You telling me the game from The Road to El Dorado is based in reality?

Hence the Magnolia cover, thank you!

Can someone make out the song/artist/cover? I think I recognize the second word of the song as “Me”

Don’t do this to me

Similar story here, my youngest just graduated college. And apparently my family sat in front of one of his neighbors who I met later at the a house party. And he goes “I’m pretty sure I sat behind you at the ceremony. I sat down and the first thing I heard was ‘god bless those Australians, they took one look at a whole onion and said ‘I bet you we can fry that and Americans will eat it’’”

Even so your ability to ingest new data and change your opinion should be commended!

And this is where I absolutely will cross the aisle and agree with you. I obviously care for sport and think it can be massively beneficial. But I too see some of these smaller schools breaking their own back (and bank) trying to get some of that p5 football money. The school I am a fan of won’t even blink at a 7 or 8 figure bill for a sports complex upgrade, because they absolutely will make that money back. But the school I attended tried something similar (way smaller bill) and there was widespread outrage amongst the student population and rightfully so. This gets into that dick measuring contest I mentioned and I fully agree with you, that should not and can not be allowed to negatively impact academics. Sports are a net positive, but like all things not named heroin, they should be pursued in moderation.

So before I get into this, know that I’m biased as a colligate sport fan and a former NCAA athlete. But this is a bad take. Sports provide all sorts of benefit both internally and externally for the university. It is true that some athletic budgets are insane, and for what it’s worth I agree that the salaries that get paid are insane. But this is simply the price of an arms war. These colleges want the best facilities and coaches. And it’s not _just for the dick measuring contest, though make no mistake that is absolutely part of it. But all sorts of studies show that general contributions and academic donations in particular increase with athletic team success, notably championship winning teams. People like to belong to a community, and sports fandom is one of the most tried and true sources of community. Plus the tv contacts for the so called revenue sports would make an oil tycoon blush. The presidents of these schools continue to invest in these programs because they continually prove to be an excellent roi. And I firmly believe that these same presidents know more than either of us about running their universities. And all of that is aside from what these sports provide to the most important stakeholders in a college, it’s enrollees. Again recognizing my bias here, but the only reason I made it through school to get my 2 degrees that I use professionally was the sports team I trained with. These teams provide structure to the college life, something that can be hard to maintain as you essentially start a new life. Plus, sport and exercise prove to boost academic performance both on the short and long timescale. Most institutions report higher average GPAs in the athletic department than the general population. Ever notice that elite academic institutions also tend to have elite athletic programs? This isnt always obvious as it’s often non revenue sports outside of the state schools that are in the aforementioned dick measuring contest. And even schools that aren’t know for athletic or academics will still tend to offer intramural sports as again they are a massive boon for the students but I feel like at this point I’m straying from the original point. All in all these athletic programs are good for both the institution as a whole, and those that study at them.

tl;dr Sports good for college

Implying there are non remote areas of North Dakota.

I want to argue with the Swamp being above Neyland, but it’s hard to argue with that swamp voodoo. Bryant-Denny has no place being ranked top 5 let alone 2nd, it’s honestly not even the rowdiest stadium in alabama.

A little surprised there wasn’t a shot at FSU/clempson et al trying to leave the ACC.

shameless plug for our cfb community !cfb@fanaticus.social

And is this supposed to convince me that -75% emissions for -5% growth is a bad trade? Cause that seems like a great deal to me.

Yeah it’s a really good thing global warming is a liberal conspiracy, otherwise I’d be starting to get reallllll nervous right now.

On the traditionalist side: vandy was a founding member, plus I’m sure they bring up the average gpa of sec football at least a little. If we keep them in then that means we automatically play them every year.

On the modernist side: vandy isn’t competitive and isn’t really close to being competitive in the foreseeable future. We could easily have them as a protected ooc matchup to appease anyone who wants that.

The OU thing I honestly don’t have too strong of a feeling for. If we have a sooner lurker I’d love to hear from them. Josh’s reasoning was that adding OU kept it from being a Texas conference. Which, you already have Arky. But if that’s not enough I would maybe even suggest adding the AZ teams. I think that might be a bit much geographically, but it may make more sense culturally? idk

I could also recommend throwing the service acadamies into the ivy league, which we could also lump NW and vandy into. I feel like the service academies and the more academically inclined universities have the same “grindset” and this could help bring the ivies back into relevance in the sport. Since if we’re keeping Rutgers in the power conferences, we should keep Princeton and Yale in the big leagues. No way in hell they would ever vote for that though.

How do I unlock the stuck cleaning everything in sight? Asking for a friend

Yes, this post right here inquisitor

Edit: dangit, didn’t see you had the same line