buddha
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marchand is a heckuva player.
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that's why they wont do anything. theyre rent seekers, not risk takers. the risk takers are the private equity funds salivating to make the sec and big ten break off and form their own, pe money fueled competition. not nfl owners.
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i disagree. i think the tie to the college and the history makes it popular.
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everything sounds better in french.
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they dont challenge it because it provides them with free labor training and increases the popularity of the nfl product. its not a competitor. will that change when it TRULY becomes a paid league? we'll find out. you talk about the nfl devouring and taking over college football like its just an absolute win for the nfl. its not. there's a lot of risk involved and taking on a lot of cost. and there will be complications and other competitors. more likely to me would be private equity moving to create its own competition. overall, i see interest in college football lessening the more it moves away from the current "student-athlete" model, as much of a fiction as we know that model actually is. but that could just be because im old and i liked the old system. but i do think people dont care about minor league sports and they wont care about minor league football either. i firmly believe that and i think its likely the nfl does too.
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bulls deny knicks request to interview billy donovan. nice job, leon. what a well thought out plan by the knicks.
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lol knicks
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TINSTAAPP
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welp....he'll be on a little bit better team.
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Looks like kreider to the ducks. so there goes that trade possibility. i'm not sad to see him go elsewhere, but he was rumored to be a wings potential trade target.
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my kids watch almost no "live tv." maybe an award show. but they watch tik tok and youtube. almost nothing on regular tv.
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cossa's late season performances are blocking cossa getting nhl ice time. not steve yzerman. would you rather have jack campbell in grand rapids? or this guy? personally, i'd rather have augustine, but he decided to go back to msu.
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last years nba finals game 2 had 4 million more viewers. they had streaming last year too. nobody cares about okc and indiana.
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i do not make it sound like that at all. no minor league system makes any money other than college football. why? because its tied to the universities that people have an affiliation with and it has 100+ years of tradition. people arent going to watch high school kids play for the detroit panthers against the columbus cougars (maybe in texas...). they will watch the michigan wolverines play the ohio state buckeyes. without the universities involvement, no one will care.
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when the g league started there was a lot of angst about it taking the top talent because it could pay money and college basketball (wink) couldnt. and it did get some high profile players, especially in the beginning (and even lately with amen and ausar). but even with young high school talent, no one watches. they watch the ncaa tournament because its college sports and tradition. it would be the same with football. just like minor league baseball. no one cares but die hards. i dont understand why the nfl would pay money to create a developmental system that it now gets for free and ads a TON of interest in its overall product (the nfl draft is one of the biggest events in its calendar). i also dont see why this new minor league football system would generate the kind of interest that minor league systems in other sports do not. and i dont know if youve heard but colleges can now pay! real money! the nfl isnt going to outbid them for talent to play in a minor league system, the owners like their money too much.
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like the g league has surpassed college basketball in interest? i dont think so. the drae is the college and the history of college football and people's ties to the university. minor league football isnt going to surpass college football. ask the ufl.
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i dont think that's far fetched at all. in fact i think i've posted something like that before. why is eligibility limited at all except by agreement of the schools? does some player go to court to challenge that as some sort of restraint on trade?
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he has the worst part of mantha (not trying hard or using his size effectively) without the exceptional skill that mantha would flash in stretches.
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people will care about college football as long as its associated with the college. the minute that stops - or the minute the nfl decides it wants a "developmental league" - no one will care. and the nfl isnt going to take on that expense.
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this will act as a de facto salary cap and now all the boosters will spend their time circumventing that cap just like they used to spend their time paying guys who couldnt get paid.
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signing gustafsson and tarasenko last year to replace perron and ghost is a failure. there is no two ways about it. you would have been better off signing no one or simply re-signing the guys you let go. trading walman was a failure. there was no "reluctance to spend money." they spent the same amount or more on guys who were bad to replace guys who were useful. i'm also in the "part of free agency is you have to overpay to get guys here and not everyone wants to come to detroit" camp. i underatand its hard. but they chose to sign those guys (and trade walman WITH A PICK) last year. they are accountable for those bad decisions.
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kenny once said rebuilds take 10 years. well, the rebuild started in 2019.
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no way i take on that deal. derrick white? yes. holiday? no way.
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part of signing patrick kane is that he was willing to sign here. most of the guys who people throw around on here arent willing to come. heck, the guys we got to come here we had to overpay. again, up until this offseason, the yzerplan was working fine. they got better every year. this was the "gap" year that would be a step back for me. ive always thought that. HOWEVAH, this offseason was so dreadful that it really made me question the team's direction for the first time. i thought this offseason was the one where they go get a star player or trade for one, and maybe they still will, but now EVERYONE has cap space and other teams have a ton more because they dont have copp/compher/chairot contracts weighing them down. this is make or break offseason for me. another year of mediocre mush and i'm going to be wondering what the end game is. if they cant improve then i think that will prove that yzerman's plan - combined with dreadful lottery luck - didnt work. the idea of a limited teardown and not a full scale demolition (which would have meant trading larkin and not signing compher/chairot/copp to overproced deals to add stability) failed. but the rational side of me still thinks its just a bit early to go that far.
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i dont see why anyone wants rasmussen around. he's been awful since he got hurt. he's the definition of a passenger on almost every night. he should be a big, physical player forechecking the mess out of everyone and he just skatea around doing very little most of the time. i'd be fine replacing him with mazur if that kid could ever stay healthy. find someone to bet on rasmussen's size somewhere else.
