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that's great raplh wrote:

WildHorse wrote:Ice hockey rules, unions are vital and curling is more fun (and a lot harder) than it looks. It's kind of fun, actually.

Unions are vital for what exactly?

Killing the Twinkie

that's great raplh wrote:

WildHorse wrote:Ice hockey rules, unions are vital and curling is more fun (and a lot harder) than it looks. It's kind of fun, actually.

Unions are vital for what exactly?

And driving up the price of sh*tty American cars so that they can't compete with foreign automakers and force me as a tax payer to pay for a gd bailout

To be fair, unions were, in recent history, necessary when workers were being egregiously exploited, information was scarce, and labor markets isolated. In today's world they generally provide only economic deadweight.

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Urban Meyer wants the Big Ten to step up its recruiting game

By Tom Fornelli | Blogger
February 7, 2013 3:18 pm ET

Urban wants other Big Ten coaches to improve their recruiting. (US Presswire)


If you were to rate the recruiting classes in the Big Ten this season, you'd have Ohio Stateand Michigan at the top and then everybody else. Which, more often than not, reflects the standings in the Big Ten.

Though this is something that Urban Meyer would like to see change in the future. Appearing on 97.1 The Fan in Columbus, the Ohio State coach said he was going to talk about the Big Ten's poor recruiting with his fellow coaches at the upcoming coaches meeting.

In other words, the rest of you Big Ten coaches -- save Michigan's Brady Hoke -- just aren't doing a good enough job to please Urban Meyer. Or at least, that's how some people might interpret it.

In truth, the point that Meyer is probably trying to get at is that the Big Ten is never going to compete with the SEC as a league if it doesn't improve its recruiting and bring in better talent. And he has a very good point.

If you look at 247Sports.com's top-25 recruiting classes for 2013, only Ohio State, Michigan and Nebraska represent the Big Ten. There are 10 SEC schools -- 71 percent of the conference -- in that same top 25. It's not much different over at Rivals, where it's the same three Big Ten schools in the top 25and 11 SEC schools are represented.

To further point out the difference in classes, the lowest-ranked SEC team at 247Sports.com is Kentucky, which checks in at No. 39. Here is a list of Big Ten teams that are ranked behind Kentucky: Michigan State, Indiana, Iowa, Northwestern, Illinois, Purdue and Minnesota.

No wonder that Meyer is so disappointed in his Big Ten coaching brethren. They can't even recruit with Kentucky.

malonish wrote:

that's great raplh wrote:

WildHorse wrote:Ice hockey rules, unions are vital and curling is more fun (and a lot harder) than it looks. It's kind of fun, actually.

Unions are vital for what exactly?

Killing the Twinkie

Uh, nice try. Twinkies killed by greedy corporate leaders. Unlile most folk here, I am a hard working guy in the trenches making film and TV in America. Proud union worker. Try as many might, the problem is not the worker, but really bad, greedy management. This thread is about sports, not politics.

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Uh, nice try. Twinkies killed by greedy corporate leaders. Unlile most folk here, I am a hard working guy in the trenches making film and TV in America. Proud union worker. Try as many might, the problem is not the worker, but really bad, greedy management. This thread is about sports, not politics.

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WTP, i am not trying to start a war of words here, just wanting to know. To work in the film industry is it true you must be in a union of your profession?

The unions protect those poor mistreated hollywood actors and writers

I would guess that the writers get relatively screwed by Hollywood.