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  1. Using profits derived from overpriced medical care in the middle of a global pandemic to fund your part in a fundamentally corrupt and exploitive enterprise is pretty gross overall.  

    A&M's approach is much better.  We just use money from environmentally destructive industries which fuel global warming on a massive scale, and which will eventually render life as we know it unsustainable.  

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  2. Apparently when Brian Kelley got on the plane down to Baton Rough, somebody handed him an Ipod loaded with Jerry Clower routines and said "Lurrrrn tuh tahhhlllk lahhllk theeuuss".

    I can't wait for his first postgame press conference.

    Reporter:  Coach Kelley, Max Johnson seemed to be struggling with his reads in the first half.  What did tell him to get him settled down?

    Kelley:  I told Maxy, I said 'just throw it in there amongst em.  One of em has gots to catch it.'

    At this rate, by the end of next year he'll be shilling Magic Bait.

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  3. 7 minutes ago, supremebve said:

    This makes sense if we're talking about what is right or wrong, but this is college football we're talking about and doing what's right is never considered. No one who has the power to change this can make a dollar by changing this rule. There are literally hundreds of millions of dollars being made by keeping it like it is, so it won't ever change. 

    Are those parts of the system (coaching changes during the year and early signing) really a positive for the folks who are ultimately making the decisions at NCAA level?  Obviously they are for the coaches, but I don't see how they benefit ADs and/or college presidents.  Something there I'm missing?

  4. 20 minutes ago, Chaos said:

    I get the allure of Miami for Kiffin (and there's multiple sources that say if it's open, he's there), but it's a bizarre fit because Miami is just unwilling to put the kind of money into improving the football program that other schools are willing to do.

    I guess he just seems like he would've been perfect for Miami when they were still The U.

    I forgot about the Day to Chicago rumors.  C'mon Bears, help me out here.

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  5. I'm gonna be disappointed in OU and ND if they end up with Venables and Freeman.  I was hoping to keep the coach poaching train rolling.  If those two end up with boring, sensible hires where's the fun in that?  I guess somebody else has to step up.  Miami, you're up.  I need some Lane Kiffin rumors, stat.

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  6. 1 hour ago, EVA said:

    It’s also going to be sadly ironic when/if Oklahoma State misses another chance to play for the natty because they lost at Iowa State again.

    I think you meant to say hilarious.  Or maybe beautiful.

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  7. Watching my first ever ESPN+ game, and its amazing how bad the production is.  Its Southpaw level bad. 
     

    And since there may not be 100 yards passing in this game when it ends, it’s got a very middle school feel to it. 

  8. 1 hour ago, JLowe said:

    I know athletics budgets are generally separate at larger schools but MSU doing that for Tucker while asking their professors and academic staff to volunteer in the dining halls is a very bad look.

    Apparently it's funded by two boosters, but you're not wrong there.  My father was a professor at Texas for about 40 years.  I'm trying to imagine his response if he was told to "volunteer" to work in the dining halls.  I'd pay good money to watch somebody make that suggestion to him.

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  9. 10 hours ago, EVA said:

    Michigan State going a hundred milli for Mel Tucker based on 3/4’s of a good season on the back of an out-of-nowhere Heisman-caliber RB seems like a very sound decision that they will in no way come to regret.

    You're absolutely right there, especially if it's fully guaranteed, but I'm guessing that contract won't look so outlandish for long.  It's setting a new bar for that level of coach, but other schools are gonna jump right on over that bar.  I figure it could get passed up a couple times by January. 

    No idea how valid the rumors are, but supposedly LSU offered Lincoln Riley $12 million per year.  Riley's a step above Tucker, but he ain't Saban either.  LSU is gonna pay somebody more than Michigan State will be paying Tucker by January.  USC might too.  Florida could as well, either this year or next.  And Texas might next year.  That's a lot of big time money teams looking for at a very limited number of candidates.

    Of course none of that is gonna make things look better for Michigan State if they're going 7-5 three years from now, looking at seven more years at $9.5m per year with no way out.  Glad coaches' contracts weren't this crazy when Sumlin won 11 games and beat Bama his first year at A&M.  Imagine how badly that contract would've aged.

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