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But the rating is getting him the attention. It’s a huge separator for the kid. Big advantage

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But only if you pay for it. Same kid, same level prospect that likely has already paid dozens of entry fees to camps prior. Yet only if you pay $499 can you be ranked. Say the top kid in the country refuses to pay. Will he not he ranked? Show me receipts.

How about Rivals/ON3 show us some proof of concept. Go gander at Rivals rankings history, add up the good vs bad evals and get back to us. Ill make it easier and just say the 5*s. Guarantee the percentages weigh heavily towards the bad. Remember 5* are projected as 1st round picks. Anything below is a bad eval. Many times, different scouts(journalists in truth for most) within the same network have different evaluations and rankings for the same kid. So who wins out?

Its exploitation of juveniles based purely on the subjective thoughts of journalists who spread rumors about said juveniles as a career. I hope they, Shannon Terry in particular, fail miserably.

Lot I would love to see across the world but I have no interest in actually going to see any of it.
Here, I know the laws, what I can and can't do and the language. Anywhere else, id have to adjust my everyday life, smoking, cursing, spitting, freedom of speech. There's plenty to see in the good Ole US of A. I realize that's probably shortsighted, even juvenile of me, but the way I think about it regardless. Particularly now. I missed my window. My mouth,and the things that come out of it, both words and smoke, would have me in hot water.

Third fold would be the abolition of Prop 48 and non qualifiers. Osborne made a living off those types. Many of those hood kids he got were limited to where they could actually go play.

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They have zero idea who is paying what. None. None of this is public

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True yet there's plenty of "back channel" information out there to give a pretty damn good estimate. Have to remember, a large majority of these kids, particularly the higher paid ones, are signing some kind of deal. When signing something there is inevitably some record of it somewhere. The Supreme Court has leaks, you think liberal universities dont? Leavitt and Sorsbys contracts leaked within days.
In short, they may not know all but they know enough to give estimates which this is plainly stated to be. Sure there's exaggerations but there are also plenty of kids making more than you'd think. Those 500 grand kids add up.

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That wasn't a dirty hit

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Agree. I'd argue that it shouldn't have been a penalty. Optics played a huge part in that.

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Although that was such a terrible time it was also a time where being an American and American Exceptionalism was on full display. We were united as a country then. Democrat or Republican we were AMERICANS first. How do we return to that????

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May never be in the cards again but if it is, it would likely take a foreign invasion for it to get there. Something that everyone believes is real and not a power grab our intelligence takes a nap on, as 9/11 was eventually found out to be.
It was truly a great time to be an American in the aftermath. Don't think it would go as it did if it occurred today. Too many skeptics in the country now, rightfully. 1/3 of the country would believe its a false flag, another 1/3 would side with the terrorists and the final 1/3 split between the apathetic and the gung ho "I've prepared for this my whole life" crowds.

At home watching with my stepdad, who was always on Fox News at that time, after the first plane hit. Watched the 2nd hit and much of the coverage until I went to work at 4 pm at Wal Mart. Strange day.

I know its more than likely a "few bad apples ruin the lot" situation with blacks in America but the public face put on sure does portray a very fragile group of people. Absolutely everything, even being fricking obese, is a "black thing" or in some way, shape or form , racist. Talk about fatigue. Can't even be healthy without being labeled racist.

Lots could be said about that picture. Pick your poison.

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LSU isn’t some special victim here as much as yall want to be.

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We aren't playing victim just defense. Everyone blaming us when there are near 20 current lawsuits and more teams than that doing the same thing. Why are yall so obsessed with us? Seems to me the ones bitching about our foresight are the ones portraying victims.

The large majority of LSU fans dont agree with it fundamentally but we also dont agree that Bedaiko played 5 games for Bama 3 years into his g league career(what were their penalties again) or that Trinidad Chambliss is SEC eligible while concurrently NCAA inelgible. Where's the outrage for those 2 schools? Kentucky? Texas? Its called fans choosing a villain that is outside the mirror they're afraid to look into.
The only ruling that is absolutely certain in all of these cases is NCAA ineligibility. Any discussion beyond that fact is moot and inconsequential. You cant pick and choose which NCAA ineligible players can play and which can't. It must be treated uniformly across the landscape. Punishments included. With these the SEC is about to be extremely cash fluid with all the forfeited profit shares from LSU, Texas, Bama, Kentucky and Ole Miss.