I heard John met a good woman and is no longer out ridin' fences too long. It made me happy for him. He pushed out the envelope for longer than anyone else I knew. He deserved to find a quiet place. John was Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer filtered through Larry Csonka and Jim Brown. John was the Age of Aquarius in cleats.
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Riggins should have been a movie star. Larger than life in every way!
Oh for coitus sakes! Lol.
Have you ever been a part of a coitusing network? Lol
Have you ever gotten fecal canned and picked up by an ally to get u some time to dust off and bounce back? Lol
Have you ever played any coitusing game for real? Lol
Good to have you back for the new coitusing season! LOL!
😀
Now that's a great link. Thx for passing that along!!!
But again, the global ROI ain't there, so why are they spending so much on football?
This is the key point.
It's obvious why they write big checks to a soccer team that markets well to the Crown of Great Britain's Commonwealth--the 3rd largest economic entity on the planet. Slam dunk.
What are they buying in a college game parked in an American cultural cul de sac?
It's challenging for persons to think flexibly about this sort of stuff.
They either want to think locally, or globally, but struggle with scoping between both.
There are vertical and horizontal dimensions to political, economic, military and logistic activity and they simultaneously have local and global dynamics. It's not an either-or, or even a both, world of analysis. It's an "all" world simultaneously.
You've got to get comfortable with it to keep from shutting out the most interesting parts.
Thx! That is a helluva good read. Lots of data.
Interesting point.
Still, statistics are rarely fully accurate; that is what makes them statistics.
They are approximations of phenomena with degrees of probability.
We cannot catch all the crimes ten years ago.
And we cannot catch all the crimes now.
All we can do is measure what we can, and then make further approximations of how much we may be missing.
Measurement error.
Estimation error. Types I and II.
But an approximation, even if kind of fuzzy, is better than nothing at all.
But the point you raise is still crucial.
Crime measurements have to be adjusted for the tendency not to report a lot of the crime.
Thanks for the take on New Orleans. I was getting a lot of tenth anniversary, we survived, in spite of all those trying to keep us from coming back stories. Wondered about other points of view.
You might appreciate a book I just finished (I am on one of my mini-reading sprees I go on from time to time), since it might shed a little indirect light on the famed New Orleans culture.
It is a book called "Mission to Civilize: The French Way" by Mort Rosenblum, a Paris AP bureau chief and editor-in-chief of the International Herald Tribune way back in the ancienne time circa 1985.
The book remains worth reading, because it addresses a 2000 year old subject--French culture, and the desire of the French to export their notion of what it means to be civilized. It emphasizes how successful the French are at doing this, by comparing the French giving away their empire with the English doing the same. When the English give away their colonies, the colonies retain very little of their British ways, whereas, the French colonies practically scramble to become more French than when they were still colonies.
But it also explores the deep insecurities and paradoxical needs underlying their civilizing. Written with the kind of mordant wit and skepticism that Jewish journalists were once so skillful at using to unearth the real underlying importance of some subject they might rightly have mixed feelings about due to legacy anti Semitism in the subject, this book gets at the French in a way I hadn't seen them gotten at before. Wish I had found the book when it came out.
The book hasn't much of anything to say directly about New Orleans, but somehow it still adds to ones grasp of New Orleans, same as it adds to one's grasp of any place with French influence.
New Orleans of course retains its Napoleonic code and its parishes from its French period, but so much of the idiosyncratic and not overt nature of New Orleans culture itself seems an extension of France admidst the good old USofA. And, of course, there is the reputed persistence of rumors of French Intelligence's presence. And the lore of the Bonapartists continual meddling. And intrigues within intrigues within intrigues of New Orleans. And the strange balls. And the city's rumored role in the Kennedy assassination. And all of the wild rumors of subterfuge that followed the great flood ten years back, of the bizarre actions of private contractors loose in the city. Of Tennessee Williams tragic odes set in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. And the Vampire Lestat. And the rightful pride and near fetishism with food that all we visitors love. And so on and so on. And the great fishing down at the coast. And it is the one great American city that I know the least about lacking any experience of living there.
