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BreakawayZou83
| Favorite team: | Missouri  |
| Location: | Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Registered on: | 10/21/2011 |
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re: Arkansas fans are trashy.
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/16/26 at 9:07 am to WildcatMike
Any SEC fanbase (except Vandy) calling another SEC fanbase trashy:
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re: Latest On3 Portal Rankings
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/16/26 at 9:05 am to reds on reds on reds
I've quit giving a damn about recruiting or transfer rankings after watching Indiana this season. They are ranked 72nd in Team Talent Composite - beneath Boston College, Tulane, and even UTSA.
I don't think the evaluations are worth much for transfers. These scouting services excelled at evaluating high school talent with an assumption that those kids would go to a school and continue to develop. Now it's madness and I don't think they have any clue how to evaluate whether a former 3* recruit with five years of experience can become a top talent at different program. I'm not sure it's even possible.
I don't think the evaluations are worth much for transfers. These scouting services excelled at evaluating high school talent with an assumption that those kids would go to a school and continue to develop. Now it's madness and I don't think they have any clue how to evaluate whether a former 3* recruit with five years of experience can become a top talent at different program. I'm not sure it's even possible.
re: This is the worst the SECRant has ever been
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/15/26 at 10:03 am to VolSack
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drive most SEC fans away and become an LSU circle jerk board
So it returns to its origins.
re: Tired of hearing NIL killed the college game.
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/14/26 at 10:02 am to BigSneezy
NIL won't kill the college game. But the existing infrastructure (toothless NCAA) was not ready for its impact. We're in the Wild West years of NIL still, but it won't last. For starters, colleges (and more importantly, their boosters) are already getting fed up with paying kids millions of dollars to come play football for a year and then transfer elsewhere if there is an extra dollar to be found. Let me be clear: I don't fault these kids. This is life changing money and we'd all likely do the same in their shoes. It's a failure to implement reasonable rules and a failure by schools and conferences to protect themselves.
But look at what the B1G did with its template contracts that restrict portal entry and exclusive NIL rights. They are ahead of the SEC on that front. The Washington QB that just tried to transfer is going to get a real fast lesson in American contract law since Washington is under no legal obligation to enter him into the portal and it owns his NIL rights for the duration of the contract. We're going to see more and more of that as the facade of the "student athlete" disappears and we treat big time college athletics like the money making machine that they are and have been for many years. I also imagine that further refining of the Portal will occur: shorter windows, fewer opportunities to enter, etc.
But for now, it's a clusterfrick.
But look at what the B1G did with its template contracts that restrict portal entry and exclusive NIL rights. They are ahead of the SEC on that front. The Washington QB that just tried to transfer is going to get a real fast lesson in American contract law since Washington is under no legal obligation to enter him into the portal and it owns his NIL rights for the duration of the contract. We're going to see more and more of that as the facade of the "student athlete" disappears and we treat big time college athletics like the money making machine that they are and have been for many years. I also imagine that further refining of the Portal will occur: shorter windows, fewer opportunities to enter, etc.
But for now, it's a clusterfrick.
re: frick The SEC, Peace Bitches
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/14/26 at 9:05 am to Lt. Columbo
re: I haven’t seen Serraneaux post baseball rankings. Did I miss it?
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/13/26 at 3:26 pm to Jack Daniel
Idk but pencil in Mizzou for #16.
re: ACC trying to poach UF & USCe?
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/13/26 at 9:45 am to Yaboylsu63
You should do it, Florida. Look how well it worked out for Georgia Tech!
re: SEC Roll Call - Season Finale
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/12/26 at 4:00 pm to Bryno1960
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So much better than SEC Shorts. I love all the t-shirts Matt Mitchell wears for the different teams. Roll Trees and Cook'n up a Whoop'n are my two favorites.
I love this one:
re: The Dream Team was garbage
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/9/26 at 9:38 am to MF Doom
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Why are basketball fans so whiney about the different generations of their sport
Basketball has evolved a lot faster than baseball or football, and it has seen incredibly significant rule changes. It's really only had a few generations of professionals come and go. And the old heads are weirdly defensive and make ridiculous arguments about how the league is "soft" these days and "MJ would dominate these kids". But they ignore the fact that MJ got to play and dominate in an era where not only was the average player far, far, far worse than today, but by his own admission, he would not be able to do today what he was able to do in the NBA during his time when the illegal defense rule existed. To oversimplify: that rule forced defenses to either play 1v1 or fully commit to a double-team. Zone defenses were illegal. Further, you couldn't double off the ball, or commit to a double from the weak side.
Watch how the Warriors defend LeBron here:
In Jordan's era, both Curry (30) and Lee (10) would have been called for illegal defense. Curry is not within the required distance to his offensive player and Lee cannot stand in the lane as he is not closely guarding his man. LeBron scores here anyway, but in MJ's era, LeBron either gets a clean 1v1 against Iggy, or Lee has to fully double-team LeBron, leaving his man wide open for a dunk/alley-oop.
