![]() ![]() The petition names various defendants: Camwood Capital Management Group, Camwood Ventures, Texas Contract Manufacturing Group, Unitech, Apex Machining, and Lor-Van. Complicating the situation is the fact that family members are involved. It might not be pretty, but it’s inherently American.Īs Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield tries to turn his football career around, he’s dealing with an issue regarding the money that flowed from the salad days of his NFL tenure.Īccording to, via, Mayfield and his wife, Emily, filed a petition on Tuesday seeking information regarding the possible misappropriation of $12 million by an Austin, Texas investment firm. The determining factor in promotion or relegation won’t be on-field success, however, but cold, hard cash.īasically, college football has pivoted from socialism in certain conferences to capitalism across the board. The best outcome would be for college football to look like English professional soccer, with multiple levels from which, in theory, programs can rise or fall. But, frankly, the second- and third-tier schools are already shut out of the party. The reality is that plenty of schools, from Cal to West Virginia and many others in between, will officially be blocked from ever truly competing for a championship. There will be clear and obvious tiers - and the top tier will hopefully be bigger than Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, and Ohio State. If, in the end, the efforts spark a shift that has more than three or four teams run the show every year, it will be good for college football. It’s an ugly process from which a new age of college football will be birthed. The decisions were always driven by money, and the relatively new ability of college football players to make a little money of their own has caused the programs with the most money behind them to find a path toward each other. Would there be “outrage” though? Most people don’t seem to care about the latest re-shuffling of the college football deck. Imagine the outrage if that happened to the SEC or ACC.” “My concern is West Coast football has lost its prominence and the primary West Coast teams that helped bring a lot of prominence have left a lot of people high and dry. “ I’m really disappointed,” Rivera said Saturday, via Ben Standig of. It should be an obvious issue to be addressed - unless the truth is that the league is willing to tolerate the increased injury risk because the video of practice fights drives more interest at a time when the games that count haven’t started yet.īased on the way that many fans have reacted to our call for less post-whistle violence in joint practices, there’s a decent chance that’s exactly the reason for the NFL’s inaction.Īs college football continues to confront the chaos it deserves, some programs are finding things to be more chaotic than others.Ĭommanders coach Ron Rivera, who played college football at Cal, is concerned about the impact of the latest seismic conference shift on West Coast college football. The league should be doing it without external pressure. We’ve been leading the charge in recent days to get the league to pay more (any) attention to this. ![]() That only makes the league’s decision to bury its head in the sand on the skirmishes at joint practices even more confusing. And given the recent prevalence of Guardian Caps, the league clearly is concerned about reducing concussions in practice. The league professes to be concerned about player safety during games. And production of work, just avoiding all those useless melees.” “So there’s a lot of reasons for it, mainly safety for the players. So you don’t want that physical of a practice that close to a game. ![]() And you’re only a couple of days away from a game, too. It’s a lot safer from a player safety standpoint, and you can get a lot more work done on your own. So it’s a lot more productive if you have one. “And so I just think the second day is very unproductive, except for trying to be reactionary to getting your butt kicked the day before. And then they come out and they play with a little more edge and it pisses each other off and all the melees happen. And then the second practice is when the team that knows they kind of got beat, they go into their meeting rooms, and the coaches are yelling at them. “I never like two practices, because a second practice is usually when the injuries happen. “I like one from a safety measure standpoint,” Saleh told reporters. Jets coach Robert Saleh recently explained his preference for restricting joint practices to one day and one day only. There’s another way to reduce incidents that could eventually get a player, coach, official, or fan injured during joint practices. The NFL doesn’t seem to be inclined to do anything about fighting in joint practices, for some strange reason. ![]()
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