Those of you who think I ought to quit bitching about the NCAA’s twisted vision of amateurism really should fuck off.
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UPDATE: A heartwarming farewell from Baylor…
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UPDATE #2: It’s getting weird.
Okay. Now, will somebody tell us what’s going on here?
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UPDATE #3: Geez, guys.
Maybe Nacita declared himself ineligible.
Get The Picture 
Thank you for the post.
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(and link)
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This guy is surely not the only walk-on in college sports living at least at a discount if not free. Will there be an investigation that declares them all ineligible? Will walk-ons get the full cost of attendance stipend?
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Who better to launch an investigation than Baylor President Kenny Starr?
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That’s at least part of the problem right there.
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But I thought he is poor because of all the bad decisions he has made. Heck, he should be sued for copyright infringement on the textbooks he photographed.
Yeah, this is totally bullshit from the NCAA. It’s like they are completely tone deaf. It’s obvious they don’t give a shot about the athletes.
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Exactly, if the dude hadn’t been such a taker and actually contributed to society he would’ve had plenty of $$$ and wouldn’t be homeless.
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lol. what a preposterous straw man. I made it pretty clear that I was talking about non-needs. If you genuinely think that attending a football game as a spectator is as necessary to life as a roof over your head then there’s no hope. Glad I’m living rent free in your heads though.
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by the way, I also made it pretty clear that “poor = bad life choices” only applies IMO to people old enough to have a kid in college (i.e. late 30s and above), and I stand by that. I never said a poor 18-22 year old was in that situation due to poor life choices on his/her part.
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Then why do you GAS about poor 18-22 year olds getting a ticket discount?
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I don’t care that much, honestly. I just think it’s silly that a gov’t institution has made something so trivial as football game attendance need-based.
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Dude, you’re the one who brought it up in the first place. And hammered away on the topic. And hammered away some more. You’ve got a funny way of not caring.
“Get off your moral high horse and stop pretending that I’m Hitler because I disagree with forcing people to subsidize poor people’s entertainment in order to purchase their own entertainment.” sounds a lot more strident than bemused.
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You’re taking that way out of context, Bluto. That was in response to someone who pretended like I disagreed with an individual choosing to help less privileged people with their actual NEEDS, not an institution forcing someone to help with someone else’s wants. It was the most apples to oranges comparison of the day.
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There are plenty of other quotes I could have plucked that had the same tone.
The key word there is “plenty”.
If that’s your version of not caring, I can’t wait to see your comments on a topic that really bothers you. 😉
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Fair enough. To my defense though, there was more than one commenter that felt the need to act like an internet bad ass toward me yesterday, and one of them does so all of the time. The next meet and greet (if you have another one and if I can make it again) should be interesting 🙂
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Name an animal that runs sideways. Crabs, thus the term “crabbing” is used to describe a person covering up or not manning up. Come on 165, a veiled face-to-face rumble threat if Bluto has another get-together? Tone down or I’ll bring my cane and whack the crap out of you in the highway in front of Bluto’s open and sharing pregame tailgate. 🙂 🙂
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A threat to rumble? Lol. I’m a lover, not a fighter. Y’all have got me misunderstood 🙂
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Most of the kids i know from Georgia that came from poor backgrounds who worked their butt off still ended still ended up in crappy dead end plebian blue collar jobs like big four accounting. Of the kids who actually had successful careers and ended up at real jobs like Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, etc. There was an extremely high correlation with not just work ethic but guidance usually from successful family members or contacts.
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“crappy dead end plebian blue collar jobs like big four accounting.”
Way too obvious of a troll attempt. The starting salary as a Big 4 accountant is higher than the U.S. median household income. It’s not rich by any means but it’s hardly a bad career path.
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Haha, dude I’ve been yanking your chain the whole time.
Gotta troll the accountants when you get the chance. 😉
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Haha, fair enough. It’s hard to tell when someone’s joking or not on the interwebs.
I suppose if anyone deserves a good trolling on here after the past 24 hours it would be me. h/t 🙂
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Easy there, flame thrower.
