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  1. A salary cap is not particularly relevant. The idea of NIL is that players are free to be compensated by third parties (not for pay per play per se) past what the university already offers for being not the team. As in any professional sport, there will be more opportunities for third party money for some players than for others. The money Mahomes makes for insurance commercials does not count towards the salary cap in the NFL. A team that has more friends in the third party space who are willing to spend more money can not by restricted by a salary cap.
  2. Those who find reality puzzling might not understand reality very well. Those who are not puzzled but choose to characterize it as puzzling have a different and arguably worse problem.
  3. Carlin was a brilliant comedic wordsmith. People who call out others for their imperfect diction (or other perceived intellectual failing) frequently by so doing reveal their own deficiency. A very common usage of "average" is the arithmetic mean. "Average" is also frequently, and has been for centuries, used to refer to any measure of central tendency, including the median. To recap: when someone is famous for his way with words, think twice before presuming to place yourself above him. A little learning is indeed a dangerous thing. Also, some members of the corps are in the service. There are standard ROTC scholarships which technically require that the recipients enlist and accept an obligation for commissioned service at graduation. There are also "local" scholarships for being in the corps which have nothing to do with the actual armed forces.
  4. I love the unintentional evidence of Texas as clean under DKR. At about 7:40, Earl discusses working a construction job the summer before his Heisman season and hearing about the supposed benefits Dorsett received because of the award. I think it was Marcus Allen, but one of the other guys there acts surprised and doubtful about actually working. Earl proceeds calmly to describe the hard work he did for his summer money.
  5. I don't know whether it would be any trouble to code, but it seems to me it shouldn't be: have a separate total attached to each userid that is _cloakrep_. Any rep activity in the CR affects this separate from other rep. Add modest popups in the CR only. Let the CR crowd rep each other to the moon and help pay the freight for everyone else to post in peace on the rest of the site.

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      Magus Ossis

      The display for each poster would not need to be crowded to show _cloakrep_ and normal rep. Merely display the rep appropriate to the forum visited.

  6. Just quick thoughts Mason Graham (duh) and maybe Kenneth Grant (big but less amazing 0/1 tech type)
  7. I'm guessing we will have a chance to top the 11 Alabama had this year if we go deep in the post-season next year. Texas and UGA are both likely to have all their conference games well watched and to be contenders to play in the CCG and CFP. Even the teams with a bye have a chance to play as many as 3 CFP games starting in '24. Our game against Michigan is likely going to be a top draw. If our conference, Michigan, and post-season games get favorable TV slots, and if we make a run no further (play in CCG, lose in "final four") than we did this year, that would be 12+ "big" games.
  8. We don’t play against 2013 players anymore. I didn’t look farther back, but Vandy is 0 for the last two drafts. The SEC overall is very talented, but the players are not distributed evenly. I don’t think your claim that the SEC has more NFL talent than the 12 will get much opposition. I think the argument lies more in the teams not at the top and the other guys on the rosters. Huck has given data that remain undisputed and unanswered.
  9. That NFL talent is not getting drafted in droves from Vandy. The league is top heavy. Huck has shown the stats. That's like saying teams in towns starting with T & A are great top to bottom and citing UGA, UT, and Bama as evidence. The top is not the same as top to bottom.
  10. FSU isn’t alleging the refs threw the game to UGA, that Georgia stole their signs or played ringers. FSU isn’t alleging that the headsets only functioned on one sideline or that anyone poisoned their Powerade. They fully admit they were terrible. They think losing because they were far and away the worse team needs some nuance and context. Everything they say comes across as, “We lost in epic fashion because we stunk in epic fashion, but…” No one cares why they think they were so bad or why it should matter. If you don’t want to eat the worst bowl loss ever, don’t play such awful football.
  11. Come play at FSU where we only lose because the system hates us, and our excuses are really good reasons. Heck of a sales pitch.
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