Anyway, I just think this book about the idiosyncracies of French culture might interest, and amuse, you and make you see an additional dimension to New Orleans-an insight into why the Frenchness of New Orleans persists at all.
The KU network remains vital.
@Crimsonorblue22 intermittently pastes links to unfortunate crime stories. It made me ask the question in the title of this post. Post any stats here.
Awesome recalls!!! Thanks for sharing them. You were most fortunate.
I came within a hair of taking a job out of graduate school in North Jersey, Englewood, if I recall correctly, that would have had me splitting time between Englewood and mid town. The man recruiting me had a penthouse in a building facing onto the 59th Street Bridge. It was pure NYC. As I recall he was pioneering a bit living in the area at the time, as an executive. But if he hung on to that penthouse, today it would be worth a small fortune, maybe even two. :-) Always kind of regretted I didn't take the job, but I got an offer elsewhere I just couldn't turn down. Wait, the memories are coming back. Two doors away from the penthouse building was the Ford Modeling Agency front door. OMG! OMG! I practically took the job just to be able to have an excuse to go to his place and hang out by the Ford agency. This was the mid-1980s. Crime was serious. No eye contact on any non heavily travelled streets even in mid town, at least at night. Going to a show was an adventure in trying to figure out which streets were safe and which would get you mugged. Time Square was a porn ghetto still. And yet in business, it was still a massive rush. And then one could jump in a car and drive across the George Washington and, boom, in no time at all, I was in some really nice suburbs. I was supposed to buy a house the next suburb north of Englewood. Can't recall the name now. It was all good. None of the TV/Movie cliches.
Glad you got your good NJ/NYC memories. Good for you. Hold on to them tight. You never know. Life has lots of twists and turns. You might wind up back there again.
Is it true that Rutgers has dusted off Mouse Davis' old Run and Shoot football offense?
Preparing for Rutgers shotgun formation means "Run for cover!!!"
Shoot! We might just as well schedule the Leavenworth Big Tops as Rutgers.
THEY WOULD HAVE TO LOSE ANOTHER 15 PLAYERS FOR US TO HAVE A SERIOUS SHOT.
I WILL TAKE THE FORFEIT.
IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE THE SPORT.
ANY TIME THE FOLLOWING WORDS OCCUR, I AM REBORN A LITTLE.
KU WINS!
Wouldn't it be cool if Rutgers forfeited?
I can just see the sports page headlines.
100 point type.
HOLY COW!
:pray:
ALERT: from the BIA Emergency Basketball Broadcast System
TO: All agents in the field.
FROM: Director/janitor jaybate 1.0
RE: @drgnslayr's post above about Cheick Diallo
In one of the strangest intelligence coincidences in BIA history, BIA 6-10 field agent Robert Owanakababe in Zaire station reports that that really is Cheick Diallo in the picture presented by 'slayr and that Cheick really did go home to become a gentleman herder and drill down deep into his ABBA library on the adidas money he banked.
I repeat, this is not a test of the BIA's Emergency Basketball Broadcast System. This is a real alert.
;-)
I am abstaining from the gun issue on grounds of specialized mental incompetence.
I swear I am against guns and I am against hunting.
But at the same time I am for guns and for hunting.
I am rationally decided about every other subject I can think of and about a lot of subjects most persons never think of.
But this issue of guns I have given up trying to resolve in my mind and am willing to entrust the issue to my fellow citizens.
So shoot me. :-)
Or don't. :-)
Boot camp starting is a great tonic!!!!
Not if you are a player, maybe.
But to a fan, it is a way out of the offseason withdrawal...that doesn't involve Betty Ford.
OH, THANK GOD, HEM!!!!!
I didn't want to go all Rhinoceros and be the last sane mind in the world about this is issue. :-)
Eugene Ionesco.
He still da man.
Way to go, Brooksie, grits, grits, they will do you good!!!!!