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Seriously, that story doesn’t make you angry?
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I was going to go with lighten up Francis. Angry sure, but clearly not to the level of outrage you are experiencing.
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That’s probably because you don’t get some of the thoughtful emails I do.
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Luckily I receive no emails what so ever on this subject. However, I doubt telling those people to fuck off is going to either change their minds or mean less emails, but does not hurt to try 🙂
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Admittedly, swaying minds wasn’t really my intention when I wrote that. 😉
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Funny how things work. I didn’t think Bluto was angry at all. Bluto was using fu*k in the imperative as a signal of dismissal. After watching rugby games at my neighbors house I’ve learned new meanings for that word. He’s a prof from South Africa and has Aussies and Brits over to watch the games. I’ll hear that word used more in the space of one game than I will for the whole entire year! I’m sure they don’t use it a the University but watching rugby and drinking guinness loosens them up a bit.
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A Viet-vets club that I belonged to in 1975 had a “rush” celebration to interest new members. Our President (from Louisiana) was talking to a prospective married vet (about 25 members were married) when the wife’s head jerked up while exclaiming, “I don’t think I’ve heard that word used in polite society before” whereas he repeated the word in quick succession and loudly at least 5 times. He then asked, “Have you heard it enough now?”
They didn’t join the club that, to a person, believed in open and free speech. Your Aussie and Brit friends are just expressing freely a shortened word for “Bloody” which seems to be acceptable in public across the pond. Why wouldn’t a word with the same meaning be acceptable in public here? Shades of Lennie Bruce. How sure are you that they don’t use it at the University? 🙂
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Thanks for that tidbit Cojones. Love this F’n blog!
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This article is the reason I believe the NCAA is the most corrupt (and hypocritical) organization in American sports. They are quickly catching up to the International Olympic Committee and FIFA as the most corrupt in all sports.
The large schools just need to tell the NCAA to go straight to hell and break away. There’s more money, more autonomy and more opportunity to do right by all parties involved.
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The big schools ARE the NCAA. If they wanted to change it, they could. They are the ones reaping all the benefits of the corruption you mention, so what motivation do they have? They will ride it as long as they can, and then jump ship at the last moment once they have bilked it for all its worth and then try to pin all the stains of the past behavior on the NCAA. It’s the only reason for leaving someone as incompetent as Emmert in place – to take the fall.
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This issue is that they really aren’t. The top 80 bring in the revenue to the NCAA. The NCAA rule book is one size fits all, and the small schools have more voting power in D1 than the Power 5 (1 school=1 vote). The only reason the top 80 stick around is the money from March Madness. If a basketball playoff could generate the money on a per school/conference basis that the tournament generates, the NCAA would collapse in “one shining moment.”
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You’re right ee–on both counts. (1)The NCAA is a shithole that should be jettisoned by the Power 5 conferences ASAP; and (2) The Power 5 schools don’t control the NCAA–never have. This is a new low for the NCAA but I blame Baylor, too. Maybe a mass exodus of players would wake up the Baylor alumni and cause them to light a fire under their worthless president to do something about this.
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I think you’re underestimating the power of Power 5 schools. It’s true that each school has the same voting power, but the money is much more concentrated than that, and money is really the only reason the NCAA still exists anyway.
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165, I agree with you. The only benefits the NCAA gives the universities are:
1) The cover for tax-exempt status of athletic associations
2) The money generated by March Madness
3) Running the non-revenue national championships
Other than that, the Power 5 + ND should tell the NCAA to go pound sand.
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It saddens me. I’m past anger and outrage. Those emotions would infer that I was surprised by the story.
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I keep thinking I am, too, but then I read another turd of a story like that…
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Senator, I have been calling for the NCAA to be disbanded or alternatively for the big NCAA schools to withdraw en mass from the NCAA for years.
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Yes but as someone experienced in muni politics, you should know that los Presidentes would simply create another front organization to replace this one. Why not just have Steve Patterson rebrand it?
