Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Does that give them any aerodynamic advantage?

 

The article says what they did is against the rules for that reason.

 

The thrill of victory
And the agony of the meat

 

You said it was a good size

 

Yes. The article covers that .

 

Personally? I think the redistribution of wealth is one of the best things to happen in society in recent years. Good for kids who can’t cut in pros getting a little bit of a head start for their future. Will everyone use it well? No. But some of these kids are going to seize opportunities and capitalize on them in a big way. And it’s going to go to communities all across America.

 

It's hilarious that football factories in Da South are now all high and mighty about schools throwing money around & snatching their players. In this brave new world, maybe Dabo needs to improve the Xs & Os.

Hell, Saban saw the writing on the wall and bailed out of Bammy because JimBob's Veehicle Emporium under-the-table payments to yoots no longer set them apart from schools all around the country. I'd laugh my ass off if some billionaire donors at Harvard, Princeton or Yale said "we're gonna turn these teams into national powerhouses. ROLL TIGERS!"

 

"I'm not complaining about that"

On the latest Pat McAfee Show, Nick Saban laid out how NIL hurt the SEC while helping the Northern schools with Ohio State and Michigan winning the last two National Championships.

"I do think that the culture in college football right now, with name, image and likeness (NIL) and paying players money, has actually maybe hurt the SEC a little bit, and helped the schools up North, because if you’re making your decision about money, and someone is going to pay you more to go to Ohio State or Michigan or wherever it is – and I’m not complaining about that, that’s the way it is – then these kids are going to be more willing to move."

https://saturdayblitz.com/nick-saban-s-telling-nil-comments-point-to-why-he-walked-away

 

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump | AP News

 

Yup, I've been telling these boards for years that "college" sports are stupid, and a waste of time and money for years.

 

I’m sure that was fun to write, but that’s not what happened.

 

Marcus Lattimore could have used the NIL money.

 

If you couldn't get Teflon Don to throw some money at Rutgers, that's your problem. stay off national TV and there won't be as many people laughing at your programs

The bigtime (thru payment) schools were and are spread out all over the country. Alabama was and is one of them. So are Ohio State and Michigan, and Nebraska and Oklahoma and Good God, Texas, and USC and Notre Dame and Penn State. It's only the northeastern and northwestern corners that lack any sort of athletic program worth billionaire support. The South isn't out of step here- your region is.

The Big Ten gets the same great athletes the SEC does. Always did. They just weren't coached up very well by the likes of Hayes and Schembechler. Once they got SEC-level coaches, they started winning.

Georgia? Florida? Tennessee? LSU? They are Johnnies-come lately.

 

Oregon says hi.

 

Absolutely. The rest of my post is just conversation.

I'm thinking of longtime powerhouses. The argument in the ast has been that the Big Ten powerhouses were not paid as well. Of course they were! I place the blame for Ohio State's and Michigan's failures of the 60s, 70s, and 80s rightly on coaching.

As for Oregon and payment? They might not have to pay quite as much, given how Nike money can do that itty bit more for Oregon than it does for anyone else, or before it's done for anyone else. those guys live and the equipment. Everybody else orders x jerseys in x size for the season, and they get a bulk price. Oregon's designing shit for every game. Their uniform cost alone is... Significant. They get that for free because Nike. And the facilities are a Nike testing ground.

One big thing- they gotta win one. Lanning's played for points now and come up short twice. Until they win one, they'll just be That Dangerous Program That Hasn't Worn The Same Uniform Since 1842 or whenever. In fact, I'm not sure USC's heroics in the early part of the century can carry the Southwest anymore, that was over 20 years ago. It's now a midwestern and southern game.

 

I think the Midwest gets off a little easy on this because nothing was as notable as let's say an SMU where it was so blatant and obvious a small program had changed their payroll. If say Purdue all of the sudden won the Big Ten enough to the point of a Death Penalty some of that conversation wouldn't be as tilted towards the South.

The Northeast does not care about College Football in the slightest. The West Coast gameday experience/stadiums/campus in the Pac-12 from my experience was on par with the Big Ten and the SEC.

 

And here's to Phil Knight dying without every getting to see Oregon win one with all of his exploited child labor money.

Autzen is a great experience though for any Oregon fans in here. I was fortunate enough to catch a Thursday night game that they ended up losing as the #2 ranked team. I think it was a loss to one of Rich Rod's Arizona teams.

Eugene is beautiful and if anyone ever goes make sure you hike Spencer Butte.

 

You don't have to tell Wypipo to go on a hike

 

Article about the latest set of inductees into the LGBTQ Sports Hall of Fame.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/69...edy-lgbtq-sports-hof-collins-welts-roberts-2/

It trying to be funny here…should Renee Richards be in? She was definitely a pioneer.

 

So I was curious about Richards so I went to her Wikipedia page.

1. After her surgery she moved to California and played amateur tennis as a female. Tucker Carlson’s father outed her.
2. Later in life she said her having been male gave her an unfair advantage. I’m sure the medical procedure in her day wasn’t what it is now. So her experience may not be relevant to Lia Thomas ( or the tennis equivalent.). But she knows more about it than any of us. Her thoughts are important for that reason.

 

He was a Penn grad.

Not a Rutgers fan but I hope they do well. They're just overmatched in the Big22. So they're happy with the conference money they get.

 

Go on.