I can’t speak for this particular survey but we had things like this every year or every other year in my school district, and people took it as seriously as you would expect teenagers to take a questionnaire about sex, drugs, and alcohol. We used to laugh afterwards about who could come up with the most outlandish…

What is going so well (or so wrong) in your life that you’d spend $350 to go to a celebrity meet-and-greet? “Oh, hey already-rich person that would never talk to me I weren’t giving you money! Let’s pretend we’re friends long enough to take a picture so I can make my life look glamorous on social media!”

In addition: Allow athletes to take half-loads in-season and redeem the rest of their scholarship in the offseason or after they run out of eligibility, which would also lesson incentives for degree mills and bunny (or, in cases like UNC, outright fraudulent) courses.

It’s not meant to undercut anything you say (which I pretty much agree with); it’s just meant to point out that this is a deep and pervasive problem in the way we assess development and potential in general.

My point is that I don’t care how much time they spend on football. There are always going to be people who spend excessive amounts of time on outside interests at college, whether that’s sports or the newspaper or just doing drugs. The time doesn’t matter - even if practicing were efficaciously banned and football…

That paradox is valid for college generally, though. Does Harvard actually provide a better education than Arizona State, or do only smart people graduate from Harvard just because only smart people get into Harvard?

Except the capitalist mode of production assumes that all labor is fungible, i.e. any unemployed jagoff could function just as well as Michael Bennett on the football field. That’s not the case and that’s why so much time and energy goes into recruiting for college sports but it doesn’t for manufacturing jobs.

What if you believe that the fact that universtiy, the NCAA itself, broadcasting companies, sports gossip websites, and the manufacturers of various official and unofficial merchandise are all making millions based on the backs of these people that may, at any given time, suffer a crippling injury (not to mention long…

You can also sue for wrongful termination if you then get fired, though.

The question isn’t whether playing more games helps teams that are newly reconstituted, but does it help them that much if these games don’t count? Like if a team takes four games to gel and then wins half their remaining match ups, they’re 8-8 with a preseason and 6-10 without. An 8-8 record is still shitty and they…

Eagles fans are the worst. They ragged on the most successful coach and most successful quarterback the team has ever had until they left, and are now falling all over a coach who can’t make the playoffs and a roster with a stunning lack of talent. Of course, if Chip Kelly should ever actually start to do well, the…

During the Jenova battle, Cloud can’t/won’t fight because he’s a crying emotional wreck.

I like the idea that they were chasing Sephiroth, this insanely powerful (not to mention insane) villain, but he was always a step ahead of them, and you mostly only meet him during flashbacks. The actual encounters with him were kind of pointless, though, that’s true. It would have been better if they only saw the…

What I’d like to see: rumors spread about the possibility of bringing Aeris back, even disabled code in the executable to keep people hunting, but it isn’t actually possible. Alternatively, you bring can bring her back but if she’s back, she gets killed again in Disc 2.

“We looted the economy, destroyed the system of lifetime employment, filled the universities with useless but expensive administrators, and all you do is sit around complaining you can’t find a job? I tell ya, this generation doesn’t know what it means to ruin things for their children.”

Wouldn’t a better solution be to explain to kids how trophies, “earned” or not, are all equally worthless? Winning a competition is what makes you good and what you should feel proud of, not the cheap ass coated plastic hardware they hand out with it.

Garfield, I am convinced, was never meant to be “funny”. It exists more to inculcate the an understanding of the formalism of cartoon gags without having to rely on any of the social or cultural background that actually makes things funny. Your average just-learning-to-read Garfield fan was never going to be able to…

There are two dimensions of play in soccer: national teams and clubs. National teams are made of up citizens of the country they play for (there are eligibility rules) while clubs have whoever they sign a contract with (more or less; some countries have rules limiting the number of foreigners that may be on a team).

I don’t know. “Real Salt Lake” is beautiful in its stupidity.

That’s true, but it’s also the case that the accused is often convicted in the media long before the case ever goes to trial. Think of the UVA or Duke lacrosse cases. Heavily publicized false allegations can have very unpleasant consequences for the accused.