Tiger Prawn

Exactly. The US military has plans drawn up for invading most countries around the world. Doesn’t mean there’s any intent to use the plans. Just that they make plans for every possible contingency.

So with a country we’re already in a conflict with, the DoD is constantly making and updating plans to give their commanders and POTUS options for every potential objective.

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Still don’t understand how local courts have jurisdiction in NCAA eligibility rules.

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What’s stopping the NCAA from filing in every state that Ole Miss plays a road game in this year? Or just declaring they will only apply the court’s ruling to games played in Mississippi

So he’s eligible to play games in Mississippi, but he’s ineligible for every game in another state. Mississippi state courts have no jurisdiction out of state.

Feel bad for Charlie. You know some slime ball reporter is going to ask him about it and they're going to bring up Tiger's wreck when he was cheating on Elin

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Guy I work with did this at aTm, he said there was a small stipend and they got to use all of the athletics facilities, nutrition and such.

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Even without any stipend, those other perks at a major athletic program would be well worth it.

Plus if the team wins a championship or has a player that becomes somewhat famous, its a legit cool story to be able to say you scrimmaged against that team / player. Better than just being able to say you played rec league ball in college

Coaches move around all the time to higher profile job openings. Does every single big program poach someone else's coach get criticized? No.


The media is ignoring 2 major things in their reporting:

Wade to LSU wasn't even a realistic dream a year ago when he signed with NC State. Wade wasn't coming back to LSU to work for Scott Woodward. William Tate leaving to take over at Rutgers created the opening to bring in Rousse from McNeese. Then the football program continuing to regress under Brian Kelly ended up costing both BK and Scott Woodward their jobs, getting rid of the AD who threw Will Wade under the bus and fired him from LSU previously. If President Tate hadn't left to take the Rutgers job and if the football team had been playoff contenders, then Will Wade back to LSU doesn't happen.

And the ACC is not looking like a stable conference long term. Once FSU and Clemson either figure out how to void their Grant of Rights or the GOR expires, the ACC will be on life support. NC State is one of the programs that is a long shot to get an invite from the SEC or B1G, so they're going to likely end up as a G5 level athletic department in the future. Meanwhile, LSU has one of the richest athletic departments in the country to give a coach plenty of resources to build a program for the long term.

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In laws have a friend in her 80s that took her husband out of her shared Facebook account profile pic two weeks after her husband died earlier this month. Told her recently divorced daughter she is going to move on with her so they can go out looking for new men. This is after 60+ years of marriage. Seems odd to me but I’m not in her shoes.

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Kind of awkward for the daughter that her 80+ year old mom is gonna be getting her artificial hip cracked in the next bedroom by some random geezer baw

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Theoretically NC State should have the ability to compete monetarily. They’re a massive and highly respected engineering school.

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Look at the ACC revenue share per member school compared to what each SEC school receives.

Then don't forget that the ACC is likely facing an existential threat in the not-so-distant future because Florida State and Clemson are both gone as soon as they can figure out how to get out of their Grant of Rights or just wait for them to expire. At that point, its going to be a mad scramble by the remaining ACC schools to get invites to the SEC or B1G....and NC State isn't really a desirable addition for either conference. The ACC will end up either dissolved or the remaining ACC schools will have to add a bunch of G5 schools and become the east coast verison of the new PAC-12

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There's no way replacing two body panels and a door panel would cost that much.

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Depends on what kind of tech the vehicle was equipped with. Nowadays the accident you described might involve replacing a couple of cameras, blind spot sensors, parking assist sensors, lane keep sensors, and all kinds of other tech gadgets that drive up the repair cost.

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They could have started the coaching search immediately. Did lsu wait to fire McMahon before looking? Most ads already has a plan in place for a situation like this

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Yeah, but the difference is that NC State didn't want to fire Wade. LSU was ready to fire McMahon.

NCSU wouldn't be able to offer a candidate a contract yet until the Wade to LSU deal was official. Just in case something happened that derailed Wade to LSU at the last minute.

They play in a dying conference that lags far behind the SEC and B1G financially. As soon as Clemson and FSU can figure a way out of the GOR or the GOR expires, the ACC will immediately be on life support and either dissolve or become an east coast version of the new PAC-12. Considering NC State is one of the less likely programs to get an invite to the B1G or SEC when that happens, Will Wade wasn’t staying at NC State long term even if the LSU opportunity wasn’t available