TheScogg
| Favorite team: | Kentucky  |
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| Registered on: | 9/4/2025 |
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re: Tiger Woods! WTH.
Posted by TheScogg on 3/28/26 at 5:46 pm to PrattvilleTiger
With Smart comes Crazy. How much do you want ?
People like Tiger Woods ... with that crazy focus ability ... are, get this, crazy. All there is to it.
Its the counter to the old High School Gym Teacher / Ball Player "do whatever it takes" crap.
What it takes, usually at that level, is insane. It takes insane people to do it.
People like Tiger Woods ... with that crazy focus ability ... are, get this, crazy. All there is to it.
Its the counter to the old High School Gym Teacher / Ball Player "do whatever it takes" crap.
What it takes, usually at that level, is insane. It takes insane people to do it.
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And for example ... were any of you National Merit Scholars ?
Nope. Not very many. But I was. They used to give you a booklet if you scored well enough. That's how it worked back in the 80's.
You got HUGE money ... up to $25K per year depending on where your family worked and your major. But that was the point.
If either Mom or Dad worked a GM Plant back then ? Pretty much all expenses paid ... as long as you attended Engineering at a Big10 School.
Yet GM was never accused of "running money". Those Shoe Company guys that went to the Federal Pen ? Absolute bullshite.
Nope. Not very many. But I was. They used to give you a booklet if you scored well enough. That's how it worked back in the 80's.
You got HUGE money ... up to $25K per year depending on where your family worked and your major. But that was the point.
If either Mom or Dad worked a GM Plant back then ? Pretty much all expenses paid ... as long as you attended Engineering at a Big10 School.
Yet GM was never accused of "running money". Those Shoe Company guys that went to the Federal Pen ? Absolute bullshite.
re: Did Will Wade Dodge a Bullet in the Adidas Scandal?
Posted by TheScogg on 3/26/26 at 7:13 pm to captdalton
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If any of the people sentenced to prison in the Adidas scandal - the runner, the assistant coaches, the financial advisor, the Adidas execs - had rolled over and become an FBI informant several coaches would have gone to prison, including Will Wade.
So glad you brought this up. Because I asked, back at the time, WHAT IN THE frick IS GOING ON ???
How do dudes bringing money, from a shoe company to a family, get arrested for going to play college ball ?
It was so stupid. Only a Federal Court could find Twelve Jurists to go along with it.
And yet ... and this will fall flat here for many ... but when you go Atlantic Coast ? Those folks think they are the most kind, sensible folks in the South.
They really, really like to identify as South. Without being in the slightest South.
They really, really like to identify as South. Without being in the slightest South.
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The fear is pearpable.
Well played, sir. Well played.
re: Oh my God! It's Happening! Afternoon Update Inside
Posted by TheScogg on 3/25/26 at 7:59 pm to TigerLunatik
Well then Lunatik ... I hope LSU make The Pear as a strong arse offer.
re: LOL, you fools said UK Athletics is poor.
Posted by TheScogg on 3/25/26 at 7:51 pm to WildcatMike
So I couldn't read all the article. Did listen to a breakdown of it today on KSR. Here's my thing.
So they've restructured as an LLC. That's lovely - I'm also an LLC. Now here's the thing ... an LLC doesn't get you more revenue (money coming in). It restructures some of the things you pay taxes on. If the Kentucky Legislature doesn't come in like a house of fire and squash it - which as of now they can because the State of Kentucky has some pretty tight legal holds on the University of Kentucky - then it might give the AD more room to maneuver.
The JMI deal promises $30 mil a year. No small sum. But even if this LLC shelters some tax money ... somebody will have to show me how that takes a $175 mil/year program (which included $15 mil from JMI) and push that into the $250 mil numbers talked about in the article ?
Color me skepticle.
So they've restructured as an LLC. That's lovely - I'm also an LLC. Now here's the thing ... an LLC doesn't get you more revenue (money coming in). It restructures some of the things you pay taxes on. If the Kentucky Legislature doesn't come in like a house of fire and squash it - which as of now they can because the State of Kentucky has some pretty tight legal holds on the University of Kentucky - then it might give the AD more room to maneuver.
The JMI deal promises $30 mil a year. No small sum. But even if this LLC shelters some tax money ... somebody will have to show me how that takes a $175 mil/year program (which included $15 mil from JMI) and push that into the $250 mil numbers talked about in the article ?
Color me skepticle.
re: Oh my God! It's Happening! Afternoon Update Inside
Posted by TheScogg on 3/25/26 at 7:36 pm to TigerLunatik
That's pretty good Lunatik. Pretty damn good.
FWIW - I'm tired of fanbases telling other fanbases who they should and should not want. You want Will Wade ? Go get Will Wade. You don't want Brian Kelley and can afford the buyout ? Then pay his arse to leave and go get who you want.
As long as you can pay the freight, do what you think you're man enough to do.
This is all news to me though. Worked twelve, got home and just chilled, and just now checking the web. Is this legit, or some worked up stuff ?
FWIW - I'm tired of fanbases telling other fanbases who they should and should not want. You want Will Wade ? Go get Will Wade. You don't want Brian Kelley and can afford the buyout ? Then pay his arse to leave and go get who you want.
