Tigers0918

Preseason polls are a mixture of what you did last year and what they expect this year.

LSU is very high in one and very low in the other which is why so many will play it "safe" and rank LSU 10-15th

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Not always true. Also, “private equity” is extremely vague in this context. The top donors in the network were invited to the governor’s mansion. They weren’t invited for there to be an announcement that some random PE firm came in. My guess is TAF is becoming a PE firm with the financial backing of major donors. Makes WAY more sense than some PE firm coming in and “buying” LSU athletics.

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If it is major donors doing this, does that basically mean they will only now give money to LSU through a PE deal from now on?

Based on his rankings, he expects LSU to lose 5ish games.

https://www.on3.com/news/phil-steele-releases-2026-preseason-poll-ranking-all-college-football-teams-1-to-138/

Saw his SEC rankings and he has LSU tied with Tenn for 7th in the SEC and #21 overall. Based on his rankings, he has us losing to UT, OM, aTm, Bama, and Tenn and only being barely ranked above Clemson(#24).

Seems really low on the tigers hearing him talk. Time to prove him wrong.

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My understanding is the NCAA bylaws count the money promised to them in the rev share deal against the “cap” regardless. The damages are a couple of things.

1. Having their pay count against the cap without them playing


2. Having to replace them with a portal that was either closed or closing

3. Loss of opportunity type damages, like anyone we could have brought in we chose not to

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I don't doubt it was a legal contract, and I could be entirely wrong, but I don't see a court siding with OM here. I think a half million dollar penalty for breach of contract just 10 days into it while the portal was still open and no payments were made at all will be deemed excessive.

Do courts lower the penalty? Do they throw it all out since it was excessive? Who knows, but I don't expect the full penalty to hold as I think most people would look at it as excessive.

I can't imagine any employer giving a contract to someone and then asking them to pay the company half a million dollars if they leave in the first 3 months(without any payments too).

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A lot of construction workers that I've known through the years like the early start and early off. Pretty common for construction workers to begin work at 7AM and they're off by 3:30-4PM.

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Then they can just work 8AM - 4:30/5PM and it is the exact same thing. If your job is dependent on the sun, then those jobs should just shift hours in the winter to be aligned with the sun. Sounds like an easy solution to me.

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ETA: Imagine being a man and still believing what this dude said.

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Imagine simping so hard for an 80 year old man.

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I agree. Communism has a branding problem so they go with Socialist. But the truth is they want communism.

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Sure, well your own party says you are all terorrists so theres that branding.

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Thanks for the reply, Tigers.

Medicare is broke. Unfunded liabilities through the roof. Healthcare here is expensive because of cost shifting (because of medicaid, medicare, and them ungodly mountains of red tape piled on by government) and because of how fat and unhealthy Americans are.

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Just seeing this. Medicare and medicaid are not perfect, but I do think they have a lot of good things. I would like to see a very basic version of medicare expanded with the ability for paying a higher tiers kind of like they do now that can give people what they want. I believe it would be cheaper overall than our current system. In a way, I wish businesses would pay higher salaries and stop paying any premium for people so everyone can see the true cost of healthcare.

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Mamdani flat out said that his end goal is to seize the means of production. Mamdani is the darling of the Left. Is seizing the means of production now not considered socialism?

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I don't agree with lots of what Mamdani is doing. I don't want someone that far left, but NY did so whatever. Just like there are plenty of nut job mayors of small towns but because they are small towns, nobody pays attention to them. He just happens to be one in a major city. It doesn't affect 99.999% of the people here's lives so I'm not sure why they care so much. If anything, we should applaud letting cities and towns do what they want and not trying to force your belief on everyone just because you believe you are right. I don't agree that government should take control of production.

I changed because MAGA has shown they are no longer the party of small government and conservative fiscal responsibility. That was the only reason I ever voted republican and they have 100% lost their way.

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Last question; Why is it your belief that the government doesn't rake in enough money already? DeSantis has lowered spending 4 straight years and is now going to abolish property taxes for a lot of homeowners here in Florida. NY state's government spends TWICE as much as Florida, yet has 3 million FEWER people. So again, why do you think any government needs to rip taxpayers off even more?

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I think it can and should be both. I think there is room to fix some broken items in the government to reduce some waste. I don't believe the way is what Trump tried to do earlier with Musk just gutting everything and then have to go back and fix it once some things were broken and actually did need funding after all. I haven't followed too much of stuff in Florida as it doesn't really affect me, but if the government can run efficiently with lower spending, that can be a great thing. I know Florida is very very low on the average teacher salary in the nation which sucks. I don't agree we should lower standards for teachers(which they have done) so they don't run out of teachers. If they paid more, it could be better. There is a lot of administration bloat in education that should be the focus, not teacher salary.

I don't see taxes as ripping taxpayers off. I see it as providing a service that some or many could need. The government builds and maintains roads, structures, schools, etc. But not every single person uses everything. I believe an educated society is better for everyone so I do want education funded properly. I am bothered by LA and TX forcing the 10 commandments in schools and now TX forcing teaching the bible in classes as well(until the SC hopefully strikes it down since it is common sense).

To put it another way, just because I'm a democrat, it doesn't mean I suddenly support every aspect of the democrat points. I would like to see a good effort to reduce the deficit. And I do think it will take scaling back a bit as well as higher taxes to do it. We are just in too big of a hole by both parties. We have been in near endless wars for the past few decades, and spending like crazy everywhere we can. Unfortunately, it is time to pay the piper.

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But I do worry about some cases where people have been sentenced to death and have later proven innocent. Even 1 out of 100 would make the whole thing untenable

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This exactly. Everyone yelling about killing all death row inmates would rather kill a few innocent people if it means killing the rest of the murders there.

I would rather not kill the innocent and let them just rot in prison on the hope one day the innocent prove it and get out which happens all the time unfortunately.

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So disprove it then.

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Disprove the spaghetti monster. You can't do it must be true, see how dumb that argument is.