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For the Record: Someone mentioned earlier that they say before games "Let Us rise, and take off our hats in honor of our service members" or something around that nature. They do not. I've been going to the Browns Games with my father for nearly 19 years, and just heard it for the Browns/Bengals game. They very clearly say it's a dedication to the NATION, not service members. Later they do a "salute for the troops" at the end of the 1st quarter where they play "proud to be an American" that is a salute to the troops. Not a person kneels during that. Just thought I'd point this out. Stop being snowflakes.

Oh wow, this forum is rapidly becoming the ZipGrad01, Keener sounding board. Love you guys. My parakeets are getting better at reading everyday...soon they'll enough they'll be typing and adding to the echo chamber.

Well looks like I'm going to avoid the forum for awhile. Zips win and all some fans do is complain. See ya'll later in the season. Not worth it right now.

Updated for the last week of OCC games. (or at least I don't think there are any more on the slate for the conference). So as the MAC stands in head to head competition (MAC W %): ACC (0%) Pac-12 (0%) SEC (0%) Big10 (22%) C-USA (28%) Independents (33%) AAC (50%) MWC (50%) SunBelt (50%) Big-12 (66%) FCS (91%) Will update once Bowl season begins.

The answer is yes. This program IS snake bitten. And no less it happened on a play that wasn't even a play.

We've beaten Miami four years running, which also means in Oxford. So that's kinda not a brilliant take.

Just playing with ya Scene from one of my favorite movies from a couple years ago, Gran Torino.  

So you do read your own posts...

I still disagree. Not a stretch at all. Even with deficit spending you carry the debt. The more money to pay down the debt the less interest. Getting asshats who aren't paying taxes is away of getting that money to help pay down that debt. It IS, by law, money that should be payed. Not paying it = asshat cheating the system. And thus costing money. Funny how many conservatives are quick to want to crack down on welfare fraud, and not on tax fraud. So we either live in a country of laws or we don't. Keener I didn't realize you were such an advocate for free hand-outs. Allowing people to cheat on their taxes is a free handout.

It isn't though. Because Tax evasion is also not a victimless crime. Taxes pay for everything that we as Tax Payers benefit from. If you don't pay you're taxes you're effectively not paying for the things we all utilize. Not paying taxes is effectively steeling, and the stealing is from the rest of us.

That's because the current reality is them lying, cheating, and throwing money around to make it that way. Less a government term, and more a politics term...that was paid for by the institutions that pay our politicians. However it is possible to monetize the system to take away the incentive. Just like how deregulation of the banks/wall-street, allowing institutions to "self-police" themselves, failure to reign in monopolies creating bubbles; lead to the crash; you can pass regulations to prevent those things. The problem is, there's still a mechanism and incentive for those organizations to make sure it doesn't happen (by paying politicians). Take away their ability to do that (campaign finance reform) it levels the playing field. Same applies to the NCAA. You can level the playing field. But as it sets right now, how are those with the $$$$ and thus power going to allow anyone else to cut into their power? Just throw $$$$ around to prevent that from happening, and stack all governing boards with your own people.

Except the IRS has a cap of $14,000 tax free. But a gift is different than a "purchase" or an "exchange of goods". If you're being paid $100k for an autograph, that would be taxable. If you're paying someone in-so-facto to come play at a school, that is also taxable. Not a gift because there's clearly an exchange of goods, so to speak. So yes, it is a victim crime; the victim is the US Tax Paying citizens.

I do believe I said two things: One, REGULATION. And two, I don't know what a good solution is. But look, I don't need to have a solution to acknowledge a problem/point it out. I guess the third option is people just stop being greedy, manipulative, immoral assholes. But knowing the human condition; we can't expect people to be that way. The NCAA says it's rules exist to protect the integrity of College Athletics as a "pure sport" Bullshit. The NCAA's rules exist to protect the gravy-train.

Oh they definitely are too. But they're rejecting my contention of the big ones to begin with!

Gosh and people say Liberals live in a delusional fantasy world... Reality is people will continue to make money off of it. Not you're not "infusing even more money into the mix" you're putting the money instead where it should be going in the first place. I agree with you that we should go back to a COLLEGE system that doesn't have hundreds of millions to billions of dollars at stake with the "XYZ Company OFFICIAL REVIEW CAMERA" money. But that is never going to happen, because too many people like getting gravy from the gravy-train without having to create, build, renovate or work. Always, always, always follow the money. Money talks, money controls. If you don't have control on the money, then nothing is under control. The only option is legislating it. Too bad that too will never happen, because they also benefit greatly from the gravy-train. Stop living in a delusional world.

