The point is that you don’t have to pay a premium when most are pretty much replaceable. 

But they don’t have to.  Running backs are largely a commodity in today’s NFL.  The top contracts almost exclusively go to quarterbacks and edge rushers with a few WRs thrown in. Overpaying for a running back is dumb.

Exactly.  This rule really isn’t all that obsure either.

Yeah but Pot 1 has only been made up of league champions for a couple years now.  Before that it was straight up based on UEFA ranking.  Why did they make that switch?

Look at Group G. The two best teams might come from the third and fourth pot.  This whole thing where the Russian champion gets into Pot 1 is a joke.

What on God’s green earth makes you think that *this* America is going to be “shamed” by a teenage girl from Sweden.

How am I supposed to live without you?

I think the root of the NCAA’s skepticism is that Virginia Tech, while closer than Coastal Carolina, is nowhere near as close as other options such as Wake Forest and Charlotte (45 minutes away).

I think the other issue is that owners can come in, buy up teams, jack up their wages, get promoted, and strip down their assets with little incentive not to. So Bury goes out of business, but the owners don’t really suffer. They don’t have any allegiance to the club as a fan.

Jeremy Lin has earned $65 million in the NBA being a decent back up / starter on tanking teams.  He’s older and slowed by injuries.  Honestly he took his career further than most people thought when he entered the league and from what I understand, people feel he has a coaching future if he so desires.

Pro/rel wouldn’t be a problem in England if they had less income disparity between the leagues AND a measure of cost control.  At least at the lower leauges.  I would think that a reasonable salary cap in the Championship, League One and League Two could prevent teams from blowing up a wage bill to chase the next…

That’s Kellen Moore. Not Kellen Clemons. Though honestly I can see why you mixed them up.

Counterpoint: It was hilarious. 

From a quantity perspective, you are of course correct.  But what about quality?  Especially at the quarterback position?  Participation is already an issue at the high school level.  Are people still going to care as much about football when the quality of play drops off further?  

Many players can’t do what Luck did because they don’t have alternatives.  Leaving schools that shove you though to keep you eligible, even if you have achieved a degree, don’t set you up for a lot of great opportunities later in life.

I mean, I’m sure they *like* notaries. They fill an important role during the signing of contracts and the like. But I think that liking falls a like short of “hard on.”

As a general rule, sports leagues shouldn’t be weighing in as judges and juries on sexual assault because, not only are their leaders vastly unqualified to conduct these investigations or issue penalties, but their actions can cause more harm than good.

I don’t think I have seen this much of a disconnect between someone’s opinions of their abilities versus their actual abilities.  (I think our President knows he sucks and is doing the snake oil thing that he has always done.)

Bleaching his hair didn’t help.

Libertarianism is immoral.