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That’s “puny” politics rather than “muni” politics, DIF….. 🙂
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How in the heck is he paying the freight on Baylor’s tuition and fees? $38,000 a year for that alone.
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Jeepers thaz what I thought… and how is he homeless and making such good grades? Brother has some serious skills. Damn.
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Evidently he gets academic scholarships, but they only cover tuition.
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NCAA- NCAA salaries and benefits have jumped from $20 million to $49 million.
Too big for their britches?http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/03/27/ncaa-approaching-billion-per-year-amid-challenges-players/6973767/
At the time, a member of the Kansas City contingent was quoted as saying Indy “may be a little beyond sane in what they have done.”
Indy built the NCAA a 142,000-square-foot headquarters and a 35,000-square-foot “exhibition hall/museum” called the Hall of Champions. The deal included 500 free parking spaces and “first-class landscaping.”
The rent: $1 per year.
and they are still growing.
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You can’t trade these buildings in for some frickin’ NCAA employees with enough common sense to make exceptions to rules? I guess hard line rules are easier than paying people to look at each situation and make a judgement.
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Yes hard line rules are easier. Have you met our entire society?
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Yes. Less of a cognitive load. And cheaper to boot!
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“Less of a cognitive load” seems like it ought to be Lexiconworthy
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Nope. It’s already taken by a Senator from the NCAA Hq state who happens to also be Speaker of the House.
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They must have a fog on their telescope at bunker HQ because if the Galileo of the NCAA has said it’s all about the student-athlete once, he’s said it eight times because if they say it enough, someone may believe their delusion is true
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That is despicable. I’d say the NCAA should be ashamed…If I thought the NCAA had any shame.
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No room for shame in their game. Delusion has moved in with a sack full of money and kicked everything else out the door.
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It’s just so weird that they love the rules so much more than they love their own existence.
you want a touchy feely win the public case about student athlete and how the student part is the focus, this is it. this is your homeless academic redemption story on a platter…and instead you decide to shit on that platter.
At some point you would think that self preservation would be kicking in for at least a handful of the people over there.
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Just to be Clear One More Time; this is a Rule formulated by College Presidents via their organizational cartel known as the NCAA.
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Wow, seems like he’s a special kid.
It’s too bad he couldn’t get the attention of an amazing university and get a free ride.
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Doesn’t sound much different from what Michael Oher got in high school and the NCAA bought off on that. When rules (and laws) don’t make any sense to the public they lose their legitimacy. That’s what the NCAA is, an illegitimate organization (aka, Bastards).
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The biggest impediment to reform, however, is the greed of those in power. (The NCAA has lavished $35 million on a 130,000-square-foot expansion of its headquarters in Indianapolis.) That’s $270/sq. foot sports fans and it doesn’t include the dirt underneath. Trump Tower was $300/sq. ft. Lotta luxury apartments at the Tower.
Corruption-http://www.thenation.com/article/173307/ncaa-poster-boy-corruption-and-exploitation#
Corruption can be defined as the abuse of public or private office or power for unauthorized personal gain.(NCAA-a total compensation for the fourteen top executives of nearly $6 million, with the president earning $1.1 million.) Corruption and legitimacy are closely linked because corruption is one type of illegitimate use of power. In one study, Mitchell Seligson finds that corruption does have an independent (and obviously negative) affect on legitimacy.
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This is beyond ridiculous
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Why doesn’t some foxnews viewer share with us the largess that is our welfare state and tell us that its an indictment on this kid’s intelligence that he hadn’t figured out that he could live high on the hog in governmemt housing driving his welfare caddilac and eating the welfare steaks. Maybe, just maybe those who say the poor have a free ride in this country are just completely and totally full of shit.
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Preach it, comrade.
The greedy 1% tricked Silas into leaving a free ride at Ivy League Cornell to walk on at a pricey private school in Baylor.
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Yes but who would want to go to the same school to which Keith Olbermann went
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While it’s true KO is the worst person ever, Cornell has produced some fine white-bread honkies in its days.
