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Exactly. If he doesn't want to, they will not be able to.

But why would he want to? Giving $50k each to 20 non-starters does not achieve the goal.

Pretty crazy that in the land of free speech that is an accurate qualifier.

For teams that opt in, 30 roster spots, no scholarship limits. So effectively up to 30 scholarships. No one will be able to fund 30 scholarships though, so just a headline number, not reality.

Cael Sanderson has said they will not be anywhere near 30 scholarships. I imagine Iowa and Oklahoma State will also be well below 30 unless the NIL market value assessments are effective in decreasing deal sizes. Then, the three existing big donors may turn to endowing incremental scholarships. The one drawback to that approach is it doesn't allow for the current system of concentrating payments for big stars.

Financial engineers love a challenge. The one that they have mostly not yet cracked is the David Bowie trade. Bowie sold the right to his future royalties over a ten year period for a flat payment. It was structured as a bond, but that is essentially what it was. Others have tried to get into the business of paying students a flat fee in exchange for some percentage of their future earnings. Very few people have wanted to do this though because they fear what will happen if they hit it big, but have to give a big chunk to investors. The one I have heard of that has had success is Big League Advantage. They are an investment fund that pays minor league baseball players up front cash for a percentage of their future major league earnings. Because so few make the major leagues, more players are inclined to accept. BLA just needs a couple grand slams to compensate them for the strike outs (sorry). Probably the most famous deals they have done are Elly De La Cruz, who signed away 10% of all future MLB earnings for up front cash. They pay $50k per 1%, so De La Cruz got $500k at a time when he was making next to nothing. The other is Fernando Tatis Jr. who got $350k for 8% at a time he was making $10k per year. When Tatis Jr. signed his $340 million deal BLA was owed $27.2 over the life of the deal. They have done something like 500 deals with about 100 making the majors for some minimum amount of time. BLA has also been raising money to do NIL deals. So it is coming.

Congratulations. Great and exciting times for you.

Now I am the dummy. I missed the second part. Classic clueless take.

What point do you think you are making? So there is a verifiable fact, and many people read it and quote it. So?

I found a new visualization that I wanted to experiment with, so here goes. Looking at the 16 and 33 seed era (2014-2025) and filtering down to teams that qualified all ten wrestlers (35 teams), I took a look at what their average seed was (thin vertical black line to the far right in each row), and how they performed relative to that seed (red/green bars). No real surprise here. The higher the average seed, the easier it is to beat the seed. But there are no guarantees, as two of the worst performances came from teams in the bottom quarter.

No, Obama was not in his first 100 days in either 2008 or 2020. But then being wrong is your thing. During the worst of Obama's first 100 days the S&P 500 was +0.6% During Trump's first 100 days in office the S&P 500 is -7.3% That just is the way it is. I know you do not want to believe it. You want to focus on anecdotes like what Ionel claims his portfolio has done. But it is just a fact. The stock market is down more in Trump's first 100 days than any time in recent history. Certainly more so than any of the last 9 presidents. And it is a self-inflicted wound. Trump whipsawing from one tariff whim to the other based on an incorrect formula is the reason the market is down over 7%. There is no external shock, no virus, no housing crisis, no recession, just Trump shooting us in the foot.

What are normal highs. And, no, this has not been anything remotely close to expected fluctuation.

That is one of the dumbest things you have ever said. But there is a lot of competition.

The Ummmmm thing is tired. The thread I commented on was about the first 100 days. That is what I was commenting on. Now that I have clarified (twice) perhaps you can stop pretending it is about something else.

Spend some time on the Iowa board and tell me it isn't a tie.

Neither of those were during the first 100 days of a presidency. You gotta be real bad to be that bad.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-advances-ai-education-for-american-youth/ Now this is an interesting executive order promoting AI literacy. It creates a Task Force chaired by the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Critically, it will: Creation of a White House Task Force on AI Education, coordinating efforts across the Departments of Education, Labor, and the National Science Foundation. Prioritization of teacher training grants, ensuring educators are equipped to integrate AI into classrooms. Expansion of AI-related apprenticeships, with states encouraged to use federal workforce funds to cultivate AI skills. NSF-led research initiatives, developing standardized AI courses and industry certifications for high schoolers. The executive order establishes AI literacy—the ability to understand, use, and critically evaluate AI systems—as a national education priority. The first major initiative, a national AI challenge, is expected to launch within 90 days. This initiative responds in part to China’s aggressive AI education push, where starting in 2025, children as young as six will be required to receive at least eight hours of annual AI instruction. First task for the Task Force? Inform Linda McMahon that AI is not a steak sauce.

Peace coming in Ukraine is a stretch. Trumps "deal" is so bad for Ukraine that they have decided to not take it. And Putin's response to the "deal" is to keep bombing. Committed is also a stretch. There have definitely been promises made, but I would like to see promises kept. On the flip side. No President in modern times has had a worse performing stock market. And this poor performance is of Trump's creation. He cannot blame anyone else for this (though he certainly will). Inflation expectations are higher than they have ever been as a direct result of the impending impact of tariffs, and Trump's lack of foresight to stock pile before starting a trade war. That implies that there was any planning at all. There clearly has been none, and this is all whim. As a result, Trump's approval rating after 100 days is the lowest in 80 years.

Yes. Anything over $600 needs to be approved as market value. I imagine there will be some lawsuits over that. Mostly by QBs.

Beat me to it. I was just going to post this. I would not be surprised if a big chunk of that $20 billion will go to paying off Twitter debt. Debt service at the end of last year was $1.3 billion per year. And with interest rates higher now, that number will go up.

How is two titles and one Hodge equivalent to Spencer Lee?

7 step outs is wild. Not sure I have ever seen that. And 2 in the last 12 seconds when he had the lead. Mr. Mocco needs a little work on freestyle tactics.

Exactly. Sharing stories about your friends amongst your friends is one thing, sharing stories about your friends amongst strangers is a whole other, more troubling, thing.

If you can get them to listen, you will have earned that 3%. Back when they mattered, Sports Illustrated did a story about the frequency of athletes going bankrupt within a few years of retirement. One of the common problems they identified was the propensity to invest in things that werr tangible. So restaurants, bars, night clubs, and crazy inventions were favored over financial assets. And most of these ideas were presented by friends and family, who they struggled to say no to. My favorite bad idea was Rocket Ismail, I think, investing in inflattable rafts you attach to your funiture in case you have a flood.