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“It’s all so strategic. It’s about need and money and the cost and where’s the market and which agent are you dealing with. Some agents are rational, and some I don’t even know if they are licensed. We have no certification in college like the NFL. An agent may be a college roommate who is throwing out numbers we can’t even deal with. It’s unfortunate.”
There are thirteen states that have laws on agents. All of the others say nothing as far as I can find. Those laws vary wildly. Some requiring a license, some not even acknowledging the concept. Some capping percentage for representation, some only implicitly seeming to apply to those in the media/acting industry. A few give mention to athletes. In none is an agent required. The states:
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Florida
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota (athletes)
Mississippi (athletes)
Missouri (athletes)
New Jersey
North Carolina
Pennsylvannia
Utah (athletes)
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re: Are you embarrassed that Alabama is trying to cancel their '27/'28 games vs Ohio State ?
Posted by ouflak on 12/27/25 at 11:27 am to Damn Yanks
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Are you embarrassed that Alabama is trying to cancel their '27/'28 games vs Ohio State?
Why would I? OU plays anybody anywhere.
But if you are asking whether we should all be embarrassed, well... maybe. But the CFP committee has made it quite clear that number of wins/losses does not equal quality of win/losses. And the powers-that-be will always try to get the best media teams in if they can. So this is the state of affairs we are heading towards.
Notre Dame will very well likely get in the next few CFPs without playing a single team ranked in the top 50 of any rating system. And I somehow doubt OSU is going to be replacing that 'Bama game with Georgia/UT/OU or the like (nor should they).
re: On this holy eve of Christmas, let’s have an unvaxxed check-in
Posted by ouflak on 12/25/25 at 11:16 am to RelentlessAnalysis
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Because it is childish and tiresome.
Personally, I did not get vaccinated, but I don't see that as some symbol of purity and goodness. It was simply the right decision for me. You won't see me denigrating those who made different choices for themselves ... for reasons that made sense to them at the time.
If only the pushers of the vaccine had your enlightened attitude. I can easily find posts across the social media of the internet calling for the unvaxed to be put into camps.
re: The only way to fix college football...
Posted by ouflak on 12/21/25 at 8:51 am to StringedInstruments
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I do think we need more regulation for transfers and coaching contracts. Just do a “black Monday” thing or whatever the NFL does so everyone knows when coaching changes will happen. We pretty much do it with the transfer portal.
I completely agree with your position on NIL. But this statement here directly contradicts that. If we are going to practice the capitalistic freedom guaranteed to all fully emancipated Americans, then coaches should continue to be able to pile in the obscene amounts of money they are getting contracts for, and students who are athletes should have exactly and all of the same freedoms to transfer and participate in programs at public institutions that any other student has.
re: Fallout from G5 being locked out
Posted by ouflak on 12/21/25 at 6:59 am to DallasTiger11
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I don’t think anyone serious is advocating to ban them completely.
That seems to be exactly what's being proposed. And the idea that the 'CFP is separate from the NCAA' somehow means that anti-trust laws magically don't apply is kind of silly. I'm certain that the posters suggesting otherwise are more than intelligent enough to understand that if they'd just think it through logically for a bit.
re: Thank you Tulane and JMU!
Posted by ouflak on 12/21/25 at 6:16 am to DallasTiger11
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I keep seeing this. Why did they not do this during BCS or CFP 4 team era?
The G5 wasn't excluded from the BCS or CFP 4. I believe that's what's being proposed by the OP.
re: Teachers To "Spot Misogyny" In Boys And Target Them For Reeducation
Posted by ouflak on 12/19/25 at 10:26 am to ChineseBandit58
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Why not combat radicalism my kicking the fricking radicals out of your dying country.
This has been suggested by some, quoting minister Kemi Badenoch from a BBC article on this:
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"...we need to remove people from our country who shouldn't be here - especially those who come from cultures where women are treated as third class citizens. That would be a much smarter place to begin"
In the political background, the most recent elections have been delayed in order to prevent the Reform party from sweeping victories. There is push back.
Every person on this board will be long since passed on before those unredacted unsealed files are released, and the public (in the far future) gets to know just how many power players were truly involved.
