, aunts and other family that just kept their mouths shut for 8 months. Maybe one of them gave the tip that led to the arrest?

  10. On 6/10/2018 at 12:32 AM, youdunnf'dup said:

    It’s tough man, cause you can make a case Whittaker won the first 3 rounds. Romero wasn’t doing much at first, and his eye was swollen shut pretty bad. Great fight, but awkward as fuck to judge under MMA’s scoring system.

    It's a boxing scoring system that the idiots in the athletic commissions pushed on MMA. It's tough to judge an MMA fight with 3 boxing judges and a must point system. Martial arts competitions judged by people strait from boxing. 

     

  11. On 6/13/2018 at 11:05 AM, BERT said:

    What??? Besides the joke of a fight between CM Punk and Jackson i thought it was pretty good. 

    It was sad for me watching Reem. He needs to go to Japan and get back on the gas if he wants to keep fighting, but damn he's making great money still in the UFC. Just don't want him to be too brain damaged, he seems like a good dude.

     

  12. On 6/10/2018 at 12:24 AM, ajax said:

    Didnt know that. 

    Great fight nonetheless

    Yeah Romea blew out his ACL in round 1 and Whitaker defended takedowns the rest of the fight on one leg and won.

    This fight Whitaker punched Romeros elbow and broke his hand early in the fight and hung in there.

    Whitaker is a tough sonofabitch. One of my favorite fighters.

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