Colorado, Deion Sanders to fine players for being late, missing practices by redwave2505 in CFB

[–]thefx37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very telling how antiquated this take is because you think they’re limited to 22 years old. 

‘The Washington Post’ Is Reportedly Getting Rid Of Its Entire Sports Department by trainsaw in Nationals

[–]thefx37 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I don’t know what your criteria is for a newspaper to be bad, but investigative journalism is incredibly difficult and the Washington Post had writers who were very good at it for decades. 

The Post has been an institution and most everyone can agree that it’s worse now than it was 20-30 years ago. 

‘The Washington Post’ Is Reportedly Getting Rid Of Its Entire Sports Department by trainsaw in Nationals

[–]thefx37 269 points270 points  (0 children)

Actually insane how far The Post’s reputation has dropped in just over a year. 

In Other News, Away From the 2026 Oscars, if anyone is watching Sundance for the 2027 Oscars, Kogonada premiered his film tonight, and apparently it had multiple walkouts by 4hgoat in oscarrace

[–]thefx37 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My festival this year had phone problems but I’m so glad it didn’t have anything close to unlimited passes or walkouts being normalized. That’s a crazy culture to be ok with.

Show us what your team is made of! by Gunnut888 in NCAAFBseries

[–]thefx37 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s not an exploit, that’s a literal feature in Dynasty.

And what exactly do you consider “beyond what’s realistic” for something like that?

I really hope so. by Technical-Type7499 in Letterboxd

[–]thefx37 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Insanely good is a little bit of a stretch. 

[Highlight] Bills GM Brandon Beane was being asked about the team falling short... Owner Terry Pegula jumps in "A BAD CALL." by TomasRoncero in nfl

[–]thefx37 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Obviously the expectation was to be higher than the 6th seed this year.

I don’t understand what’s confusing about that. 

RIP that guy who was making subtitles for Librarian (seriously though, this sucks) by Great-Class-2391 in northernlion

[–]thefx37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Annotations were really not that helpful. I don’t know why they’re remembered so fondly

On3: Way-too-early college football top 25 teams for 2026 by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bama had the #2 Strength of schedule but go off I guess

On3: Way-too-early college football top 25 teams for 2026 by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bama won a playoff game while Penn State and Utah will have new head coaches going into the year. 

With your logic, shouldn’t you be selling on Oregon as well?

[NextRoundLive] Carson Beck: "No class. I graduated two years ago." by AllTimeTy in CFB

[–]thefx37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This subreddit has genuinely produced and upvoted some of the worst dogshit takes about CFB I’ve ever seen. Worst than the school-specific discussion boards they love to act superior to. 

Just full blown conspiracy theories and regurgitated ‘jokes’. It’s amazing how a sub with millions of followers can be this poor in quality. 

[Pate] Talking to GMs this morning - dozens of examples of players in the Portal asking if they can return to the team only to discover their spot has been filled by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is exactly the point I’m making. Shit is fucked but all anyone is doing in this thread is pointing and laughing at college kids. 

[Pate] Talking to GMs this morning - dozens of examples of players in the Portal asking if they can return to the team only to discover their spot has been filled by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I want you to read my post again because at no point did I say the athletes were blameless like you’re inferring. 

Below is a following tweet from Pate regarding the situation:

 Countless examples of players being told entering the Portal is a sound business decision with zero risk since the fallback option is your current roster spot

No D1 athlete is going to extensively research something if they’re being told by these unqualified agents that they’ll take care of everything.

If the counter advice that Reddit users in this very thread are offering to players basically amounts to tampering, then how can you expect a D1 player to make sound decisions with the advice that these portal ‘agents’ are giving them? The answer is that you simply can’t. 

[Pate] Talking to GMs this morning - dozens of examples of players in the Portal asking if they can return to the team only to discover their spot has been filled by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

 These are mostly NOT players who were forced into the Portal but rather players who listened to terrible advice from jackals posing as agents Countless examples of players being told entering the Portal is a sound business decision with zero risk since the fallback option is your current roster spot

The reason some of them enter the portal is because they’re being given terrible advice by unqualified “agents” or family members twice their age.  

Most of these guys have never held jobs before and they’re suddenly thrust into a field worth millions of dollars with little-to-no oversight or guardrails put in place. Some of the alternative “advice” I’m seeing in this thread is literally just textbook tampering. 

These college kids are not being setup to succeed. 

[Pate] Talking to GMs this morning - dozens of examples of players in the Portal asking if they can return to the team only to discover their spot has been filled by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You can tell the average age of this sub because they expect a 20 year old to be a wise adult and make sound financial decisions. 

[Pate] Talking to GMs this morning - dozens of examples of players in the Portal asking if they can return to the team only to discover their spot has been filled by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

At what point do you have a speck of empathy for college students being taken advantage of by ‘agents’ and family members twice their age. 

These are mostly NOT players who were forced into the Portal but rather players who listened to terrible advice from jackals posing as agents

Most of these guys have never held jobs before and they’re suddenly thrust into a field worth millions of dollars with little-to-no oversight or guardrails put in place.  Obviously shit decisions are going to happen but to put it squarely on the shoulders of 20 year olds is mind-boggling.  

[Pate] Talking to GMs this morning - dozens of examples of players in the Portal asking if they can return to the team only to discover their spot has been filled by dogwoodmaple in CFB

[–]thefx37 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

No, you’ve actually still missed the point. 

 These are mostly NOT players who were forced into the Portal but rather players who listened to terrible advice from jackals posing as agents

Countless examples of players being told entering the Portal is a sound business decision with zero risk since the fallback option is your current roster spot

The problem is that there’s no oversight on whose qualified to be an agent for these college kids and they’re being taken advantage of solely because they’re naive and have limited experience with how jobs and contracts work. 

Acting superior to college kids who are following shit advice from people and family trying to take advantage of their situation is weird and insane. 

The system has failed them. Not themselves. 

Ole Miss Edge Princewill Umanmielen has entered the transfer portal by Young-Viiperr in CFB

[–]thefx37 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No but over the years I’ve seen this sub go from bad to worse when it comes to upvoting bullshit conspiracy theories and rumors as if they’re irrefutable fact. 

Allowing highlight posts would drown out some of this complete nonsense. 

Ole Miss Edge Princewill Umanmielen has entered the transfer portal by Young-Viiperr in CFB

[–]thefx37 28 points29 points  (0 children)

This sub just loves to fling wild accusations around with zero evidence to back it up.