To be clear, this thread is not a shot at Hugh, I'm a big fan.

These are just my observations on why I love and welcome the NIL/portal era and think the "good old days" of college sports largely sucked.

Meanwhile, teams like Alabama in football and UNC and Kansas in basketball got away with literal decades of running fake classes for athletes and paying players just barely under the table. The NCAA repeatedly and purposefully turned a blind eye while "making examples" of smaller programs.

Yoeli Childs, a former star at BYU, was suspended for the first nine games of his senior season for a minor paperwork error that he self-reported in good faith. BYU was also forced to vacate two entire seasons of wins because of one minor incident of improper booster gifts to a player.

It's very funny to see fans, particularly SEC football fans, who openly admit to losing interest in college sports because their teams are no longer the only ones paying players. The system was abused by a few top schools so shamelessly for so long that they're crashing out now that it's gone.

I think I live super close to your sister lol

And from Plain City. Not quite as spectacular, but still very visible.

Yeah; as I said elsewhere, some Rs are being dramatic and saying they’ll impeach judge Gibson, but I’m wondering if they’re secretly celebrating a switch from a map that had a very decent chance of 2 Ds next year to one that will likely be 3R-1D. But they’re appealing anywhere for the base

To be clear, country, like any genre, has its masters and masterpieces. There is some country and country-adjacent music that stands up to the best of other modern music. But more than any other genre, it contains *so much* toxic, unimaginative trash.

We know from publicly available records that President Oaks fought Ezra Taft Benson's heavy-handed conservative political meddling at BYU tooth and nail when he was president there, and he also clerked for Earl Warren at the Supreme Court!

But he, Gerald Causse, and Patrick Kearon (at a minimum!) are likely significantly to the ideological left of the majority of church members. In fact, I would hazard a guess that at least a bare majority of the Q15 is privately significantly to the left of the membership, including Dallin H. Oaks!

I believe it's because a donation from a bank account in his name was made to a Democratic PAC. He put out a statement at the time that several of his immediate family members draw from the same account and one of them made the donation (GA's aren't allowed to make political donations).

Heck, it's possible (though unconfirmed) that Dieter F. Uchtdorf is a Democrat or at least leans Democrat *right now*. It's known that he has immediate family members who are Democrats.

I mean, if Jim Matheson and Harry Reid could--and I think they still could--then James E. Faust could, and Hugh B. Brown *certainly* could. They'd be out-of-step with the party on some social issues, but Hugh B. Brown in particular was pretty dang liberal on just about everything else.

I agree with this completely, and my thread was purely for the purpose of responding to Democrats celebrating this as some monumental win for *them*. It's a win for good governance in a precedential sense, but will almost certainly benefit Democrats themselves less than the other map.

@beckya.bsky.social My thoughts on the ruling ⬆️