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Here Comes Treble and that was even before he went to Bangkok
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Interesting factoid: the ‘nard dog graduated from Westminster, as did “Kevin” (Brian Baumgartner)
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nice work man, that’s a well rounded comment based in fact and supporting a number of intertwining arguments.
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Objection. Non responsive. Why, if we as we are told, it’s just too damn easy to be poor in this country why for God’s sake a young man who is doing what he can to better himself is homeless? Is it because he’s stupid? My conclusion is that it is you and those like you who you are stupid. I think this circumstance raises the question of just how stupid you and those like you are. In case you are missing it, the answer is very, very fucking stupid. And just so I’m clear im not suggesting we buy the kid a house, I’m saying that the “poor are in easy street” narrative is fucking stupid. It’s a hell of a lot harder for this kid to be poor than for mitt Romney to have his marginal tax rates be equal to his secretary’s.
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http://s3.amazonaws.com/dk-production/images/8282/small/tumblr_mc0mk3zEOO1rj8amio1_400.jpeg?1350443409
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I’m not besmirching the adverse circumstances of our urban outdoorsmen, just pointing out that Silas might bear (get it!) some responsibility for screwing up his eligibility.
BTW, his brother wrestled in college & is a minister, another brother is a UCLA grad and Air Force Officer and his mom is a school teacher. He’s not Oliver Twist.
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Not talking about responsibility or bearing it. I’m talking about those who try to convince us that being poor is easy. It ain’t. There is little that is more difficult than financial adversity. We should help those who are trying to help themselves. That is all. The narrative of the wingers is that making mitt Romney pay more than 15% in taxes is communism and the poor got it easy anyway is bullshit. If you agree, then wonderful.
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“The narrative of the wingers is that making mitt Romney pay more than 15% in taxes is communism”
Exactly. That retrograde GOP plutocrat Chuck Schumer has kept the lid on reforming the carried interest rate for years. Damn you Chuck Schumer!
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We can’t ever get past stupid can we? It’s just there and it ain’t moving. I’m sure in your reality that some dimocrat librul broke the middle east and not W. It must be difficult to maintain stupidity in the face of all contrary facts so kudos for not letting reality get in the way of your “thought” processes.
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Keep talking D, I’m 3/4’s.
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Yes but what Chuck Schumer needs to be damned most for is his full-throttled endorsement of Michael Mukasey. What I miss most about Mitt is that his knowledge of geographical rivalries is almost Bob Davies-like
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That map is totally ridiculous.
This one is much more helpful.
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Now that’s what I call an excellent map especially with regard to the Korean Peninsula
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It is fabulous … I am going to use it to teach my children world geo-politics!
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With all due respect, Derek, you can’t really say he’s doing “all he can to better himself” when he’s spending what probably amounts to half of his time on a hobby. I agree that it’s silly he can’t get living arrangements without losing his eligibility, but we both know he could probably afford his own rent if he spent his time working instead of playing football. Not that he SHOULD do that, because more power to him for making it work (until now, at least), but facts are facts.
Now, go ahead and twist my statement to make it sound like I’m rooting against the guy and others like him.
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Wasn’t the kid quoted as to all he wanted was to play football and get his degree? He knows what he can do with the degree and, if good enough, what he may do with the athletics. Right now cfb was a means to an end of earning a college degree. So , without a degree(that would afford a higher income) you think he should manual labor his ass into college and spend precious extra years doing it instead of going through cfb? That’s piss-poor logic.
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He was already attending Cornell before he went to Baylor. He clearly doesn’t need to play football to get a degree. It’s his hobby, not a necessary means to an end. Not sure why you think I was implying that he should drop out of college and start digging ditches.
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Here…we…go.
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How can he pull himself up by his bootstraps when he is living on a shoestring to maintain his amateur status?
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This mofo don’t need no bootstraps to pull himself up!