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I’ve fired liken200-300 people and NEVER Invite HR unless you want the gossip queens telling everyone in existence.
Were many of them multi-million dollar hires, whose performance could lead to millions more, and were any of them in some way perhaps the face of the company?
No?
Then have HR be there for every step of the process.
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Are the benefits of the SEC worth not being the kings any longer?
I heard an anecdote about an A&M booster pushing the AD for them to join the SEC back in their South Western conference days. The AD supposedly responded, "Are you crazy? It's hard enough for us to beat Texas in this conference. Over there, they've got five Texas teams!"
Lord only knows the veracity of that.
But I think that sums up my response. The SEC is tough, always kind of has been. OU and UT only make it tougher. Don't know if there will ever be a 'king' in this conference now ever again.
No regrets. It was a natural economic response by both sides.
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Congress has to change the law.
Congress can't just change the law either. It has to be a change to the Constitution.
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The way it is going now, anyone on this board may have a chance as Penn State next Head Coach!
Thanks for that. My company read your post. Not long after, I get called into HR and informed I'm being given a huge raise. They didn't try and negotiate or anything.
You know what this means ofcourse. In the next day or so, Campbell is going to be getting a big extension. I wonder if some of these coaches (or their agents) aren't spouting some of the 'leaks' out themselves.
re: Kiffin is a kind man who shows what the holiday spirit is all about
Posted by ouflak on 12/2/25 at 3:40 pm to Kenna City Solja
Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!
re: Arkansas fans are planning to protest the Silverfield hire on the UofA campus today
Posted by ouflak on 11/30/25 at 12:00 pm to hawgfaninc
I actually don't think this is that bad of a hire. He won't tear it up. But he might get them having regular winning seasons after a couple of rough-start years.
re: If Kiffin has any class at all he’ll come out and say
Posted by ouflak on 11/30/25 at 10:21 am to SquatchDawg
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If Kiffin has any class at all...
Well, I guess that's settled then.
re: Classified Epstein files
Posted by ouflak on 11/26/25 at 3:02 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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Trump has classified anything that can hurt people in his circle.
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4 years under Biden.
F O U R
Both. And more administrations to come. Nobody on this board is going to live long enough to see those files unsealed and unredacted.
There was a song I didn't recognize and asked on a music forum for help. I described it as a song by Kool and The Gang, and I only knew a few lines. It turned out to be a song by Simply Red (!?!?!?).
re: Has there been a bigger vagina play in the SEC this year
Posted by ouflak on 11/25/25 at 3:25 pm to AirbusDawg
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I've always thought this would be the ultimate trick play. Act like you're just running out the clock before half, and throw a strike to a wide open receiver for the score.
Leach tried this once while he was at Tech. The quarterback faked kneeling while all of the other players were just standing around idly acting like they were ready to trot off into the locker room. And they actually got the play off, but the refs called the play dead assuming the quarterback had actually kneeled without paying attention to the fact that he actually hadn't. Leach was furious. Don't know how long he let the refs hear about it at halftime. It was hilarious.
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How do you OU fans feel with the absence of Bedlam?
I personally miss it. It was a great part of our regional and local traditions. Sure in football it wasn't so competitive in wins/losses - and that's the big 'eye test' sport I suppose. But it was actually composed of far more than that, spanning all of the sports we had in common, where it was considerably more competitive. And some of those links are still there. It was a natural fit and a lot of fun.
I'm not foolish enough to claim that without OU, OSU would stand as a regional power on its own. Admittedly, I did think that was a possibility, and there may still be some potential on that front if they can get a coach who fits better into this era of college sports. However our histories were to some extent intertwined. There were moments where we pushed each other to greater success, either directly or indirectly. I wish we had kept the game. I wish we could get a permanent series again established. It's not going to ever happen, so that's it.
re: Did Mike Gundy get placed in the witness protection program?
Posted by ouflak on 11/19/25 at 1:55 pm to SEC Doctor
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I would guess most coaches hate NIL and just deal with it as a necessary evil.
*shrug* It's part of the game. The good coaches integrate it into part of their style of player recruitment, development and management. The not-so-good ones, or good-but-don't-want-to-change ones, get fired.
Eventually, there will be a generation of coaches who only know how to coach in this world. It's the way of things.
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