LinvilleGorge

If the likelihood of getting caught is practically zero it doesn't really matter. The likelihood of getting caught would be practically zero. You'd need an IRS audit to prove your case.

Ultimately I agree. Be excited! After having ridden a milquetoast merry-go-round of cast off vet QBs we have a #1 overall pick QB to get excited about! The last time we had one of those he worked out pretty well and it led us to the best stretch of football in Panthers' history. Plus a new coaching staff chockful of NFL experience after being led by a band of morons under Matt Rhule. Am I concerned about Bryce Young being the size of a middle school QB? Hell yeah I am. Anyone with two brain cells to run together is. You'd never get the Panthers to admit it but they are too. You can bet your ass they spent countless hours having heated debates about it. At the end of the day, the Panthers thought he was worth jumping up to #1 to go get him and we did. That's exciting. If you're not more excited now than you have been in years then I don't know what to tell you.

Watch a game on the ACC Network which is a LOT of games these days. Used to be practically every UNC and duke game was nationally televised on a major network. Look at the quality of the advertisers. It's says everything. It's late night TV infomercial level bullshit being advertised. Viewership numbers must be absolutely AWFUL if that's the level of advertisers you can attract. It's an absolutely awful look. Certainly feels like college basketball is currently trending to end up somewhere a lot closer to college baseball than college football.

That's my point. It's declining and the decline is likely to just intensify. I expect the NBA to emphasize the G League more and more. I don't know what you mean by "not go anywhere". Yeah, college basketball is going to continue to exist but it's already nowhere close to what it used to be and it's trending straight down. I mean, college baseball exists but does anyone actually care?

I don't think it's going away by any means but I do expect it to continue to decline in popularity and relevance. So called "basketball schools" are gone. Basketball is an an after thought to football. The schools that haven't already figured that out are either behind the curve or simply know they don't have the resources to compete in football given the larger costs involved.

In theory your cap per year idea would make sense but the policing of it would be practically impossible given the sheer number of schools and players.

Football will be fine. The game is booming. College basketball had been in decline for decades now and this is only going to speed that decline up.

A lot of truth to this and honestly it's only gotten exponentially worse with the rise of AAU ball and what basically amounts to diploma mill high schools that focus on developing these kids primarily as athletes first to get them D1 scholarships and hopefully provide a pathway to professional sports. But the really is that most 4 and 5 star recruits still won't ultimately play professional sports.

Yikes. But based on our TE production (or rather lack there of) under Rhule what he's saying certainly makes sense. I really hope it turns out that we have significantly more talent on this roster than we thought simply simply through competent coaching.

It's true. They're going to have to find an answer to this or it's gonna start hurting their bottom line as fans get turned off and start tuning out. College basketball is already a shadow of what it used to be anyway. Growing up in NC in the '80s and '90s Tobacco Road basketball dominated this state in terms of sports fandom.

Good for the kids in the short term with the NIL $$$. Not sure if it's good for them in the long run though. Kids are just going to jump to other teams instead of hunkering down and actually working on their game to earn PT. The elite kids who were always going to be NBA bound will be fine. But the guys who end up developing from say top 50 type recruits to legit NBA prospects are probably more likely to be hurt by the current environment. Basically guys like Simeon Wilcher.

This is just the current landscape of college sports. I guess he didn't expect Cadeau to reclassify even though it was pretty widely expected. Watch him end up at St. John's. Pitino has been chirping in his ear ever since taking that job.

Well, so much for all that purse clutching and hand wringing about Saudi blood money... Man, that sucks for all the guys who didn't take that LIV bag of cash. Turned out that there was zero downside to it. They got their bag and now they're right back on the PGA with a lot more money in the bank. Well played sirs. Loyalty to the PGA Tour ended up being worth exactly $0.00. There's gonna be a lot of your pros PISSED about this and I don't blame them. They were basically being told that anyone that took the LIV bag was basically going to be ostracized from the Tour forever. Wonder how many will speak up?

Today is the first day that kitty has drank milk out of a bowl. Thank goodness. I'm really burning out on the bottle feeding.

