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I have no love for ESPN but he’s actually quite good as an analyst.

He made a mess of his life and cleaned it up.

You going to hold other players to this standard if so there are a lot analysts that wouldn’t have jobs based on your holier than thou standards.

Depends on the race you are watching.

The easiest to watch and understand are mountain stages and essentially you are looking to see who is breathing the hardest and who cannot keep up with attacks.

Sprint stages are more about seeing who has position and who gets boxed in as position is king.

Best thing to do to learn is that in any race teams have the same 1-2 digits e.g. team xyz has numbers 31-38. Numbers ending in 1 mean team leader/featured rider.

Also looking for special jerseys like the national road race champions for each country. (If you win the National road race you get to wear a team special jersey that is in the style of the national championship jersey) If you win the world road race you get to wear the world championship version of your teams jersey. If you are a former World Champion you wear special sleeves on your team jersey with world colors around the circumference of bottom of the sleeves.

Same goes for time trial jerseys in time trials.

Yep, it’s these types of moves that scream complete mismanagement.

I think the bigger problem is that USSF position is an elected position.

What has been killing US Soccer is the parasitic relationship with SUM and MLS. Cordeiro is basically a puppet for those two organizations and let’s their influence (read money) dictate USSF policy.

I get that USSF needs MLS backing but the USSF needs to be its own entity free from undue influence to make decisions that make US Soccer better not enriching a few who profit from be aligned with SUM.

I cannot tell you how much I hate the single entity system but it’s up there with pay for play. The US will not be legitimate contender until things are fixed at the grass roots level.

P.s. frick the MLS calendar as well.

Sunil is a freakin cancerous sock puppet. USSF president needs to be a paid position and they need a Bill Moos equivalent candidate. They also need to get rid of the election process and hire like any normal job.

You can't employ the same systems as the big four leagues because the U.S. (Canada for hockey) doesn't monopolize the talent.

That's why a closed system will ultimately without organized lower divisions gathering 80-90% of the talent. It's not possible for the academies of 28 teams to gather more than 5% of the talent in a country, which has the population of Western Europe.

The NCAA reform is a non starter. By the time a kid gets to college it's too late.

The biggest villains here are USSF for allowing a closed system. A closed system will never work in soccer. It works in the other big four sports because there are zero professional leagues that are competitive around the world and those big four leagues have access to 99% or more of the talent. MLS has access to 1% of the talent and none of it is world class save for potentially Pulisic.

What USSF needed to do was to force contract provisions in contracts to purchase MLS franchises that provided for Pro/Rel down the road but included renumeration and entry fees for all clubs based on stature.

The money collected could then be used to a have a paid head of US Soccer instead the farce of an elected volunteer and provide money for youth development as well as lower league development.

What MLS owner are failing to understand is that because they do not have a monopoly on the world's best talent they only way to survive is create additional interest through regional competition and dangling a carrot of promotion.

What many people fail to understand is that even in England there are several requirements that need to be met to be promoted.

If MLS serves its own interest and does not start building toward a pro/rel pyramid and develop it will bankrupt itself because without top end talent the league needs localized investment in players from a fan standpoint.

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He provided photo's ,receipts . and has eye witnesses that backed up his stories.
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There's no proof regarding when those photos were taken and the receipts do not prove that those items were bought for UM players.

I can show you a receipt with my Discover card but that doesn't mean I bought Jordan Jefferson a $1000 watch.

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What would it take for you to believe the Hurricane players holding up a sign saying Nelvin Shapiro bought me this suit in the photos?

Yes, I can't prove that your $1,000.00 watch purchase was for Jordan Jefferson, but when the store owner who has no affiliation to you, Jefferson, LSU, or any other related party, says," Yes, I sold the watch to you and I was fitting it on Jordan Jefferson's wrist and there's a receipt indicating the $1,000.00 purchase you're in hot water.

It's Oregon. Has to do with street agents and Phil Knight's relationship with one of them.

Umm the investigation is ongoing and does involve Cam. The NCAA investigators were in West Georgia asking two guys about their contracted relationship with Cecil Newton ...

Just because you wish something to be true doesn't make it so ...

I rather doubt that Newton turned over his tax records seeing as the NCAA has no authoritative legal power and tax records require either his (Cecil's) permission to release or a subpoena, a warrant, or judge's order to be made available.