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UCLA being able to move to a new stadium is currently in litigation/arbitration.

The Rose Bowl being intimately connected with the Rose Parade and all its pagentry is unique and something that should be preserved. While all bowl games/bowl committees are a combination of civic boosterism and advertising/marketing opportunities for sponsors, most can't match the Rose Bowl in this regard.

I'd discuss tradition and history, but these are no longer sacred cows.

There is nothing like tailgating on a golf course typically in 60-70 degree weather on New Year's Day in Pasadena.

Sure, but leagues oriented towards developing players have different objectives. Even on the professional level. See minor league baseball or reserve/youth teams in professional soccer.

Rec league/developmental leagues for kids are supposed to introduce kids to the sport and have a positive experience. Most kids don't play beyond rec league level. The sport itself is less important than the lessons the kids are supposed to take away: show up, work hard, show good sportsmanship, be part of a team focusing on a team goal (i.e. don't be selfish).

There are abundant opportunities out there for motivated kids/families who seek more intense competition where the baseline skill level among the players is higher. Plenty of life lessons to be learned here too, but the focus is on attaining victory, etc.

It might be difficult for him to get the retroactive redshirt (because Division II has/had different rules in place) for the year he is trying to claim as a "redshirt."

On the other hand, NCAA might grant it to avoid litigation and the chance of creating an awful precedent much like in the former juco players eligibility suits.

Will be interesting if he receives a solid draft grade for the NFL. Could easily be starting in the CFL next year too.

Plenty of Catholics were in Maryland.

Also, given how worldly many of the Protestant churches have become, it would be interesting to know how many of those with ancestors that were present in the 13 Colonies have either converted to Catholicism or have no faith. For example, when the Episcopal Church has become a support group for people who transed their kids, are the descendants of Founding Stock Americans going to tolerate it, pivot to a more traditional/conservative version of the faith, or disavow religion entirely?

The point he is making about food truck pricing jumping the shark is valid.

Food trucks really took off during the great recession: restaurants were closing and new restaurants weren't opening. There were a bunch of talented chefs who found success using the model of opening up a food truck that offered fun/innovative street food and relying on social media/word of mouth instead of traditional marketing/pr. I seem to recall one of the first notable ones was korean barbeque in a taco/burrito/burrito bowl/nacho format.

Before that, food trucks were just offering cheap eats at blue collar work locations.

Food costs aside, the food truck model works if your target market is either hungry blue collar workers who want cheap, quick, and tasty eats at the job site or if you do something novel/cool that gets urban dwellers with disposable income to eat at wherever your food truck is posted up instead of eating at a restaurant.

The food truck model doesn't work if the operator is going to offer standard food options (even "trendy" ones like smashburgers) at higher prices (that include a convenience upcharge). You can do that if you are running a food concession at a concert, outdoor festival, carnival, etc.

I would hope so.

The Texans uniform have been very "template with a splash of NFL Europe."

For Ole Miss it has to be Shep Smith. Honorable mention would be Stuart Stevens (who doesn't fit OP's criteria) but wrote a book about spending the 2013 season following the Rebels football team with his Dad.

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Maybe the interpretation that its a preemptive excuse is reasonable. But the second part of your statement is not.

See my point #2: "2-Playing FCS or teams from lesser FBS conferences has long been a traditional practice in college football."

Using traditional game scheduling practices does not constrain one's ability to raise concerns of a level playing field in the brave new world we find ourselves in (nor does it raise questions of credibility while doing so).

While we could debate whether pay to play should be allowed at all in college football, I think its a moot point because pay to play is not going to be voluntarily reversed at this point (absent certain circumstances). So if pay to play is going to exist, then Oregon needs to have the same cap as Ok State or face financial or other penalties. That's what happens in professional sports.