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Generic forty-something sports nut in Dallas.

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@AggiesToday Hey, Theo Olstrom with a TD catch tonight. But apparently we were ok at TE.

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@AggiesToday Hard to get a read on Wiggins as Marcel has been sooooo bad.

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@billyliucci Need an autopsy Billy. Last year looking more and more like schedule broke our way and great oline and skill outside, good pass rush. This year, real schedule, oline work in progress, no pass rush, qb cooked. Do we even get to 6 wins?

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@billyliucci Tough calls need 2b made. Oline was better tonight. But Marcel regression is off the charts. He’s cooked, and showing no signs of coming back. Time to move on and see what we got, or if we need to go get $$ qb in portal. Given Elko track record, the D performance is so alarming

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@AmandaMAtwell @Moving_Goalpost I bleed maroon and white. No what ifs or what aboutisms. No copium. Big boy SEC schools don’t lose at home to Kentucky. Have to be better.

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@AmandaMAtwell @billyliucci Aggie grad here and done with Reed. No copium.

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@billyliucci @TexAgs No defending this Billy. Marcel very poor. Without significant improvement we will be lucky to make 8-4.

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@billyliucci @AmandaMAtwell Hopefully that's not the case with our O-line.

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@TheCityRamble Cherki must start

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@tedcruz where are you Senator? Put a stop to this nonsense.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS IS BULLDOZING THE MOUTH OF SANTA ELENA CANYON.

DHS waived every single environmental law, now they’re butchering the most iconic part of Texas’ crown jewel national park. All happening the day after a massive protest right here and on the morning CNN left. This is an indefensible attack on Texas’ natural heritage.

Footage by Natalie Newman. Available for media use w/ credit.

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@Ign_J_Reilly @Evan_P_Grant Uh, is skip responsible for the ingredients? He didn’t build this pen.

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@ClayTravis this nails it.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

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@jasonwhitlock Jason, love ya but this hill is not it man. Nothing more than more of the same. Never crack the top 16 in world, never changes until we change bottom up on development. Anything else is just you and others squeezing into whatever narrative you want to push.

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@JamesDavidHenry @ClayTravis Nope. Once again can’t advance past worlds top 16. Nothing has changed.

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@jackrichrdson And still a big hole in top 6

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@SportsSturm That’s about spot on

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@SensCentral Sorry, doesn’t solve hole in top 6

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@ClayTravis Your HS CBs are better than Ream too

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

The rest of the world: “Well now every country is going to want the bad calls against them to get a second look!”

Americans:

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@HankTrooper @jasonwhitlock That is no reason to then not root for your country to win.