Is it pay if you give someone something they don’t really want, though? Very few college football players are there to go to college, they’re there to play football. Do you think most of them actually want a BA in Broadcast Communications or Sports Physiology?

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…

The original database appears to have been dumped into a newer, bigger schema at some point

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!”

Not only that, but we see this same hoax appear every few years. Which really makes me wonder what percentage of people involved in this research aren’t just frauds waiting for their turn.

Or we could use the fusion reactor that is already in place in the center of our planetary system

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…

Realizing that, actually, this kind of thing is no different from any other collectible is why I got out of the collecting hobby. It’s a completely illusory system of scarcity and value. Which in a way is the same as money, but money is a more widely accepted medium of exchange and a better store of value, whereas…

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.

To be fair, I don’t think they ever expected their backend database to be leaked.

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…

However, in the competition for the ‘Best Award’ Award, the Alfie was narrowly beaten out by the ‘Best Award’ Award itself.

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…