Man, Trump didn't do anything sophisticated. If some subtle good results, that's an almost pure accident. This is 100% "might makes right." While that aphorism is always true in the literal sense, we have always been at least a little bit wary of exercising our might for a variety of extremely valid reasons, all or most of which Trump ignores because he's a 6th grader, at best.
Well, a certain individual or even group isn't really supposed to be "bankrolling" a player. What they are permitted to do is hire a player for some use of their NIL, which ostensibly is a quid pro quo transaction that obviates a need for thanks. And, the thanks may be evidence that it is not an NIL quid quo pro, but rather something gratuitous or pay for play. Or they can contribute to a collective, which just blurs the lines all over the place and there's no one really to write a "thank you" to, except perhaps the collective itself.
He does have little minions here and their finding loopholes for him. Something, though, is slightly restraining him. When they became aware of have us a corpse, I thought he'd really suspend it. Insurrection Act seems a bridge too far also.
I'm gonna guess that Cignetti probably wanted nothing to do with Alabama. It seems IU was a calculated choice to step up to a relatively low pressure P4 school but with potential for "adequate financing." His post Alabama career seems quite calculated.
Broadview, Ill. police and Chicago police gave lots of testimony in the Chicago guard deployment case that a) the situation was under control without federal agents or guard b) federal agents and guard often exacerbated any situation and c) that ICE agents were often the first aggressors in multiple situations. After video evidence, they were the most convincing that ICE was lying its collective ass off.
It is rather interesting that local police, here and in Chicago, at least, seem to be about as anti-ICE as the citizenry. I guess they've always resented federal intervention.
Yeah, he actually graduated from Darien High. He did this mythical "graduate year" at a prep school to increase his appeal to D1 programs. This is an actual thing, but I think you mostly see it in the northeast. So, he may not be all that snooty.
A couple of observations. Most states did attempt to impose some sort of guardrails with their NIL legislation. Two problems with it though, no clear enforcement mechanism and the lack of uniformity between states. Most federal legislation is an unnecessary one-size-fits solution to problems that probably should be left to the states and is passed as a form of pandering. This is not one of those cases. The new College Sports Commission has only one thing to recommend it and that is that it isn't the NCAA. It's going to have all of the problems that the NCAA has unless it receives some sort of de facto antitrust exemption as a result of being part of a court-ordered settlement. Frankly, I like the idea of the NIL clearinghouse checking NIL deals to make sure they have some bare connection to actual NIL. The reason I like that is that I think UT is going to have an easier time making "realistic" NIL deals than say Texas Tech.
Well, UA isn't as large as UT, but I kind of had mixed feelings about high school friends and acquaintances at UT. 50+ of my high school class went to UT. I never hardly saw anyone I didn't want to see. Half of em flunked out inside a year anyway.
This more than any other single thing disqualifies that rotten, indecent piece of shit from a leadership position in our country. And that's even before you get to all the post-hoc lying and re-writing of history.
Yeah, none of these things are going to work. At that age, they don't have the mental flexibility to deal with multiple "tuning" devices and a single screen. About the best you can do is simplify it to one device, preferably the TV itself. And that probably means an Amazon Fire TV or Roku.