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I once saw a video where a woman asked herself if “mental load” wasn’t a euphemism for “control”. She said something like “I know my husband can pack up the car and fit everything in the back seat, but it won’t be how I would have done it” and then rattled off 3 or 4 other things she knows he’s capable of but would be different than her preferred way.

This is a lot of it, even in well-functioning couples. There is more blending of responsibilities which leads to conflict in the “correct” way to do things.
This is the weirdest talking point. A&M has been an average SEC team for most of their time in the SEC, and the teams have basically no history. Who the hell cares?
I think this depends on the city/market and investment liquidity if you need to come up with $20k quick. If you’re in a growing market (Nashville, Charlotte, Atlanta, etc) with a diversified local economy (housing prices unlikely to fall apart in an industry-specific downturn), you will have selling as a fallback option if things get too tight over time. You also may never get a chance at the good neighborhood for the same reason.

I would say no in smaller markets, even if it’s rapidly growing right now.
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Our governor at the time was gen x.

You act like a single state governor was responsible for that decision.

Kids will be reading about the ineptitude of the entire political leadership group in history books in 100 years.
The parting shot of the boomers’ politicians was pulling the kids out of school for two years during COVID in misguided selfish panic. Now we have an entire generation that underperforms at math and reading because the boomers couldn’t handle their own mortality.
I agree with others that dilapidation and government taking is the goal. There is enough literature out there on rent control at this point that no serious person actually thinks it works for its stated purpose. Mamdani has basically said as much with regard to government control of the housing stock.
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You'll get a lot of downvotes, but probably the biggest offenders of highway tailgating are from jacked up trucks

Oversized trucks or Nissan altimas almost exclusively.
Mom instagram is a scourge. The particularly nefarious ones are the ones which basically broadcast their kids’ childhoods as content for public consumption, all so they can get sponsored by shitty household products.
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So you guys actually believe no player is betting. Out of thousands of college football players yoy don’t think it’s happening? You guys are lemmings and being played for suckers.

I am sure that other players are betting, which is exactly why you have to come down hard on the ones that get caught. It’s such a difficult behavior to monitor that the punishment needs to be severe to be an effective deterrent.
The more the current situation unravels, the more convinced I am that there is no healthy way for what are now pro sports and the universities they are tied to to coexist.

The “best” option I can come up with, in crude terms, is that some new league entity is created with an anti-trust exemption from Congress, and the schools sell their football assets to that new entity, possibly with some kind of long term licensing agreement for branding purposes. Men’s basketball is trickier because it has less of its “own” facilities and infrastructure at most schools and would therefore be harder to divest. On the other hand, the NBA already has a development league, so maybe that can just be expanded with college basketball staying intact in a revised form.

All remaining college sports shift to a D3, non-scholarship model.

This would be a drastic change obviously, and I don’t expect that any college admins would go along without being legally forced to.
You don’t understand why players betting on their sports is bad?
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So she didn’t die and 2 football players weren’t involved?

No player involved played another down for UGA.

ETA: that also doesn’t have anything to do with this case, whatsoever. I know you’re pro NIL and all that, but I’m confused why you would stake out a position in favor of this idiot.
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Stop acting like anyone cares about gambling or anything else except winning.

The thing with gambling is that it makes players care about things other than winning.
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uhhhh what?

In a rush to condemn UGA, the post you’re replying to has fabricated certain key details.
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Tech had no choice to go along with this

Of course they have a choice.
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Would get sued for collusion.

Is only agreeing to play by the rules all these schools, including TT, agreed to collusion?

TT is going to be playing a clearly ineligible player. Why would other league schools be forced into transparently illegitimate competition?
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They opened themselves up to losses like this long ago.

I disagree. This is a clear cut issue in the NCAA’s favor. Prior unrelated court verdicts and mismanagement shouldn’t have any bearing on this case.
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Then they should have enforced their rules equally instead of being arbitrary.

They’ve never been arbitrary about this particular rule, to my knowledge.
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What an absurd statement.

Definitive proof that financial success is not necessarily tied to intellectual competence or character. Imagine being an alum of the school with that guy leading the freaking board.
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Texas Tech booster + board chair Cody Campbell's statement to @On3 on injunction: "This unfortunate situation is the outcome of a broken system. I’m doing everything I can to fix it, but until there is a permanent solution, Texas Tech and its student athletes have to do the best they can to navigate and compete amid the chaos that exists in the reality of the world we live in."

I would like to assure Cody Campbell that Texas Tech does not have to do this to compete. His hypocrisy would embarrass even the most morally repugnant politician.
It’s wild that apparently the decision-makers at TT are on board with this. Any grown up with an ounce of foresight could see that this is not going to benefit them beyond the next 8 months or so.

There is also the part where this shows a complete lack of character, backbone, or general perspective on their part, but that appears to be too much to ask of anyone involved in college sports these days.