John Harden

Christian / Husband and Dad in our family of 6 / Mississippi State Bulldog / Chemical Engineer at Albemarle / Umbraphile since 2017

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@msdawgs08 If we win Game 1, start Stone. If it’s very close or we are up in the middle innings, I’m giving it to McPherson at that point.

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@marketheridge @KendallRogers Another bonkers fact. I THINK that the Hattiesburg Regional this year is the first ever NCAA regional where the weaker seed has won every single game in the regional. Have you heard or considered this?

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@bonchieredstate If I had to guess, it’s going to turn out to be someone chasing social media content. They thought they were a safe enough distance away from the plane, didn’t understand the physics of the engine turbine airflow, and then got sucked into the engine.

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It’s owed to the University. Not football. The football players bring little value to this equation. If these same football players were the Tuscaloosa Giants instead of the Alabama Crimson Tide, they would be playing in front of 750 people for a $10 ticket, and it would take 99 cent hot dog night and a free fireworks show to even get that.

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@NCAA_PR BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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@espn @jeffborzello BOOOOOOOOO!!!

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@ByPatForde They’ll take all the money, still kill off Olympic Sports, and instead just buy an extra Porsche for a linebacker and make the next buyout for a bad coach 35% bigger. College sports is being led by LOSERS!!!

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@MarchMadnessMBB BOOOOOOOOO!!

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@MarchMadnessMBB BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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@HailStateBB @nathaniel_lowe And he did it against….the TIGERS!!

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It’s because it went something like, “well, we’ve got church on Sunday. I’ve got yoga with the girls on Monday. My nail salon appointment is Tuesday. Little Timmy has his school play on Wednesday. And my mom is flying in on Thursday. Looks like we are doing marriage counseling this Saturday. See you there.”

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@tbeckminz @BrianPeter61854 @jakebilger Yes. It’s absolutely the throwing motion. Softball pitching motion is much less traumatic on the muscles and joints.

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@FGuard88 @BrianPeter61854 @jakebilger I can tell you what it’s not. It’s not throwing 90+ mph overhand with maximum effort.

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No it doesn’t. Baseball doesn’t want to play a game where there is a high risk of the game starting and stopping. Because it can wreck a pitching plan. The starter starts the game and throws 2 innings before the rain delay. He cools down during the long rain delay and then is unavailable when the game resumes in the 3rd inning. For a softball team, they can just warm the same pitcher up again and restart the game as it was.

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@DudyNobleField @HomefieldApparl 15,021

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The principle most important for everyone to understand is that the value proposition is driven by universities, their pageantry and tradition. It’s not the skills of the athlete. If it were the same players but they were the Tuscaloosa Tigers instead of the Alabama Crimson Tide, you’d have to have 99 cent hot dog night and a free fireworks show to get more than 1,500 people to show up. Unlike the NFL, these aren’t the best players on the world. People only care because of the university association, which drives all the value. Understanding that point, we should still reward athletes with health benefits, full scholarships, and a basic stipend. But we should pay them all the same and require them to cede their NIL rights to the school. We should cap coaching salaries because that’s out of control. And we should divert the excesses of football income to keep funding women’s and Olympic sports. And put the rest of the back into the universities to reduce tuition and fees of average students. And if this upsets the “5 star premier” athletes, then so be it. The system doesn’t need them.

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It’s pretty obvious. If college sports are amateur sports, then professionals can’t come back and play them. But “we” have decided that college sports are not amateur sports and are now professional sports. The old rules about conceding your amateur status, 4 or 5 year eligibility limits….all of that is going to fall.

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@robbiefaulkOn3 “Eligibility” is only a perceived construct that will soon cease to exist in the new “college football is a job” model.