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Skeptical1's avatar

No need to protect right wing watchwords ‘capitalism’ and ‘free markets’. Those sacred touchstones are losing their lustre quickly among the right. And rightly so. College football has become a big money spectacle. Tawdry, indeed.

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TradeMark's avatar

I don't disapprove so much of Kiffin's leaving one team for another as his attempt to look like a martyr saint in doing so. Shouldn't have said God wanted him to take the raise at LSU, or bitched about not getting to coach Ole Miss through the playoffs.

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Thelonias's avatar

Scott, predict your playoff bracket. Should Notre Dame get in?

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ryan thompson's avatar

"It’s hard to fault Kiffin for leaving one program for a rival over money when many of the players do the same." Actually, it isn't. One expects it from short term thinking self interested greedy thug black players who are heavily R selected for the Sub-saharan environment and think only of today and themselves. An aging white man should have a greater sense of personal and ethical responsibility.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

Kiffin skeedaddled. Ghat's what Kiffin does. This time, unlike Ten essee, not like an errant tenant sneaking off in the wee hours, but with all the hoopla Jimmy Sexton and ESPN could muster. As a "changed man" and " leaving his "heart in Ole Miss". Spare me. But you know what zLSU does? It fires coaches.

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wmj's avatar

Good column but I think “extort” is not an appropriate word to use for players jumping ship for more money. They are, by any reasonable definition, employees. When an employee takes a job somewhere else for more money, they’re not “extorting” the previous employer.

I don’t follow CFB closely but I wonder whether its luster and its status as a quasi-cultural totem will fade as its essentially professional nature post-NIL becomes clearer. It takes a while for the symbolic significance of something to match its changing reality - it’s why the Left perpetually engages in the euphemism treadmill. And in a similar vein, I wonder too how long it will take white Americans to have a similar re-estimation of “America” as the demographic and cultural changes work their way through the system.

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Scott Greer's avatar

In a lot of cases, it's extortion, such as this one. Fortunately, the player ended up getting screwed over due to his greed https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/tennessee-moving-on-from-nico-iamaleava-strikes-a-blow-against-never-ending-nil-negotiations/

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wmj's avatar

Employee asks for more money in the offseason -> employer says no -> employee leaves

this is “extortion”? C’mon. The article itself says there are no binding contracts!

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LK Rurick's avatar

I thought you were doing a column on Strip Malls today?

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Scott Greer's avatar

I decided to save it for thursday. This is more pressing news!

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