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Re: TNET: Monday Musings: Big weekend for college football, Clemson basketball and baseball
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Apr 14, 2025, 3:39 PM
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Didn't offer for good reason...he wanted a big bag then and he sure won't get one from us now.
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Re: TNET: Monday Musings: Big weekend for college football, Clemson basketball and baseball
Apr 14, 2025, 4:11 PM
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Bailey deserves some leeway, one bad outing in a season of excellent ones is an outlier, not the norm. Darden on the other hand.. not an ACC caliber starting pitcher I’m afraid. It’s going to be the health of Bell and Gillen that determine this team’s ceiling going forward.
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Re: TNET: Monday Musings: Big weekend for college football, Clemson basketball and baseball
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Apr 14, 2025, 4:42 PM
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I had the impression Davidson's brother was also coming. I think he is a true freshman Is that not right?
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Re: TNET: Monday Musings: Big weekend for college football, Clemson basketball and baseball
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Apr 14, 2025, 4:48 PM
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Absolutely no rules whatsoever and sleazy as all get out.
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Is softball chopped liver?
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Apr 14, 2025, 7:54 PM
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great freshman class and team is playing well
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Re: Is softball chopped liver?
Apr 15, 2025, 3:55 AM
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Liver can be tasty
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Don't forget
Apr 15, 2025, 10:52 AM
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Remember, it was Tennessee who kinda set all this in motion with Nico.
They had just paid an $8m fine for pay-for-play, so they had an explicit set of rules from the NCAA to make sure they didn't violate them again.
The loophole they found was they could pay Nico (to be clear, they couldn't reference him by name but he committed the day after they announced they were paying a player $8m), but NOT pay him to stay (i.e., pay-for-play). At the time, it was clever, but the money was unprecedented
It's a loophole the NCAA may have closed just a few months later with the guidance they issued (including a retroactive clause, meaning even with Nico being gone from Tennessee may still have punishments). The loophole now is "we're not paying him to come to our school, but to sign autographs" for the tune of millions.
I'm not arguing the validity of any of it, to be clear, only that it started with Tennessee (including the unprecedented value of a single player) & their risk was always that he could leave; the article mentions other players since with higher values, but it's crucial to note the contracts now are different because of Tennessee rather than in spite of them, including if the player leaves or if the school doesn't hold up their end of the deal.
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