If you take to them, get on line and lose your mind and order the super expensive white grits from Anson Mills. They are absolutely outrageously priced. But they are ground from old strains of corn, and well, I mean their placebo effect is strong, even if they don't really taste better.
BUT THEY DO TASTE BETTER!!!!!
Obviously not from Trenton, eh?
Probably never said "wudder" for water either, eh?
So: the boids don't choip in the poik in Joisy after all?
And, yeah, I know, North Jersey is really nice and I liked a lot of parts of it out west, too.
Yadda, yadda, yadda, as they say.
Thanks for thinking of my potential limitations of vision, but, alas, I have seen budget figures on and off over the years and perhaps those very ones, but I can't recall for absolute, footnoted certainty. :-)
Now, let's say turnabout is fair play.
I suspect you may not quite understand how the game is played in the political economy, and that is no criticism of you. Most folks either work for a private entity and contract with private, or with public entities. Or they work for public agencies and work with private and public agencies. That sort of thing is all very straight forward. Very, very, very few work at the level where the game is to play all sides mentioned in pursuit of a political economic influence in pursuit of an agenda. At that level, the game is to use as little of your money, frankly, none whenever possible, and free ride on as much of other organization's money as possible to budge some bureaucratic blob in the direction that benefits you, or your organization's strategy.
To wit, you won't find many situations in which Player A wags the dog with the most money of any of the contributors involved; that would be inefficient and heavy handed. Player A instead wags the dog with the least money at the table, but perhaps the most new money, or else it isn't really wagging the dog, is it? Wagging the dog is a game of buying influence the cheapest way possible.
The PetroShoeCos could play this game another way, but they have chosen to play through the athletic departments for a reason. They are a cheap date, at least, compared to having to go out and win customers one at a time directly.
Historically speaking, almost nothing in a political economy worth undertaking on a grand scale is worth undertaking largely with one's own money.
Have you ever heard the term "leverage" in finance?
Imagine leverage in everything involved in the public-private realm. The game is to catch a ride on the Reading that has already been largely paid for and is already in motion and add just a little coal to the boiler and ride as far as you need to go for a lot less than the cost of stoke the entire boiler out of your pocket. Capice?
So: when you point out the small share of the budget that shoe money represents, you are perhaps unintentionally pointing out precisely how the game is perhaps played much of the time in large scale undertakings in the political economy. Most of the majority monies you refer to are set in stone and already have overhead claims on them. The whole idea of bringing new monies to the table in this realm is that it only takes relatively small amounts placed in timely fashion to shift large, unwieldy organizations that are themselves embedded in still larger organizations in the directions sought.
Hmmm. How shall I put this?
Organizations like 501c.3 athletic departments embedded in public universities are cash black holes. No matter how much the TV contract is, no matter how much the legislature appropriates, within a few cash cycles, usually even before one single cycle, overhead will be created to absorb it all and so the organization will be looking for more monies in order to avoid having to go to the legislature, or the bank, for more monies. A sizable portion of the reason for spinning athletic departments off into bogus-in-spirit 501.c3 organizations was apparently to keep from having to go begging in the state house on a regular basis. Regents and chancellors know there are strings attached to monies from the legislature; that is duly instituted politics, not this public-private 501.c3 grey area stuff. Get a fresh $10 million appropriation from Topeka and those legislators will have it earmarked for their cousins and uncles long before you get a chance to give it to y0ur bureaucratic pals.
These organizations we call athletic departments have an inelastic demand for money in whatever form they can get it. Public agencies are not the only organizations with this penchant. The athletic departments pay no taxes so long as they don't make more than 6 percent over their costs. And it appears they are rather deft at finding overhead to keep them at 6 percent surplus, or less. They have no conventional meter running either, if they don't borrow from banks in a big way. Their major constraint is the lost bureaucratic autonomy that occurs when having to go to the legislature for money. Outside monies fix that problem. Donors played the role awhile. TV played that role awhile. Both are still around. But now Petroshoecos are playing the role of newest money.
The scale of shoe monies you cite are hugely stimulating to these organizations, because they are cream on top to be skimmed. And with the new cream you can distribute it Dale Carnegie stylet to win friends and influence enemies...quite legally apparently.
