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"I'm not superstitious. But I am a little stitious." "Nobody here is disgruntled. We are all very gruntled." Michael Gary Scott

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That is kinda my point. There is no data. There are a bunch of people quoting and re-quoting a bunch of numbers they heard someone made up one time. Perhaps we should change the thread title to wholly crap.

NCAA athletes are also banned from betting on any professional sport where the NCAA holds a championship.

I giggled when I read this.

1. Where does the money go? Presumably there is an initial offering and the athlete gets the proceeds. But what about future transactions? That is swapped between investors? And then the athlete has to go where they say? Surely you are not talking about buying and selling human beings. 2. Ignoring the legal implications of the above, why would I buy in the initial offering if I was not sure a majority of buyers were also voting to send the athlete to the same school as me? 3. What happens to my stock in 4/5 years? It will always trend to zero as eligibility winds down. When does that begin? After three years? Two? 4. Why would a stock be performance based? Combining boosterism with "fractional stock investing" insures it won't. If an athlete performs well it will be virtually impossible to get a majority to sell. Without a majority sale there would be no buyers, especially as the affects of the prior question kick in. 5. Other stuff I haven't thought of this early.

I originally thought this is an underaged gambling case that also winds up being an NCAA violation, though for different reasons. In Iowa sports betting was made legal for anyone 21 and older in 2019, per The Athletic. They also report that the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission began the investigation. But the presence of one employee and several former student-athletes makes me wonder what the underlying problem really is.

Why?

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Are you aware of any NIL arrangements where the collective is both set up as a charity and a student athlete is paid $50,000 to show up at a charity event?

I want to thank the University of Minnesota for making it clear why NIL, and free transfers are so needed.

Did no one read the Tweet? Satrocci/Griffith is listed at 174.

You were in my wheelhouse. Elvis, The Clash, The Who, John Hiatt, The Replacements, Paul Westerberg, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams ...These are my people.

Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking when I hear the silly things that you say.

Why do people have such nostalgia for when athletes were chattel?

Did someone activate the bat signal?

F*n

Born in CO, lived in WY and NM before HS in TX.

Thems fightin words

For me out back would be Iowa. So let's say CHA. After he gets done spladling Sammy Brooks he dons the mascaras for @El Luchador's Texas wrestling tutorial.

Bo Nickal is waiting out back to have a "word"

Now I will make a prediction. He WILL do something stupid and maybe get himself arrested. But I also think that is his morning mantra.

I see it. Not only did he pin a ton of guys, he pinned the toughest guys among two and three timers (Spencer Lee would be second at an average rank of 50). And your right, a 1 point lose to a 3xer puts him in rarified air for 2xers.

His NIL/agent/rep company-thing has him listed under WWE. https://roster.1str.com/?section=featured

I waited to share: Let's start by acknowledging the obvious. The Covid complications are a real issue for any numbers-based analysis. Among our eight are three wrestlers who only had three shots at the tournament (though each for a different reason and only one due to Covid). This makes counting stats very difficult to assess. So, I also include some season averages. But even then, how do you account for Zahid Valencia and Nick Suriano, who had four regular seasons, but only three tournaments? Well, I dealt with them harshly. In the case of Suriano, who was entered, but did not wrestle the tournament, I gave him credit for 33rd the year he did not wrestle. In the case of Valencia, who was suspended while ranked #1, I gave him credit for 34th. Reasonable people might handle this differently. But only unreasonable people waste their time pulling all the data, so there is that. In the end though, I am not sure it makes any difference. Valencia still comes out on top when reduced to rankings by category. As a reminder, The pinfall, tech, and major percentages are percentages of matches that ended at or below that category. Pinfall, TF and MD rank are the average WrestleStat ranking of the defeated wrestler, so higher is better. Pinfall and TF time are the average amount of time it took to get the fall or tech. So, lower is better.