re: Eli Ricks to Alabama

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let me go kill my sister, roolllll tideee

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let me go kill my sister, roolllll tideee

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He may not even start with Koolaid and Armour Davis ahead of him.

Bama is such a corrupt program. It’s incredible. It’s the reason every decade or so you go on probation.

What a thread, it's like the dam burst on long held back feelings.

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This is becoming gross as hell. I'm a Bama fan and I like winning, so of course I'll enjoy it as long as it works in our favor. But now winning is ALL this sport is giving me.

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Initial take: “And this is why you don’t make it personal with Nick Saban.”

Follow up take: College football is going full supernova and I have little interest in what it’s becoming even though Bama is winning at it.

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This has nothing to do with NIL . Alabama is simply a better program than LSU

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If you believe the first part, you're full of shite and lieing to yourself. For the second part, yes, at this point bama is.

Sure, it's always been about money, and has always contained disgusting elements. And one some level, the athletes who lay their bodies on the line deserve a bigger share of the money.

But the structures in place to maintain some semblance of the positive shaping of young men and the fan's experience of a unified team with some elements of loyalty and good faith, of "team", have been perserved, even if there has been hypocrisy and dark caveats to the design, have worked on a fundamental level.

Now these kids will be given over to the worst angels of their nature. I never wanted them to be as bad as the "rich old guys" who perpetuate the money end of the sport. They don't handle it very well at that age.

And while the pressures of the old system remained, as artificial as they were one some level, the sport was better.