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  1. SpongeWorthy
    Landry Fields is really good though.
  2. SpongeWorthy
    Hey cool, New York's assortment of nobodies are murdering us from behind the line again.
  3. SpongeWorthy
    I agree with Lebron.
  4. SpongeWorthy
    Really looking forward to the game tomorrow. Only thing that would make it better (assuming the Bulls win) would be a vintage Costas NBA on NBC voiceover intro followed by Roundball Rock.
  5. SpongeWorthy
    RRRING IT UP
  6. SpongeWorthy
    Joniak sounds like the guy who calls Washington Capitals games and is like the #2 guy on Versus. ALEX SEMIN
  7. SpongeWorthy
    Mark Brunell That'd be fun.
  8. SpongeWorthy
    Titus Young is a Knox clone.
  9. SpongeWorthy
    Do you guys think its fairly common knowledge among sports nut types to know what coach Weeb Ewbank coached to the Super Bowl? I missed that one at bar trivia last night.
  10. SpongeWorthy
    There's plenty of ways you could do it. The NCAA could run a market in merchandise and give the proceeds back to the player and take a slice for itself. If you're worried about some booster just coming in and dumping a truckload of money in the market just make the payout to the player a fixed amount or a max percentage up to a certain threshold with the rest going to the NCAA and hopefully, it's affiliated charities. It certainly wouldn't be impossible. You step outside of the regulated market and you lose your eligibility.
  11. SpongeWorthy
    Of course it's a good rule. If there was no rule, then schools would keep feeding the guys things they can sell without any limit. It would be the same as paying players. Like what? Would players start selling cigarettes out of the back of trucks or something? Game merchandise is valuable because there is a very finite supply of it. All schools would have to do is line up people unaffiliated with the program to buy jerseys for hundreds of thousands of dollars and make that promise to kids during the recruiting process. There's no reason they couldn't sell their memorabilia for far more than its actually worth. Regulation, even if it was theoretically possible, would be quite impractical. I don't really consider that selling merchandise. That's more like bribing someone with $100,000 and saying 'Oh, this isn't a bribe, I was just paying 100k for this briefcase that's worth more like $300." What you're talking about is really no different than straight up paying players. I don't think selling a conference championship ring for 1 grand or whatever is remotely the same. Edit: I also don't think that would be any easier or harder to police than just straight pay for play scenarios.
  12. SpongeWorthy
    Wasn't Green suspended for four games?
  13. SpongeWorthy
    Of course it's a good rule. If there was no rule, then schools would keep feeding the guys things they can sell without any limit. It would be the same as paying players. Like what? Would players start selling cigarettes out of the back of trucks or something? Game merchandise is valuable because there is a very finite supply of it.
  14. SpongeWorthy
    No. But it isn't necessarily a good rule just because it's written down somewhere.
  15. SpongeWorthy
    The default position of college sports fans is that every violation of an NCAA rule is an egregious act of moral depravity (as long as they don't play for your favorite team) while simultaneously whining about how horrible and stupid the NCAA is.
  16. SpongeWorthy
    So BHO will pander to the gays but can't show up for his hometown team when they play the Wizards.
  17. SpongeWorthy
    lol @ the foot fetish thing It's always the fatties who are into feet.
  18. SpongeWorthy
    Yeah, it must be kind of awkward. But there are worse fates than being a highly paid cheerleader and getting the groupie table scraps.
  19. SpongeWorthy
    Deng's been pretty damn good now that he's clearly 3rd in the offensive pecking order.
  20. SpongeWorthy
    How many times do you think UMFan would have to have his head slammed into a frozen turf before he'd opt to watch a Bears game over Miss Saigon?
  21. SpongeWorthy
    I realize that getting Flames to renounce his loyalty to the Packers is about as remote a possibility as UMFan renouncing his love of musical theater but a guy can hope.
  22. SpongeWorthy
    Flames is a good dude which is why it's our moral obligation to beat him into submission until he renounces his Packers fandom and starts rooting for the Bears.
  23. SpongeWorthy
    Anyone remember that time the Bears ended Favre's career and clinched the NFC North?
  24. SpongeWorthy
    Hester:women on the 7th floor::NSBB:packers fans
  25. SpongeWorthy
    Because the Packers are lame and effeminate. As are anyone that would deign to root for the Packers and Cubs simultaneously. That ain't right.
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