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Burt Macklin

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  1. No. Title IX is only about compensation coming from the school, not private funds. The plaintiffs are arguing the $20.5 million House settlement amount from the schools to athletes must be split equally between genders, just like athletic scholarships, otherwise it violates Title IX. It's not settled whether rev share from athletics would have to be treated the same as scholarships under Title IX because this has never happened before, but the current law around Title IX would indicate it probably would be treated the same. However, the Title IX interpretation could always be overturned entirely, or a judge who doesn't like the Title IX rulings could easily find a reason why this should be treated differently than scholarships. My guess is the latter will happen. I'd be very surprised if this case results in requiring equal split of the rev share, but it's certainly a possible outcome. On top of that, it's pretty much a guarantee that this clearinghouse for NIL contracts will generate lawsuits as soon as they turn down an NIL contract for an athlete. So while the House Settlement has been finalized, it's still all up in the air until the legal challenges that are coming get decided.
  2. Idk it seems pretty reasonable that the WR1 at Texas would get some good NIL opportunities.
  3. He had 11 HRs in 79 ABs in 2024?!
  4. You think Byron Murphy and Sweat were part of the EDGE/LB room? dafuq?
  5. This is such an ridiculously terrible take. You've been trying to sell the idea of this roster being very talented for a while now, despite a ton of evidence to the contrary. This team overachieved this year for its talent level. It's very obvious to see. There is no way Schloss thinks this roster doesn't need much in the portal. I expect it's just the opposite. We need a big infusion of talent if we want to be competing for titles, and I think that's what we'll see from Schloss this offseason.
  6. Yes, this is the good stuff. Pure, uncut Satya.
  7. It’s not about the effectiveness in the moment. In a different race, 10 seconds might mean not even mean losing a place. 10 seconds is an absolute bullshit penalty for intentionally hitting another car. That should be a drive through at minimum.
  8. Somehow Max always gets the lightest penalties. He clearly intentionally hit Russell. Vettel got a 10 second drive through when he did that to Lewis in Baku in 2017 I think.
  9. Absolutely insane temper tantrum by Vertsappen. Totally uncalled for. I also don’t get why his team told him to give the place back. Russell went into the corner too deep and hit Verstappen. No way that he should’ve had to give that place to Russell. Especially weird coming from RB who almost never give up spots voluntarily.
  10. Nice lap by Norris. Piastri could’ve been close, but he messed up S2. I don’t think the Ferrari had the pace to get pole without a mistake by both McLarens. it’ll be interesting to see if the 2 stop rule changes anything. I could see Merc pit one of their drivers twice in the first 5 laps and try to undercut the whole field.
  11. I think 6-6 looks most likely, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they win 7. Their schedule looks tougher on paper than it actually is. I think Michigan is going to struggle, especially early. Moore and Martindale is a very bad coaching combo in college, and their freshman QB won’t be ready right away. I expect Venables to give him a ton of trouble so early in the season. Auburn and Tennessee will also suck. My dream season for them is eeking out an 8-4 propelled by injury and turnover luck resulting in Venables staying HC for as long as possible so he can keep eroding the foundations of that piece of shit program.
  12. TMac was one of my favorite players, but I'd definitely tap the brakes on saying they were neck and neck. TMac was more talented than Kobe, but Kobe was miles ahead when it came to mentality, work ethic, and leadership. That was always the biggest separating factor, IMO.
  13. I have no doubt this commission's conclusion will be that there needs to be a strict NIL cap that's lower than the House Settlement number being thrown around because there's been no talk of any player representation on the committee, only boosters and school-side people. It will all be for nothing though, because any attempt to limit the NIL earnings without collective bargaining of the players is going to get struck down in court.
  14. Brother, this pick had everything to do with the trade.
  15. When you add Cooper Flagg as part of the deal, it was actually a pretty smart move by Nico.
  16. Got dam. I had completely forgotten about this guy. He pissed me off more than almost any player I can remember. There were so many games where teams ran all over us and most of their big runs came from outside runs to his side. He couldn't set the edge to save his life, but he was also dogshit as a pass rusher.
  17. Good stuff. It's incredible that Sark got 8 drat picks and 2 first round picks out of this class considering we didn't land a single 5 star, only landed 4 guys in the top 250 and only 2 guys in the top 150. One of my favorite parts about following Sark's program has been watching guys actually learn how to play football and develop year over year. We hadn't seen that in Texas in more than a decade. Hell, a lot of our guys would be good as freshman and get worse each year. Following college football is a lot more fun when you get to witness the progress of guys year after year.
  18. To be fair, Chip thought he was getting a quote from Tom Herman.
  19. It's a pretty crazy situation. Oakes and his brother took over HiTech (a junior series team) right before the Russia/Ukraine conflict. They've long been rumored to be in bed with Mazepin Senior and they applied to gain entry to F1, but the source of their funding was an issue. Oakes' brother was just arrested in the UK for transfer of criminal property, i.e. using Mazepin's money to fund/run HiTech. Oakes flew straight from the Miami GP to Dubai. Seems like he'll be hanging out there avoiding extradition for quite a while. I assume that also means HiTech won't be competing in the junior series anymore. On the bright side Flavio Briatore is running Alpine now, so they've definitely cleaned up their act.
  20. I laughed out loud when he was citing Sydir Mitchell at DT and Harold Perkins at off-ball LB (when the only thing he's good at is pass rush) as part of his reasons for optimism. Pretty clear he has not clue what he's talking about and is just trying to pump LSU blindly for whatever reason. Maybe he has a GA he's friends with on staff or something.
  21. Using the word simple to mean excluding relevant factors to reach an inaccurate conclusion is certainly one way of going about it. If you factor in that 75% of the NFL is black and the other 25% of players are white and then look at the demographics for states that value football like Texas, Florida, and Georgia, the numbers are all pretty much in line. Georgia's not "punching above its weight" or doing anything exceptional compared to similar states.
  22. Not really. If you look at the demographics of states in the south that play football more than other regions, those numbers more or less correlate.
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