hairball on a house-building trip in Haiti:
“So that’s what happened to our big ten east championship shirts!”
“So that’s what happened to our big ten east championship shirts!”
FC: hairball and the michigan football team are in France this week.
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So, unprecedented by NCAA standards, like Rudock by B1G standards. Make those bailouts count.
Is your contention that the first to use a new, 10-day old rule is receiving “special treatment”? Would you disagree that whether it is “special treatment” would depend on how the rule is applied to others in similar circumstances - which we will learn in the coming weeks? The NCAA said months ago it was going to make this rule change. Thankfully for Ole Miss it allows to save face with the half dozen waivers they were inevitably going to lose under the old rule anyway.
What happened to your free board? Dear God. It's dead for the most part but you have complete losers like that dbag pharmdablue or whatever and some other moron going on about how Barkley sucks. No wonder you guys evacuated to the fort.
Haven’t visited the free board in years. Take from that what you will.
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As long as one team is missing their top 5 LB’s and #6 gets booted in the first quarter for a BS targeting call...as long as that happens, both can put up points.
Sure, but when does he start exposing them to football? Not much of that has happened apparently.
Never mind. I'm convinced you are unwilling or unable to see the contradiction between your two posts.
It's a privately funded trip and an unbelievable opportunity for young student athletes to see the world, learn and share a cultural experience. If that offends anyone, then you lead a pretty pathetic existence.
Right....and realistically he should be...if he’s not, then that’s a big failure on Harbaugh’s part.
Guess we'll see about that. And your only chance is another free agent qb because none of the QBs Jim has recruited have done much.
Nah. I'm confident it'll be 2-2 when all is said and done. Afterward Third Place Jim can plan his next vacation with the team.
I guess I'm curious.... Even if it is privately funded, how is it not an improper benefit if it's limited to the football team?
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He also said it costs less than $500k total, for everything. I don't know how many people are going on this trip, but it's almost certainly more than 100 people. ~$5k per person for flights, hotels, food, and travel in France seems very, very conservative (and almost not possible).
Sure.
Hey, one amusing thing to watch is Harbaugh screwing up your recruiting time after time. How do you have two instate 5 star offensive tackles in the 2019 class, which Michigan needs desperately, and both of them hate Harbaugh's guts? Well done there.
I'm guessing that the team is not chowing down at Restaurant Le Coupe-Chou
Exactly. All Michigan athletes should get to partake in the fabulous French culture or none should. Seems like the donor would pay for a trip to the moon to get football a few more wins.
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I find this interesting. I know companies do these "reward trips" that I've been on. They always come with a daily "business meeting" that Obliviax was always so dumb he attended. After going to several of them, almost by himself, someone pulled him aside and told him that these were necessary to make the trip a "business meeting" and, therefore, not taxable. If you are just awarded a trip, with no business association, it is considered income and the value has to show up on your taxes.
Hopefully they learn from the French and give a half-hearted effort for the first 5 minutes of every future game followed by total surrender for the rest of the game.
I wonder how many of their players will contract VD as a result of the trip to France???
I wonder how many of their players will contract VD as a result of the trip to France???
An off-campus trip overseas outside of the academic year that does not include competition is allowable under NCAA rules - with the notable exception being for basketball which is allowed a foreign trip including competition once every four years.
Your redefinition of improper benefits would imply that the donors who have endowed athletic scholarships are guilty of providing improper benefits “because the booster is paying for it solely due to the athletic abilities of the players.”
Interesting. I was just asking, didn't know.
Not picking on Michigan, but seems to fly in the face of the whole "athletes can't receive benefits not available to other students" thing.
So if I can send players on a vacation to France, why can't I buy them houses, or cars? Why is one high value perk ok but not others?
I know it's the NCAA, it doesn't have to make sense.
Do you now think Harbaugh does his pressers in French? Did I hear right that next year he is taking them to Athens so he can give them in Greek.
Endowed scholarships aren't for specific players. This trip was for specific players.
Endowed scholarships are for attending college. This trip was for a boondoggle.
Remember, Harbaugh already had one rule instituted because of the trips. I expect another one in the near future.
Endowed scholarships are for attending college. This trip was for a boondoggle.
Remember, Harbaugh already had one rule instituted because of the trips. I expect another one in the near future.
If the administration at Michigan had any stones, they would tell Harbaugh his team actually had to win something before he gets to take them on some extravagant trip.
