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Life is a series of decisions, based on priorities, ...
Dec 5, 2022, 6:06 PM
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... which lead to consequences.
I told that to my students throughout my 40 year teaching career. "You decided to go to the beach. You decided not to study for the test. The immediate consequences were you had a great time at the beach. Now you get the intermediate consequences."
The NCAA decided, decades ago, to be the unofficial minor league for the NFL and the NBA. Now (NIL, transfer portal) they are reaping the consequences.
Some think the decision was the right decision and the consequences are good. Some think the consequences are bad. But, most would agree the consequences are an inevitable result of the decision made decades ago.
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Dec 5, 2022, 6:23 PM
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The consequences BretFSU are immense and i.m.o "SAD" mostly.
As you eloquently put it: leaving a school that is paying for your education is a decision these kids are making based on what they believe is their top priority. Their top priority - clearly isn't an education.
Only 38% of these transfer kids were picked up by a new school. Seems like lowsy odds to me and not worth the trouble. If you had a coaching change and your skills will be out-dated where you are; I get it. Especially if you go to a school where you can get a similar or better education.
But, hopefully, it's somewhere that wanted you before. And, that coach is still there and remembers you.
Something like that - I can get! But, just leaving because the grass is supposedly greener, is not good.
I guess when they hit the workforce they can just go from job to job as well. Maybe it won't hurt them the way it use to hurt people who bounced around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjMkLwMuD44
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I agree with you. But blame the universities.
Dec 5, 2022, 6:31 PM
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They are the NCAA. They decided that being the minor league was the way to go.
They decided they would rather recruit athletes who may or may not be concerned with academics. They decided the priority would be to recruit guys who wanted a career in the NBA or NFL, not worried about a career that required a college degree.
So, don't blame the kids. They came to FSU or Clemson or anywhere else because that was the best/only way to get to the NFL/NBA.
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Re: I agree with you. But blame the universities.
Dec 5, 2022, 6:50 PM
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I agree BretFSU.
I believe perhaps a handful of Ivy League schools are the only colleges/universities that can say they graduate a larger percentage of it's football players than Clemson does under Dabo.
My question is: can Dabo keep running the program the way he runs it now given the way kids leave when the going gets tough?
He expects you to go to class. And not just go; but participate and do well. Clemson has passed up on many kids who "did not fit the profile of a Clemson football player under Dabo Swinney"!
Which is: respectable, hard working, generally good human being, perhaps God fearing, good student, good football player, coachable, disciplined and integrity based individual.
Those chancellors and Presidents as you said, who made the decision to allow those players hopefully can appreciate when it's done right.
Does this open the door to just a straight up "minor league" w/o the facade of "higher education" bretfsu?
Surely someone will try and capture this and make money off it. Just skip the whole college bit all together. I am not advocating for it; but in our society somebody with an eye on what sells might be able to put it together.
Skip your entrance exams and go play 3 years until the NFL draft for a semi-pro team that plays on Saturday's in the fall. Let the school kids who are just good students; but also play football also play on Saturdays - but eventually fewer and fewer people will follow that.
It's what it seems to be headed to with the way this free agency is being carried out. It's wild and nobody seems to care about the "under-belly" of it.
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