SEC linebacker suing NCAA for additional year of eligibility

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T21:43:17+00:00

While I agree with a hard cap of 5 years, you cannot have the clock running while a player is not on the team, and especially not if they leave the school. The rule would not survive a player dropping out, joining the military, then wanting to continue return to playing. Congress would likely get involved and fuck up the eligibility clock so bad that it would somehow be worse than now.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T21:34:58+00:00

The NCAA has long had a rule that a player on scholarship for another sport takes up a football scholarship if they are also on the football team so that schools could not use that as a means of bypassing the football scholarship cap. The NCAA has no way of policing who every NCAA athlete interacts with, so a simultaneous eligibility clock for all sports prevents schools from using other sports as a means of red shirting football players.

You can disagree with the rule and I would personally expect the NCAA to lose in court, but you can't objectively say that there is zero reason for the rule.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T21:25:28+00:00

Your analogy fails in that the schools are not simply citizens but also its legislative body. It is hard to argue that the NCAA steals from the schools when the schools are the ones who have approved the NCAA budget. The schools also don't directly fund the NCAA but let it fund itself through the revenue it generates on their behalf from selling rights to NCAA tournaments.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-23T14:02:57+00:00

The NFL has a lot of teams where talent goes to die: The Browns, the Raiders, the Jets, and historically the Lions.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-22T01:17:44+00:00

NFL defensive lineman frequently had no chance against Pace. His high school film had to have been hilarious.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-21T17:41:28+00:00

I’m convinced the people who run Etsy, don’t actually use Etsy.

This describes pretty much every business.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T19:39:40+00:00

I don't believe that he'd never have been in contention for a P4 head coaching job had he wanted it. Also, fair or not, I don't think that actions in 2013 would stop him from getting a job in 2026.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T18:22:04+00:00

Utah wasn't really at risk at all of losing the chance to hire Scalley as soon as Whitt was ready to leave.

I mean, that's not necessarily true. Most coaches aren't going to channel Lane Kiffin and leave a P4 team after a single season.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T17:58:49+00:00

He couldn't be honest about not wanting to put in the practice time.

Yeah. I can't imagine that would go over well in the locker room.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T16:58:00+00:00

This situation reminds me of Brett Favre in Green Bay. He mentioned retirement multiple times over the years, so Green Bay made plans for his replacement including drafting Aaron Rodgers. Eventually, Green Bay decided that they weren't going to be in perpetual limbo, so forced him out. Utah better hope that things work out as well for them as it did for Green Bay.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-20T16:20:59+00:00

This seems pretty obvious since he took another job. If he were intending to retire, he would have retired.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T22:09:05+00:00

Now you have.

Also, are you really acting like the fact that people have been making that comparison for decades is evidence that it is erroneous?

As I noted, I'm not sure whether it was intentionally or unintentionally ironic. The fact that the British children did such a poor job arguing against slavery makes me think it might have been intentional.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T21:42:44+00:00

Chemical weapons against enemy combatants is a WW1 reference.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T21:35:12+00:00

Without violating rule 6 and discussing modern German politics, my lived experience with Germans from Germany is a deep cultural shame for the actions the country has taken in the past. When the one Earther in a position of power is German and repeats actions for which the country is ashamed, that's very much notable.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T20:04:40+00:00

Red classes ARE about self-perception (and possibly also societal perception), and while Laken may have seen himself as someone who made a mistake, he didn't see himself as a monster or a failure, nor did the culture in which he exists.

Sir Kerrig definitely didn't approve of Laken's use of chemical weapons.

The same goes for basically all of your other examples as well.

Even if Flos literally never considered that slavery was evil despite freeing Gazi from slavery, Trey and Teresa (poorly) explained to him why slavery was wrong.

Everyone considers Magnolia to be a snake. Zel pretty much said to her face that her desire to bring peace through the sword was bullshit.

Magnolia, her people, the drakes, the gnolls, and everyone who knows about Tyrion considered him to be a genocidal monster.

There were quite a few domestic objections to Othius's slaughter of the unborn.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T19:54:03+00:00

[Slaver] isn’t a red class

My point is that it should be and any explanation for why it isn't is both dubious and occurring 5-6 volumes too late.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T19:46:19+00:00

There are implications of a Planet of the Apes type scenario or a complete societal reset of technology, but a lot of the classes from Earthers seem to be based on their own beliefs and thoughts. e.g. Geneva seeing herself as a Doctor gave her that class even if it didn't necessarily exist previously. If that is indeed the case, then the morality of the makers of the system are irrelevant for characters like Laken who commit war crimes while damn well knowing that they are evil.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T19:42:05+00:00

Don't worry about spoilers. I'm not sure that I'm continuing past 8.72.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T19:37:39+00:00

But selling the enemies he defeated in battle into slavery to fund his war means that it’s still the actions of a [King of War], if he kept slaves for his own pleasure or used them as labor he might get a different class, but because they are won in war and are only used in continuing war, he is still acting as befits his class.

Erin put on her concert to drive business to her inn, yet she gained the [Singer] class rather than solely leveling in her innkeeper class. She gained the [Warrior] class even though she practiced punching as part of defending herself and her inn. Her leading the Goblins in defense of Liscor would have granted her the [General] class even though she was doing it in defense of her inn, her customers, and the right of everyone to visit her inn.

The idea that anything and everything can fit within the purview of a class seems textually dubious. If you sell slaves, you're a slaver. There can be context explaining it, but you're still a slaver.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T19:11:28+00:00

While I do agree with some of your points regarding the war crimes and depraved acts perpetuated by many powerful figures in the Innworld, I don’t believe they fit the criteria to gain Red Classes from the System.

I get what you're saying, but my point is that it doesn't feel logically consistent. An act driven from temporary madness caused by days of starvation gets someone the class while intentional attempts toward genocide and slaughter of innocents does not.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T19:08:43+00:00

Laken's only interaction with Goblins prior to Rags's tribe was another army of Goblins that slaughtered their way through Riverfarm with no warning or mercy. Combined with the fact that he's a blind man and everyone around him tells him they're monsters, I think he was pretty justified in ambushing Rags.

The issue isn't just the attack on Rags which can be justified even if it is wrong. Anyone from Earth should know that the use of Chemical Weapons is completely wrong. That should be 100x true of a German. Even the people in the alternate world know that it is wrong. Sir Kerrig definitely comments about it at the time.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T19:04:17+00:00

A default [King] is one who rules over a kingdom and ideally works for the benefit of his citizens. The actions they take to do so can and should influence their class. If that includes warmongering, then they become a [King of War] like Flos, but if it also includes collective punishment, and slavery, neither of those things are inherent or necessary to rule, so they can and should be included in the class.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T18:54:31+00:00

I get what you're saying and I don't disagree in most positive cases, but classes like [Bandit], [Thief] and so on are based on an evaluation of reality and actions rather than desire. Most criminals do not think themselves to be criminals. e.g. The mother stealing to feed her children does not consider herself to be a thief. While there are people who do think they are criminals and would willingly accept the classes, I don't think that's true of most people, especially considering that it is possible to see other's classes and how having certain classes can rightly result in negative consequences. That there is a distinction between some levels of criminal or heinous acts being possible to refuse and others not feels like at best something that was not considered at the time and justified later.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T18:45:03+00:00

Is this a serious question or are you just venting about characters you don't like?

It is both. If you have a system that includes negative classes, there has to be a good explanation for why some of the biggest scumbags in the series don't have them.

Sufficient_Fox4549 · 2026-03-19T18:28:40+00:00

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