Sir Fury

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Could be a power move to gain leverage. No idea if that would happen. But its out in public now.

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Its almost certainly a power move, a shot across the bow, so to speak. In the last 25 years, we've seen the SEC go from one of the premiere D1 conferences to the leader among college athletics. At this point, if the SEC breaks away from the NCAA, either all other power conferences will break away with us and the NCAA will crumble all at once, or it will just happen with a more gradually decline as other conferences eventually break away one by one. If the NCAA doesn't make major changes, we will likely see one of these scenarios occur within the next several years.

Its also likely that Greg Sankey and other commissioners are already having these discussions, likely in small groups for now, getting a feel of how each conference would take to the idea.

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This freshman class is STACKED! Santarelli and several others making it to campus

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You should NEVER set these kinds of expectations. You're setting yourself up for disappointment because it's an unrealistic expectation. It's hard enough to win one! So many things need to go right, at the right time. Repeating us even harder.

This is how you build through recruiting.

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And to post about where you want. The OP isn't wrong. These kids want to be paid athletes and they are, so no reason to treat them as kids.

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That has nothing to do with the OP's states issue, though.

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I'd have more respect for one if he announced that "for the next 2 to 3 years, I've agreed to a contract to play football at blah blah University".

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And you still used the statement the OP complained about. It will satisfy you, but not him/her.

I hate these types of threads.

I have no doubt they will come in pumped and ready to play. I don't expect ANY team to just roll over. But this is game 1 and we beat them in their house last year. Of course they want revenge.

But I also expect our own Tigers to come in focused and ready.

We have plenty enough for all three.

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“Well spoken” needs to die

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Why? Have you listened to our youth speak? “Well-spoken” is a bit more rare than it should be.

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I still dont think that was intentiona

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Same. I think he was just a bit intoxicated. And from what we've recently learned, that's definitely a possibility.

Any chance he follows Beaty's example and withdraws his name from the draft?

Who is Smith? I don't see anyone by that name on the target list.

The expectation is that he is leaving. But LSU isn't letting him go without a fight.