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Magus Ossis

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  1. I’m in favor of this over cheating, definitely. Prior to the William Singer investigation, I’d have thought the risk of material consequences quite low. They may still be. I’m against cheating, even if everyone else cheats. Even if most people think it shouldn’t be called cheating.
  2. Of course, maybe we should not try to think creatively about solutions to recruits’ being illegally recruited out of our backyard. The two best choices are probably just to ignore the problem or to join in the lawbreaking, counting on enforcement’s being unlikely and beatable. After all, in this information age, what are the odds that law enforcement would notice or be able to do anything about the sudden proliferation of inexplicably well-heeled athletes at Texas?
  3. My reply was not intended to indicate that the principle thrust of the strategy should be offering the fbi evidence of unreported transactions. Surely the potential blowback onto recruits and their families suggests the power lying latent. Can it be harnessed? Not by joining the cheating; perhaps by other means yes.
  4. I think the ideal would be a pissed off TCU or Tech grad to take the focus off us, but I can live with UT. Recently former Texas employee Michael Center says that the feds occasionally do notice the money flowing around athletics.
  5. My pleasure to amuse as possible
  6. No. I’m all for threatening and turning in bagmen, though. There is a lot that can be done if one does not argue against it by straw man or complex question.
  7. Paying recruits is a crime in Texas. And there’s the federal income tax. I’m not talking about turning people in to the NCAA with an eye to causing sanctions. I’m thinking more along the lines of “friendly communications” here and there to make it more uncomfortable for people to break state and federal law on our turf. An underground response to an underground problem.
  8. The big 12 does not have a culture of nodding and winking at $EC-style payments. If we had the moral disposition to “get in the game,” we would nevertheless be vulnerable to being exposed. We might be able to lawyer up and tell NCAA to get lost, but we would stand out as the apparently biggest cheater in sports by being successful at it and not in the $EC. My feeling is that the same money that could have gone to buying a few blue-chip recruits is better spent established a strong clandestine intelligence-gathering operation that makes it more difficult for UO, Bama, LSU, Clemson, etc to buy Texas recruits. Think how much surveillance and behind-the-scenes pressure can be had for the price of 3 $200,000 recruits per year.
  9. 2020 class starts at 15 before transfers, medical retirement, etc. We aren’t going much over 25 because we won’t have the back-counter room to swing it. We will end up with over 20 though.
  10. Prediction: Clemson will rout aggy so thoroughly that a few of the faithful will actually express doubts about Fisher— failure to progress from last year etc. Those few will be in full getting-threads-deleted mode by Q3 of the Bama game.
  11. This is our concern, dude. I think they may have concern about public perception that immediate transfers are either inappropriately increasing or are now normal. Of course, I could be totally wrong with NCAA disregarding factors like the school involved, whether there is a lawyer, etc, weighing each case solely on its merits (insert laugh track here).
  12. I think he is helped should Bru prevail, but his case lowers Bru’s chances.
  13. So aggy is recruiting kids who weren’t born last time aggy played for a conference title and whose grandparents likely weren’t born last time they won a national championship, pretend or otherwise.
  14. The absurdity of taking college football players to South Africa does not change my opinion in the least. Why should a 20-year-old’s right to change his mind be negated due to Harbaugh’s antics?
  15. We’ve been through some tough times. The last decade was, frankly, a 10-pound can of bitter WTF. But I can not imagine going 2700+ days between wins over OU. Our longest win streak was 8, and our longest ever losing one 6. Michigan has only won once since 2003. It’s almost surprising there are enough Wolverine fans left to fill their stadium who haven’t killed themselves.
  16. People decide to transfer for lots of reasons. They shouldn’t have to have the special permission of some out of state committee to avoid effectively losing their livelihood in the process. What fraction of employed adults are expected to give more than 3 months notice? The way to have fewer outbound transfers is primarily to be as good a place as you pretended during recruiting season. Of course it causes potential problems. Freedom is sometimes awkward for those who’ve been depending on its absence.
  17. Same reason they lost the CCG and didn’t get into the CFP. They were too disappointed that their body of work on the season didn’t merit an auto-championship of the $EC and concomitant CFP bid.
  18. So you can’t block me if I refuse to look your way? Brilliant!
  19. I could devise a model that would have a high retroactive predictive power against the spread, given some time and motivation. I think I may focus my talents first on predicting the 2014 bowl season.
  20. Injury medical retirement. Mystery condition was affecting his play and could kill him on any given snap. Tragedy that such talent will never be seen on Sundays.
  21. Chance of return very subjective. There is a school of thought that one should talk guys out of returning to football (as opposed for example to basketball) because they are likely to do again whatever led to the injury in the first place. From a functional standpoint, though, his prognosis would be good.
  22. He would need to show really good bony union of his fusion on Xray. That could take 9-12 months. If he needs surgery and this drags on much longer before doing it, the chance of being back for next year’s spring ball goes down.
  23. Short answer yes. Slightly longer answer: I think as a pro he would have more awareness of what to tell his training staff, they would get him scanned/diagnosed and in treatment sooner, and surgery would be done as soon as a reasonable trial of nonop care failed. Assuming this is a disc causing radiculopathy. That is a lot of assumption and guesswork.
  24. I hate that for Jackson. T&P.
  25. Stenosis means an abnormal narrowing of some opening, canal, or vessel. In this case, we are talking about some stenosis affecting either the cervical spinal cord (central) or nerve roots coming off of it. Congenital stenosis is typically central. It is usually asymptomatic and does not require restriction from any sports. It is not associated with a measurable increase in risk for catastrophic injury. Central stenosis is only a concern if there is some other superimposed risk factor suggesting permanent cord damage may occur: multiple episodes of transient quadriparesis, for example. The number of cases is still very small, but the downside is so terrible that players may be restricted for life by some doctors. Discs can bulge, tear, and squirt their inner gel-like contents in a number of shapes and sizes. This can be superimposed on underlying bony stenosis or may be the only factor. Discs can cause cord (central) and/or nerve root compression. Discs tend to heal over time, and extruded material which compresses nerves often resorbs well enough to resolve all symptoms and risks. Acquired degenerative spondylotic stenosis is quite rare in teenagers. If his problem were isolated low-risk congenital stenosis, none of this drama would be going on. If his problem is high-risk congenital stenosis (e.g., with multiple quadriparetic events), the guy holding him out is unlikely to change his mind later (though he might get a second opinion from a less risk-averse physician). If his problem is largely related to a disc injury, it may get better with time, allowing return to play. If it does not, he may have a good result with disc material removal and fusion of the bones on either side of it to each other, again potentially allowing return to play. The information dribbling out leaves something to be desired, but it currently sounds like some disc is involved. The timeline for giving non-operative care a chance will apparently run long enough that any surgery is likely to keep him off the field for 2019. Unless an official release offers more specificity, we will be left to do a lot of guessing. Every time "disc" gets mentioned, though, it is a positive sign, because that is a problem which can often be fixed and careers resumed.
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