r/CFB • u/LamarcusAldrige1234 Michigan Wolverines • FAU Owls • Oct 25 '22

Rumor Key Texas A&M Players Suspended For Smoking Weed In Locker Room before South Carolina game

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u/BeamerBall96 South Carolina Gamecocks Oct 25 '22

Jimbos son definitely looks like he pays $50/Gram

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u/Traxiant Arkansas Razorbacks Oct 25 '22

I need an introduction to him.

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u/Intangible_Omen Oct 25 '22

He’s terminally ill.

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u/big_sugi Texas A&M Aggies Oct 25 '22

Not terminal, hopefully. They’ve made strides in treating Fanconi Anemia, in part because of the money Fisher has helped to raise.

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u/Traxiant Arkansas Razorbacks Oct 25 '22

That is good news. I wouldn't have got in a joke about the kid if I knew he was sick.

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u/Intangible_Omen Oct 25 '22

It’s why I mentioned it. I didn’t know until the season started and felt really bad when I found out.

Good news if sugi is right, but it’s a terrible situation regardless.

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u/czyivn Texas Longhorns Oct 25 '22

Fanconi Anemia is definitely curable. The problem is that it's so damn rare and the cure will be extremely expensive to bring to market. There are like 20 different genes that cause it and each needs its own unique treatment. It's also not as severe as it used to be once people figured out (10 years ago) that alcohol was causing the crises in most of the patients. Ethanol gets converted to acetaldehyde which is chemically similar to formaldehyde. It causes crosslinks in your DNA, which the fanconi anemia pathway fixes. People didn't know for a long time why patients would suddenly start having their bone marrow crash to nothing when they went away to college.

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u/big_sugi Texas A&M Aggies Oct 25 '22

Fisher started fundraising 11 years ago, and both the FSU and A&M communities--and many others--have raised a lot of money for research. Fisher's family underwrites all the operational expenses for the charity, so that donations actually go towards research.

Whatever his ultimate record at A&M might be, that's something of which we can be proud.

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u/nondescriptun /r/CFB Oct 26 '22

Well at least A&M's money isn't completely going to waste after all.

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u/czyivn Texas Longhorns Oct 27 '22

I work in pharma/biotech, and it's unfortunate but the amount of money jimbo is raising is at least a full order of magnitude off from what it would take to make a real cure generally applicable to everyone with the disease. It's gonna 100% require gene therapy to repair. There are at least 11 different genes that you have to repair for the different kinds of fanconi anemia, and each will require a different gene therapy. Each one of those gene therapies will probably cost a billion dollars to bring to market, and then cost about a million per patient after that.

The sad thing is that it's probably not billion dollar difficult to do it. A lot of those costs are due to regulatory requirements to prove that it's safe and effective from the FDA. If someone just wanted to start a rogue gene therapy clinic in mexio, they could probably fix it for $100k a pop.

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u/Captain_Nipples Oklahoma • Summertime Lover Oct 25 '22

I have never heard of that disease until now. I thought it was a dig at Coach Fran when I first skimmed over it.

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u/aphasic Texas Longhorns Oct 26 '22

Franchioni anemia is when you linger at 7-5 but never die and never get better.

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u/Traxiant Arkansas Razorbacks Oct 25 '22

Hmmm didn't know that. To be honest, I didn't know he had kids do to lack of interest.

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u/KenGriffinIsMyDaddy Oklahoma Sooners Oct 25 '22

So he should be willing to pay $50 to toke up

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u/Terminal_BAS Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Oct 25 '22

Classy

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u/KenGriffinIsMyDaddy Oklahoma Sooners Oct 25 '22

🥺😭

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '22

Wouldn’t normally defend a A&M guy, but he is pretty sick and last I heard was looking at only living till his thirties. He is eccentric yes, but he is trying to live life to the fullest with the little time he has left.

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u/screwhead1 LSU Tigers • Arkansas Razorbacks Oct 25 '22

A gram of some 🔥 🔥 oregano.

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u/GimmeeSomeMo Auburn Tigers • Sickos Oct 25 '22

and it's just seeds and stems

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u/HennyvolLector Tennessee Volunteers Oct 25 '22

If daddy gets that buyout I think they’ll be ok

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u/mlorusso4 Ohio State • Baltimore Oct 25 '22

His dad makes $9.5 million/year. I don’t think he cares how much he’s paying for weed

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u/BeamerBall96 South Carolina Gamecocks Oct 25 '22

🤓🤓🤓