UpperWestside
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University of Utah nearing landmark private equity deal expected to generate $500 million
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.
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University of Utah nearing landmark private equity deal expected to generate $500 million
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?
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University of Utah nearing landmark private equity deal expected to generate $500 million
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.
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University of Utah nearing landmark private equity deal expected to generate $500 million
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.
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First national social media ban for kids under 16 takes effect in Australia
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.
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University of Utah nearing landmark private equity deal expected to generate $500 million
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.
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Lakers fans thread
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.
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University of Utah nearing landmark private equity deal expected to generate $500 million
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.
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University of Utah nearing landmark private equity deal expected to generate $500 million
Yes, yes it will. So incredibly dumb and short-sighted to take money from these ghouls.
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Netflix Recommendations
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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‘25-‘26 Awards Season
Well deserved on both. That defense gives them a chance to play with anyone.
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‘25-‘26 Awards Season
Matsuzawa did not miss a single kick all year until the 3rd quarter of the last regular season game. He’s the best kicker in college football. That he pulled this off just six years after first deciding to play the sport makes the accomplishment even more remarkable.
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‘25-‘26 Awards Season
I saw that Matsuzawa is a finalist for the Lou Groza. That one has to be the easiest one to predict I would think. No way the Tokyo Toe doesn’t win that award.
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The Big 12 is fucking awful
I do not. You could tell he had a foot out the door for a good while. I don’t blame him for taking more money elsewhere, but any school that wants to pay him should be wary of his inability to stay healthy. Best QB in the Big XII this year when he played, but his line was shoddy at best and he still needs to grow as a leader. All players at his position need to at 20 years old though. You’ve seen firsthand how this has gone for Arch at times in finding his footing and voice. Dillingham was courteous to him and has nothing bad to say. He’ll have to find a veteran QB now in the portal or he’s going with someone that has never started at the college level next year. Either way I trust him to have a QB prepared to be successful. He gets along with his players really well and they genuinely like playing for him.
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Go Army, Beat Navy
Go Navy! Such a cool game and tradition. So many young men who play in this game will go on to be leaders in the military. I hope Army gives ‘em hell and that this matchup is a classic, but all Navy all the way.
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Citrus Bowl 2025 Game Week Thread
Some of the bowl games are meaningful to the teams playing in them. Hawai’i is playing in the Hawai’i Bowl. That’s a game featuring two Hawaiian QB’s facing off and two former Rainbow Warrior teammates coaching against each other with Nick Rolovich in the interim role for Cal. He also coached the Rainbow Warriors as well before he went off to Wazzu. That will be a pretty fun game and people out here are excited about seeing it.
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The Big 12 is fucking awful
We don’t have a big money donor like Tech has, but ASU should never finish worse than 2nd or 3rd each season in this conference if our QB, whoever that is each season, stays healthy. We’re the only school in the entire conference located in an area people actually want to live in. Overall the conference is just a mess though when you have one school being bankrolled to relevance with 12 or 13 schools that will never be able to compete financially. I’m glad ASU has the best coach in the conference, by far, but he’ll still need some financial backing to make it work every season.
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What impact will Trump have on the 2026 World Cup?
Alexi Lalas deserves to get hit by a bus load of Mexican migrants and they all deserve to whack him upside the head with a shovel. He's as worthless a human being as Pulisic. Screw American soccer and the idiots who are representing it.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Ted Cruz gets the first one.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
I never have done it, but what I have done is this. I have always been unfailingly nice to the kitchen staff. My mom ran the high school cafeteria and snack bar in my hometown for 25 years so I will go out of my way to be polite to kitchen staff and never yell at them. What this has meant is they enjoy giving me food all the time for being the person not blaming them for things going wrong. One place I worked in NYC would give me stuff every single day. @BearSchlong visited me there once by Central Park. They’d give me pancakes the size of a plate that were an inch thick. It was usually 4-5 of them a day, but I’d take them just because I didn’t want to seem rude and say no.
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Stephenville vs Celina Time for GoLL to shine.
https://www.wfaa.com/article/sports/high-school/stephenville-isd-renames-stadium-embattled-former-baylor-coach-art-briles/287-0d218975-e152-4242-9406-29e36846d0fc Naming your stadium after that guy because he won you a bunch of games really drives home how little it means to that town what he did at Baylor. Celina ISD is being sued by at least 17 different victims of Caleb Elliott. I am sure there is more. No shame at all from either town. One celebrates a rape enabler while the other covered up stuff going on for a good long while because it’s the coach’s son.
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2025 Big 12 Championship - BYU vs. Texas Tech
BYU did not belong in the top 20 going into this game, much less 11th. Get out scored 63-14 by Tech should be enough to realize just how down the Big XII was this season. Tech was head and shoulders above the rest of the league, especially after Leavitt shut it down for the year.
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Stephenville vs Celina Time for GoLL to shine.
I believe that he is still on leave. He should’ve been fired, but that’s almost never how it works when you’re the head high school football coach in Texas that wins a lot.
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
You have also made Cousin Eddie's list. Get ready to have his septic system sprayed all over your yard.
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Stephenville vs Celina Time for GoLL to shine.
This right here about Celina’s head coach is so infuriating. Meanwhile your son is torturing junior high athletes. No way he didn’t know something was amiss there.