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lawpoke87 said:

What an odd move by China. Any idea the rationale here? Making your clients look bad seems like a poor business strategy

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Revealing those products you are going to pay more for I would guess is their motive.

I guess they don't see the motive for the long game winning out over the short game reveal?

lawpoke87 said:

Speaking of food and the FDA, can someone explain why the FDA allows artificial ingredients in our food supply which countries like Canada and those in Europe ban?

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Should have been outlawed long ago, but lobbyists are allowed too many liberties & rights. They are the ones who should have regulations put on them. But you are defending moves made against the agency by bringing up separate ideas as a fence once again, Apologist?

Every argument doesn't require a corresponding attack against that which is being attacked. Lots of things could be better about the agency, stricter regulations on preservatives for instance. That doesn't really have anything to do with cutting quality checks.

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RIP represalia said:

pettling kicc or dottling kot?

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RIP represalia said:

Richard, meet mr Koch. Petal thy kot

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I didn't realize you had such an affinity for a dead people that lived along a Siberian river. Putin would be proud of your remembrance of them.

Leave conversations on this forum to the adults in the room.

astonmartin708 said:

I guess making sure the food we're eating isn't going to kill us was just too much of a luxury for the American people....

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-fda-suspends-food-safety-quality-checks-after-staff-cuts-2025-04-17/

...something...something....something...."$hithole countries"

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Speaking of food and the FDA, can someone explain why the FDA allows artificial ingredients in our food supply which countries like Canada and those in Europe ban?

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I want that fckr out of government. We will suffer for it for years. I don't care how it happens.

I guess making sure the food we're eating isn't going to kill us was just too much of a luxury for the American people....


...something...something....something...."$hithole countries"

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If recruiting is becoming mainly about pure$$, I would think coaches like Penny would be less valuable.

His only strength seemed to recruiting kids off of his NBA star reputation. His weaknesses are assembling a cohesive team, developing players and his bench coaching.

If other schools can buy away his best players, he doesn’t have much going for him.

dougheffking said:

Haggerty back in the portal. What a clown this kid is.

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4 schools in 4 years. These teams need to dissolve ties with the Universities and become club teams like European soccer. Let's not pretend these kids have any interest in school anymore. Also, they have more than enough cash that they can pay for school themselves if they find it worth their time someday.

P.S. the Ohio States of the world should not be able to claim non-profit status for their athletic programs.

P.P.S. I say blow it all up and televise intramurals. I would prefer to see actual students play while the player-coach Kappa Sig vice president chugs a beer and has a cigarette at halftime.

chito_and_leon said:

Settle down, Brenda. The players deserved to get paid then and deserve to get paid now. This isn't their fault and it's hard to support a system that prevents the workers from negotiating their pay, that's a little too socialist for me. The problem is that college sports are a pro league with none of the restrictions that every other pro league has. This will get resolved, otherwise the system will fall apart. Now, it's likely to get resolved in a way that we as fans of TU don't like, at least in the short run, but the system will mature, and if we're on the outside, that's an unfortunate reflection of decisions TU and the city and state have made over the years, but the market speaks and we can't blame it.

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They were already getting paid within the confines of the governance structure of the league. There were just a bunch of agents who wanted a pay day, and congressmen who wanted to be able to buy their wins like the Yankees rather than earn them.

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TUcandoit said:

All those 5 years ago screaming to pay the players. I want to slap every single one of you! I hated this from the get go - they were getting paid. They had food stipends, they had free nutritionalists, they had $200,000k education for free, they had their lodging for free. They were already getting PAID!!!!!! but soooo many of the fans including a lot on this board were fighting for them to get paid. I BLAME all of you who wanted NIL!!!!!! You did this to sports! Y'all suck!

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No, the courts decided that. Had nothing to do with fan's opinions.

I believe it had to do with involvement with female students.

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tomeracecar said:

That’s a good question- but I would say yes? I know people whose work is “contingent upon working towards a master’s degree”. Aka if they’re not actively pursuing one then they can be fired.

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I don't know but I think if it's an issue, the difference from your friends is (a) the schools got together and agreed they'd all require it so there is a cartel, not just one employer, and (b) they require that the employee "buy" the educational services from the school they work for, the players can't get their degree anywhere, they have to buy from their employer. An interesting thing is that in the case that said the NCAA can't count years spent at a JUCO, the court didn't find the rule violated the rights of the player, it violated the rights of the JUCOs. Basically, a cartel got together and agreed that their employees couldn't buy from certain "sellers" and that violated the rights of those other sellers. That seems pretty similar, why shouldn't an employee of OU be allowed to get their degree from Langston, and isn't Langston hurt if OU prohibits its employees from studying at Langston? I'm talking myself into it... Can't wait, the train wreck will be awesome.

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chito_and_leon said:

I wonder, is it legal for schools to require players to be students at that school? If Target, Walmart and Costco each had a university and agreed among themselves that they would require players to go their university, even though the university is completely unrelated to the job, I think that would be illegal... It's really going to be fun if that happens.

Obviously the current system is broken, something has to change to restore sanity.

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That’s a good question- but I would say yes? I know people whose work is “contingent upon working towards a master’s degree”. Aka if they’re not actively pursuing one then they can be fired.

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