An unimpeded market would say: his loss and oppty for the next guy***

Everyone needs money. There is no economic reward for loyalty, or keeping promises, or anything else.

When I was 23yo someone offered me $400,000. I turned them down. I own some land. I leased it to a farmer for his cows to graze on. A hunting club said they'd be interested in leasing the land from me. I said I'm already leasing the land to the guy across the street. They offered more per month in lease payments than the farmer gave in a year.

I sat down with the farmer. Told him the situation, let him make the call. He finished out that year of his lease (about 10 months), and I paid him for the fertilizer he put out towards the end as his cows would not be able to get the full benefit, AND the next fertilizer for his cows in the place he moved to, after giving him plenty of time to find another pasture. He made the call. And it wasn't a written lease with him, totally verbal. And that's how I handled that. The hunting club was willing to wait. I told them they'd have to wait or no deal.

Now I could have taken that $400K and lost my house in 2008, or kicked the farmer off the land immediately. I did neither. Cost me about $7K to keep my deal with the farmer, more than he'd pay me in 10 years. He and I have no regrets or hard feelings. Hunting club is happy now as well. He now hunts with them.

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Dec 30, 2023, 11:39 AM

That's HOW YOU GET in a situation to do that. My luxurious situation, at the time, was fresh out of college, newly married, with a dog, and a household income well under $40K living in an apartment. Those 20 acres of land were my main (only really) asset. Someone offered me a bad deal for a $400K mortgage, in that "situation", I had no excuse NOT to take that great deal, other than the fact I realized it was a bad deal. Flip side, I also forwent roughly 1/4 of a year's added income, to keep my word. That farmer could have just said forget it, I'm staying. But he is also a man of his word, and as such I laid the situation out for him to make the call, and together we arrived at a deal. 20+ years later I've made well over....a lot from that hunting club, and they're happy today, as am I, and the farmer. He hunts free with the club btw, to this day. They made a deal as well, and they are people who keep their word as well. He sacrificed some for them, and they were kind enough to repay him with a free membership.

This is how America is supposed to work, and how it worked in the past, and still works in "poor" rural areas chock full of supposedly miserable people in bad situations. Chasing dollars and leaving a trail of people high and dry in your wake is not the way things used to function. That's acceptable today because everyone has a "situation". If you choose wallow in your own personal situation, that's fine. But if you pay attention to other people's situations, and forget about your own situation, your own situation generally improves.

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Rant. Huge rant.

So if you were projected to 1st or 2nd round in nfl draft...

If I were an NFL GM I would question spending all that money

Its not meaningless to the 2nd string guy who

I'm pretty sure if we were in the playoff, Trotter and Wiggins would play.***

If players start sitting out of the expanded playoff,

Re: I'm pretty sure if we were in the playoff, Trotter and Wiggins would play.***

I'd rather get hurt playing for a Natty.

Another way to look at it is if those guys don't play it opens up spots for

Yeah, our new #2 got to show off with Wiggins out***

Its like ramping up your productivity after giving your 2 week notice.***

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Ive gotten over a projected 1st rounder sitting out

Yeah. I'm not going to fault the guy who has millions on the line for sitting

Supposedly, UGa players got some extra NIL money to play in this game

Bowers hasn't decided I read.

UGa is gonna roll FSU

^^^This

Hard to have a rule like that when the portal window closes this month***

Yes exactly why they need to change the rule.

If coaches can negotiate and take off during bowl season

There are two more portal windows before next fall***

FSU is the situation that shocks me. 20 players sitting out

Hire mercenaries, get mercenary results.

I listened to his signing day recap

Re: Rant. Huge rant.

World was a better place when a man's word was more important

Re: World was a better place when a man's word was more important

You can argue whatever. It doesn't matter. Everyone wants money

Re: You can argue whatever. It doesn't matter. Everyone wants money

If you keep your word, you will always be in a situation to do that.

Re: If you keep your word, you will always be in a situation to do that.

It's Complicated

Times have changed

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This 1000 times.

Re: This 1000 times.

Theyd support them either way

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