Nothing I am talking about here is apparently illegal.
Oh. My. God. To walk into a college athletic department and offer them even $1M per year makes you a demigod to them, because the bigger monies have already been earmarked, i.e., overhead has already been created to gobble up the last money source. Kick the amount up to $5-10 Million per year, and wave the possibility of skies the limit in front of them and you are like a real god to them unless someone else comes in and waves still more. New money is the most valuable money.
College sports appears to reside in a nearly perfect straddle of what I call the public-private realm of political economy.
It is a regulatory grey area where nothing short of bald faced crime like ticket scalping is definitively illegal and influence is the coin of the realm. And organized ticket scalping draining millions can go on for a decade without notice of the Chancellor, or the AD, or the head of the donation foundation, or coaches. And even when the almighty DOJ wades in on a tip from outside it can only nail a few small fry. Is this an amazing realm or what?
Athletic departments appear the grossest perversion of the spirit of the 501.c3 law that has probably ever occurred and that is saying something given the occasionally sordid history of 501.c3s.
Many involved with them are making a killing off of them. This is not why tax exemption of them was created and everyone knows it, but the athletic departments got spun off into these tax exempt shells and the donation process got spun off into the tax exempt foundations and the money got too big too fast, and the regulations were just fuzzy enough, to keep anyone in DOJ, or IRS, apparently, from ever really going after them and shutting them down.
Heck, even some of the watch dogs on the 501.c3 athletic departments are 501.c3s. Is that a sweet deal or what?
Do you sense the profundity of the regulatory conflict of interest here?
Now, a vast constellation of sports industry has built up around these 501.c3 shelled athletic departments and very, very, VERY few persons actually understand how business is conducted in this realm, about what the formal and informal benefits are and how they are distributed.
A school gets, oh, say, 12,000 shoes and DOJ and IRS apparently don't even look into what happens to them. Pfffft. Gone.
I certainly don't claim to be an expert about any of this.
I just know a whisker's worth about 501.c3s generally.
And IMHO, neither you nor I will ever live to see a day in which the organization paying the lion's share of the athletic department budget (unless its new money) will ever be the one temporarily calling the shots; that is just not apparently how it works in this realm IMHO.
Svi with a normally proportioned neck would basically be a 6-5 inch wing with a lot of agility and good dribbling.
Regarding the effects of crooked pecker, well, I reckon I am not qualified to comment on that effect. :-)
Don't tell me you have drunk the kool aide that body morphology doesn't matter.
Body morphology is crucial to how tall you play.
Just as a footer is still a footer at the end of the game.
A long necker is still shorter than his height at the end of a game.
Fast twitch muscles can only compensate for a long neck for 3/4s of a game and then old man effective height sets in.
I am also extremely interested in that Michigan and Michigan State disparity.
adidas-UM $8.2 M
Nike-MSU $1.6 M
Both schools are good in both football and basketball.
Are we looking at lag times in contract signing dates triggering the bias?
I'm not sure.
Any idea?
What we seem to be looking at is a disparity driven by adidas recent strategy of going after Nike via basketball program signings. Is this just a short term distortion, or a long term trend?
@JayHawkFanToo said:
Of course football programs take the bulk of the money...
Exactly.
This is exactly what I am getting at.
This shouldn't be happening, if basketball, golf and soccer really were driving the rig.
But they apparently aren't.
And don't forget track. Track should be getting as much, or more, than basketball and golf. Track is a huge global sport. Track and soccer are adidas real whammy global sports supposedly.
So football is taking the lions share away from all these sports.
Sumthin' ain't right, here.
But what?
Yeeeee hawwww!! Glad to hear it. Now, if he can be cleared.
Is it even safe for KU to play Rutgers?
Should KUAD Zenger as Rutgers AD to provide the rap sheets for all the players on the Rutgers' roster to see how many are currently wanted criminals, or ex-cons?
The Rutgers' head coach is reputedly suspended for three weeks or so for participation in violations.
