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Israel is a country, not a religion.

Let's not forget the prosecutors!

I don’t think I’ve heard it in real life that much

Well, there was that one time a football player from Notre Dame did it, but the jury still seems to be out on whether he was just catfished or was in on the scam.

Conspiracy theorists always see connections where there's nothing. Reality doesn't need to conveniently align to make that possible.

Oh wow, that last part about wars in the middle east being a conspiracy is totally new to me. I suppose it's no less unbelievable than the planet being a flat disc or moon landing hoaxes.

I know this from personal experience after reading the entirety of the Left Behind book series as they were published. At the start I was spending my summers in the equivalent of that Jesus Camp documentary, and by the time I finished was at the end of my personal deconversion journey and come out the other side as an opinionated college atheist.

So, yeah, quite terrifying to see that kink for the apocalypse continue to play out in front of us.

There’s a handful of kids getting real degrees that aren’t trying to go pro, but their basically the minority now.

This is hyperbolic, although certainly has a base in reality. Lots of players are getting free educations along the way to deluding themselves they will play professionally. Are there a lot of kids that don't take academics seriously and are there ways to get an easy degree, sure, but it's not like non-athletes don't pursue similar strategies, too.

There are still standards they have to meet, and not every player on the team is getting a scholarship. It's actually more common now than when I was in school for athletes to just decide to stop playing. Their scholarships (at least in the major conferences) are still honored and they can still graduate.

The majority of players that get drafted may never have taken their education seriously, but the majority of players that never even sniffed that opportunity probably did.

The main challenge is that separating will likely destroy a ton of the value. I don't think most college sports fans, even diehards like myself, are going to be as passionate if our favorite teams are suddenly a glorified development league for the NFL, NBA, etc. That takes away any financial incentive to split, so sports would need to be kicked out, but for many universities that means academics also lose value and resources, not to mention all the non-revenue sports that won't survive independently.

Splitting just the revenue sports (basketball and football) is also difficult, as there are outliers with profitable programs in other sports (e.g. NE has the only profitable D1 volleyball program, some SEC schools have profitable baseball programs) but everyone else doesn't. Which model do these teams fit into in the future?

It's all a huge mess which the NCAA never did anything to prepare for and has no idea how to handle now that pandora's box is open.

That video is included in the article, it's just at the very bottom for some reason.

Russia and Iran have already won this round. Palestinians will be paying the price.

I should just start over and try again, probably did something silly that screwed things up.

The role is to lead the majority coalition, which currently means no Dems allowed. GOP made those rules, they have to follow them just like everyone else.