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College football needs several big name, and preferably,
Dec 20, 2022, 2:34 PM
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respected head coaches, to get together and say consequences be dam-ed, we are going to start really speaking out about how bad things have gotten. I understand they will be called hypocrites by some because of the salaries they make. But some big time people in the sport really need to start rocking the boat and getting things out in the open, in the media, about how totally out of control everything is. There is no pretense of a sport rooted in higher education anymore.
I also know ESPN, CBS Sports, and Fox Sports will probably be very reluctant to cover it because they want to continue to present the product as good old college football. They never mention NIL deals in games you may have noticed. It's a charade. But somebody will cover it. The more stuff gets out about how lawless and mercenary the sport has become, the more likely power brokers that televise the sport will get nervous about fans leaving in droves.
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It’s funny how things have happened.
Dec 20, 2022, 2:50 PM
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SEC won a ton of nattys in a row. FSU wins one. Clemson wins one. Ole Miss draft pick Laremy Tunsil admits to the press that he got paid to attend Ole Miss. SEC does an investigation, Hugh Freeze gets fired, Clemson wins 2nd natty in 3 years. All of a sudden the NIL comes up and you can now pay players, UGA wins first title in forever and likely 2 in a row. Hugh Freeze returns to SEC
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Re: It’s funny how things have happened.
Dec 20, 2022, 3:29 PM
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Irony. Think it's just coincidence? I don't. Op has a good point. Don't mind players getting paid. They are with a valuable education. They also have the best medical care money can buy. If you want to give every athlete an extra stiphen, I'm in. Give each 24k a year. That's roughly 350 million a year. 130 schools. 2.4 million per school for 100 athletes. Is that close to socialism, probably. But I don't think ametuer sports should be capitalism either. It's supposed to be educational.
The one thing that needs to be enforced is tampering as well as enticing them with money. I personally don't want a 60 team NFL farm system.
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Re: College football needs several big name, and preferably,
Dec 20, 2022, 2:55 PM
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How have things gotten "bad?" Are you a coach?
Are things "bad" or do you just not like them personally?
I can ignore the hypocrisy of coaches getting paid million while the labor doesn't get much but still say that coaches who are paid that much need to #### and deal with things rather than complaining.
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Labeling them labor entails they are employees
Dec 20, 2022, 3:02 PM
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you want the courts to classify them as employees, fine. Until they are, this is a strawman argument. Coaches are employees.
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Re: Labeling them labor entails they are employees
Dec 20, 2022, 3:35 PM
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It'd be a sad day if they were deemed employees. How's that work anyway. Is the qb the ceo, the ol and dl the worker bees? Does the wr room have a manager and subordinates that report to the qb.
Yeah, if they become employees, then I'll just watch golf and log rolling, or pie eating contests.
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"College Football" is no longer College Football
Dec 20, 2022, 3:26 PM
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Back in the day, 18-year old "men" tried to get into College to get an education. Some of these men were big and talented, and they also played football... for their college.
College football today has little to do with education, and a lot to do with money, money, money. But the really BIG money is made by the networks. Football has become nothing more than an advertising platform for the millions of minutes of commercials we endure every year.
And then come the Bowl games... what a joke... 42 bowl games in FBS/FCS. Wow. Teams 5-7 and 4-8 in bowl games.
Sigh... whatever happened to College Football? As always. remember, JMO.
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Re: College football needs several big name, and preferably,
Dec 20, 2022, 3:33 PM
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The professionalization of College Football is well underway and I don't think anything can stop it. Like it or not, we will have to live with whatever outcome is born from it. All I know is the innocence of the student-athlete to perform for a scholarship has been taken away and the game we once loved will be forever changed.
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