CaliHorn

Yeah, I mean:

I share safety concerns. I also don’t dismiss the concerns of young women as to what happens in locker rooms before/after events.

With that said:

We are talking about a marginalized population here. I don’t see evidence of widespread bad faith in trying to gain advantage in sports. Just an already “othered” group trying to make the best of their lives. I really do not like being in the way of that.

Years past we’ve had similar debates about gays in the military, locker rooms, gay marriage. Similar. Not the same. But close enough I’m aware of decades of making life harder on people than it needed to be. Just personally, I don’t like being part of that.

I don’t have final answers. But I think we can handle these matters more locally and responsibly more case by case than blanket prohibitions.

And I will add I’m extremely creeped out with the gender check way this often goes for “tough” looking girls with short hair.

That disparity of just games played stood out to me as well. Props to ND too, I guess.

As hard as my dad worked for what he earned, it would have killed me to cost him even a small fraction of this. Nothing my dad could have said would have made me feel worse.

I knew they were spending a lot on sports. But I hadn’t heard exactly where it was coming from. They’ve been in the neighborhood before in basketball. And they’re back in the neighborhood now. So maybe it pushes them over the line there.

I think it tests the limits of buying a championship for Tech in football though. Maybe it’s just an old bias against the place, but 5* athletes still will want the blue blood schools, which can pay them, too.

The schools the NIL really helps are probably the bigger/better Big10 schools, because it evens up a geographic disadvantage of not being where the best players are.

I don’t really agree with this, but…

There was a time when fans got the satisfaction of a championship with just a conference championship, which you don’t really get now.

It’s really hard to relate to it now. But without the ability of settling it on the field, you could settle for the satisfaction of a conference championship.

I remember everyone getting excited because his strength and conditioning coach was going to have players sitting out for injuries digging holes or something dumb like that. You’ll lose guys fast if you’re doing that and not taking care of practicing basic execution.

I always thought CBS had superior production values than ABC. But it looked to me like ABC stepped up some this year. Even the ESPN broadcasts looked better this last year. And ABC/ESPN’s bandwidth to give us pretty much all the games is more important.

Not to mention which, he’s pretty clearly injury prone. At least this way he was able to make good money putting his physical well being on the line for the school. Lot of guys over the years would have loved that opportunity. It’s the best argument for letting players get paid. The sport is too violent to deny players the right to make money to take the risk.

Also baseball just generally contains a greater element of randomness than basketball/football: whether certain fly balls drop, hits in gaps. You have to be really bad to not find at least a couple of lucky wins over 30 games.