recruiting is like diamond mining

[carbonpoke]

I watch quite a bit of gold rush... and I woke up today thinking about mining a football. weird, but stay with me

so heres my thoughts. diamond mining (recruiting)

lets say your a diamond hunter (bohl)... and you want to go find some diamonds. its hard to get into the business, so you could go prospecting on other people's land, and maybe find a few diamonds; however most mine owners wont let you leave with the diamonds that you found.

but there's another option. a more involved option. in the area that bohl lives, there is a shit ton of coal. He could purchase a large parcel of property (the front range and Nebraska)... and set up a coal mine. then just purchase some high tech equipment to pressurize that coal into diamonds (duval). now, this take more time... but in the process of digging and pressurizing coal, you also find tiny little diamonds on the property, which he has a claim too.
these diamonds don't fit the big market standard, but they are still diamonds.

now, after a couple of years of open business, if the coal mine and bohl have established themselves as market diamond producers then things get easier. with experience, diamonds start showing up unexpectedly... one morning there was just one diamond sitting on his desk, he goes to the bathroom, and returns to four diamonds just sitting there. "where did those other diamonds come from?" says bohl. Hot damn!

then there comes the problem of having to many diamonds, and you have to consider cutting back on your coal mining operation, because dealing with diamonds takes a lot of effort. so bohl calls his friend in the business, a diamond dealer named saben... to ask how to approach this new problem.

That's how I see Wyoming right now... just setting up the coal mine. but we have some small diamonds already, and some coal about to get out of the pressurizer. hopefully we have a good financial portfolio (tom burman), to keep the business going so we can get some god damn diamonds.

 

[WestWYOPoke]

Only someone with the handle CARBONpoke would come up with this type of analogy...well done. :thumb:

 

[BeaverPoke]

I like this lol.

But what do you mean by calling Saban?
Saban leaves Bama to be our defensive coordinator? Or Saban tells Bohl that SEC programs are where the diamond mines are and how they have the ability to deal with the diamonds, and that Bohl needs to leave for the SEC?

 

[laxwyo]

The SEC buys diamonds off the street

 

[Asmodeanreborn]

The SEC buys diamonds off the street

The SEC are the people artificially inflating the price of diamonds thousands of times and convincing everybody that diamonds are rare. By paying off the right people, they also make sure there are no new competitors on the market as well.

 

[Wyokie]

The SEC buys diamonds off the street

The SEC are the people artificially inflating the price of diamonds thousands of times and convincing everybody that diamonds are rare. By paying off the right people, they also make sure there are no new competitors on the market as well.

Much like the oil companies. :roll: :roll:

I still remember the days of $1.50 a gallon gas in the early 1990's and everyone was bitching about that!!!! :roll:

 

[Asmodeanreborn]

The SEC buys diamonds off the street

The SEC are the people artificially inflating the price of diamonds thousands of times and convincing everybody that diamonds are rare. By paying off the right people, they also make sure there are no new competitors on the market as well.

Much like the oil companies. :roll: :roll:

I still remember the days of $1.50 a gallon gas in the early 1990's and everyone was bitching about that!!!! :roll:

I suppose that's similar. When I moved to the U.S. 14 years ago, gas was 99 cents/gallon in Rock Springs. Now, the U.S. is the world's largest "producer" of oil, and it's almost four times as much as that.

 

[Hayduke]

The SEC buys diamonds off the street

The SEC are the people artificially inflating the price of diamonds thousands of times and convincing everybody that diamonds are rare. By paying off the right people, they also make sure there are no new competitors on the market as well.

You hatred for the SEC grows strong inside of you.

I like that.

I always cheer against SEC schools.

 

[laxwyo]

Speaking of oil companies. The prices jumped when they paid everyone off and were allowed to merge into giant companies. Before the mergers, oil was cheap. Let us merge they said, we'll be more competitive and prices will come down. What a lie. They need broken up again

 

[Asmodeanreborn]

Speaking of oil companies. The prices jumped when they paid everyone off and were allowed to merge into giant companies. Before the mergers, oil was cheap. Let us merge they said, we'll be more competitive and prices will come down. What a lie. They need broken up again

But it's easier for big companies to bribe politicians (see Gov. Jindall, Louisiana) - how are these small companies supposed to create laws that take away their liability when they screw up?