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Have to be able to read to use a teleprompter.

^^selective memory much?

Dr Z, great post. I think this would look good on AK-Rowdies tee shirts for the first Zipsverses the Golden Felons game in January.Is it a home game? Good "white out" material there.

I like Price, I am interested to see on which side of the ball Rossi ends up.I am excited to see Chisholm for the reason that you say. He did great against our defense. But what you leave out of that statement, is that he was the only back who did great against our defense. That doesn't mean I think the defense proved anything, far from it, but I do think Chisholm doing what he did to our defense, and the other backs looking mediocre against our defense, means Chisholm should be the # 1. And I am excited to see if he can run like that all the time.But for me its the "Lone Ranger" I want to see what someone who should be playing for an SEC school can do to win the starting position. He seemed nervous the first series in the spring game (as anyone taking an important test is) but he settled down and looked darn good the rest of the afternoon. This kid was high on 6-7 Automatic Qualifier school's list and he loses his chances because his HS coach didn't like his attitude. That spells "something to prove" and that was the mentality he took in JUCO. Maybe we have a losing season, maybe we don't, but at least there are some things to be excited and anxious about.

I'm sure most of her followers would say "You need to stop being an intellectual elitist!"

So we should be more like the French? Sacrebleu!

There I fixed that for you.

Also possible NCAA infraction. Other Can't State students (by definition boosters) giving him money. Yes its a stretch but...

The Constitution requires 2/3 majority for treaties. FT skirts that requirement. It is an example of people believing something is true regardless of whether or not it is true. It doesn't have to be real, it just has to be believed to be real.It's sort of like how West Virginia became a state. WV became a state by the presidential decree of President Lincoln. A presidential decree is not one of the methods of becoming a state defined by the Constitution, yet everyone believes WV is a state. As a point of law, it isn't. After the Civil War, WV should have become part of VA again and we should have 49 states. It would have been a minor issue back then, unnoticed in today's world. I stayed the night one time in Charleston, WV and WV Public TV had a half hour special where they talked to a guy who wrote a book about this issue. He was a professor at WVU or Marshall or somewhere in WV.If West Virginia and Virginia had been reunited after WWII, Obama would have only had to visit 56 states during the campaign instead of 57.LOL but if Southern California gets its way, we're back to 57. Maybe he just had foresight.

I agree with a lot of what you are saying here. I am just curious how NAFTA was against the Constitution.

I now will have to go evaluate my entire existence. g-mann has no respect for me. My entire life is now changed and I will have to go back to the beginning and start over after a complete evaluation.+1 But yet you both had to comment about it....

I really hope everything here is supposed to be in sarcasm font. Otherwise I really have no respect for any of you other than Dave on here.

Politics, and people who don't do anything but align themselves with a party has become outrageous in this country. Too many people are too quick to jump on someone because the opinion could be interpreted as "anti-what I believe in."The important thing to remember is that no problem in this country started at the begining of the previous term. Ever. Problems continue, politicians come and ago.Remember this....Don't blame the cook for a bad omelet, it was likely a bad egg. Don't blame a bad egg on the chicken, it was likely a bad farmer. Don't blame the farmer for the sick chicken, it was likely poor feed.But even with all of that, anyone of them could have stopped you from having a bad omelet.

And being a nonsensical know nothing is even more so.

I mean my comment as non-political as possible. The fact is people have stayed the course much longer than 1 year. If the foundation is solid there is no reason to change anything. You have a bunch of fan-boys on here flying off the handle because coach I said no changes to the program fundamentals. That has zit to do with on the field strategy. Zach is consistantly toxic about the current coach, that gets us nowhere.I'm far from being warm and fuzzy about our situation. Coach I has a lot to prove to get me to buy into him this year. But I have seen signs of improvement which lead to a glimmer of hope that we can get some where. But enough with the "he can't do anything right mentality" from most of you. We get it, you wanted someone else, but great job of campaigning for whoever it is that you wanted.

And Bush said it for 7 years, what's your point?Coach I is talking about the program, not the on field stuff. He's talking about the class room, and player behavior, and player accountability, and player involvement, and player leadership.You keep that stuff the same if it means that player effort continues to increase. And last year player effort did improve at the end of the season. Player effort looked pretty good in the spring game. You don't change the program fundamentals because you failed for a year because you were constantly fighting people who wanted you to fail, or felt entitled so they didn't work hard.

Nice, but for basically $90?That is the general cost of a fathead and you get more than just the a-roo logo.

Fathead.comOne of those under the radar things that marketing got done.

Yeah you kind of missed my point here. It wasn't about taking advantage of individuals. It was about how easilly money is exchanged and how corruptable "legal" things are.

