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  1. Who is gonna be the first school to play home games on the moon?
  2. So Juan how’s that move over to Flushing working out for you? Enjoying playing for one of the worst run franchises in pro sports in America?
  3. Which points to the greed of the whole operation. This will all eventually collapse upon itself. I’m not saying UT will go broke in athletics, but overall this is just not a sustainable way to do things. Utah is just small potatoes and they aren’t winning anything with or without this money. When the more prominent schools opt into this either on their own or through their conference affiliation it will not be a good time. I expect that ASU will also one day face this same decision. I’d like to hope they’ll decline, but that just isn’t how human beings are wired. There is never a number on money that makes it enough for people that have the wiring to eternally chase more of it.
  4. That I can understand. That line where the limit is gets crossed by so many schools to the point of absurdity. Your mediocre football program cranking out a Jeff Fisher wet dream of 5-7 or 6-6 is just a pointless program to overfund. I realize this is mostly preaching to the choir, but more money into education means your graduates will be better prepared for the world they will step int. Buying that 4 star WR for your football team that never does anything is, well, it’s just ignorant and a slap in the face to the professors working their backside off to provide a great education.
  5. Or take the hit to the ego and drop down to the FCS. If you’re going into debt to fund your overall athletic program you are sending the message loud and clear that the school cares more about athletics than education. This is such an incredibly ridiculous American mindset. Get young people a quality education that they can then use to help out in society. But no, let’s get more state of the art practice facilities built for our football team that never wins anything that matters. Screw the students here to get an actual education.
  6. I think I understand people and the corrosive effect of money upon them. It’s odd that you earnestly believe a school would turn down money. PEOPLE ARE GREEDY. Jesus tap dancing Christ you live in a state filled with clowns in positions of power that will always want more money. To think any obscenely rich institution, it’s athletic programs or whatever else, would say “your money is no good here” just won’t happen. You can bookmark this thread for when it comes to pass a few years down the road.
  7. So when this happens to schools, and I know it is most athletic programs, are they getting loans to cover the shortfall or just dipping into education funds to break even?
  8. None of that matters. More money is more money. People who base their entire worth on having more of it, even at a school like Texas, will take it. This is just some simple human psychology and how greed will inevitably lead to Texas doing this. It won’t be right now or even in the near future, but as sure as the sun rises everyday it’ll happen. Aggy is the one I am eagerly waiting on with this. They’ll take the money and try to make the Tackle Box seat 200,000 fans.
  9. Have you met the people making decisions? They have an insatiable appetite for money. It will eventually happen at Texas. The number offered will be astronomical when it does.
  10. Good on Australia for seeing how incredibly destructive social media is. It has trained people to not be able to form thoughts or ideas on their own. Just something else in a long line of human ideas about communicating that has had a corrosive effect and is actively destroying our world.
  11. I can’t wait until they are forced to sell alcohol at the games because of this. State law notwithstanding at the moment, it’ll get changed and all those puritanical clowns will be putting down five or six 15 dollar tall boys before blacking out in the 3rd quarter.
  12. He was a member of my favorite Laker team. It was the 92-93 Lakers that would’ve beaten Phoenix in Game 5 if not for a Barkley offensive goaltending that wasn’t called. That team had Big Game James on his last legs and a young Vlade. Sad that Elden lost his life the way he did. He always came across as a gentle giant. RIP.
  13. It’s embarrassing watching this transpire. You don’t under any circumstances, take money from these people. Once again this conference shows how broke most of these schools are. They won’t be the last to take an offer from these trash human beings in the Big XII. Yes it is. Unintended consequences and whatnot from NIL.
  14. Yes, yes it will. So incredibly dumb and short-sighted to take money from these ghouls.
  15. Saw a movie tonight that’s ostensibly a Christmas movie, but the way the story was put together was pretty cool. It’s called Klaus and Norm McDonald voices one of the characters. I had never seen it before, but Regal was running it tonight. Everyone there seemed to enjoy it.
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