Recruiting Football Talk VII

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Kurtastrophe said:
Our administration is straight-up castrating the NCAA. And everybody knows it.
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The unspoken truth behind us is that the SEC and likely the B1G are also behind us. If the NCAA won't resolve it, the conferences will and that will be a sad day for all of us. Football will go on but the rest of college sports will be weakened substantially if the NCAA doesn't step back from the edge. I don't enjoy the idea of losing things like the basketball tourney and how it's structured. I don't like the idea of small colleges being left out of all the other sports because the NCAA couldn't find compromise on the major ones but this fight will blow up the entire organization if they don't see reason.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
Report is that the number of schools under NIL investigation by the NCAA is in "double digits". The question is, would that be 11 or 99? Is the NCAA turning to consume its own members in a last ditch effort to prove they are still the beloved leader?
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I wonder why then, if it is in the double digits, why are we the program getting all the negative press? (I know why, and we're tired of it)... They should all be joining us in the lawsuit...
 
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peaygolf said:
February 1, 2004



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Seeing the documentary on this made it way creepier and weirder.
 
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volinbama256 said:
I wonder why then, if it is in the double digits, why are we the program getting all the negative press? (I know why, and we're tired of it)... They should all be joining us in the lawsuit...
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I don’t think we’re getting that much negative press. Forde, Mandel, and Wolken, but otherwise, the media seems either confused or frustrated with the NCAA.
 
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MarcoVol said:
Why in the world would they want UK to win? Vols in 4th and a better chance to win the conference and get a better seed.

It just wouldn’t make sense.
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You clearly have not been following this thread the last few days. It is clear that we are a black sheep program, and the higher-ups do not want us to succeed. Just because Sankey is behind us in this fight doesn’t mean he’s always been behind us succeeding in our athletic programs. he knows the writing is on the wall for the NCAA. It gives him the chance to be the most powerful man in college athletics if they go down.
 
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Checker_the_Shire said:
I know nothing about lawsuits and this is behind a paywall. What exactly is happening here?
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It's basically a suit designed to bolster what Spyre and the universities are saying about the importance of NIL in choosing where to play. Lampley's suit is from the players perspective. What we're doing right now is covering every base. There's nothing accidental about it. We've had the legal groundwork planned for quite a time and I have to say, we are rolling it out masterfully.
 
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Jimmy Football said:
Most people haven’t quite arrived at the reality that there are two ways forward: no limits, or collectively bargained limits.

If there was another way, the big professional leagues would have figured it out by now.
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There was a great article awhile back on this.

Every pro league began in wildly different organizational structures, many decades ago. And all ended in the same formation. There's a term for this, but I forget what it is.

This is where major college sports are headed, to their natural end game.
 
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volinbama256 said:
I wonder why then, if it is in the double digits, why are we the program getting all the negative press? (I know why, and we're tired of it)... They should all be joining us in the lawsuit...
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They haven't leaked those names yet. Just heard a rumor UGA and OSU are in the list, but that sounds like a stretch.
 
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LA Vol said:
UT has been tagged a rogue program and a lot of media and rival schools have worked hard to perpetuate that. UT's high-profile decade of dysfunction-- from Kiffin to the end of Pruitt-- made UT look poorly run with a lack of leadership control. The Bruce, Schiano and Pruitt debacles played right into the narrative of lawless UT. Add to that, our long-standing rivals are favored programs that benefit from painting UT programs as renegade. Our rivals turn us in every chance they get, in all the major sports. So the NCAA came after UT in MBB, football, now baseball with Tony V. It snowballed, and the NCAA seems determined to hit UT with LOIC-- the height of irony since UT is now over-compliant.
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That's a whole lot of victim blaming on the NCAA's part. They know full well leadership has changed dramatically.

At any rate, even a sophomore in sociology would know you don't push an institution that has hyper competent leadership combined with a rogue's attitude (and I do think we've internalized a rogue/us vs, the world attitude because of the mistreatment but I don't see it as wholly bad as long as we keep it in check - later it can turn on us but that's a worry for another day). That's the exact combination that gets you destroyed in battle. Warriors willing to go berserk with competent leadership pointing them in a direction. Sun Tzu would tell the NCAA they've already lost. You pick your battles, your battle field, and when to strike and they've chosen incredibly poorly on all counts. The only way to win is to withdraw and find a way to redraw the battle.
 
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