TheTideMustRoll

Most of these I saw coming, but Venables and Skinny Pete prompted a real-life guffaw. Well done, OP. :lol:

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Where's that dumbass Steven prancing around talking about everything schools and Bama being bad at everything

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Do you honestly think he's going to let a little thing like reality stand in his way? :lol:

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I'm sure DeBoer will restore the competitiveness in the rivalry.

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And then you will wake up. :lol: I guess it's always possible that Alabama might regress to a 7- or 8-win a year team under DeBoer, but even if we did, we'd still be better than Auburn under Freeze.

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Without arguably the greatest football coach of all time y’all aren’t close to LSU.

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LSU's fanbase has to have the lowest average IQ of any in the nation. The shite they say and apparently believe just boggles the mind. :lol:

That's pretty much spot on except that I don't typically imagine Texas fans having three legs.

Did you ever play Stratego? If you did, you may remember that the most powerful piece on either side was the Marshal. The Marshal would defeat any other non-Bomb unit, with one exception - the Spy. The Spy was the weakest piece on the board and could not defeat any other unit, except for the Marshal. Its only function was to be the kryptonite of the strongest piece in the game.

That's Hugh Freeze - the Spy of college football. His one claim to fame was that he could defeat the Marshal, a.k.a. Nick Saban. But where does the Spy go when the Marshal has retired? What else can he hang his hat on?

One could interpret this story as, "Wow, what an incredibly improbable moment! That's really wild that, of all the people there, his mom ended up with the ball!"

Of course, one could also interpret this story as, "Wow! I guess no one but the players' moms attend Ole Miss baseball games."

I will leave it to you to choose your version of reality.

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I think everyone agrees that unlimited free agency is a disaster. What I don't understand is how it's a problem specific to college, when pro leagues are fine.

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Because pro leagues are made up of professional organizations whose only concern is fielding and operating a team, and those teams are made up of professional athletes who are only there to play their sport. College sports, on the other hand, are made up of universities whose true concern (in theory at least) is educating their student bodies and who field athletics teams only as voluntary student activities, and those teams are made up of athletes who are (also in theory) otherwise regular students at the school and are there (again, in theory) primarily to receive a college education. That key difference is why the courts have ruled that restrictions that apply only to student athletes are unfair and a restraint of trade. If an engineering student at one school does really well and manages to snare a scholarship from a more prestigious school, there is nothing to prevent them from transferring whenever they wish. Why should athletics scholarships be treated differently?

The outcome of the NIL ruling has not been, I believe, what the courts intended. The intent was to allow athletes to profit off of their name, images, and likenesses - in other words, to take money for sponsorships, video game appearances, and so on. I don't think that they were trying to set up a pay-for-play model, but of course that's what all of this has turned into because there really isn't any effective way to police NIL payments without turning college sports into an actual professional league.

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44.7%- Tennessee (131-164-15)
44.5%- LSU (127-160-14)

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Good Lord but the OP has me fricking triggered over here! :angry: :angry:





















































































...not because of the bullshite race-baiting, but because it made me think about The Last Jedi. Now I'm in full-on fricking rage mode. Why did they kill off Snoke without ever explaining who he was or where he came from or what he was doing? Why did they turn General Hux into a comedic relief character? Why did they have Finn's big "hero" moment be killing a girl by hitting her from behind? Why did they feel the need to ruin Luke motherfricking Skywalker???????????? I need some Tylenol. :banghead: