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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Very few threads deserve classic status on the title alone. This is one of them.
  2. How do OVs work for portal players, are there any limits or anything like recruits?
  3. What's maddening about this NIL-bullshit it how hairsplitting the inducement side is for recruits: Booster/Collective: "You'll get $50K if you come play OL for Texas next year" <-- Inducement! Illegal! Non-compliant! Coach: "Hi OL recruit, did you hear the report that all enrolled full-time students who play OL at Texas will get $50K/year starting next year?" <-- perfectly fine Everyone, I mean everyone knows that it's the same fucking thing. Even better is the Miami LifeWallet guy. Can we just drop the pretense and call NIL for what it is: Pay-for-play? I'm sure there were a handful of people just waiting on the sidelines to connect Longhorns with *legit charity causes* but couldn't because of the old system and are now overjoyed to give these worthy charities exposure (and any benefit to the players is secondary of course) but 99.9999% of SEC Collectives are doing NIL with the express purpose of making the team more competitive for championships; not side benefits like making players richer, giving charities better coverage, or whatever. Caterwauling about what NIL is or isn't or what it was "supposed to be" in terms of Name, Image, and Likeness is laughable. Once the barn door was opened to legally paying players, any rationale that people are willing-to-pay to support is now legit. So yeah, it's effectively salary, minus the salary-cap. Compliance and boosters need to deal with that - because the best players have certainly realized it.
  4. Here are two great articles if you want to dig into the details of this epic business failure. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/business/cnn-plus-shutting-down.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/24/cnn-plus-what-went-wrong-why-it-was-canceled.html A few notable facts that will make you shake your head: CNN's free liner TV offering average audience was about 534k viewers last year. Yet, they somehow convinced themselves that they were going to sign up a MILLION paying users for CNN+... in other words they were planning on getting twice the amount of paying users that watch their product...for free. In what world does that make remote sense? I teach and consult in Marketing and Pricing and it's a good rule of thumb that for a freemium product (free version you try to convert people to paid), you can expect about a 1-3% conversion rate to paid, depending on circumstances. At the midpoint of that, 2% of 534K is 10,680...which is just over the reported 10K they actually got to sign up. They spent $300M on this product development and launch, including a hefty fee to McKinsey to do a market study for them(!!!). I saw a great tweet that I can't find now that said: "Interestingly there isn't a market for McKinsey to tell executives that their idea is stupid."
  5. This is lazy and tired. If you're going to make this assertion, name names and actions. What specifically does administration do to make it an uphill battle? Who does it? Just saying "durrrr...Plonsky!" is insufficient. I've seen the administration raising a shit ton of money for improvements, massive budget for assistant coaches, basically giving Sark whatever he's asked for - I certainly haven't heard of the admin leaving Football wanting for anything. So what is it?
  6. Are you with an Endocrinologist? Sounds like an endocrine issue?
  7. Kinda B.S. They sent me the email on that this morning with all the "value" they've added to the subscription, of which I care about 0% and don't use. Maybe some of the add'l instructors but I don't do strength classes, I don't have a treadmill, I don't care about collabs with rando artists. I guess I'm in the ecosystem b/c you have a brick w/o the sub but still.
  8. Bob Wheeler is a cunt. I know from personal experience. I worked with him to build LFZ many years ago. He made promises of payments that never showed up, and was threatening and generally just a complete beating to work with at all times. He had an extremely high opinion of himself and his importance, and really got off on being worshiped on his own site. A hero in his own mind, as his book cover shows. Major little man Napoleon complex going on there, he's very sensitive about being called short, which he definitely is (notice how he's always wearing high heeled boots LOL). After I bailed on him when he shorted and failed to pay me several times for work, he left me a rambling VM about how worthless I was and how LFZ was nothing, he was going to "go take a HTML class and figure out this shit on his own." LOL, ok bro. Of course, LFZ crashed a few weeks later when he's trying to upgrade it, and he immediately calls me to swoop back in and fix it. Yeah, no - especially when you start off your message with "I know you intentionally fucked my shit up and you need to take responsibility and fix it or I'm going to sue you." He threatened to sue a lot. Eventually I told him "go for it, I'm judgement proof, p.s. fuck off" Never heard from him again. A few months later the OSU bus debacle happened. I'm amazed that people didn't see through his bullshit more, and feel bad that people got screwed. Imagine how bad it would have been if LFZ had progressed as far as Shaggy/Surly and treefiddy...I'm convinced he would have stolen a whole lot more than he got away with. Who craters their entire reputation for a few grand? It's been years since I thought of ole' Bob, I wonder what ditch he's slithering around in now out by Mexia...
