I remember my parents talking about “hot dog hockey” where programs select who has promise at a very young age and just push them through. Now I wasn’t good enough to say it was wealth/politics that kept me off elite select teams, but you can really see it in soccer. You know we have great soccer talent in US, but the good players don’t come from affluent families and ultimately get squeezed out by an inferior player from a family with control. And I watch college hockey, you have these wildly “loaded” teams like Michigan and Minnesota, yet it’s the Denver’s and Duluth’s winning the championships. Let’s just say I’m very skeptical of the criteria of our draft classes
PartyBullshiitHockeys its own unique breed. Drafting people out of high school, college. Feels like they take some kids straight out of optimist with how young they look
Glad you guys are talking about the ads too. I always figured a page and/or my phone was hacked by visiting that site, turns out PE is what does the hacks. Unusually I just switch to Brace/adblocker to visit those sites with oppressive ads
anyways yes fuck NIL I’m fine with players getting paid but the financial aspect and transfer portal is just making me not care. Also fuck the Big 10