VakAttack

Saint feels...not quite strong enough. Omniscient deity is more like it. That's the thing. You are calling things facts that are not facts. They are you interpreting circumstances in the way that is most favorable to your pre-decided position and then calling those interpretations facts. For example: Neither of these things are facts, they are opinions. After that, you're most relying on the statement of Welsh himself and insisting they are facts even though there's no evidence other than the word of Welsh, who is highly incentivized to make himself and his new institution look as good as possible, and dismissing disinterested parties, like Willie Saylor or Justin Basch (although you could argue Mr. Basch is a somewhat interested party) making the immediate reports. Everything after that just seems like window dressing to most of the rest of us, since he never actually met with anybody, but more ofa reaction of it looking bad that he had already committed to Penn State immediately after being in the portal. And I want to be clear, I'm not stating that what I am saying is fact. Clearly I'm stating my opinion based on what we're seeing; I would just posit that most of the non-Penn State fanbase would say my interpretation is the more likely and logical way it played out. Later you accuse me of being salty about previous accusations against Iowa, but no, I believe Iowa probably did a lot of the things we're talking about here, too. That's the game now, whether you like it or not, and Penn State is playing it, which you appear to be doing everything in your power to convince yourself they are not.

No. You are choosing to interpret things in the way that most aligns with what you want to be true.

And why are you hypothesizing this, the best possible version of events for Penn State?

Totally.

Sure. Any day now....

If this is correct, than I think it's a pretty clear win for Smith.

So to be clear, only one side of this war was tariffed, and it wasn't the side who initiated the war?

Hmmm....who is on the other side of that war? Were they tariffed?

Penguins are the most liberal bird, everybody knows this.

You're never gonna guess---ok, you can probably guess which country it is, comrades. https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-tariffs-russia-ukraine-ceasefire

I know YOU think that. Some of your PSU brethren though.... Anyway, moving on, I've been batting around the idea of transfer fees to ameliorate some of the small school losses. What are your thoughts? I had thought either flat fee based on finalist, AA, or NQ. Or a direct percentage of NIL contract (this would require some level of disclosure, obviously).

"More out in the open."

What if we're happy the kid gets paid and also reveling in the fact it's more out in the open that all the big dudes are doing this and nobody actually has a moral (if that exists in this context) highground?

The framing of virtuous Penn State. So fun. This is a dirty game now, fellas, and PSU is playing it as much as anybody else.