We have exactly one WR on the roster with proven high level NFL production and he's five years past his prime. Do you expect to have a great backup RB? Backups are backups for a reason. If your #1 concern is your backup RB you're probably about to run roughshod over the league. But our #1 concern is absolutely our lack of proven receiver production.

We signed a 1200+ yard RB and RB is your #1 concern on offense? Have you seen our WRs and TEs? Chuba is a decent backup RB.

Agreed. At some point you have to shoot your shot. I was an advocate of sitting at #9 and taking Anthony Richardson. That was clearly never an option after watching how the draft played out. We correctly calculated that we were simply too low on the board at #9.

It basically boils down to how you feel about Bryce Young. If you think he has the ability to be a franchise QB then no, you don't feel like we "lost" this trade. If you don't then yeah, you feel like we go straight up fleeced. Personally, I like Young as a QB. I think he has everything you need to be successful at QB in the NFL. My only concern is if his body can hold up to the physical toll of playing NFL football. Time will tell. Either way, it is WAY too early to determine if anyone won or lost this trade and I think both fanbases have plenty to be hopeful about based on the outcomes of this trade so far. We'll see how it plays out on the field now. It might be a decade before we know who "won".

If the Mingo pick pans out it'll do a lot to take the sting off of losing DJ.

It doesn't matter who wanted what. The reality is that for years after the trade it looked like the Chargers got the better of it. Rivers is better than Manning in every statistical category. Before Merriman's career was detailed by injury he looked like a surefire HOFer and maybe on track to be one of the best defensive players ever with 39.5 sacks through his first three seasons. That's the sixth most of all time through the first three seasons of a career. They also got Nate Kaeding out of that trade who was probably the best kicker in the league through the mid to late '00s. Two rings to none means the Giants won that trade but it took awhile for that to become apparent. Honestly, the Giants just had the better overall organization.

That dude can't shoot for poo though. Like low 20s from three and low 60s from the FT line. He's also 5" taller than Scoot. Considering the height and wingspan differential the verticals are probably similar.

Yeah, you don't make a huge trade up to #1 to draft a QB to have him sit and wait his turn behind a washed up vet. Dalton was signed as a vet mentor and a guy who could hold down the fort briefly if the rookie wasn't ready week one. When we signed Dalton, it seemed like we were gunning for the #3 spot, not #1. We only shifted focus to #1 when we figured out that the cost differential wasn't gonna be that much. Richardson would've likely been the guy at #3 so we had to have a vet onboard to ensure we weren't forced to play AR before he was truly ready. But with Young, those concerns are out the window. The guy is ready. We'll see how the physical tools translate to the NFL but there are zero concerns with him being mentally ready.

I grew up on a cattle farm. I was always a fearsome son of a bitch in sports and on the schoolyard because I was getting my ass kicked by 800+ pound steers at home on a daily basis. There really wasn't anything a fellow kid could threaten me with that put any fear in me. But yeah... hippos? Oh wee mayne. That's another ballgame altogether. Those damn things kill more people than pretty much every other non-mosquito animal on the planet. fug that. Maybe we should've just ya know not slaughtered the bison nearly to extinction?

Ultimately I pretty much agree with this. We desperately needed a QB, both from a roster perspective and an "excite the fanbase" perspective having struggled mightily at the position after Cam's shoulder went south and we correctly calculated that we were just sitting too low at #9 to land one of the top three prospects. So we jumped up the board and went all the way to #1 after determining that going to #3 was gonna end up costing us nearly as much anyway. The Bears like Fields' potential and development and desperately needed to add talent around him. Could they have taken a pass rusher at #1? Sure. But what does that do to actually help the development of their young QB? So they ship #1 to us in exchange for a proven WR and multiple picks and take an OT to protect Fields at #10 after giving our #9 to Philly who were desperate for Jalen Carter. On paper, both fanbase should be very happy right now. Time will tell how it all plays out on the field.

Richardson was drafted #4 overall and I don't recall any talk of him struggling in interviews, etc. That seems like a huge reach.