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Why Derek you sound like you’re just about ready to burst. lol. As much as I try I can’t make this into anything to do with FOX News and all about the NCAA being a corrupt organization. But you go ahead and shoe horn it into whatever political point of view you have on your agenda. Grind your axe. Jeepers, yesterday Bulldawg165 goes off the reservation and today we (us?) wanna get in the viewers of FOX News’ backside. Maybe, you’re full of shit? Silas Nacita. Good luck to you sir. Keep on doing what you’re doing. And … if I had a son, he would look like– ME! (That was a just a joke Derek- lighten up you’re gonna pop a blood vessel)
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I think Derek is upset about the apathy towards poorer people that has been posted on here. He is beyond student athlete and has a legitimate rant against those who don’t identify with poorer people at all. They throw out the latest they hear from Fox “news” as an ignorant person’s take of society and work ethics while declaring how independent and hard working they are. It has probably stemmed from the Michigan football tickets that some thoughtlessly ranted about how people who are of lower income shouldn’t have their tickets subsidized as a “right”. All the words come from the political right’s language used to infuriate people who don’t read much and try to understand beyond what some news demigod espouses for them to believe.
It will all get better when Spring Practice starts.
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“All the words come from the political right’s language used to infuriate people who don’t read much and try to understand beyond what some news demigod espouses for them to believe”
Amen, brother. Those Faux “news” watchers are a bunch of idiots, worshipping those demigods!
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“Maybe, just maybe those who say the poor have a free ride in this country are just completely and totally full of shit.”
No maybe about it Derek. You nailed it.
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Agreed.
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For a guy with a 4.1 GPA, Mr. Nacita just hasn’t been paying attention, has he? The kid could have avoided all this brouhaha if he’d simply had the good sense to STEAL the money he needed to live on. NCAA eligibility rules aren’t implicated if you just hold up a convenience store, or for that matter, assault a fellow student (even a woman) for the cash you need. Oh, you might have to plea bargain your way out of jail time and sit out a half game or so, but at least you’re eligible to play!
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Yeah. Why doesn’t this Silas guy go to Tenn or FU? He could probably get into Bama if he just hangs around the drink machines long enough. Poor choices – that’s the name of the game for all these poor bastards, isn’t it?
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Or Cornell?
http://www.cornellbigred.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=29309
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Damn right. It’s called the Nick Marshall Stipend.
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Oh good Lord, how in the bloody hell did we go from “NCAA sucks” to “O’Reilly versus Maddow” Crossfire?
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Wow. Just when I thought the NCAA couldn’t look more scummier…I admit I was wrong, they just keep lowering the bar…
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Didn’t the NCAA say that they haven’t seen a request from Baylor? Sounds to me like they want to “OK” it as they did with the Bronco player (I would have said players, but that’s a separate deal).
Baylor didn’t apply for a hardship to use funds that are deposited by the NCAA at their school for such a purpose. While you can scold the unthinking minutia still present in some NCAA rules, this one is a case of not applying. Is Baylor scamming the system for their roster’s sake? Tune in while we await breathless as to who is the worst toward amateurism; the school or the NCAA. Before saying he was off the team because they fear enforcement of a technical ineligibility by the NCAA, Baylor should have requested special dispensation for him to continue. Now they have drawn attention to an investigation of player eligibility.
And the student athlete suffers all their incompetence.
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Snowing in the Classic City. Big flakes too. (Big fat buds….leave that alone Cojones) Temps at 33. Yikes. If you ain’t at home you need to be. Just sayin’
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Haven’t I told you about green snow ice on warm brownies?
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Telling your readers to fuck off if you don’t like what they say? You’re a dick.
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That’s not exactly what I said, Mike. But, then again, you tend to misinterpret me when it suits you.
And, yeah, I admit I can be an asshole.
But at least I admit it.
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my kind of asshole.
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Some people have a hard time understanding that when you blog, you can’t please everyone with your choice of topics. I know I write for an audience – and, boy, do I appreciate my audience – but I write for myself first.
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That’s the way to do it!
