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OT: Vet School

SIAP, but I must have been asleep at the wheel. I am a newsy but I thought a vet school for Clemson was a “wanna be” deal but apparently it is a done deal.
I just read an online Post and Courier story saying it is ahead of schedule and the legislature is proposing giving more money than Clemson is asking for. Hopefully no paywall😀https://www.postandcourier.com/gree...cle_e8bfe350-e37d-11ed-9377-cb762aa360dd.html

OT: Sedona / Flagstaff / Grand Canyon to Vegas - Recommendations

Taking the family - Wife/ 2 Teenage kids on Spring Break starting next Friday to Grand Canyon. We have never been.

Fly into Phoenix, driving straight to Sedona for 2 nights, then to Flagstaff and make the trip thru Canyon to Vegas. 6 nights/ 7 days.

Looking for food recommendations along that route. Already tried to get reservations at Mariposa Restaurant in Sedona for Dinner but they are booked out to April 23rd already (seriously!).

We have a Sunrise 5am Hot Air balloon ride scheduled on Sunday (Easter morning) in Sedona, pretty pumped about that. Any other sight seeing recommendations along with food restaurants that we can get into?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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NCAA upholds ruling on LSU football probation, recruiting visit limit

NCAA upholds ruling on LSU football probation, recruiting visit limit

By: Koki Riley - Lafayette Daily Advertiser - Yahoo! Sports

BATON ROUGE – The NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee upheld a decision from last September regarding former LSU offensive line coach James Cregg on Wednesday.

On Sept. 22, 2022, NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions panel found that Cregg and an unnamed former assistant director of recruiting had broken recruiting rules during the COVID-19 recruiting dead period after they had met with a recruit and "provided the prospect with impermissible recruiting inducements."

The committee then ruled that LSU would be limited to 55 official recruiting visits during the 2022-23 academic year, be on one-year probation and pay a $5,000 self-imposed fine, among other penalties.

Cregg appealed the NCAA's ruling after also getting handed a three-year show-cause penalty.

In August 2021, Cregg filed a lawsuit against LSU, alleging that the university fired him on June 2, 2021, "for a cause that did not exist," his attorneys Chris Whittington and Robb Campbell told The Advertiser in August 2022.

LSU had been ordered by a Baton Rouge judge to pay Cregg $492,945.20 after he had been let go by the university. LSU then appealed the decision, a stance that was only fortified after the NCAA's ruling last September.

"We will pursue all legal options available to us including appealing. Today’s decision by the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions affirms LSU’s response to the allegations arising out of Coach Cregg’s conduct," LSU wrote in a statement last Thursday. "Coach Cregg admitted under oath that he contacted and provided athletic gear to a recruit after being warned by compliance staff of the COVID-based no-contact period with recruits. This type of intentional and knowing conduct was charged as a Level II violation by NCAA enforcement staff, and the NCAA Committee on Infractions concluded it was a Level II-aggravated violation for Coach Cregg and constitutes a Level II-mitigated violation for LSU. The university was given credit for responding promptly in terminating Cregg and self-imposing penalties, which the committee accepted. We believe this decision fully supports the hard work of our athletics compliance staff and our decision regarding this coach."

The money LSU owed to Cregg is from his remaining salary with the university from June 17, 2021, to March 31, 2022. That owed money does not include an eight-day stretch in February and all of March 2022 in which the San Francisco 49ers, where he is currently employed as the team's assistant offensive line coach, covered his compensation.

Cregg was the Tigers' offensive line coach for three seasons, leading the Tigers to the Joe Moore Award for the nation's best offensive line during the 2019 national championship season. His replacement was former Arkansas offensive line coach Brad Davis, who is still the Tigers' offensive line coach.

ND QB Tyler Buchner

"He enters with a willingness to return to Notre Dame if he doesn't like his options, sources told ESPN." How appreciative ND must be. Great teammate.

Thoughts on Walmart , Walgreens , and Whole Foods pulling out of

DEMOCRAT City's... Portland, Chicago, SF... Due to theft and employee safety concerns .

De-funding the police is working out great. My understanding a person can walk into Wal-Mart's and take up to a 1k dollars worth of items and walk out and not arrested... Wal-Mart has los around 17 million dollars.



Edit : Despite this threshold, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office changed its position on retail theft crimes in 2016, 2020, and beyond. The new threshold is $1,000 to charge someone with a retail theft crime in Cook County. Other state jurisdictions have passed ordinances to reclassify retail theft as civil offenses, instead of misdemeanor or felony crimes. Ultimately, the threshold for felony retail theft charges can fluctuate throughout Illinois.
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