Apparently independent of that 6 Rutgers players have reputedly been arrested; two in a home invasion, and four for assault. These six have reputedly been kicked off the team.
We are talking China Syndrome on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Like what guaranty does KU have that the remaining Rutgers' players will not be packing on game day?
Can Rutgers' AD offer KU AD Zenger any guaranties that Rutgers' players will not carry shivs inside their forearm pads?
Should KU players and fans be concerned about on field assaults? Saturday night specials? Assault rifles? RPGs? Rail guns?
Should Zenger be issuing the KU players MRATs and body armor with some night vision optics in their pots?
Will Rutgers agree to keep sufficient supplies of plasma and correct blood types on hand to transfuse any KU players knifed, or shot during the game?
Should AD Zenger withdraw KU from this game on the grounds of an inability to guaranty the physical safety of his players from mayhem?
Just what the hell is going on in Piscatoway Township anyway?
KU didn't agree to play New Jersey's state prison team, did it?
Is this some kind of a delayed Chris Christie Effect in the Garden State?
Yo, I know everyone in Joisy ain't dis way, cuz I been dare.
But does we really gotz ta play deeze mugs at Rutgers in their crib, where they can triangulate fire on us?
We are probably gonna lose to them regardless of how many of their coaches and players get sent up the river.
So: why risk our young men on this sort of an opponent at all?
An L is an L is an L.
(Note: I am only half joking here.)
Speaking of short necks, I am suddenly doing a little hand wringing about Cheick Diallo.
He is listed at 6-9, which means he could be as short as 6-7.
Okay, so Self has routinely played 6-7 big men of late.
But in the picture on a story over at the old site, it shows Cheick with a fine, long neck.
Long necked players play at least an inch shorter than their heights.
How would this sound coming out of a public address announcers mouth: starting at center, for the University of Kansas Jayhawks: 6-6 Cheick Diallo!!!!!!!
And this is assuming Diallo gets "clearance" to play.
I am running out of finger nails on this one, coach.
Down to nail beds.
This must assume Diallo being cleared.
There was a reason Shakespeare wrote as many tragedies as comedies.
Damn, Tyler Self is starting to look like an college age basketball player. Holy cow, what if Bill's genes are kicking in late!!!!! No, probably not. But Allie Maguire looked like a geek for the several years before fleshing out and being able to legitimately contribute and allow Al Maguire to make the famous remark that went something like: in a tie, my son starts.
And look at the black knee lingerie on Brannen from the git-go!!!!! Uh-oh!
Svi looks scared, or tired, or both! But I like the bulge in the calve of his right leg. Muscles strengthened.
The guy behind Tyler looks like someone taking a break from a Mormon Mission with that beard.
Evan is too obscured to comment except to say he is standing pat with his hair style.
Perry remains the athletic stud with the baby hands!
Great take. Lucid. Thanks for sharing it.
And what you lay out is precisely why I find it such a striking anomaly that so much of the shoe contract monies to the schools appear to be finding their ways to football!
There is a logical disconnect, if you will.
Basketball, soccer are where the big individual endorsement contracts are reported.
But football schools are pulling down some of the really huge petroshoeco contracts with schools.
And the football programs appear to be hogging a lot of the monies given to the schools regardless.
Red flag!
Would that you were working as a translator at the UN. :+1:
Yes, a great deal rests on Svi's broad shoulders, and unfortunately long neck. :-)
You know how I am about long necks, coach. They mean low shoulders and playing not as tall as your height (with or without KU inches) suggests.
Let us :pray:
Not even a blink.
History with Diallo now suggests that Self would take Thon Maker, or any footer, or near footer, instantaneously, if eligible, and take any risk of clearance. Period.
Not even any debate on this one in my opinion.
Until the apparent embargo lifts, Self has to take what bigs he can get, where and when he can get them.
I am in a different frame of mind than you, which is relatively rare.
I wish football were banned, because of the head injuries that neuroscience and brain scanning apparently suggest happen to all that play the game, not just the acute cases of concussions and paralyses that sadly occur so often.
