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The Athletic interviewed a number of the collectives and they said they work directly with the coaching staffs (this was in reference to football) to make sure they are filling the team's needs.

The answer may surprise you.

Askren posted an open letter to Gable Steveson video because Steveson won't return his call. I think I love that.

If he ever wrestles a construction horse or work out ball at NCAA's I like his chances. Call it 60/40.

I was worried this would not get political. What a relief.

The IRS has already been pushing back on allowing 501c3 status: https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/nil-collectives-blocked-by-irs-from-claiming-tax-exempt-status/

I have some questions: Contract? Are you sure about the contract aspect? Has anyone ever seen an NIL contract? Are these contracts standardized? What does a contract look like for a car dealer providing a lease vs. a collective spreading money around vs. a single wealthy booster? Who is writing these contracts? The payor or the payee? Is there a chance any contract that exists is written to favor the payor over the payee? Do the payees have lawyers on retainer to negotiate the contract terms for them?

Because almost none of the money is coming from dealerships, or the like, these days. Instead it comes from single donors (rumored Iowa, PSU, OSU models), or collectives (also Iowa, PSU, OSU, but others too). These sources are known to coordinate closely with coaches.

The other 90% were him getting into pissing matches. For pages.

I think the schedules typically come out in the last week of September, though you get an occasional early one (Lehigh was mid-Aug last year, but not this year).

He has already been there

I am of two minds on the question of ads. First, this is a free site. Free is good. I like free. But the site has costs. And the people running it have a profit motive. Good for them. So do I. To cover their costs, and make a little scratch to boot, they have to sell my attention. OK, so not exactly a free site, but kinda, sorta close. What price do I put on my attention? I guess I can suss that out if I want to (what is the price difference between no-ad Hulu and ad Hulu?), but I haven't, and don't want to. Second, it is a site with content. Content draws eyes. Eyes draw ads. Eyes on ads pay bills. And I am a content provider. We are all content providers. Or maybe not all of us. But whatever, stick with me for a second. As a content provider maybe I should get paid. If you squint, that is almost what Reddit did by letting some users/mods participate in the IPO. But that was a combo of comp and risk, so not purely comp. And it is what Rokfin advertises. But to get paid by Rokfin, I need to bring revenue to Rokfin. Maybe that is what I am doing here by looking at ads? Anyway. This is a combination free site and site that generates revenue. Where is the balance? I don't know, but I feel like the free part is what I signed up for with the expectation that ads would be sold to pay for my fun. The new ad stuff is jarring, though. It does not exist along side the content. It interferes with the content. It competes with the content. It lays on top of the content. It blocks access to the content. It does not accept no for an answer. It jumps around to appeal to my animal brain that responds to motion. Sometimes it draws my attention and sometimes it forces itself upon me. My guess is that this behavior also means that the revenue potential is higher? You know, the profit motive thing. Fair enough. But I never would have thought about it that way if the ad experience was not so jarring. Just sayin'. All that said, I feel like we all owe @Husker_Du and @BobDole a fair amount of grace on the topic given the white hats on the white horses these guys are wearing after putting together this playground for wrestling degenerates (even those of the swimming persuasion) to spout off, and doing so against a very tight deadline.

Appreciate it, Big B

@BobDole Another element about the current ad experience that is problematic for me is when I type a comment while using a mobile device (Android, Chrome) is the ads cover the comment box such that I need to scroll up to see what I have typed and then scroll further to hit the submit reply button. On a related note, is the current ad experience the new normal for the website (both desktop and mobile)? Or are you still in the process of tweaking, such that we should expect some changes in the near future? And if it is the latter, how near is that future?

Dammit, this kid is already more mature than me.

A+

You got those backward

It is not comparable to having a porn star spank you while your pregnant wife is at home, which was the comparison Patrick wanted to make and you agreed with by re-posting.

So, the guy who had been estranged from his wife for more than a decade. Strike two.

Emhoff's affair and subsequent divorce was years before he met Harris.

Who is dumber? Danica Patrick for getting it wrong? Or you for accepting it?

I have made that argument elsewhere. Most of structured finance is about taxes and how to avoid/minimize them. The presence of unrealized gains should not trigger taxes. The attempts to monetize the gains without selling is what should be gone after. But the devil is always in the detail. Most (I think without actually checking) of Musk's Tesla shares are posted as collateral against a variety of loans, including loans taken out to buy Twitter. But he still has economic exposure to Tesla in most, if not all, cases. Loans to finance investment seem like something we want to encourage. But loans to finance consumption? Perhaps not. So maybe close the buy, borrow, die loophole by not stepping up the basis on anything used as collateral?

The whole 15 minutes is entertaining, but if you just want to hear his justification for the statement go to the 10 minute mark.

I never understood that 6th place after he gave Nick Lee his toughest match of the tournie. As for the finals, that was a year the weight cleared out. He was the second highest finishing returner the year he finished second.

They can have my bourbon when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. Which, given the volume of bourbon we are talking about, may be soon.