As long as you can pay the freight, do what you think you're man enough to do.
This is all news to me though. Worked twelve, got home and just chilled, and just now checking the web. Is this legit, or some worked up stuff ?
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I'm actually biracial. Irish and Cherokee.
And my point is ... if you were really "day to day I talk to Dawn Staley" ?
You wouldn't still be spewing this shite here.
Just stop. You are completely full of shite. Just stop.
re: Golden or Oates to UNC or KU?
Posted by TheScogg on 3/24/26 at 9:00 pm to ReauxlTide222
Pertaining to nothing ... when Kentucky hired Mark Pope ? I wanted Dusty May or Chris Beard. Of course, there's about two dozen coaches that would do better. Those are just two of 'em.
re: Acuff has landed a signature shoe with Reebok
Posted by TheScogg on 3/24/26 at 8:51 pm to BluegrassBelle
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This makes no sense. Acuff got that deal through his own play.
I think there is another piece to the puzzle. The JMI deal, at least as I understand it.
Acuff COULDN'T make this deal at Kentucky. Because at Kentucky ... you sign away your NIL rights. That's part of the JMI part of it.
You literally can't give a Kentucky player a commercial deal. Unless you are a JMI partner.
This would be a great question to call into KSR about. Not that I think Matt Jones understands much more about this than any of the rest of us. But he's at least seen the boiler-plate that the kids sign.
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it’s not
And you know this how ? You don't. Nobody knows, for any school. Hell, the schools don't know.
At this point, anybody that can just budget ... based upon realistic contributions by the known whales ... gets a high paying job at one of these schools.
Because the noise is obvious. The last couple years have bled boosters dry. They're tapped out at the current levels. The "market" ... which every gum bumping talker loves to reference without understanding what it even means ... is getting ready to change. Quickly.
You know where its going Caw ? Then quit wasting time here. Go get paid.
According to ESPN, Kentucky now up 14-4. Which I'm not sure how you do on five hits.
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I actually have a dark horse: golden to lsu
I'll put my chips in ... Golden stays exactly where he is. As long as the NIL money is there.
Its a great place to recruit to. The academics are good enough for the rare kid that actually wants a degree. Multiple coaches have shown you can win there.
As long as the football drama continues ... its not like you're under the microscope, but you still get some pop when the team is good.
re: Golden or Oates to UNC or KU?
Posted by TheScogg on 3/24/26 at 8:19 pm to SingleMalt1973
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Money is on Golden, won a natty, never had players kill anyone or sling weed.
I'll take that bet. No history at UNC. Will not happen. Same for Oats. And neither fits the Argyle Image that I believe Chapel Hill still wants.
Look - Pitino in his prime would have never been a coach there. Same for Bill Self. I don't know who they'll get. But I'm positive it will be neither Golden or Oats.
I always thought Mack Brown would have been an excellent AD.
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She just made her 12th Sweet 16 in a row and all yall want to do is cry because she hurt your feelings.
So here's why I don't believe a damn thing out of your mouth at this point about Dawn Staley.[
If you really knew her ? Then no way you'd be here, on a message board, talking about it. But Dawn Staley doesn't circulate with the Hoi Polloi. The common folk. Certainly not the common white folk. So you're just talking out of your arse.
And secondly ... but probably should be first ? You're obviously a white male. Can pick that up just in your sentence structure. Dude - unless you're a booster with money ? Dawn Staley has negative interest in you. Its not that she's uninterested. She actively dislikes you on sight.
Go tell this shite story to Apella the Jew. That's from Horace's Satires. Before you go stupid "racist, out of bounds, awful" shrill. You know .... "ree" like a purple haired woman.
re: GOAT Dawn Staley Another Sweet 16
Posted by TheScogg on 3/24/26 at 7:56 pm to Burnt Corn
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Oh yeah, and maybe if the vile racist waste of human skin can sometimes manage to say hello to someone not of their race, they just have to be good folk down deep.
Two things are going on regarding Dawn Staley. Yeah, for some, they'd welcome Jeffrey Dahlmer as long as he could coach a good scheme. They'll overlook about anything for their preferred brand. And overlook nothing for any other.
But there's another thing going on with her. Some people just refuse to believe its true. They see her actions and tell themselves "there must be something else to it".
Those people, generally, have never had somebody try to kick their arse in a bar or on a job-site. They refuse to believe that some people just don't like them and never will.
re: Tuesday SEC Baseball
Posted by TheScogg on 3/24/26 at 7:52 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Cats up 8-3, T6
This would be a good mid-week win for the Cats. Especially after the Old Miss weekend. Ain't telling you nothing you don't know.
I'm having a hard time getting my head around just where this team is, in the SEC pecking order.
re: Kentucky’s $22 million dollar roster.
Posted by TheScogg on 3/24/26 at 7:46 pm to Silverback911
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By the way your question was asinine and extremely childish.
That's the kind of card certain people play when they feel they've lost control of the argument. They throw up these supposed boundaries that shouldn't be crossed.
The boundaries, conveniently, always cover the intellectual ground that the same people don't want discussed. Don't want to defend.
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