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Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by Gatorhead, May 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM.

  1. Crusher

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    I suspect he's referring to Widespread Panic. Home - Widespread Panic
     
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  2. paidinfull

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    I think it's a mix of greed and incompetence. Don't think that you're being manipulated. The things that are happening are too stupid for there to be some great master plan.
     
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  3. Gatorhead

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    I'm with Wanne, UF sports and fishing is pretty good stuff.
    I've gotten a little to old to hunt "doe's" anymore, the 2 legged variety of course.
     
  4. Gatorrick22

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    The NIL will take care of itself if we limit the transfers to one time only... without sitting out a year. Keep the schools out of the pay-to-play business (do NIL off campus and unaffiliated to the schools) and all will still be fine.
     
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  5. Skink

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    Give me one more season - I’m not ready to give up on my illusion just yet
     
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  6. tegator80

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    I believe what you are proposing is akin to Harvard. Nothing wrong with this, as long as you don't schedule any teams like FAMU or Bethune-Cookman. They will usually beat the crap out of your beloved team. But you SHOULD get into a new rivalry with Embry-Riddle.

    Yeah!!!


    I hate to say this but there are no easy solutions, except to give it all up, and I mean individually. That is about all there is.

    Edit: I think you mean playing other schools but as unfunded sports rather than the AD setup we currently have, correct? Otherwise, you are proposing we play each other. Not sure that will get anyone's attention, including the potential participants. JMHO
     
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  7. tegator80

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    Yeah, I have two strikes on me and the pitcher is looking in complete control on the mound. I appear to be in a predicament but I am not out yet. Gotta try and foul off the close ones until...
     
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  8. MarineG8R

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    It's the Miami game for me.
     
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  9. Crusher

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    That proposal wouldn't keep the schools out of the pay for play business, it would just limit them to two opportunities: Once out of HS, and once for the free transfer year. All of the NIL is ostensibly done off campus now until the House settlement is finished and that hasn't slowed the de-facto pay for play down even a little bit.
     
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  10. Gatorrick22

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    I think House might have overplayed their authority with that deal to make the schools payback money that was never negotiated for at the time the schools were making network money. The House making schools pay money ex post facto seems illegal to me, but I no lawyer. It just seems illegal.
     
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  11. paidinfull

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    It’s not “The House”, just House, and it’s the NCAA offering to make reparations and trying to put a cap on NIL and gain permission to rubber stamp all the third party deals. Almost everything they’re negotiating there is going to be shut down as soon as someone challenges it, which will likely happen almost immediately after the settlement is reached. That lawsuit isn’t going to accomplish anything.
     
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  12. incoldblood

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    House is a person, it’s not “The House”.
     
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  13. Wanne15

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    Wsmfp
     
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  14. Gatorrick22

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    I hope this gets worked out.
     
  15. Crusher

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    The courts haven't ruled. It's a negotiated settlement....the schools agreed to pay on their own volition. No one is forcing them (yet).
     
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  16. Gatorrick22

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    Yet? Okay so this is all a "suggestion" negotiated by the NCAA? I have to admit I have not followed this at all.

    Feel free to sill me in, brother crusher. :D