US can hold Olympics, FIFA WC, NHL playoffs, NBA finals, MLB, NFL and college football all at the same time without any stress on the cities/states and will each game going sold out even at elevated prices!
The wealth in America is unmatched. The sports infrastructure in America is unmatched
Sub - Saharan Africa? Brother, this is the US defence budget. It is 1 trillion dollars.
It is more than the 9 of the top ten most expensive defence budgets combined.
That includes China, Russia, and India. The GDP of Africa is $2.3trn. Do you see the scale? It is brutal.
No nation on earth can commit such funding to the military. I don't think any economy can sustain that.
But it is just money. It is the sophistication that money purchases.
9 out of 10 of the world's most innovative companies are from the US. Only Tencent from China takes the last spot.
To be honest, I don't know how the US does or has done it. It seems everything simply aligns for them.
Force cannot depose the US. The US can only weaken the way the Roman Empire was weakened - cultural collapse.
And that is precisely why those who hate the US are funding all manner of degeneracy in the US.
Now, childbirth is plummeting at cratering levels. Marriage is now almost a taboo. Children are being indcotrinated they are born in the wrong body, and many others.
That is the only way the US can be weakened, and Trump, interestingly, sees that, and that is why he is fighting woke as though it is an attack, because it is.
Portal open! One piece of advice I would give a player having been on all sides of the portal process: don’t mess up your life’s money for a one-time bag.
Yeah, school “X” offered you 50k more than school “Y” did. But, now you transferred to a place that didn’t have your program; you lost credits. You played at 3 places and have no network and no one that has a vested interest in your success after graduating.
Even more so, with all these redshirts. If you have ONE year left to graduate and TWO years left to play: finish your degree. You can always go somewhere your last year and chase the bag or go down a level and play.
Just make sure “life changing money” IS life changing and not just briefly lifestyle changing. Factors like quality of life and cost of living matter.
One last thing on it: if you leveraging the portal to get more $ at your current school and that does NOT work, it’s even less likely the portal is going to be beneficial. Be careful!
And: #TransferToTheBayou
Ohio State’s roster is littered with kids from South Florida who didn’t believe the vision of Mario Cristobal and Miami.
They just got beat by the group who did.