I need a lot of laughs these days. Thank goodness I stumbled upon Josh Johnson telling a story about the time he was stopped by TSA. 😂 If you need a laugh, too, give it a listen.
@flugempire I would just like to see some kind of dispensation for the NCAA to be able to mandate a one-time only transfer and play immediately; further transfers would require sitting out a year. I think that alone would help ameliorate how things currently are.
@flugempire@AD_DannyWhite I’m curious what your ultimate ideal solution to all this would be? If you were the one making the final decision? I mostly just see your opposition to anything that potentially hamstrings the Big Ten which is fine, but what do you think should be done?
@GlobalDiss@LifeofFitz Is there a source confirming this? I just did a quick search and came up with it being a false claim, or at least conflated from other events.
@LifeofFitz@jlkurtz@KellisRobinett I do empathize with Will—and the move certainly paid off for him in spades—but he also started his career before the whole NIL thing started and it sounds like he missed the bus on it until Ohio State, whereas Avery rode in on the first wave. Just timing.
Interesting comments from Will Howard about his last year at K-State (toward end of article)...
https://t.co/4b8zecZsUp
@LifeofFitz@jlkurtz@KellisRobinett
@KStateMBB set to hire Casey Alexander as new Bball coach, and some fans are complaining he isn’t “splashy” enough or, evidently more egregious, not the “first” choice. I don’t care if he was 1st, 2nd, or 3rd choice; only that he’s the RIGHT choice and right fit.
@LifeofFitz@GoPowercat Here’s to the best. I don’t care if he’s the second, third, or fourth choice…I only care that he’s the RIGHT choice, and the right fit. If he’s successful, NOBODY will care that he wasn’t the first choice.
@lunchbox_77@jlkurtz@KSTATEADGT Said this before, Woodbridge was a better coach than given credit for; worked under scholarship limit constraints but ultimately left program better than he found it. Huggins team was basically Wooldridge’s seniors.
“If you gave me $1 million [at Kansas], I wouldn’t have made it to the NBA ... I don't know that kid needs $5 million in Lawrence, Kansas" -- Christian Braun and Cam Johnson discuss NIL
Last political post for awhile I hope, but this has to be said.
I’m not a Trump supporter and honestly, a lot of people who aren’t Trump supporters are still completely fed up with the far left right now.
Not because of “progress,” or “fairness,” or any of the values they claim to own. It’s because of the behavior: the purity tests, the tribalism, the reflex to label anyone who disagrees, even slightly, as an enemy. One wrong word, one nuanced opinion, one “I don’t fully agree,” and suddenly you’re a fascist, a bigot, or “part of the problem.” That’s not activism. That’s a cult mindset.
Compromise is treated like betrayal. Questions are treated like violence. And “the science” gets invoked like a religious slogan, right up until the data becomes inconvenient, then it’s ignored, reframed, or shouted down. Meanwhile, the same people who demand empathy have none for anyone outside their in-group.
Normal people are exhausted. We want solutions, not moral grandstanding. We want reality, not ideology. And we’re done pretending this kind of insane extremism is “just being passionate.”
Sincerely,
Normal people everywhere