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Just cleared my junk mail and the instant before I hit the button I saw Ted and something that told me that you'd emailed me. I'm sorry about that and if you'd try again, I promise I'll be more on the ball. If I can recover it, I'll respond.

My thoughts are: 1) the statement was ambiguous enough that we don't know exactly Franklin's roster strategy, just that he pays 105 players and there is a valuation threshold that limits how much he is willing to spend on individual players. And 2) let it play out, we'll see if the Franklin and Frank roster theory works in time.

And if I was a GM, I would employ a small team to use statistics and machine-learning to optimize roster management.

I read something about Brian Kelly vs Lane Kiffin/ole miss NIL that there were stark contrasts.
Ole Miss had aggressive NIL, deals for better players.
LSU/Kelly had a strict pay for position policy that limited players.

Personalities not withstanding, reimbursement strategies are going to be interesting to follow. I can understand the logics on both sides.
Chris Fowler recently said coaching is important, but roster management will be the key.

I saw this and my first reaction is Drones throws the football like it's a jug of milk.

Depends on when it is and their goals. They get free swag for going. If it's to opt out for the draft, yeah, to avoid injury. As far as transferring - I think it depends. A lot of guys you see opt out before the bowl might be from their coach being canned late in the season. Some may want to up their potential NIL stock, it probably depends on a lot.

Round of 32
Church got the pin in first match
Weader lost 7-1 in first match.
Farrell won 19-4 Tech Fall in 1st match.

Round of 16
Campbell 11-1 Major Decision
Gaj lost 5-1 to #4 Jaxon Joy
Church lost in SV 4-1 after review awarded Taylor takedown in final seconds of SV
Ferrell lost 8-0

Consolations
Gorman lost 8-6 in Consolation and his tourney is over
Gaj won 21-6 Tech Fall
Weader won 7-4
Church won 14-4 Major Decision
Ferrell won 2-0 with escape and a Riding Time point for riding entire 3rd.

One in the Quarterfinals and four alive in Consolation

It reminded me a lot of working in oil and gas in 2015 at a company that didnt believe in bonuses or chasing talent..... In the late 2000s oul was booming and they lost a ton of talent to places willing to pay them a ton in salary and bonuses but when the market crashed they got laid off any tried to come back but my company said they were prioritizing keeping people who had been loyal rather than bringing back the previous high fliers who chased short term cash over long term stability. That was the only major oil company that didnt lay off thousands of engineers but they did it through slow and structured pay rises that steuggled to keep the top talent but would keep really solid people long term.

Eventually they had to add rsu options to earlier employees because they were loaing top talent too aggressively

I'm just hoping we can pickup KMK in the portal.

And I would've accompanied the above statement with one of several KMK gifs I now have saved on imgur, but getting the direct link from there in mobile is just such a fucking nightmare.

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