Here's another example of the Warriors all collapsing to guard Durant:
In MJ's era, this would've been an immediate whistle - and you could pick from three of the five Warriors defenders who are illegally cheating off their coverage to collapse on Durant if necessary.
By contrast, here is how a defense was forced to legally guard MJ during his era, compared to how LeBron was guarded in his era post the illegal defense rule:
LeBron in MJ's era would have run down the court, forced a switch (or gotten a free drive through an empty lane if the team didn't switch), and dominate the worst defender on every possession with no threat of help defense unless it was a full double (which would leave a teammate wide open for a LeBron pass). In his own era, LeBron has three guys waiting to collapse on him if he beats Kawhi one-on-one. But since the Spurs can float in the zone, switch, and recover, he can't simply throw a pass until he forces them to commit and recover defensively. Only then can LeBron try to find a gap in the defense.
You can all act like this isn't a big deal, but it would be the equivalent of outlawing zone coverages on defense in football and forcing defenders to stay within a certain distance of their own man, or hard commit to double teams on every play. Guys like Megatron would have average 200 yards receiving per game.
re: Bring in Miami and let the B1G have Missouri
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/9/26 at 9:05 am to BZ504
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Geographically makes sense
Miami? A city where English is a second language and they would despise all you baws?
re: Top 10 SEC schools in Modern ERA.
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/8/26 at 8:54 am to Insurancerebel
Us SEC poors will take what we can get.
re: Mark McPope
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/7/26 at 8:21 pm to theCAW
Calipari to Kentucky right now:
re: Who will be the first school to abandon HS recruiting?
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/7/26 at 9:11 am to Bamafig
Drink shifted his energy away from it a couple seasons ago. Our high school classes have been shrinking the past couple seasons in favor of hitting the Portal.
re: Transfer Portal Rankings per On3
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/6/26 at 9:17 am to AshleySchaeffer
These rankings are completely meaningless. There are 4,000 players in the Portal and the window just opened. These rankings are all going to drastically change over the next 10 days.
re: Highly intelligent 2-3 stars vs IQ of 70 or below 4-5 stars
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/3/26 at 12:26 pm to theballguy
How do you think Indiana is suddenly accomplishing this? Yes, they’ve found an incredible coach. But they don’t assemble this creative roster pre-NIL. Those kids don’t even look at transferring to Indiana.
re: Highly intelligent 2-3 stars vs IQ of 70 or below 4-5 stars
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/3/26 at 9:21 am to Slick Wandoo
Watching this Indiana team makes we wonder what a guy like Pinkel could do in today’s game. This is exactly how he turned Mizzou from a bottom of the barrel dumpster fire into a competitive program. He consistently found raw, coachable 2-3 star kids and turned them into stars (Jeremy Maclin, Chase Daniel, Sean Weatherspoon for quick examples). I wonder what he could’ve done with all this NIL budget that would’ve allowed him to pick and choose far more easily. Our death knell in the Pinkel era was that we simply didn’t have the depth to match the likes of Oklahoma or Texas. But NIL has totally changed that.
re: CFP could not have gone worse for the SEC
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 1/2/26 at 8:25 am to tBrand
I have a great win-win proposal: Texas can go to the B1G to feed their ego and the SEC can be rid of the Horns.
re: All this B1G over the SEC talk..
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 12/31/25 at 6:08 pm to Eldodroptop
Way to show up, baws
re: the SEC looking soft as baby chit in their bowl games.
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 12/31/25 at 11:21 am to GetPiggywithIt
Arkansas football outfoxed us.
re: Iowa St is phooqed. This is unsustainable ....
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 12/30/25 at 8:59 am to scrooster
I feel bad for Iowa State. They're one of Mizzou's oldest rivals, and their fans deserve so much better than this. If Mizzou didn't have two big metros bookending it, we could've been left in the same situation. It's going to get pretty bleak for the smaller ACC and Big 12 programs who are going to continue to lag further and further behind as the B1G and SEC continue to consolidate power.
re: Scottie Pippen saying current NBA is bad bc modern players cant connect with fans
Posted by BreakawayZou83 on 12/30/25 at 7:48 am to PeteRose
He’s got some good points. I’d add that despite the old school NBA having far more troubled players than you see today, I think the combination of the inflation of contract values, a very strong players union, and the media training/agent gatekeeping the players receive today make them across as entitled and aloof.
Now where I will vehemently disagree with this Board is any argument that the caliber of play is worse than in previous eras. The skill level across the board in the NBA today is incredible. Which really just emphasizes what a bad job the players and the league are doing of showcasing that.
Now where I will vehemently disagree with this Board is any argument that the caliber of play is worse than in previous eras. The skill level across the board in the NBA today is incredible. Which really just emphasizes what a bad job the players and the league are doing of showcasing that.
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