  9. As a result of losing does he still get to claim a % of your future work???
  10. Maybe OU can pay us back in meth and dicks for 30 years.
  11. Type 1 diabetes checking in here. I've helped a few people on the board with issues on this and am always happy to talk, I could write a book on this disease. Chapter 1 of the book is what I'm going to call "It's not fucking Type II diabetes, idiot, I was born this way!" So many ignorant people who hear "diabetes" and go immediately into "dibeetus" mode and gift me with a lecture about how I need to eat better to control it or even make it go away! Thanks chucklefuck, I do need to eat better, but no that won't make Type 1 go away because it literally doesn't work that way. I also have Hashimoto's Thyroidosis which I think is classified as auto immune? They took my thyroid out a few years ago. The combination of T1 and no thyroid makes my metabolism basically non-existent which makes weight management a joy.
  12. Yesssss. Heat is an all timer. Hope Mann can recapture some of that tension here, trailer looks great.
  13. For this reason I wonder if NIL isn't better targeted at the transfer portal guys who can't leave after they transfer (grads excepted), unlike recruits who can take the money and run (hi QE!)
  14. LOL, another NIL thread about a school-other-than-Texas where @RGBIII is immediately shitting on it and telling everyone how "illegal" it is! We get it dude we heard the podcast, you spent 30 years studying the in's-and-out's of NIL law and you know it better than the compliance departments, yada yada yada. I'm fairly certain you haven't seen the contract this recruit signed. You're reading a 2nd or 3rd hand characterization of it and making black and white assumptions. That's dumb. With the lawyers involved, it's probably legal. "Spirit" of NIL is just bullshit that people trot out when they feel mad that someone else got one over on them. Not illegal: Not inducement: it's written into the terms itself per the Athletic. You can argue all you want about how this contract and aggy are actually bags and they'll cut off the players but ain't none of that in the contract itself and verbal doesn't count. Not pay for play: the player can go to another school from wherever he originally signs and retain the benefit of the contract, JUST LIKE JARED WILEY is with Burnt Ends (said you on the podcast) even though he's transferred to TCU. Not a college-enrolled student-athlete: you're getting your panties knotted on this. Per Opendorse, if this recruit is in California (likely), Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, New York and a number of other states they are legally allowed to sign NIL deals as a high-school student. Unlike QE here in Texas unfortunately. Aside from definitely not being illegal, even if it were, who exactly is going to enforce any rules breaking? Not the toothless NCAA. So long as a NIL collective can provide the basic stamp of legality, we'll see the edges on this keep getting pushed out further and further until someone finds a line to cross. Of course that won't be Texas, because we're purer than the driven snow, by gaud.
  15. My good friend was an Asst. Director on Idiocracy and told me that what we saw in the final product was 1/1000th of how good the on set improv and dialogue was. They cut a LOT out of it to tone it down. I attached the original Idiocracy script here in case anyone wants to read, pretty hilarious. 3001 Original.pdf
  16. It's actually really interesting RE: US v. China that MAD is not just about nukes now. It's about debt and trade. The scary thing about MAD, aside from the world-ending nuclear apocalypse, is how you get to that point. MAD works if both sides are roughly equal. For US v. Russia sure it's close enough. China is working hard to make that a triad (see what I did there?). But what happens when a country like Russia manages their country so poorly, or gets sanctioned so hard that everything craters? Poverty, starvation, etc? What is left to lose at that point via MAD? The "D" in MAD only works if you have something you care about that you don't want destroyed.
  17. Russia has the same triad we do for nukes. They have thousands. There is no pre-emptive strike option, that's MAD. Even one nuke getting through to a US or European city would a disaster without comparison. I think Biden and the US/NATO have played this right so far. Fight the proxy war, fuel the defenders with weapons, and cripple the RU economy with sanctions. Don't engage Putin's sabre rattling on the nuke stuff by escalating our nuke force posture tit for tat. Maintain our high readiness and if he wants to FAFO we'll be here but stay a step or two from provoking that directly.
  18. Yes of course. The question is do they have the ability to track our ABM interceptors at the terminal phase? Or do they take the word of our "public" tests? Honest question.
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