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Professor Chesney

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  1. 20 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    Did that Tennessee 9.95er reference the fact that he was only a backup in the same tweet they're trying to generate excitement about the transfer? 

    "Everyone put your hands together for our new recruit! He couldn't get playing time at his last stop but we're very excited to have him!"

    Kind of shitty to do to the player. 

    Yeah that is a very weird tagline.  Could have referenced his role as productive jumbo TE.

    Probably not the right place to discuss this, but I’m curious to see which of the 22’s the staff use to replace him in the bowl game.  

  2. 40 minutes ago, bizzle said:

    quick theories from someone who has not had the bandwidth to be very plugged in this season (thank god):

    denver harris isn't a terrible kid, just immature as hell and his mom actually likes the smaller town vibe that college station brings and is encouraging him to get his ass in gear. could go either way. also north shore.

     

    So you’re saying she’s not going to let him drift around aimlessly?

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  3. Matthews in particular seems like someone who does not enjoy the school, but is having success on the field and received considerable $$.  Wonder if LSU will be able to put together a competitive enough pitch to bring him back to LA this off-season.

  4. 56 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

     

    Exactly what NCAA rule do y'all think is broken when someone who is neither a representative of a school nor a booster informs a player that he would receive a $500k NIL deal if he came to play in a certain city? 

    You are correct and I am mistaken: it doesn’t look like there is NCAA rules on point.  I confused it with the Texas NIL statute language, but there is arguably ambiguity with respect to whether it covers enrolled collegiate athletes and is only limited to Texas.  

     

    Sec 91.5246(j): No individual, corporate entity, or other organization
    may:
    (1)enter into any arrangement with a prospective student athlete relating to the prospective student athlete’s name, image, or likeness prior to their enrollment in an institution of higher education;or
    (2)use inducements of future name, image, and likeness compensation arrangement to recruit a prospective student athlete to any institution of higher education.

  5. “Offered…over a million dollars to pull him over to another team” is not “indirect” inducement, it is plain inducement.  Which, whatever you think the consequences will actually be, is against the NIL rules as written.  I don’t think anyone here finds the idea of directly tampering with opposing players who have not entered the portal appealing or noble.  But it may very well encourage a race to the bottom if there are no consequences and the behavior continues.

    Hiroshima-style carpet bombing the other Texas schools with leaflets advertising how much the average O-Lineman gets paid at UT would be more of an indirect inducement.

  6. 18 hours ago, RabidM said:

    They were far from perfect, but they were WAY better than I thought they would be with 2 of the best pass rushers in the game lining up opposite them. 

    With the amount of offsides going on, they were way better than expected even with those two pass rushers lining up next to them too. 

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  7. Been busy with a new job but was able to have lunch with one of the DTs recently.  He was optimistic about the defense this year, said they’d be attacking more and there’s a better overall understanding of responsibilities generally.

    Obviously he’s biased but it is better to hear that than the alternative.  Please Venmo all $9.95s to the Burnt Ends account. 

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  8. 10 hours ago, Ill said:

    DT from TFB on NIL
     

     

    Q in the comments: So you’re telling me that these ATM deals for these kids are actually loans? That is actually astonishing…. I could see this whole thing blowing up all over their face if this is true and comes to light.
    A: Some of them

    This makes very little sense on multiple levels.

    (1) Without a federal exemption, any type of agreement to arbitrarily cap player earnings will run into the same antitrust issues as before.  This goes down a rabbit hole quickly.  If EA sports pays a royalty to all athletes to use their likeness in the new video game, wouldn’t that bust the cap?  The ability to legally prohibit the rights of third parties to contract is extremely limited, and I’m not sure what ground they will try to stand on to do so. 

    (2) At the end of the day, the NCAA is going to have to prove that it is actually willing to go to the mat to enforce these rulings and pay the litigation costs for each instance some ornery booster takes them to court.  If they wouldn’t do it for the blatant bag violations over the past decade, why should we think that they would be willing to do it now?

    (3) I’m sure our administration will nonetheless find a way to make this more difficult than it needs to be, until enough alumni and donors make enough noise to force change.  Would love to see the AD staff restructured to support these initiatives, or at the very least take those expenses and increase professor salaries.

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  9. 18 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Is this English? Let me go ahead and answer for you, it absolutely is not English. Watching your efforts to attempt and communicate here is like watching Helen Keller try to wipe herself after raising the flag at Panchos. 

     

    I don’t know if these words have ever been included in the same sentence before now, but if so, then certainly not to greater effect than this.  Top shelf.

  10. 33 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

    “Lot” is singular.  Like bunch.  There is a bunch.  There is a lot. There is a lot of stupid stuff on this board.  

    “A lot” can actually be singular or plural depending on the noun that it modifies.   Further complicating the choice is that some nouns, like “bunch,” are indeterminate and can be flexible.

    Others are definitively plural, e.g., “there are a lot of dicks in this bag”

  11. 4 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

    Will he still be able to make Spring practice with Ole Miss?

    Is this going to be the new “what about the numbers?”

    Even at prestigious public institutions, registrar personnel and associate deans have strong discretionary power to allow registration changes.  They just don’t do it often as a matter of practice because it opens the floodgates to whiny students second guessing their poor decisions.

    At a private institution that places academics as a tertiary priority, they can do whatever they want. 

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