Deion Sanders Leaves Jackson State For Colorado: What Does This Mean

     Deion Sanders becoming the coach of Colorado has made huge news, and caused some debate on whether he was a sellout or not.  That's what I hear anyway, because it seems to me like most people think it was a good move for him.

    Sanders did make the right move.  Going to Colorado has given him a huge salary, as he signed a deal with a base salary of 29.5 million over five years, plus incentives.  His 5.9 million per year in base salary is a lot more than the 300,000 he was getting at Jackson State.  Colorado also gives Deion a much higher ceiling in terms what can happen in the best case scenario.  For him to see how far he could go in coaching, he had to leave to coach at a higher level.  Jackson State was simply too small for someone as big as Coach Prime.  That is part of why this a bad sign for HBCUs, and those that were hoping that this would lead to some revolution in college football.  Deion didn't just leave for a power five school, but he left for one without a recent history of winning.  Colorado has been really bad since the mid 2000s, and Sanders will face an uphill climb trying to turn it around.  A team that was 1-11 last season. Still even a low level Power Five school like Colorado is well ahead of the best HBCU.    How could some people expect Deion to stick around out of some loyalty to the race, when Colorado gave him a much better opportunity for a lot more money?  How can that be expected of other coaches, and if how are HBCUs going to be at a similar level to the top college football teams.  Part of the backlash from Sanders leaving is JSU, are from people who had unrealistic expectations.  Most people knew he was going to leave for a Power Five school, and he wasn't going to stay at Jackson State for the long term.

    As far as his chances of success, I'm not that sure of that.  While at Jackson State Deion a huge advantage in recruiting.  He made Jackson State a go to spot, as he brough extra attention, and some of his celebrity friends to see the team.  He made Jackson State an attractive option for many black football players, and he was going against a bunch of schools, but most fans don't care too much about.  He won't have that same edge in the Pac 12, where there are other programs who will offer players a great opportunity to set themselves up for the next level. How successful can Sanders be without that huge recruiting edge?

Wrestlemania 38 Attendance

The WWE lies about their Wrestlemania attendance every year.  Before the COVID period they would announced a huge attendance number to break the arena  record.  The WWE Key Performane Indicators (KPI) gives this away every year.  While some think that their KPI only shows paid attendance averages, it's interesting that the KPI, itself, doesn't say paid attendance.  The WWE's second quarter this year had 55 shows with an average attendance of 6800.  Then there is the 4900 average for the shows other than Wrestlemania, at least that's what I think that is supposed to be.  Going off those numbers, not knowing what the actual average is, that would mean a total of 374000 fans for the 55 shows, and 259700 if you exclude the two nights of Wrestlemania.  That would mean a total of 114300 for the two nights of Wrestlemania, and an average of 57150.  The WWE announced 77899 for the first night, and 78453 for the second.  Based on the KPI these numbers aren't just a little off.  They are way off.   The 156352 total for the announced attendance is well above the 114300 estimate from the KPI.  In 2020 Wrestlemania took place at the WWE Performance Center.  Last year only a small portions of the seats in Raymond James Stadium were available.  Since they could get closer to capacity with this year's mania, they may have badly wanted to put out a huge number.  If I assume that the averages listed in the KPI are to the nearest thousand if the 6800 was rounded down from close to 6850, and the 4900 was round up from 4850, it would still mean less than 120000 fans totals fans, and an average of a little under 60000.   This past Wrestlemania took place at AT&T Stadium, which was home of the previous biggest lie for Wrestlemania attendance.  The WWE claimed an audience of 101763 for Wrestlemania 32, but their KPI for that year suggest an actual attendance of about 79800.  79800 is a lot closer to the 80709, that the Arlington Police said attended that Wrestlemania, than the WWE's number.  I don't know how much the mainstream respects the WWE's numbers, because the WWE values what they think.  You can have a bunch of people using legit information, and knowing that the WWE lies about their attendance, but if ESPN, and other outlets keep treating their numbers as legit, they may mean a lot to their public image.

Source   https://corporate.wwe.com/~/media/Files/W/WWE/press-releases/2022/q2-2022-kpi.pdf

Stupid Backlash Aimed At Ricky Gervais

 A few days ago, I read something that said Ricky Gervais made transphobic jokes.  I was thinking about what did he say?  We it really transphobic?  We've seen Dave Chappelle called transphobic, and homophobic for making jokes that were neither.  I went and watched Gervais' new comedy special, Super Nature, on Netflix.  It was very funny, like his others, and those supposed transphobic jokes, weren't at all transphobic.  Compared to Dave Chappelle's jokes, which as I said weren't transphobic, Ricky's jokes were kind.  Unlike Chappelle he seemed to give them the benefit of the doubt and referred to trans women, as being women.  This despite the fact that you can't change your biological sex.  He said nothing mean spirited.  He made a point about the changing of standards, and how that could affect you reputation years from now.  I guess not enough Social Justice Warriors, have faced that circumstance for them to learn about it.  A lot of these Social Justice Warriors are just assholes, using their causes to be assholes for what they feel are the right causes.  

  How far will things go?  What little jokes will be considered transphobic next?  What about those people calling Gervais transphobic?  Why isn't there pressure on them to actually prove that his jokes were transphobic?  If those jokes were as bad as the critics pretend it was, it shouldn't be that difficult to explain.   You can be for trans rights, and still disagree with certain things that are generally accepted in the movement.   In the current time, so many people seem to take that approach.  You disagree on a little something, and you are the enemy.  It's going on across to board in both political parties, especially the Democrats now, and many in other movements.  

The Gervais backlash hasn't been great thus far.  Not as bad as the backlash Dave Chappelle got, but the fact that he's getting this backlash at all, for the jokes he made is a bit scarry.  There may be nothing short of bowing down, or shutting up, that would be good enough to satisfy many of these SJWs.  Many of them would have it no other way.