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You may not believe this but I don’t misinterpret you on purpose. Never have done it. I very well may misinterpret you sometimes but it is nothing more than just that, misinterpreting. I don’t have an agenda here and don’t have an axe to grind. I expressed my opinion fairly recently, you told me what you thought about it, and that was pretty much that. As I said then, I now just open posts that seem UGA football related or at least those that don’t have titles that make it obvious that it isn’t going to be about that. No biggie. But I don’t know how I misinterpreted you telling people to fuck off. Why is that necessary? I can’t see that being called for unless something like that was said to you and even then a more mature response would be to tell them that wasn’t cool here and that if they couldn’t do better they could go elsewhere. I’ve been reading this blog for four years now and it seems like this sort of thing is becoming more frequent. I know for a fact that until recently, if it ever happened, it was rare because I didn’t notice it and I read this blog everyday. Maybe you’re just having a bad day or a series of them, I don’t know. But your reaction seems a little over the top and unnecessary. That’s all I’m saying. And I’m motivated by nothing other than not wanting to see a top flight sports blog turn into Busch league crap like Sports and Grits. Because you are way better than that. If you read this and feel the urge to respond with sarcasm, consider that this not done in a spirit of contentiousness. I think whatever your reasons were at the time, this sort of thing is ill advised and below the standard you’ve set for yourself. And fwiw I agree with you on the NCAA.
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Mike, I didn’t tell all my readers to fuck off because they’ve expressed an opinion different from mine. That’s what you’re accusing me of here, right?
I receive a number of comments, both publicly at the blog and privately, strongly suggesting that I abandon a certain topic I find to be of personal interest. My focus on topics related to the NCAA is one of those. These folks aren’t expressing a different opinion I don’t like – they’re telling me to stop writing about it. Look, it’s a free blog and a free country. If you don’t like what I write, don’t read it. If you don’t like it strongly enough to walk away, I’m sorry if that’s the case, but so be it.
And if you don’t like my tone, that’s fine, too. (Even telling me you don’t is fine.) But what makes you think I haven’t used less coarse language to make the point? Some folks can’t take a hint. It’s frustrating. I’m human. And when I read a story like this one, that either shows the organization to be venal or too inept to organize its rules in a manner that its members can comply with, that’s how I feel.
If that offends you, I’m truly sorry. But I won’t stop writing the way I want to write.
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Fuck off!
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Shoot…that’s funny if the reply was first with no other response. Now it just looks like I think you’re trolling the Senator. I’ll leave that spat to the two of you.
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Good enough. I totally respect that. The only other thing I want to say on the subject is that I was not “accusing” you of anything. That assigns some sort of motive on my part. I was simply commenting on the fact that you said people tell you to stop complaining about the NCAA and that those people should, in your words, fuck off. I don’t know how I was being unfair. Anyway, I wish you wouldn’t let it make you fly off the handle like that but it’s not a deal breaker for me either. Cheers.
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Um, if I misinterpreted “You’re a dick.”, I apologize. 😉
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Oh hell. Now we’re going to misinterpret “You’re a dick”? Next there will be nothing to say.
Attention Folks! “You’re a dick” can now be misinterpreted. Dang! I thought it was a pretty expressive phrase. Now we have to say “You’re a dick – I think” to be correct.
I feel that I’m visiting the seashore with all the crabbing going on.
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Remember the watchwords for Nixon’s second term election “Don’t change Dick’s in the middle of a screw.”? Now AHD is going to list all the Republican words used for Dick. Dickens and dik-dik don’t appear.
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I wish you wouldn’t let it make you fly off the handle like that but it’s not a deal breaker for me either. Cheers.
WTH… 1…2…3… Fuck it. Sorry son. Buy the ticket take the ride
Except Bluto ain’t charging you a dime . Gosh. Ima help you out.