Two years from now... Exactly

There is an old saying, "Sunlight is the best antiseptic." Bringing the money into the sunlight will kill a lot of the corruption. College football can then focus on....I don't know....this thing called "college football" and not who is taking money from drug dealing tat parlor owners. Remember, it isn't the money that causes the corruption, it's the secrets the money creates that causes the problems. I guess if the ability to pay players in legal jobs is make or break with my scenario, the Ivy League should become the #1 conference in the country. They have the most wealthy and influential alumni in the US.....unless it isn't all about the money. First. Answer me a question. Is the NCAA as corrupt (right now) as say Wall Street, or government contracts? Because those are both out in the open. Second, if the Ivy League wanted to reduce their educational standards, they would be the absolute top athletic schools in the country right now. They decided a long time ago to spend on academics. Why? Because it makes WAY MORE MONEY. OSU didn't get huge money because of Woody, they got huge money because of their patents. Go to a Yale - Harvard football game, it far beats OSU - Michigan as a rivalry.

100's over the course of a 100 years and 100's of thousands of athletes. If you change the game it is even more corruptable than it is now. That is what most of us who argue against GP1 or your suggestions are pointing out. People naturally gravitate to the easiest path, and people who are less risk averse are more willing to walk closer to the line or step over it. If you move the line or relax the rules there will be more corruption then there is now, there will be an even wider window of disparity then what there is now and you will have turned the sports into the NFL and NBA minor leagues. College sports works and is supported by far more people than pro-sports. Why? Because the majority (and yes it is the majority) of these athletes play for the love of the sport with no concern of making anymore than their scholarship. Should the scholarship be closer to some academic scholarships? Absolutely give then a spending stipend similar to that. Should they be free to make money off themselves? Hell no. Should they be able to make what ever people are willing to pay them in "legit jobs"? Hell no. There has to be regulation on this kind of things to keep the corruption at a minimal and keep people interested. Are college sports fine? Depends on who you ask. The biggest problem is that no one has been willing to really punish any of these schools. I look at UNC and that is a school that should receive the death penalty. Ohio State? I think they should receive as harsh punishment as USC did. Too many people think that if you P off the big fish they will bolt. However they will not have the money to hold tournaments for non revenue sports and they are locked into having those sports because of Title IX. Rules only work if the consequences for breaking them are actually enforced. Perhaps a major fining system along with the typical sanctions should be implementd. Say OSU has this violation and then they lose the scholarships and have to forfeit 50% of their TV revenue to the NCAA who resdistributes that revenue to schools who don't have violations. That would right the ship real quick. I've also noticed nobody has picked up on my previous point of looking at who is throwing all of this "not fair to players" and "schools making more money than ever" nonsense is coming from. The networks are making more than the schools off these players but aren't doing a damn thing to remedy it. They just keep pumping up the packages to the Universities and using the fall out to boost ratings and readership even further. ESPN is the one that caused this mess and then they act innocent and blame the schools for "being money hungry and not sharing". You created the revenue stream you idiots and you knew the rules when you did. But it really doesn't bother them because while them and CBS pay out hundreds of millions each year, they make billions on these sports. That is why the Big 10 developed their own network. Why should they have to go through a middle man?

Problem is it wasn't a fight, it was a 7on7 drill. First where is this information coming from? Gnomes no doubt. Second do you know what personel took part in the drill? How do you know it wasn't Zach and some other people who needed an opportunity to get some work in? The nice thing about practice, is that you can try a bunch of stuff and see if it works, and if it doesn't you don't lose anything except the sanity of a fear mongering fan or two who puts too much emphasis on things he hasn't seen with his own eyes and has no facts regarding the actual event.

This could take place but it I doubt it would be too widespread. I don't think there are that many people out there who would be able to give away that type of money. Would this scenario be any different than the kid taking the money under the table? Money under the table is worse because it becomes criminal activity. The guy with $20,000 to give away would probably be a smart businessman. My guess is he would want something for his 20K. Right now all he gets is a chance to sniff jock. Let's say he was a car dealer. The conversation might be, "I'll pay you 20K, but you are going to be at my dealership for three Saturdays in June, July and August signing autographs for four hours." Professional athletes can do this, actors can do this, any of us could do this if we could get the dealer to pay us. Why not the player? If you treat them like adults, they might just act like adults. Right now, they get treated like children and they act out like children. You are clueless. Take someone like T. Boone Pickens. He could lose $100,000,000 a year and not even notice (figuratively, he would obviously notice he's a businessman, but you get my point its not going to hurt him) that goes a long way to cushy jobs for Oklahoma State players. And you fail to recognize this goes on now. Dealers and restaurants and the like do it already. Some of these rich alums are just waiting for the opportunity. And more importantly they will find a way to spend the money and make money in the process.

It's only "news" if its an action contrary to what our assumptions are. What's shocking to me is that there weren't more players with him. But then GP1 will be on here pretty soon saying "Well you can't stop it, we should just let them, at least then its out in the open"