LZip I wasn't saying Akron...I was talking about the Blue-Chip programs. They have ALOT to gain from it. But to break down what Akron has to profit from: Not the Institution directly, the people involved do; coaches, Athletic Directors etc. They do financially have something to gain from from the success of the program. Raises, bonuses, contract extensions. And they're getting payed six figures. Better players means better chance of success. Better chance of success means better chance we keep our jobs and the gravy-train keeps coming. Scholarships do have value, but nearly as much value as the overwhelming sums of money Blue-Chip institutions make off the backs of "amateur" athletes. Those Blue-Chip programs then resort to an arms-race with each others which institutions like ours can't keep up with. In order to keep jobs, and to safe face, non-blue chip programs poor millions they'll never see again into those programs to try to begin to compete. So yes, we get screwed. Every way about it (Akron). But Blue-Chip programs have every incentive to cheat, lie, walk the boundary of morality in order to be successful. Because everyone's free lunch depends on it. (Yes I call the overwhelming money grab by TV, Shoes and whatever other contracts made to make money off student athletes, a free-lunch, because they ain't gotta do/create crap to do it).

Yup. But can we expect anything less? This system of profiteering on "students" who don't get paid...with shoe deals, sporting contracts, tv contracts, and all sorts of other asinine nonsense; all off of essentially free labor...this is what we should expect to happen. There is a direct motive for people to lie, cheat and scheme in order to get an advantage. In fact, if you don't lie, cheat and scheme, you're risking a shot at millions. So there is a direct incentive to do so. And there's "rules" against it, but it's the wild-wild west as this case is showing us. Pro-leagues are just as cut throat with money, but it isn't in the shadows. Everyone's making millions (including the players) and they pay the money to players directly to come make their program better so they can (hopefully) make even more money. Instead in college athletics, you have to maintain the fake venier of "Integrity" and "student" athlete, when in reality it's a minor-pro league without the athlete payroll. You've got to give yourself an advantage right? So finding a way to pay the athlete is going to be conjured up. TBH, it's just another example of where being honorable means getting screwed. There's no way in hell this isn't just scratching the surface of the crap that goes on in "Blue-Chip" programs.

The majority of MLK is still open...I drive it everyday. Everything up to the interbelt is still open. You've got Cedar, Exchange, Market, and (one other one I can't remember right now) still accessible from MLK expressway/I-77. Exchange is a CLUSTER though.

Annnnnnnd now this thread has turned into an echo chamber. I'm going to try to teach my parakeets to read. They certainly like to repeat sounds they hear. If I can just get them to read and echo what they read here, I won't need Zipsnation threads anymore!

Reading, and reading comprehension...the downfall of the United States of America.

Came across this today. Complain about it all you want folks, this is VERY promising research which is sure to be expanded upon soon with larger sample sizes. The article breaks it down pretty well. But we discussed on this forum research published earlier this year studying 202 former NFL players, which appeared to link CTE to football players. The result of that study was that researchers were going to try to locate a biomarker to then predict the existence of CTE in living people. This new BU research, albeit relatively small sample size, appears to have found a biomarker. Which means now we can expand to a larger, more general population to analyze/follow/make predictions based on the biomarker. Make predictions of who's more likely to have it, and the severity of it, and by death confirm the predictions. Were of course still aways away from that. But in no way shape or form is this bad science, or missleading. This is very good science folks. Connection to football has been indicated. Now there is a possible bio-indicator, found in heightened levels within Football players studied. Now for researching both in conjunction together to see if the link in fact is there.

False equivalency. A survey (where you ask people what they think) isn't very scientific. It can be, if you can control for a myriad of variables. The study I linked from BU followed people in their lives after football, and found the results they did. It's just like with smoking. Not all lung cancers are caused by smoking tobacco. But smoking tobacco puts you at a higher risk for developing it. You find that out by tracing the smoking and non-smoking subjects over time, and see what the comparison is. In all statistical research you can run a myriad of tests to tell weather your data is significant or not; factoring in deviations, outliers etc. Men's health magazine is hardly a peer-reviewed medical research journal. So yeah, better luck next time. See my next post.

I had a very thoughtful response to this. But I hit delete because "lengthy" thoughtful responses don't matter. W/E.

Which is why my Juniors in high school can't write three sentences explaining how a condenser works. Explaining why one group, or even one subgrroup within the group, in america doesn't get to dictate what is and is not patriotism; deserves a through heartfelt explanation.