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Spring ball presents its own problems as the NFL draft would coincide with the meat of the season. My guess is that a lot of the draft eligible juniors and seniors would just decline to play and focus on the combine, pro days, and draft.

My gut feeling is that the Big Ten and PAC-12 cancel but ACC, BIG-12, SEC hold tight and hope to god their players don’t organize. I’d recommend being on top of the issue and come up with solutions to virus-related points stated in the Big Ten and PAC-12 players letters.

Nothing has changed about the virus over the last week. Player organization over health and safety demands is the big change. Schools may be running into a problem where the players are not signing off on absolving the university of liability. In fact, that has been a centerpiece in each of the...

I think this has less to do with the P5 conference’s willingness to play the season and more to do with the concern that the virus could be the condition that creates broad, cross-sectional player organization around health and safety but the organization never goes away and becomes more...

Other nations seem to be able to manage said standardizations but I reckon it is all because of comm’nism.

I’m of course probably looking at this through the lens of someone who has to deal with disparate government systems that have to communicate between states or from states to the federal government. A lot of money is spent on just making it possible for things to talk to one another and often it...

But my point there is that why does every state need a different license? It is an inefficient system. Maybe the state needs to exist as a unit of the administrative execution but largely they just create duplicated effort and disconnected systems that ought to be integrated and standardized.

There are a small handful of states where their people benefit from laws only possible with local rule due to federal gridlock on the issue but I can’t think of a single thing local rule in Alabama does for the average person. It probably helps the Yella Fella and the forestry concerns though.

I‘m just not exactly sure what a state-less United States would look like. I lack the imagination for it but I am not very invested in the concept of local-rule state. Frankly, so much of what a state does is dictated by federal law it is almost silly to make too much of the...

I don’t think states need to exist as an administrative unit honestly. I think the local rule element is overrated or used as a way for smaller rich wealth fiefdoms to carve out their own enrichment schemes.

Maybe that is the solution and I’m actually not being bold enough constitutionally speaking.

Also part of our problem is too much of lawmaking is being put upon the courts because our current order of things has created a right-leaning gridlock. I’m trying to come up with a way to break the girdlock but also balance the courts. When I say “stuff” I really mean simply getting it to an...

I’d support maybe having one body with the traditional house and senate populations housed within it. You always have a built in firewall of the 100 6-year political ”upperclassmen.”

It is more representative because the legislative body turns over quicker than the bicameral system we use today. The electoral college is just a straight up bad system that is easily gamed and retards the ability to create a more than 2 party system.

You’re right about that. I’ve got a bit of Biden in me and just tell everyone to screw off and go vote for the other guys. :D

I mean my god folks, if you just do my first item we avoid 12 years of GWB and Trump but you’d rather tremble in your boots over the loss of some esoteric value set. This is the cowardly conservative stuff I’m talking about.

I disagree. I think this will create a more representative democracy, do a one time aggressive correction of an overly conservative court system, and create a more vibrant political discourse where more than 2 parties are viable.

End the electoral college. Go to a simple majority for all national elections. Absolish the senate and add the 100 seats to the house. Rebuild the entire legislature over the 6 year cycle. Add 4 seats to the supreme court and appoint 4 leftist legal minds. Do a similar expansion and left-lean...

Alabama’s AD seems pretty good at hitting that yearly 3mil ”profit” though nobody in academia can profit so the money is returned to the general scholarship fund (I believe).

I want the Chiefs to win because they have Bama guys but I’m thinking Niners pull the slight upset (I suppose it would be) Niners 38 Chiefs 31