But it isn't being banned for complicated reasons tracking not insignificantly to money.
Next, football, the game I wish would go away, or wish a way could be found to play it without brain damage, is entwined fiscally with the greatest game ever invented--a game where some brain damage occurs, but in which the game was at least designed to minimize brain damaging impacts.
Thus, I am left with the unhappy situation of having to think about the game of football, and the various economic dynamics that it has that may blow back onto basketball.
But I certainly understand and have in the past shared your feelings about KU football.
At the same time, because of the massive changes in cash flows into both sports as a result of TV, realignments past and future, sports apparel contracts, merchandizings, gaming, player payment, etc., I no longer believe KU is hopelessly doomed to being terrible in football, because it is in the heart land in a small population state, any more than OU, or Nebraska, are. A great legacy is a great advantage to OU and Nebraska, but KSU proves lack of a great legacy can be overcome sometimes with a great coach. And I believe now that all the structural change mentioned above makes reshuffling the deck on who is who in college football even more feasible...with the right conference, conference commissioner, chancellor, AD and head football coach. There has been so much structural change that there is a window of opportunity that did not exist ten years ago when KU had a brief uptick under Mangino.
I am not saying I wish for a great football program, because with that would come even more inertia toward a brain damaging sport and even more complexity for KU Basketball to deal with.
But I am saying it is now feasible for better or worse.
I believe that we have been watching a tug of war among KU alumni and private oligarchy in the state to "get control" of KUAD by many means. We have been watching KUAD be subjected to the stresses of regime change from various factions. There appear many reasons for what we have been witness to since Scalpinggate, but there is one big one that seems immediate and concrete. A lot of the big money sharks appear to be swimming around Mt. Oread and positioning for the inevitable renovation of Memorial Stadium. A good KU football program could easily justify an 80,000 seat stadium. A top notch football program could justify a 100,000 seat stadium with some kind of weather control. This is the kind of construction opportunity that comes around once in a blue moon in a midwestern state. This is an ox to gore on a potentially huge scale. The small thinkers and non football lovers look at Memorial Stadium and see a small renovation and the addition of a few seats. Big thinkers and football lovers can foresee a project of many hundreds of millions of dollars. It is hard to say who will win out. But it is often unwise to bet against the development sharks, unless a very organized opposition forms to obstruct them.
From a basketball fiscal stand point, wouldn't it be great to have a 75,000 seat domed football stadium to play KU's pre-season games in? And play the conference season in AFH? Such a domed stadium would end the threat once and for all of expanding (and wrecking) Allen Field House. It would give KU basketball not one, but two of the greatest college basketball venues. It would give KU basketball a connection between its past and its future for the rest of the 21st Century.
For reasons such as the stadium and field house issues, I now think it is encumbent on KU basketball fans, if they can stand it, to think about football at least from the point of view of its impact on KU Basketball.
I have not come down fully on the side of supporting a resurgence of KU football. I am just trying to acquire some of the knowledge that appears needed to make a rational decision.
Rock Chalk!
You appear to be looking for the same model of petroshoecos influence in both sports and leaping to a conclusion that since it isn't there, then there is insignificant petroshoeco influence in football and football recruiting.
That appears a frequent error in forensic inquiry and analysis.
IMHO, it shouldn't likely be the same model, if there were one.
It would likely be different, wouldn't it?
Why?
Because the legacies and path dependencies and future opportunity sets and characteristics of the two games are different, so the models of influence should likely evolve differently. Football proliferated differently in its early days than basketball did. Influence and/or corruption (note: influence is not necessarily corrupt) have legacies and those legacies are tied up in the legacy of the activity in question.
There is no reason to expect the same model of influence and/or corruption in both sports.
There is only reason to expect some model of influence that culminates currently in the petroshoecos' vast spending on college teams, and perhaps most on football.
Hypothesis: the petroshoecos spend huge sums of money on football and other sports in order to have significant influence over football and other sports and their talent distributions, because it helps their businesses.
