Recruiting Football Talk VII

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BigOrange15 said:


"Wah, Tennessee not bending over and taking it is upsetting the unfair, anti-capitalist, and illegal environment we set up to take advantage of the free labor of athletes."

Cry me a ****ing river.
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NCAA’s reply looks like they were too lazy to write it themselves so they went on Wikipedia and stole some stuff and changed a few words around
 
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eVOLve said:
NCAA’s reply looks like they were too lazy to write it themselves so they went on Wikipedia and stole some stuff and changed a few words around
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'Turning upside down rules overwhelmingly supported by member schools will aggravate an already chaotic collegiate environment’

- You are the governing agency, Your upside down rules. All 400 pages.
- You created insane rules and the atmosphere, and were 100% consistent in INCONSISTENTLY enforcing. This created a multi billion dollar sport where the people who we played made nothing. And everyone else got rich.
- You did nothing.
- Courts did something.
-Still you did nothing. Still upside down.
- More lawsuits
-Too little too late. Worried about saving yourselves and own skin. Your own demise, due to own inability to adapt.
- Courts did right thing

NCAA literally just admitted guilt to the very thing they sought to retroactively enforce, further, because of the very problems they caused.

DW, SEC and Big 10 got this. You go sit at the kid's table.
 
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February 24, 1942
"The Battle of Los Angeles"
The attack started at 7:18 p.m. on February 24, 1942, when a “yellow” alert was sounded after the radar detectors picked up unidentified objects flying less than 100 miles from Los Angeles.

By 10.33 p.m., the threat became real, and an all-city blackout order was given over Los Angeles. The battle was on.

By 2:30 a.m., sirens started blasting across the city as the bewildered Los Angeles citizens awoke to utter blackness, large searchlights scanning the sky, and the thunderous roar of anti-aircraft guns exploding across the night sky.

At 3:00 a.m., the unidentified object or objects were reported to be just off the coast of Santa Monica. Anti-aircraft units were given permission to fire on sight. At 3:07 a.m., anti-aircraft units in Santa Monica, reporting the sighting of enemy aircraft, began firing into the sky. Shortly thereafter, anti-aircraft units across the Los Angeles area joined in firing into sky. In addition to sweeping searchlights, orange tracer shells began streaming into the night sky across the city.

Fear and panic quickly spread throughout the city. As smoke from exploding shells began collecting in the sky, civilians and army gunners both reported sightings of enemy aircraft, falling bombs and Japanese paratroopers. A report came in claiming that a Japanese aircraft had crashed in Hollywood. Frightened drivers, speeding through darkened streets, collided with one another, resulting in three traffic fatalities. As many as three other persons were reported to have died from fatal heart attacks.

By daylight, however, no Japanese ships lay off the coast, no downed enemy aircraft were found and no enemy bomb damage was reported. Confused and embarrassed authorities, with no explanation for the morning’s events, focused instead on arresting 20 Japanese-Americans for allegedly trying to signal the mysterious enemy aircraft.

Within days, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, admitted that the whole incident to have been a mistake. The U.S. Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, however, stated that 15 enemy aircraft had appeared over Los Angeles. Stimson later retreated from that position.

So, what did military gunners actually shoot at? Explanations for what had spooked gunners ranged from a false alarm to meteorological balloons to UFOs. An official investigation, however, could not clearly determine the exact cause. The incident turned out to be the only serious military action to occur over a continental U.S. metropolitan area during World War II.

Many years later, in 1983, the Office of Air Force History, after conducting their own study of the 1942 events,* concluded that U.S. military defenses in California were already nervously poised for action, partly due to the attack from the Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara. The office also noted that meteorological balloons had been released prior to the incident that, with attached lights and their silvery color, may have been mistaken for aircraft.

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NCAA = Corruption = Serfdom for collegiate athletes = Feudalism

So, yeah, will be taking victory laps for days. Personal experiences going back to my day as a collegiate baseball player influence how I feel.

