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But the SEC IS a professional league - call it NIL or whatever you want, but athletes are getting paid to play their sport.

So the SEC needs to clarify - can’t be NFL or Canadian league or whatever other league - except rookie camps, or until they’ve played a regular season game or whatever nuance they want. Same for other sports. But until it is spelled out clearly, who knows what constitutes their definition. Sankey can’t articulate it either, apparently.

How can you argue the Big10, SEC etc aren’t professional leagues? Because their bylaws say so? Maybe transfers between conferences are then illegal?? Where does it stop?

This is a power grab/life support grab and instead of embracing it and saying go get whoever you can so SEC can be stronger, they are clinging to the past that they themselves blew up. I’m not saying I like the way it is now, but it’s where we are.

Put all the numbers in a jar and everybody picks and you wear what you get. It’s a number, for Pete’s sake…

Seems to me, The Deal should be: Bring us every ounce of your uranium, and then we’ll talk. Not the other way around like this is.

I’d add terrible defense - from our top level catchers, for one - inexplicable, and from our infield excluding Milam for two. That kills momentum, and hurts pitching when you did what was needed to get out of an inning only to have someone drop a ball or make an errant throw. It’s like they never practiced fielding and our catchers came from little league instead of tops in Texas. Makes no sense.

Wow - I knew it was bad , but not that bad . That’s way past “we lost our top 2 guys”

I’m convinced it (being outraged daily) is the only thing in their lives that they can look forward to - kinda sad, really.

Yeah the catchers are most surprising to me - isn’t their main job to…catch?? They are probably responsible for more runs for the opponent than they are for us - that is, I’m not sure their good offense warrants their bad defense (except maybe the Arrambide explosion game!). Surely they are better defensively than they are playing??

There must be a competition between Minnesota and California to see which can be the weirdest…

Is there a catching coach? I don’t ever remember our catchers being this bad at catching - maybe hitting, but these guys have more trouble just stopping the ball than any I can remember

Why is Pearson playing 2B???