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Steinman has nothing on thse enterprising chucklemeisters from that very brief period when literal videos were in. It's funny you chose this song, because it's still recognized as one of the very best ever done. (note: I love Steinman too. Bat Out of Hell was one of my favorite albums of the 70s)

I think we're beyonf semi-pro. This is like baseball now. It's mutated into a farm system explicitly. We're basically rooting for AA and AAA teams pretending to be colleges. It's probably for the best. College sports in teh age of 24/7 televsion ceased to be amateur a long time ago

well, lovely headline to wake up to

gott in himmel....it's the plot for Freaky Friday.....

Kentucky's a pressure cooker from hell. You'd have to be a glutton for punishment to take that gig. With the NIL basically turning college onto a farm system for the pros, the name on the front of the jersey is going to mean increasingly less. The programs that firgure out how to raise money and spend it efficiently are going to be the new bluebloods...

kentucky to arkansas? that's a pretty significant field demotion... guess calimari's tired of being pressure cooked musical chairs now in full motion

if a friend of mine is accurate, this is the first tournament where not one single minute of the tourney was freely accessible. npt one minute. he then had to revise that calculation to reflect the "free" 10 minute blocks cbs allowed for the "preview" before you were forced to choose between about a dozen paid services. they're basically retailing broadcast licenses to multiple platforms online. there's gonna have to be a reckoning soon on collegiate athletics over a wide range of topics. the ncaa is behaving like an energy company after a cocaine bender.

this one's for you, fever...:)

I love Doc, but I really want to set that Rock Chalk shirt on fire.

Portal Combat is brilliant. I can almost hear the stupid VA after yet another big name hits the portal: "fatality!"

After further consult with my non-existent peeps, I'm opting not to adopt yet another team where I root for the laundry, not the players. One's more than enough for me. It's time to just read amateurism as a concept its last rites. To (incredibly loosely) paraphrase Richard Nixon: "We're all NILers now..."

my first impression as well. i think it's wonderful. besides, they only have to do it for a few years before the reality of American life will turn them al into selfish a-holes anyway.

good lord, it really is going to be like being an A's fan ever year. "Who we trading this season? Oh, the entire team? Lovely. Welcome all 42 new rookies!"

I'm sorry, Sliver. I'd just like to announce that I'm taking my lack of talent to.......um, my living room. I'd like to thank my bedroom for the last two years of support and love. I really felt like a welcome part of this house, but, sadly, my future opportunities lie elsewhere towards the front of the house. (feel free to cut and paste anywhere someone is transferring. I don't believe in copyright).

That;s the notorious rebellion team of Boone and Strickland. They had high expectations coming inbto that season and were expected to be the team that got that first win after the 91 team failed in that mission. Once Nee and the players got their lines of communication un-screwed, the team most of us expected finally showed up. 96 was mmy last year in the Army and Ihad just gotten back from an extra long tour in Korea and was looking forward to decompressing with Nee-ball for that season. They finished well, that's for sure.

Louisville no longer the House that Crum Built, eh? The Times They are a-Changin' (Back)

me too, and that's where I can take out my personal grievances against the Illini for those games....

Am I the only one still rooting for our conference mates? is that a thing here?

A's fans in baseball have had to deal with this for years, and you've had a split in their fandom as a result. One chunk of the old fan base has a saying: "you root for the laundry"--meaning the name on the uniform is your true object of allegiance. The other half, of course, begs to differ, pointing out that "laundry doesn't break base stealing records, or hit 40 plus homers in a season, or or or....". I think what you're seeing is essentialyl the same dynamic that began years ago in so-called "small market" professional sports franchises. Likelywith the same result.

this whole thing feels like a choo choo barely hanging on the tracks...the NCAA has to be wishing it had an anti-trust exemption about now.... Edit: i acutally thought they were exempt....but that explains why NIL exists....so of course now there are people trying to get an exemption like that passed so they can put the NIL genie back in the bottle again... going to be an interesting couple of years ahead to see if some sort of peace can be had between two deeply incompatible interests... anyhoo, sorry for veering off with this comment....just wanted to fix my initial screw up... hopefully this can be a decent standalone thread somewhere appropriate...

But a huge gain for the Bates Motel!!

Have Nebraska's congressional delegation lobby for legislation that grants all Japanese nationals in college atheltics an added year of eleigibility as a gesture of goodwill and friendship. That's about the only idea I got left....

Or, if they prefer more contemporary prose, they could always dig into Chiraq from Spike Lee. Still one of the great Greek plays of all time. 'No nookie for you, Testicles!"

(checks calendar....nope, still a few days off....)

You don't turn down a talent like Pike. Pike in this team this year? That's a likely Sweet 16 team.