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At least before the covid rule changes, a year away from school is treated as the same as a red-shirt. Assuming the five calendar years to complete four eligibility years still applies with a plus one for both numbers (6 to complete 5), then this would be Steveson's last chance to compete in the NCAA, I believe.

Didn't you get the impression that he was working on some of the tips and tricks he got in WWE media training during that interview? I sure did. And it seemed like it was kind of half-hearted, or maybe just too much against type to appear natural. Contrast it to when Chael Sonnen is on FRL and playing up his persona. P.S. when you lead with Obviously I have no inside info...I absolutely feel like you have inside info.

While I enjoy the gentle humor and the absurdity of the joke, it is making the board very hard to read. I keep thinking every post is from @BobDole

Bob is getting a bit cheeky.

I just looked him up on wrestlestat. They have him listed as a sophomore eligibility-wise the year he won. Red-shirt, two medical red-shirt years, freshman (fourth) year as a non-starter, then sophomore (fifth) year as a champ, then a three match long junior (sixth) year. I forgot he came back in 2020 and destroyed his shoulder after three matches.

Can Twitter be better if Twitter doesn't exist anymore?

I am considering adding a profile pic.

So, AJ at Iowa huh? Thanks for bringing this up.

Not really. My point was that it was a bad point. The Michael Jordan of developing talent is a stretch to begin with. But Even if you are the MJ of something, why would you rely on that one thing? Seems pretty un-MJ like. He was the best at going to the basket when he entered the league, but he did not rest on that laurel. He developed the best post up game, developed the best turn around jumper, developed the best one on one defense, developed the best smack talk, brought in the best teammates. No one gets to the top of the mountain by ignoring facets of success.

Michael Jordan went through spot up three point shooters like water. Craig Hodges, BJ Armstrong, Steve Kerr, John Paxson. And for his second three-peat he blessed the acquisition of the ultimate transfer, the hated Dennis Rodman. So, yeah, like Michael Jordan.

My view on this is that what we have now is a much more level and honest playing field. Prior to the portal, NIL, and freedom of movement for athletes we had a very unlevel and very dishonest playing field. All the power belonged to the administrators and all of the product was being produced by the athletes. And make no mistake, it is a product produced for profit. Even the non-revenue sports exist to distract from the profits made from the revenue sports. The administrators relied on an antiquated and foolish notion that it was somehow manly and a life lesson to stick with a bad situation. But this was such a cynical view and relied on fans being fans, first and foremost, and athletes ignoring the profits derived from their efforts. In that system it seemed unfair for a coach to recruit over an athlete if the athlete was expected to just play the bad hand they were dealt, then shouldn't the coach do the same? Of course, that view ignored the cynicism of the system which was plain for all to see. Or for most. Now with free (or near free) movement for athletes we have a more symmetrical system. The nostalgic among us will long for the days when athletes did not move around, but that was in service of a dishonest system. Sure, it wasn't always that way, and the NCAA certainly promoted an old school view of the amateur student-athlete at the same time they professionalized the profit mechanisms, but it evolved over time to be that way. So to my way of thinking, the whole concept of recruiting over is outdated.

sadly, all too well.

Unless they feel they belong wherever bags of cash are. Kind of like me.

Attention to these kinds of details is why you feel they are so unbeatable.

Testing free agency seems about right. I heard on ESPN today that 20% of basketball players are in the portal.

Sorry for being redundant

I am not sure how an old viagra spokesman can help.

The idea of a salary cap at either the NIL level or coach's salary level is a concept that does not apply to college athletics. The purpose of the salary cap Is not to ensure parity (though parity is an offshoot and what owners want you to focus on). The purpose is to protect profitability by removing the prisoner's dilema from consideration. No owner can attempt to win just by outspending the other owners. It is meant to protect the owners from themselves through colluding to keep costs down. It only works because all parties agree to it. All parties agree because they get compensated for their agreement. Owners through revenue sharing of national TV contracts. Players through mandatory minimum spending by owners. In college sports there are no owners, there is no revenue sharing, and there are no collective bargaining units. The NCAA does not/cannot control an athlete's NIL earnings. And they never will. Telling athletes what they can earn (zero) is what got them in this predicament in the first place. On top of that, the NCAA has gone to court repeatedly to argue athletes are not employees. How then could they argue to have a say in an athlete's earnings? As for coaches, there is no single authority like the MLB, NFL, etc. that could attempt to normalize compensation across schools or sports. And even if there was, take note that none of the leagues with athlete salary caps have coach salary caps.

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Those 1983 stats are pretty amazing. After dominating at Big Tens you have to figure they were at the high end of their seed possibility. And yet every one of them finished at, or above, their seed.

I din't realize what a bunch of silver spooners were on this board. I had to share a poo brown chevy chevette that would intermittenly loose compresion with my brothers and sisters. There was never more than $2 of gas in that car.

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I disagree with the idea that what Spencer Lee said about getting beat by Matt Ramos and being hurt was in any way contradictory. He said he was hurt, but did not attribute the loss to being hurt. He credited Ramos rather than blamed the fact that he is hurt. Both those things can be true without being contradictory. I found it interesting that he put the blame on the mental more than the physical. He said he was "conscious" during that match which made him sluggish. He said his best matches were when he was in the opposite mental state and came off the mat unaware of what just happened.

He said he is working toward that, but left some doubt.

Examine the username.