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Since Scott Rolen made it, I’d think Nolan Arenado should be a lock.

I feel bad for the folks at The Onion. Their job of creating ridiculous tweets that can’t be believed has gotten increasingly harder in this administration.

It will be interesting to see if they stay the course with these players or if they create a package to acquire Giannis or Jokic.

The Undrone Soldier is the best

This one has a chance to be very different since it’s on the same day as Trump’s $100M May Day Parade. People are turning out in mass all across the country while Trumps event will be sparsely populated. It will be an easy litmus test on where the country stands on his policies. Hopefully, it will energize the opposition again and scare the **** out of maga.

I just drove by the rally in Novi. Huge turnout! There were easily 1000 people spread out on all sides of Grand River.

I don’t know how things are going to play out today. It could go many ways. Hopefully everything is peaceful. What I am 100% positive is that Trump will tell us that his parade was the greatest parade in the history of parades and of course lie about how many people actually showed up.

Private Equity is always looking for a well timed, profitable exit. Normally thats done by either going public, selling it outright, or gutting it for assets. Not sure what the exit is from a college football team. It makes sense if it’s a billionaire looking to pump up his alma mater and funneling the money through his business.

I looked into a rally near me and it appears to be a gathering at the corner of an intersection. I support the cause but I vowed long ago to never be a sign carrying roadside picketor. I can’t stand those people.

I agree that people don’t care about minor league sports. They care deeply about college football. They care even deeper about NFL football. So, if college football were to be replaced with an NFL minor league, people would care a whole bunch. I’m not taking about an NBA G-League model that lures a few top names and mixes them in with a majority of fringe NBA players. I’m talking about a model where all the top college aged players trying to be NFL players would go.

Do most of these NFL owners seem like the cautious, risk adverse business people that value the process of creating wealth? Maybe a few but most are now the 2nd generation that inherited their teams. They grew up as billionaires kids that never actually had to go out and make the money. It was always just there for them. These are some of America’s wealthiest families. I don’t think many understand and therefore don’t care about risk and cost expenditures. They never had to their entire life and why would they now they are banded together as billionaire NFL club.

I think just the opposite. The NFL has shown they always want a bigger piece when they can get it. If there’s a new revenue stream to be tapped, they tap it. Franchise Expansion (that’s coming again soon), moving games to foreign countries, scheduling games on Thursday’s and holidays, turning the draft into its own profitable event, Expanding the regular season and playoffs. The list goes on. College football hasn’t been something they have wanted to challenge in the past. If that relationship changes in this new era, it creates a huge opportunity for them to make many billions of dollars more.

Series comes down to this OT. Oilers have to win it. The can’t recover from coming back from 3-0 only to lose the lead in the dying seconds.

I’m wonder how long until China invades Taiwan.

LA Riots. That’s funny. There have been riots in LA multiple times before and these weren’t anywhere near to those. It’s typical dysphemistic rhetoric from the right meant to incite their commune of morons.

This is not humerus. Sorry, that was terrible.

How can anyone that doesn’t look lily white go to this event. ICE has proven time and time again they can detain people for days or even weeks even if they have legal status or are even if they are a citizen. This tournament is being played all across the country for the next month featuring some of the biggest clubs in the world. What a complete disaster for FIFA and all of their fans. They need to really consider moving the World Cup next year while they still have time.

My thoughts center around the possibility that this dramatic shift in college football will change it to the point that it no longer becomes a good thing for the NFL. As college football becomes more like a professional entity, what happens if the NFL sees it more as a competitor than a partner. They tend to crush any competition. The idea of owning viewers on Saturdays too could be huge. We’ve seen what Amazon will pay for Thursday’s and holidays. What do you think they would do for 2 marquee Saturday games at 3:30 and 8:00? We will see how it plays out over the next few years but I also can’t see NFL liking every 5 star QB is making as much as the 6th pick in the NFL draft. Even more extreme, how about when a 4 star DL from Saginaw gets paid the same amount as pick 26. They really aren’t going to like when the senior QB with a first round grade decides to stay in college for more money instead of coming to the NFL. The players union will hate it too and will definitely want to start getting more of the pie and could even strike for it. What better argument they aren’t paid enough than high school grads getting paid more than pros. We can compare to other pro sports but the reality is the NFL operates on another level. It’s like little league vs. high school when comparing them with other sports. Everything they touch gains viewers and makes money. They have very few missteps. I am not saying any of these things will happen but there is a dramatic change happening with college football. It’s not out of the question that the NFL chooses to step in and take control over their own player development and open a new revenue stream that makes billions of dollars at the same time.

What’s better than getting something for free? Owning something that will make billions. You make it sound like college football has it all figured out. They are going to **** this thing up worse than ever. It’s not going to happen right away but there will be a time when the NFL will have an option.

The NBA G league or UFL are not close comparisons. They aren’t taking all the top talent. There really isn’t any comparison as it hasn’t been done before. I’m taking about the NFL starting a league that would essentially replace college football. All the best players would go to it and college football would be what ended up looking like G league or UFL. I also think that alums underestimate how many non alums are huge fans and season ticket holders especially at the big state schools. They would quickly switch their allegiance.

Thats the case at the moment. They will if they can profit much more than the expense and have total control over their player development. It would take less than 5 years for college football to essentially die if the NFL were to start a developmental Saturday league for the top 18-22 year olds that had no affiliation with college. High end High school football would quickly pass it in interest too.

Ah. Got the schedule wrong. It’s not like that would’ve ever happened anyway.

I know I’m a broken record on this but big time college football only exists because the NFL lets it. It’s currently advantageous for them as it has been for the past forever years but the moment it becomes a problem is the when the NFL will create its own developmental league for players out of high school. NCAA football will be doomed if that ever were to happen.

Monaco getting moved back after Indy means will never have to hear that lie about the greatest race day of the year. On the topic of Indy, F1 will spend the month of May in America. Do you think Zak would be crazy enough to try and run either Lando or Oscar in Indy? Will any other driver want to take a shot at it? It’s so different that I can’t imagine but it would make incredible marketing and we know how much F1 loves that.

Is this a play to actually try to get California to secede? It would be devastating for the American economy but the greatest thing to happen for the future control of the government by maga. We already know which of these they care more about.