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When you make your living off of hot takes, the problem is you have to keep making them to continue getting attention. He isn’t good enough at just talking to not have the hot takes so he has to keep making them. This one is particularly dumb but he’s made others equally as stupid. Guys/girls think this is the way to the top but don’t realize you have backed yourself into a corner with always having to be Steven A. Smith. The problem with that is there is only one Steven A. Smith.

Adapt or die. That is how it works in any business. Some are products of their environment and can only function in that specific environment. Others are more chameleon types and can adapt to new circumstances. Saban was a master of doing that. It appears that Dabo is not. Miles also wasn’t able to do that either. NIL has been around for multiple years now and Dabo should have accepted reality or gotten out of coaching. He did neither and complains about it.

Thanks for the tip! Man, if I would have just thought of that prior to my post I would have saved myself so much time and trouble! It’s difficult to not listen to him when the game is on HIS network and he is part of the half-time show!

Mullen deserved to make the team. He was really great at that time! Drexler even being mentioned as leaving off is a joke! He JUST led his team to the finals! He was first team all-nba that year!

Great! That means they will go down even further after the effect of blowing their product sky high as well as the terrorists who are transporting it! More winning!!!

I will freely admit I am not the biggest Chris Paul fan. Having said that, the Clippers seem to be in the wrong. It seems like he was trying to help the team actually be a team and get better! If the reserves are routinely beating the starters in practice guess what? The starters shouldn't be starting! Also, if he is making the reserves better, he should be playing more minutes! I don't care if he is 80, if he makes them better and he is actually contributing, he needs to play! Maybe that would spark some of the other guys to actually want to play hard and actually start trying harder! This current version of the NBA seems to be mirrored very nicely in this article. They want to make their money and not have to put in the time to actually provide a good product for those that are paying them that money! Chris Paul is more of an old-school player that believes that hard work is what makes you better! It appears that he was on an island with that belief!

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Great post! First Take really ruined television for a very long time! It, for unknown reasons, got enough viewers that TV executives thought this was the new era of sports television! I will raise my hand and say Shedeur has completely surprised me this year. I was wrong on 2 fronts. 1. I didn't think he would actually start a game for the Browns this year; 2. If he did, I definitely didn't think he would be as good as he has been. The Browns are not a good offensive football team. They just aren't. In the 3 games he has started, they have scored over 20 points 2 times. To put that in perspective, they have scored 20 or more points 2 other times this year! The team is playing better with him starting at QB. I know they haven't exactly played a gauntlet in his 3 games, but this is the NFL. It really doesn't matter as every team could beat every other team in any given week. I am very interested to see how he does in their last 4 games as they will be against much better overall competition than he has faced in his first 3 games.

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There is no correlation between recruiting rankings and success

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I think what you mean to say is recruiting rankings don't guarantee success. You would be correct. However, saying that there is no correlation is wrong. Let's take the current top 10 and just compare them to where they were ranked for the last 4 recruiting classes going backwards from 2025 and ending in 2022, per 247:
Ohio State - 4, 5, 5, 4
Indiana - not in top 25, not in top 25, not in top 25, 25
Georgia - 2, 1, 2, 3
Oregon - 5, 3, 8, 13
Texas Tech - not in top 25, 24, not ranked in top 25, not in top 25
Ole Miss - 16, 21, not ranked in top 25, not in top 25
Texas A&M - 9, 19, 15, 1
Oklahoma - 17, 8, 4, 8
Notre Dame - 12, 9, 10, 7
Alabama - 3, 2, 1, 2

So as you can see, of the top 10, only 3 of the teams had any seasons not ranked in the top 25. Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State had top 10 rankings every single year and of the 10, 7 were ranked in the top 25 every single year with all 7 being ranked in the top 20 every single year. Of course there will be outliers, I am thinking of LSU and Texas, who have consistently great recruiting classes but don't have near the success those classes would indicate. While it is not an exact, all the time correlation, this is a good indication of why teams like Georgia, Alabama, Notre Dame, OSU and Oregon are consistently in the top 10-15 every single year.

I'm not going to disparage the kid. Having said that, we need to move in a different direction. He is not what LSU needs in the future at that position and hopefully, Lane will bring or recruit a good QB to come in and give us the best chance at success next year!

Agree with this take. If he had busted his tail in the offseason and played like this. I would just say he isn’t good enough and at least gave it his all. However, it appears he didn’t do that. When he is being paid as much as he is and gave the effort he gave, he gets little to no sympathy. The other responsible parties have either been fired or will be at the end of the year. His lack of preparation was a major reason we are currently sitting at 5-4. He is now having to live in the mess he created by not preparing beforehand.