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Johnny R running his ballsack across Kanell's face.
I hope Ruiz's staff has video of Emmert getting pegged by a donkey.
If the video isn’t available I know a guy who can make a gif of it to tweet
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Johnny R running his ballsack across Kanell's face.
I hope Ruiz's staff has video of Emmert getting pegged by a donkey.
One step ahead of you brother.If the video isn’t available I know a guy who can make a gif of it to tweet
Do you remember how Seantrel got out of his letter of intent?
The NCAA granted him and everyone else who signed with USC a waiver since they were going to be hit with sanctions following the Reggie Bush investigation. I don't think it would have been fair to punish kids who signed with USC before sanctions.
This is great!!!
Great post.. Love the idea of sitting back taking their temperature, and reading the room...great advice...You are correct.
At the same time, steal their ammunition. How many unsportsmanlike penalties did UM get in the 1980s? But until Randal Hill ran into the tunnel, the NCAA didn't do anything except walk off 15-yarders on us. After that? They made that whole video showing all of the horrible things Miami had done previously.
And, sure, some people will blow that off and say that we overcame it. But why give them ammo to shoot you with?
John's been a **** good lawyer for years, he's made plenty of money. You've never seen him taking these pictures and tweeting these things previously. So it's not purely about ego, that he needs to see his own name and likeness all over the place. I understand the play he is making at the moment, I understand the publicity that he is building around the company. And now it's time to reel it back. Everyone knows that LifeWallet pays well. Let every recruit call the LifeWallet marketing department and see what the interest is.
We just (collectively) need to read the room. Everyone knew it was going to be the Wild West for a while. But, yeah, some university presidents and ADs suddenly saw the blood and got queasy. So now the momentum is shifting to "let's hire a sheriff to stop the best gunfighters from running roughshod". And now it's time to slow down the "everyone shaking hands for the NIL before the commit is even announced" photo ops. Let's shift the Tweets from "predictions" to "post-LOI-gloating".
It's all good. I'm not mad at John. He's done nothing wrong under the existing rules.
But now it's time to transition from a pugnacious start-up to a blue-blood blue-chip stock that's a part of the Dow Jones Index.
This is great!!!
But if you are playing by the rules and you are clean. Why be quiet?This is what happens when you have loud boosters. We seen to never get the one who knows how to play the game quietly.
I haven’t closely followed the situation but I would say that we’ve been in the upper tier of shamelessly wielding this new, undefined sword. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing, the laws have been fluid so it would be tough to violate them. But eventually there will be some kind of rules. The Ruiz thing makes me a little nervous long term, seems like having some third party egomaniac negotiating basically on behalf of our program with his own money is a new place to be. If he ever Decided to stop shelling out money, it would be a big blow, and as long as we need him it creates a dynamic I don’t love. We cant be the only school in some version of his situation now. I trust Mario isn’t asleep at the wheel at least and we have a compliance team looking at all of this stuff.
I think we all agree the kids should get paid. This is kinda the ****show period as the parameters and market sorts itself out. The money exploded for coaches, it should for players too. It is worth taking a step back and wondering how practical this kind of financial arms race is for State Universities in our country where the football coach makes 10 times what the president does, but here we are.
This is great!!!
Great post.. Love the idea of sitting back taking their temperature, and reading the room...great advice...
We are ahead, so don't f*** it up with too much high profiling right now.
The Million dollar question is : Can John Ruiz restrain himself after seeing his name up in lights, in order to give the U some breathing room. ?
Jumping from one tweet to the next may not be the best posture at this time.
Consolidate our wins and be strategic at this point.
Excellent points TOC we need to go stealth, and plan now... totally agree with you position.
Again, you are comparing him to crime bosses.And again, I want to stress, I love and respect John Ruiz. He's new to being a "high profile" guy in both a publicly traded company and in big-time college sports (though he's accustomed to this as a trial lawyer).
I'm just suggesting...a smooth transition...into being a long-term power broker. There's a reason why Don Corleone spoke in code about what needed to be done. There's a reason why Tony Soprano let Uncle Junior be named the head of the family.
Long as it’s within the rules there’s nothing anyone can do about itThis is what happens when you have loud boosters. We seen to never get the one who knows how to play the game quietly.
Again, you are comparing him to crime bosses.
It's weird that you all want him to do it the right way and the legal way but want him to act like a crime boss just so the NCAA doesn't notice too much. The publicity is the point.
Long as it’s within the rules there’s nothing anyone can do about it
There is a reason why no one has told him to chill. Fans are overly paranoid and do not understand the NCAA can’t do **** about it.There is something that can be done about it. Dan and Mario can ask John to chill. I hope it doesn't come to that, and John chooses to chill on his own.
TrueThere is something that can be done about it. Dan and Mario can ask John to chill. I hope it doesn't come to that, and John chooses to chill on his own.