kungfoodude

I'm in Detroit. It was me.

The difference in Rico's vision is quite a bit.

That BETTER be a flag.

I also know a lot of that sub-30 crowd, anecdotally that appears to be the case, as well.

Yo, was that a head shot??? WTF Eject that MFer.

Of course. Of course Rico would get injured.

TBH, this game has not gone the way any of us thought. Can't say we haven't had a chance.

TBH, I would lay more credit on the DB than blame on Bryce for that play. That really was just a great play on the ball.

The polling on sub-30's paints a very different picture. Sports are not the draw that they were overall with the youngest two generations. Too much competition.

Horrible pass and zero effort by XL.

Sanders stinks.

The demographics are not favorable. The high consumption is largely a very aging consumer base. Numbers in the sub-30 range are not promising and will lead to that eventual collapse. Couple that with increasingly higher costs to watch those products and the future is very bleak.

I do know. They also aren't desperate.

I don't know that better options were available at the time. We couldn't poach Big Ten or SEC programs. The Big 12 was not weak enough yet to potentially make a poach there reasonable. Not to mention the big fish(Texass, Texass A&M and Oklahoma) wouldn't likely have come unless we basically handed them over the keys to the entire conference budget. I agree that those moves hurt but I don't think there were better options and sitting still was a worse solution. The financial rewards they all reaped were substantial. They only cry and moan about it now because they say "Oh the Big Ten and SEC are more!" Well, those are also the primary drivers of this insanely rapid inflation that is absolutely unsustainable.

On what planet would they ever consider this?

I think you overestimate the contract Rico would command. If OTC is correct, trading Hubbard would be about $6 mil in dead cap. Not a large chunk.

The money making opportunities will fade. That era is upon us. I have said a collapse is inevitable and I really do believe it. For college atheltics, a drastic collapse will be the healthiest outcome for the sport in the long term.

Trading Hubbard should be a decision made based on the "future" of the team. If they deem Rico a wiser investment, long term, Hubbard is expendable. If they deem Hubbard the wiser investment, long term, Rico is expendable. That doesn't mean they should have a price that is less than acceptable, however.

Technically this was the correct move for survival. College football greed did ultimately ruin all of college athletics in the end. But, it was harder to predict that it would be this bad in the 1990's and 2000's. The Big Ten is now attempting to put the final nail in college sports with this private equity "investment."

I slept on it, I thought about it and with Bryce back, I think it changes everything. Packers 47, Panthers 17

It's not that hard to do. It really isn't.

Yep. It was a very sad time to be a Panthers fan to see a player so great reduced to what they were.

I am not convinced there will be dramatic difference makers available, especially with such large coaching issues on both sides of the ball. Still, hopefully Dan is doing due diligence.

Think that will be all Packers 2nd stringers?

I would also hate to see us dump any picks in the top 3 rounds. Those are just too valuable to trade for a team so incredibly far away from being a contender. Even if Scourton and Umanmielen are just basically better version of Jones/Wonnum, I still want them to keep getting the bulk of the reps. Jones/Wonnum are just middle of the road rotational players. Perhaps Scourton/Umanmielen end up being better.