So much wrong headed stuff for so many years. All it did was lead to under the table crap - cheating and cheaters - with selective enforcement through cronyism. Do cheaters ever want a level playing field? Of course not. They actually take pride in winning the wrong way. Sick.

One of the effects NIL has is to level the playing field with everyday fans having the opportunity to participate. There is much, much more that still needs to happen, like moving the SEC office out of Birmingham, with officiating, and such. I am here for every moment of it. So frickin' proud of UT and our state leadership on this. A shout out to Virginia as well. The rest that did not have the guts to sign on or do their own lawsuits can go pound sand. Nothing but bandwagons who have been part of the problem.
 
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COOKEVOL said:
My side gig is a lighting designer with a performing arts center. Dance season starts beginning of April and runs until early June. Brutal.
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Dance became an expensive 1 hour babysitting affair moneymaker for the Academy. I wont share names but literally they'd herd them in a room and have teenage girls teach them. The outfits were also marked up way high, as to make money.

They werent getting anything out of it. Days of being an exceptional dance school are gone. Really wouldve had to pay another separate gymnastics class + tumbling.

No thx.
 
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Glitch said:
I have been thinking. It really doesn't make sense to make individual game threads for the baseball games, since they play so many. However, it doesn't really make sense to clog up this thread with multiple pages of in game comments. So I am offering up my services in making Official Baseball Weekend Series threads to post all the happenings of the Friday through Sunday baseball series each week. Thoughts?
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peaygolf said:
February 24, 1942
"The Battle of Los Angeles"
The attack started at 7:18 p.m. on February 24, 1942, when a “yellow” alert was sounded after the radar detectors picked up unidentified objects flying less than 100 miles from Los Angeles.

By 10.33 p.m., the threat became real, and an all-city blackout order was given over Los Angeles. The battle was on.

By 2:30 a.m., sirens started blasting across the city as the bewildered Los Angeles citizens awoke to utter blackness, large searchlights scanning the sky, and the thunderous roar of anti-aircraft guns exploding across the night sky.

At 3:00 a.m., the unidentified object or objects were reported to be just off the coast of Santa Monica. Anti-aircraft units were given permission to fire on sight. At 3:07 a.m., anti-aircraft units in Santa Monica, reporting the sighting of enemy aircraft, began firing into the sky. Shortly thereafter, anti-aircraft units across the Los Angeles area joined in firing into sky. In addition to sweeping searchlights, orange tracer shells began streaming into the night sky across the city.

Fear and panic quickly spread throughout the city. As smoke from exploding shells began collecting in the sky, civilians and army gunners both reported sightings of enemy aircraft, falling bombs and Japanese paratroopers. A report came in claiming that a Japanese aircraft had crashed in Hollywood. Frightened drivers, speeding through darkened streets, collided with one another, resulting in three traffic fatalities. As many as three other persons were reported to have died from fatal heart attacks.

By daylight, however, no Japanese ships lay off the coast, no downed enemy aircraft were found and no enemy bomb damage was reported. Confused and embarrassed authorities, with no explanation for the morning’s events, focused instead on arresting 20 Japanese-Americans for allegedly trying to signal the mysterious enemy aircraft.

Within days, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, admitted that the whole incident to have been a mistake. The U.S. Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, however, stated that 15 enemy aircraft had appeared over Los Angeles. Stimson later retreated from that position.

So, what did military gunners actually shoot at? Explanations for what had spooked gunners ranged from a false alarm to meteorological balloons to UFOs. An official investigation, however, could not clearly determine the exact cause. The incident turned out to be the only serious military action to occur over a continental U.S. metropolitan area during World War II.

Many years later, in 1983, the Office of Air Force History, after conducting their own study of the 1942 events,* concluded that U.S. military defenses in California were already nervously poised for action, partly due to the attack from the Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa Barbara. The office also noted that meteorological balloons had been released prior to the incident that, with attached lights and their silvery color, may have been mistaken for aircraft.

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