Fuck off. Piss off. Get ta fuck. There ya go American, English and Australian, It’s an attitude of dismissal. And I’m not accusing you of being a Dick. I am calling you a dick,and NO not that soccer stadium in Denver where they pretend to play “futbol”. You’re a guest here. Don’t call the host a Dick… gosh ya realize what it takes to put a blog together? Disagree, but don’t call him a dick. That’s dickish behavior. Fuck it …. I’m in Atlanta … Kinda and won’t get home until tomorrow. You mind your manners “Dick”/Mike.
I promised to list 101 different ways to say Mike. From an idea of justcathy’s. The list will give info about each one if I can find it, otherwise you will just have to trust me since I can find no reference material on the subject. Check out 102
Little Elvis
Mike ….did you wait for it . 😉
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I was always partial to “doughnut holder”. This goes well with a chilled white wine and a partner.
Biochemists prefer “Cyclic AM Peeer” in honor of the chemical responsible for it’s paralysis and the time you most often see it’s affect. Did I mention how it is used to define the subtleties of the word “torque”? I probably have.
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Stop it immediately. You are subsidizing a dictionary for me and making me a taker.
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That was cute AthensHomerDawg. Does that conclude this episode of When Bored Housewives Attack or you got anything to add?
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Senator, I hope you take this in the spirit that I’m giving it. I would never tell you what to write. It’s your blog, and I’ve read it for free for many years. But I will say that I used to read every post and nearly every comment. I did so because I enjoyed doing it. It’s just that simple. I don’t do that any more because I don’t enjoy it like I used to. Again, it’s just that simple. I’ve gotten to the point that I skip over some of your posts, mainly those dealing with the minutia of NCAA lawsuits. I’ve also gotten to the point that I no longer read most of the comments. Not that long ago, I could be fairly certain that the commenters here wouldn’t sink into partisan bickering and juvenile name calling. That is no longer the case.
Again, to be perfectly clear, I still enjoy your blog. It is still the home page on my browser, and I’ll still read it daily. I just thought you’d like some thoughtful input from a loyal reader.
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“Not that long ago, I could be fairly certain that the commenters here wouldn’t sink into partisan bickering and juvenile name calling. That is no longer the case.”
True dat, brother…maybe when spring practice starts some of this tedious, infantile stink will be borne away on the breeze.
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Eh, don’t worry about it. You’re hardly alone in not reading every post I publish. I’m grateful you enjoy what you do read.
Some of it is a factor of the time of year we’re in right now. Between signing day and the opening of spring practice, it’s pretty dead. Unfortunately there isn’t enough news about Georgia football to fuel a blog exclusively. So, again, I understand if there’s stuff I write that doesn’t interest you.
As for the comments, yeah, I agree with you. And I’m not really sure what I can do about it. It’s not that we’re infested with trolling; it’s something else.
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Gravidy, this was a much nicer way of saying you are not as interested in the NCAA stuff as the football portion of the blog as some others. I, for one, have been fascinated with the way the NCAA works (or doesn’t) since Cam became ineligble for nearly 19 minutes in 2010. So I really appreciate the blog posts on the NCAA, and being a lawyer who sees a lot of good and bad attorney arguments-and I can’t believe the NCAA lawyers can make their arguments with a straight face-I also appreciate the posts on the recent legal wranglings over image and likeness. And it’s all free!! So, from my perspective, keep it up.
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I mentioned the fact that I’ve stopped reading some of the NCAA-related stuff, and that is true. But my bigger concern, by far, is the way the comment section has devolved lately. To me, the great conversations this blog generates are as attractive as the blog posts themselves. And those great conversations still do happen, but the instances of devolution seem to have ramped up recently. Hopefully, Bluto and Scorpio are correct, and the situation will improve once spring practice starts.
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I would agree. A commenter telling someone to “GFY (or kill youself)” the other day even-if in semi-jest (I’ll give that guy the benefit of the doubt I suppose) is beyond what I expect to see here. Debate and snark are good, but I didn’t really expect that.
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Damn, Blutarsky, a post about the dickheads at the NCAA (or Baylor?) with full documentation of every known bit of slang for dick. Good work my son.
How much time do you figger Faton is gonna get with the ones in the Spring?
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