That is one nascent hypothesis for a board rat, and one giant nascent hypothesis for board rat-kind! 😀
The way I pieced together the basketball model of influence, even as incompletely as I may have, was to go back and read the old muckraking books on basketball corruption in the 1940s to 2000, before such books apparently stopped being written , and then looked to see if the NCAA had ever resolved the old corruptions. When it appeared they had not, then it was just a matter of tracing the paths forward of those old unresolved corruptions to the present day--to consider probable evolutionary paths and track familiar actors recurring in the drama over time.
It's hard to foresee a possible research process for football much more than that. And I don't care enough about football to go through it again for football alone. But as I said, basketball's future appears tied up with football, so I might try, or perhaps encourage others younger than me to try to map the legacies to see where they lead and what they suggest about the situation today. Even if it were to yield only a little knowledge, that would be a lot more than we appear to know today.
Likely the time to start with football is way back in the late 1800s, when it was reputedly instituted in part to begin to prepare a cadre of young American men for military and corporate service in the then planned new American overseas empire. Follow it forward. Hard to say what the paths forward would imply today, but the potential advantage of this genealogical approach is we know what the present looks like and so one pioneers forward from the past toward a known landmark in order to get to know that landmark in a meaningful way. And if this approach were to falter, there would of course be others.
We have huge sums of money being spent not just on basketball, but on football, too.
It is not enough to say that there is no significant petroshoeco influence on football and football recruiting, simply because football shoes don't translate to street shoes the way basketballs shoes do.
What one needs to keep in mind is that this is not just about global petroshoe markets, but about petro apparel markets.
It is about the whole enchilada of human clothing migrating toward more petro-apparel globally. And on a global scale, even just a half of one percent shift in global apparel distribution toward petro apparel and away from materials like cotton, linen, silk, and leather, etc. would probably be a big deal.
A key question is how does football, a conspicuously American game, fit into this petro-apparel marketing process? Why should the petro-shoecoes subsidize American football at all? All the reasons that you give are reasons why American football should not be being subsidized at all. And yet what we observe is that American football is among the major beneficiaries of the largesse of PetroShoeCo contracts to American college athletic programs.
Is football being feathered to get to basketball? or to track? or to all sports?
Why spend so much on American football, when no one else plays it around the world?
The reason for the geneological inquiry into the legacies of influence and/or corruption is simply one potentially fruitful approach to accrue some knowledge that might help us answer such questions in a substantial way, rather than in simple "no's" that do not adequately account for the spending on the game of football.
At least that is how it seems to me so far.
Rock Chalk!
Diallo--Self not talking up an OAD this time of year means curtains.
Selden tweak = Selden has never really healed from his freshman injury.
Greene = medical red
Stock Summary:
Hunter up
Devonte and LaGerrie up
Team down
Check it out and tell me what you think. I think it's kind of special. But take note of there being only three index references of E.O. Harriman in 600+ pages, so you get the idea of the part of the story still being left out. 😀
So hope you're right, but that's kind of what I used to hear about basketball recruiting and petroshoecos; I.e., just no influence.
But can't football players sell shoes just as easily as basketball players? And didn't we estimate recently that Nebraska, for example, got an allotment of something like 12,000 pairs? And aren't there way more football players that might be paid through shoe sales than hoopahs?
As Deep Throat once said to a reputed former ONI liaison officer between Admiral Morer and General Al Haig that some how just coincidentally showed up a year later as a cub reporter on reputed CIA asset and WAPO editor Ben Bradley's city desk, "Follow the money."
😀
Easy, brooksie, it was just a joke. I am keeping top secret what I am wearing. 😎
So: I am wearing a jock under my Royal Robbin travel pants today in honor of it!!!!!
Yes, let's just make statue of Gale Sayers and Mangino's Orange Bowl QB and John Riggins and Bobby Douglas in front of old Memorial and boom it down right now. Forfeit this season and next. Just recruit two years and have Hudy develop them, then field a team three seasons from now in a 120,000 seat stadium and watch KU OVERWHELM D1 football!!!
Rock Chalk!