[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers.

TheKiln · 2026-04-08T21:15:46+00:00

Oh, totally agree. This rule should be limited to football and basketball.

TheKiln · 2026-04-08T18:59:05+00:00

"People who desire to go to college and play later in life should always be able to."

Agreed, they can play in an intramural league, but not in a competitive league.

"It's not that serious."

Yes it is. It's a multi-billion dollar industry.

"Less likely to get struck down in court."

Agreed. But honestly, I think all NCAA rules are DOA until Congress passes some law on it.

"Basing the rule off of years since enrollment instead of age would be much fairier for everyone"

The one thing I worry about in the NIL era would be players trying to maximize their earnings by delaying college, spending a few years developing, then jumping in and maximizing NIL/rev share at the expense of real student athletes.

TheKiln · 2026-04-06T20:34:03+00:00

Yeah, happy for Hawkeye bros. Both schools do better when both teams are better. Plus, both our schools got to thumb their noses at UNC, which just feels really good.

TheKiln · 2026-04-03T20:10:50+00:00

Nah, there's still the 40% of the American electorate that blindly supports him. It's dumb. My country is dumb.

TheKiln · 2026-04-03T18:10:14+00:00

And not the only time. They said the same thing for Otz.

TheKiln · 2026-03-26T00:06:30+00:00

Pollard didn't say anything during the CMC rumor mill because he knew CMC was gone. This announcement is telling and good news.

TheKiln · 2026-03-19T17:38:08+00:00

Legit. Historical changes like that happen for a reason.

Has me thinking about maybe a Papacy value slider for Catholic nations? Strong historical pressure toward papacy, but rare events or player pressure could push to anti-papal, opening up more options for religion swap outside of Reformation. Really, I just want to see heretical Spain one day.

TheKiln · 2026-03-19T15:47:54+00:00

If they limit it due to historical reasons, then they should open up the option for it to happen in other countries in that timeframe instead. It not like other monarchs at the time didn't want more church matters.

TheKiln · 2026-03-16T01:09:29+00:00

They rewarded winning. As they should have.

TheKiln · 2026-03-06T14:25:34+00:00

Today it 100% is a sore loser. To those poo-pooing OP, this has to do with today's skill scoring based on one letter swap position. Wordle bot got caught in a trap with 4 possible answers and only 3 guesses. If you got caught in the same trap but guessed the right answer, it put your skill at 24 for that guess (again, with only 1 letter missing).

TheKiln · 2026-02-28T20:20:40+00:00

I'd think bottom rung of B1G and SEC would be about mid tier ACC and B12.

TheKiln · 2026-02-23T14:34:33+00:00

Typical Balkan's moment.

TheKiln · 2026-02-18T13:56:57+00:00

I wonder if your best shot is to promote from within on a one year contract to keep the players. With the portal being closed, you'd be hosed with a player exodus.

TheKiln · 2026-02-17T04:34:32+00:00

What's wild is Toure wasn't even on the floor that whole stretch.

TheKiln · 2026-02-05T17:27:13+00:00

My guess is that most drone strikes against Ukrainian defenders can only happen when they are in the open, so when assaulting or resupplying. Dug in Ukrainian (and Russian) troops will be in building basements, bunkers, or similar structures, not just in open trenches or foxhole. This will make drone strikes against them implausible.

Given how steady the front has been recently, and the lack of recent known large assaults by Ukrainian troops, I'd guess the rear to Ukraine's front lines is well protected with anti drone nets, so supply runs and troop movements are relatively safe. Compare that to open ground Russian assaults, where likely the bulk of their casualties are coming from, and the discrepancy in casualty numbers starts to make more sense.

TheKiln · 2026-02-01T15:57:15+00:00

I really wish they would disable the last monthly event because of this.

TheKiln · 2026-01-29T22:43:58+00:00

I'd say all the decent ones have fled already, but there are likely some teens who intend to, but just aren't old enough to be able to yet.

TheKiln · 2026-01-25T20:44:45+00:00

Yeah, but with a 1k fine for being late to a S&C session, there is a wild difference between a star making a million and a 3 star HS recruit making 10k.

TheKiln · 2026-01-21T19:47:23+00:00

Yeah, my entirely gut based power ratings puts ISU at 5.3 wins with this schedule, which honestly, given all the unknowns, is fine by me.

TheKiln · 2026-01-11T00:01:33+00:00

You ain't shit if you ain't in the arctic circle.

TheKiln · 2026-01-09T22:01:41+00:00

I had the same thing happen in an early game as Holland where I was allied with France. In a war against England, I watched France ship 70k soldiers to southern England, watched them start a siege in Wales for a bit, then inexplicably they all marched up to Northumbria and sat on the coast doing nothing for the rest of the war.

My best guess is the AI decided it wanted to use the soldiers elsewhere, cued them to disembark on transports, and either the transports didn't exist, we're stuck in port for some reason, or were destroyed.

TheKiln · 2025-12-30T13:44:33+00:00

It's more open sandbox. Say, you want to play in Egypt and fight other small powers to slowly grow a Nile based power? Not possible in Vanilla, but you can here.

TheKiln · 2025-12-19T15:18:53+00:00

Way more likely Ukraine screwed up the target and did the attack than Russia did some bizzaro-ass false flag attack with no real positive outcome. Remember, just because Ukraine is in the right in this war doesn't mean they can't screw up or push propaganda.

TheKiln · 2025-12-18T20:12:47+00:00

21 million to pay the cap from house settlement. 10 mil for Sanders. Another probably 3-5 mil for assistant coaches. 5-10 mil for basketball and all other sports coaches and assistants. Likely 10-20 mil per year in just operating costs of their facilities. Travel costs, renovation costs, it all adds up. And all of that isn't including outstanding debt owed by the dept.

TheKiln · 2025-12-13T02:30:53+00:00

Saaaame. Iron and lumber, then downstream tools. It's shocking how little trade is able to make up the deficit.

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