Spokane and Chelan friends: Unfortunately, a lot of you will know someone who lost a home to the fires this summer.
I was fortunate enough to find Ryan Pauley @pauleylg through @CougsFirst when I had to file a catastrophic claim a few years ago and he was a life saver. I only wish someone had encouraged me to call him earlier.
It wasn't as traumatic as a fire, but our pipes in Chelan had exploded during a deep freeze with dozens of other homes in our area, leaving our house gutted to the studs.
Insurance started with a laughable offer of 10K. After months of fighting and them strategically changing adjusters, losing emails and ignoring us, I had only gotten them up to 30K. I felt powerless. I was beside myself and I had no idea what to do.
After one phone call, Ryan sent a letter outlining the insurance company's responsibilities and the penalty for playing games. (3x the property damage judgement for operating in bad faith in Washington). It was like a light switch flipped. We got payment for everything and were able to commence rebuilding.
The next year is going to be stressful enough for anyone who lost a home. Encourage them not to wait or let the insurance companies drive the conversation.
Imagine suffering through a hot summer in your first door to door insurance sales gig and someone calls and says you can play college ball another year.
Wild.
The narrative that realignment is over is short sighted. Capping is not the same as cementing. All this really does is prevent the super league. The long term result will be more conferences evened out.
These schools can't go from one P4 to another, but they can collude to jump to a current G6 conference or just make a new one overnight.
If I was Paramount, Apple or Amazon, I would take a page out of Fox and ESPN's book. Get in the ear of a few under appreciated SEC teams, a few mid B1G teams, one or two ACC and B1G 12 teams and coerce them to go to a current G6 conference or form a new conference all together where they could be gods and have a much better shot at getting to the CFP. Lock down the rights for that conference through 2075.
Fine, raise the salary cap, but shoot NILGo in the back of the head. It immediately becomes a hindrance for smaller schools who need collectives and NIL deals because their revenue sharing budgets won't get it done.
Just spoke to Jedd Fisch from
Big Ten media day. Asked him if the program is where they need to be NIL wise. Before I was even finished asking he said "No. No we are not. We're not close to where we need to be if we want to have consistent success on the national stage in the top 20-25 programs. I dont think anyone wants to be in 30's and 40's when it comes to NIL. We need more."
Every legislator has more schools in their states that aren't in the SEC or B1G than they do that are. SEC and B1G's buy in is a 'nice to have' not a 'need to have.'
The Protect College Sports Act is in a dire position.
As Wednesday night arrived, the SEC and Big Ten continued to oppose the bill - despite days of negotiations with lawmakers, specifically over closing a cap circumvention loophole.
Time is running out.
https://t.co/vu3igm809K
Congressional lawmakers have put the SEC and Big Ten on the clock. The conferences have til 9 am Wednesday to change their position on the Protect College Sports Act, sources tell @YahooSports.
Our update from Chicago on a situation growing more divisive https://t.co/N2Y7SRJKeK