Confirmed with Link: All-Purpose "Days of Our Meruelo" Talk

[TheLegend]

I don’t want to be too in depth but follow the $$$ - The recent VGK event in Gilbert wasn’t received well by some. Which is ridiculous

Probably because it's too soon.

I have my own reasons for not caring for Vegas. But I don't hold it against them trying to reach into what is technically and open market after losing another area.

That said.......

There's been an underlying and slow smoldering distaste for Vegas around the league in general. Because they were literally handed a Stanley Cup competitive franchise from the get go.

Now couple that with trying to come into a market that was saddled with a 28 year old clown show and having it ripped from them at the time when it looked like they would finally get somewhere.

And add to that Vegas hiring a PR guy who spent well over a decade writing countless articles that constantly piled shit onto "desert hockey" and more specifically the Arizona market itself..... and just last year in a game broadcast openly said that market and fanbase should lose their team.

 

[TheLegend]

@Coyotedroppings will love this one....

Asshattery confirmed.....

[paywalled but you can get around it]

At Mater Dei, a unique link to USC's secret admission system for donors' kids

The former president of this Orange County school helped affluent students enter USC as walk-on athletes — a route that the university now acknowledges as fraud.

www.latimes.com

Updated:

The person who is the subject of this article is still with the team in Utah.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854997780743303289

 

[AZDesertKnight]

Probably because it's too soon.

I have my own reasons for not caring for Vegas. But I don't hold it against them trying to reach into what is technically and open market after losing another area.

That said.......

There's been an underlying and slow smoldering distaste for Vegas around the league in general. Because they were literally handed a Stanley Cup competitive franchise from the get go.

Now couple that with trying to come into a market that was saddled with a 28 year old clown show and having it ripped from them at the time when it looked like they would finally get somewhere.

And add to that Vegas hiring a PR guy who spent well over a decade writing countless articles that constantly piled shit onto "desert hockey" and more specifically the Arizona market itself..... and just last year in a game broadcast openly said that market and fanbase should lose their team.

I won't lie, I do want to punch my TV every time I see Gary Lawless on my screen.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

@Coyotedroppings will love this one....

Asshattery confirmed.....

[paywalled but you can get around it]

At Mater Dei, a unique link to USC's secret admission system for donors' kids

The former president of this Orange County school helped affluent students enter USC as walk-on athletes — a route that the university now acknowledges as fraud.

www.latimes.com

Updated:

The person who is the subject of this article is still with the team in Utah.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1854997780743303289

Can't seem to find my way around the paywall.

 

[TheLegend]

Can't seem to find my way around the paywall.

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[Coyotedroppings]

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Thanks and yes I absolutely "loved" it! Asshatery at it's finest.

 

[TheLegend]

Thanks and yes I absolutely "loved" it! Asshatery at it's finest.

Shades of the “Varsity Blues” case, no?

I remember my father had someone help me into getting me in at Cal Poly SLO but there wasn’t any payola involved and CP back then was only beginning to tighten its admissions requirements.

My SAT scores were way over my GPA so it wasn’t that big of a deal. This is just “wow”.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

Shades of the “Varsity Blues” case, no?

I remember my father had someone help me into getting me in at Cal Poly SLO but there wasn’t any payola involved and CP back then was only beginning to tighten its admissions requirements.

My SAT scores were way over my GPA so it wasn’t that big of a deal. This is just “wow”.

Definitely

I could go on about this, but would wind up getting political. Suffice it to say that my belief has always been that the pendulum is best in the middle, be it management / labor, or rich assholes / DEI.