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$33M on Dec 15th.

First thought, what is his buyout?

Second thought, was the LSU AD somehow involved on it?

John Stossel had a great list of these too. Based on actual lawsuits. Off the top of my head, I remember:

Do not use while unconscious.
Do not use as a hair dryer (It was a paint stripping heat gun)

There were a bunch more.

The reason why we have new style gas cans (who all here remembers that thread) is people pouring gas out of the can onto a fire and suing for that.

Yep and as I learned in my 'business law' class at VT in the 1980s, that's why you see the idiotic warning labels like 'don't try and fold your stroller with the baby inside it". My fave example was two neighbors who decided to trim the hedge between their lawns by holding their power mower and running it along the top and one slipped and had his hands mangled but successfully sued the manufacturer cause it didn't specifically warn them NOT to do so. Companies hire lawyers to think of the dumbest things to possibly happen with their products and put a warning label or instructions...e.g. don't use your hair dyer in the shower...

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We're heading for an eventuality where there are only 4 to 8 teams that will ever make it to the top of the mountain, IMO.

I think we are already pretty close to that point already. The 12 team CFP is largely pointless, the bottom 8 teams aren't really in the same league as the top 4. Even when there were only 4 teams, most years only 2 or 3 really felt like they belonged.

But you are right, the people that thought that NIL was going to somehow lead to some sort of equilibrium in the sport missed the mark entirely. The Media/TV conglomerates are the money men in CFP and they are never, ever going to share money willingly with 18-22 (or now 18-28) year-olds. It won't happen.

Schools are going to continue to pay absurd contracts to coaches and build absurdly expensive facilities because they are at least a constant factor that can be controlled in a world where any player can leave at any time for any reason at all.

Kelly was in a no loss situation and might have come out ahead. He can walk away with all the money, no stress, etc.

the arms race won't stop until there's a big bubble burst or some other major event that precipitates large scale reforms in the sport. I'm not sure when (if?) that will happen but that's what it will take to slow (stop?, change?) the arms race. Until then, I'd expect it to continue on this wild path. We're not that far from coaches of top teams making $20+ million and players that start on that team making between $1-3 million

what will be interesting to watch is how many teams those types of figures will take out of the running altogether. We're heading for an eventuality where there are only 4 to 8 teams that will ever make it to the top of the mountain, IMO. I'd expect that when that happens, the sport will grow stale and interest will plummet. We shall see.

The pushback I would give here is that big-time college sports already devalues education to begin with, so it's hard to say what value players are getting from their degree compared to an average student.

But the piece doesn't compare athletes to the average student; it compares athletes graduating pre-NIL to those graduating post-NIL

There should be more guardrails in place, but the players also need to have the freedom to make decisions and live with the consequences of them.

Completely agree.

oh absolutely, it was weird AF

No. It was perfect the way it was.