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jon joseph's avatar

Great take on a great young man. NIL as intended, I'm all in favor. Used to roster tamper, buy recruits and players from the portal, not so much.

Refreshing to see that it is not all about the immediate money for Ron Stone. But for the most part, the game is all about the $ which is why UCLA and USC are walking away from a combined 200 years with the Pac Conference.

Players will be determined to be employees, college football will devolve down to NFL-Lite. Why, because conferences act as separate fiefdoms doing their respective best to fracture the game so they can make more money. Instead of focusing on the best for the collective game and the welfare of "student-athletes" it's every man (conference) for himself. But teams within this structure know they can make more money elsewhere so the poaching of teams, aided and abetted by media companies, from one conference to a bigger-fish conference will continue. This is the natural course of capitalism restricted only by anti-trust laws.

Do college philosophy departments today teach anything other than Nietzsche and Machiavelli?

All the best to Ron Stone this season and in the course of his life's journey.

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Anne Ballin's avatar

Nice, uplifting article to start the day.

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