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Abilene Christian should take the money texas tech is paying them and bet on that the game is forfeited. That could fund them for a lot of years.
I think in this case the harm is already done.
NO NFL GM in their right mind would touch this kid. He's already demonstrated poor decision-making. Add a gambling addiction on top of it and now he's on every GM's "DO NOT TOUCH" list.
He's going to have to go to another country to find work as a professional football player.
Stunned isnt the correct word as it appears the NCAA is nothing more than a fickle face for a sport anymore. Their legal team is in an unwinnable position as it's not even hard to figure out the judge is fully biased in this situation.
All we can hope is fellow big 12 teams and others quit scheduling and cancel games. Or let them field ineligible players and pray the football gods have a sense of justice and let the trash talk at games begin
Agree. Chris Richards being at full go today at practice makes me feel a lot better.
TBD. Dabo finally started using the portal. Took 10 this season. Probably depends a lit on how Vizzina does at QB. He has been Klubnik's backup for 3 years. If he couldn't beat out Klubnik, I have doubts.
Is Clemson going to be anything decent this year?
Sounds like a good chance from what i've been reading
https://247sports.com/player/amarri-irvin-46142805/
Read that Notre Dame is thinking this LB flips to us. Any ideas from those in the know?
CBs have got to communicate better on those types of set pieces. It's a well-designed play by Germany to be fair but I think the CBs and Freese share some blame and we shouldn't have conceded that one.
Worried by our backline and transition defense but our attack has to be the best it's been in USMNT history. Need to convert chances...
His lawyers will use that to strengthen their argument of irreparable harm.
Another incident to think about...Liangelo Ball got suspended at UCLA for an entire season for stealing sunglasses while playing an exhibition game in China...he eventually just dropped out of school.
This was pre-NIL, because if it happened now, there would have been an immediate lawsuit filed and the case shopped around circuits until they could find a friendly judge who would rule that he would be "economically damaged" by not being allowed to play.
Again, the more salient point here is 99.7% of these players will never play pro what lessons are we teaching them as 18-24 year-olds? That the world owes you money just for showing up? That consequences only matter if you are a 3rd stringer or play D2?
Definitely lessons that will carry them far going forward...
Yeah, like the parents had to schlep the kids back to Florida for their trials and sentencing. Even if they plead out they are going to arrest records.
My thoughts on the schedule. I think there are at least 6-7 games where we should be the favorite pre-season. There are at least 2 toss up games, and three losses.
VMI - W, Should be a blowout.
Old Dominion - W. Hope for a blowout
Maryland - W.
@Boston College - W.
Pitt - Toss Up.
@California - W
Georgia Tech - Toss up, underdog
@Clemson - L. Underdog
@SMU - L. Underdog
Stanford - W
@Miami - L
Virginia - W.
Yeah, it was disgusting. But honestly, not terribly surprising. With Philadelphia the way it is, he was probably shocked that the kids had any consequences. There were interviews later on here on the local news where the coach backed off and said he hopes they learn that there are consequences and he was deeply disappointed and, blah, blah, blah. That was all only after he was slammed for his comments.
I wonder how much emotional harm he will suffer when he finds out this is his last year playing football on any type of semi-pro level. No professional team is going to take a swing on a player that bet against his own team.
Not only did he want them to play, he wanted the charges for shop lifting to grand larceny dropped. He thought it was wrong to charge minors for stealing when they were caught red handed by security videos.
My hope - and I'd be borderline overjoyed with this outcome - is:
(1) Go 6-5, couldn't care less which teams we beat and which we lose to
(2) Beat Virginia to get to 7-5
(3) Win a bowl game to go 8-5, couldn't care how piss-ant a game it is or who it is against, just win our first bowl game in years and finish strong on a high note
Now you add all that new talent coming in from Franklin's first class getting to start seeing the field in the 2027 season and the likely good group of transfers coming in and you really can feel like the sun is rising.
I'm sure there's a conference commish out there screaming that its unfair that there aren't more $EC teams going to Omaha.
i think this is the correct answer. The pros have federal antitrust exemptions and can enforce their own rules. The NCAA does not.
"At what point does personal responsibility enter the equation anywhere here?"
I'm old enough to have lived at least 4 decades, getting close to 5, where I was old enough to really understand the concept of personal responsibility and consequences of it. Sadly, with almost every passing year, we seem to get further and further from it. Things that parents would have smacked you so hard you would not sit for a day or your nose would be on the back of your face like after Elmer Fudd shoots Daffy Duck in the beak are today accepted or even defended. Remember the Philadelphia area coach trying to defend his players for stealing in Florida and that they should be allowed to play?
This is just 1 more symptom of that rot.
OV'd last weekend and someone to probably keep an eye on Noah Renes
The pros are allowed to enforce their anti-gambling rules without judicial interference??
Genuine question - how is this different than NFL, NBA, etc?
For the most part high school guards don't play d1. If they were good enough they'd play tackle in high school because unless its middle run heavy they want the guys with speed on the out side. So just because we tack an OT doesn't mean they will play that in college, the slower ones move inside.