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Pompous elitism is a human condition, but maybe worse in God’s waiting room.

My understanding is: Teams can only offer rookie wage scale to draftees, thus being out of the union would be fruitless. Players have to make up union dues and fees even if they opt out, or be suspended without pay. A few players have opted out to do their own licensing deals. Not sure of...

The unions can make their own rules, for the most part, to avoid egregiously stupid policies. The question is who influenced/compromised leadership is. Not too different that politics writ large.

This is one of those issues people aren’t sure about until they check in with their political team. For reasons we can speculate about Cruz seems dead-set against any form of special status carve out for revenue players to form a bargaining unit, but supports granting NCAA antitrust exemption...

Yep, tyranny of the majority. The NFLPA kneecapped draftee’s negotiating power.

The playoff is an extension of the regular season, giving us valuable and necessary extra data points to help determine who the best teams are. It’s not perfect either. More games are better than fewer games. The performance of eg MLB players and teams is more predictable by the end of the...

Florida Senate declares Florida State as national champs with NCAA tournament cancelled I had to look it up 😂. Is this orders of magnitudes worse than sportswriters choosing a champion, though? Arguable.

As humans we are creative, curious, inquiring and gifted with inductive/deductive reasoning, far beyond our ground scraping ancestors, but we are generally awful at predicting outcomes of sporting events...

I guess my facetious meaning was lost - I was referring to claiming a national championship. #1!

This ^ The Ohio State redemption arc is also pretty cool when most of us (including me) had left them for dead. Not unlike the 2024 Gophers. Teams that improve over the season shouldn’t be left out of the championship race.

Oregon to order regular season champions rings?

Notre Dame has a shot.

If we grade on a tough scale, a national scale and looking strictly at P5 record probably a C+ or B- depending on the yearly results. Before you start throwing your shoes, he has helped maintain the perception of MN as a decent to good team with limited resources and support that isn’t a...

How much would an average fan pay to watch these games. Not much.

Some of the podcast/youtube crews out there could probably do an unscripted livecast during games and attract a following if they’re entertaining or informative enough. Mcafee and his crew have done one at times on the alternate. ESPN. The broadcast crews are TBH mostly meh at best...

It will never be enough.

We’re going to miss Brosmer, I fear. Honorary MVP in my book. He missed on a few but he’s so good. Spencer 1B. The defense played well for the most part with some fun individual efforts on display but unless I’m hallucinating VT was mostly a JV squad

Enjoyed watching the finale of the 2024 edition of MN. Some of the backups, Brosmer, Striggow, Brown. That fourth quarter play action pass to Geers reminded me of the Morgan to Witham fourth down conversion versus Auburn. Nice to see the guys (and fans) let loose. Not gonna lie, the...

I loved the dad jokes, my wife did not. So there you have it. 10/10 take the improv style ridiculous product placement train wreck over Gus/Klatt agonizing over every word.

Reclassifying athletes as employees would be catastrophic for most colleges. Going to need a congressional hand waving carve out.