|
Replies: 37
| visibility 4558
|
National Champion [7391]
TigerPulse: 100%
42
|
My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
4
Sep 23, 2024, 10:22 AM
|
|
If I had the ability to leverage $$$$ to attend one school over another, be it athletics or academics, you bet I would have jumped at the chance.
The ability to graduate with six figures in the bank vs. five figures in debt is nothing to sneeze at.
|
|
|
|
 |
Varsity [148]
TigerPulse: 93%
11
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
3
Sep 23, 2024, 10:24 AM
|
|
Yep. Good points. Times are changing. Colleges are putting millions in a lot of debt.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [10798]
TigerPulse: 100%
45
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
3
Sep 23, 2024, 10:27 AM
|
|
Can't blame the kids or their parents for going with the highest bidder, education and character development be ######. However the lack of regulation on how they're paid provides certain programs with an unfair advantage. Clemson ain't one of them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
All-In [10798]
TigerPulse: 100%
45
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
1
Sep 23, 2024, 10:28 AM
|
|
seriously mods, there was a c word with suckers at the end of it posted earlier and you're redacting d a m n e d?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Varsity [104]
TigerPulse: 92%
11
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Conqueror [11283]
TigerPulse: 73%
46
Posts: 11128
Joined: 2017
|
Not sure what point you are trying to make.***
1
Sep 23, 2024, 10:30 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TigerNet Elite [69825]
TigerPulse: 100%
61
Posts: 90849
Joined: 2001
|
I was a poor student-athlete...
2
Sep 23, 2024, 10:32 AM
|
|
and while I am totally in favor of paying players, I am also a firm believer that such payments should be regulated as opposed to the wild west, no holds barred, tampering approach that is currently in place.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Athletic Dir [1119]
TigerPulse: 99%
26
|
Re: I was a poor student-athlete...
1
Sep 23, 2024, 10:44 AM
|
|
I've long felt like it should have been tied to some kind of trust or something. You won't be able to fix this craziness now, but imagine how different it would be if they said "you can only access 10% of your NIL money before age 25, after that it's all yours" or something. Then you'd have tens of thousands of student athletes with degrees and huge piles of cash waiting for them. Instead we have 19 year olds driving $100,000 cars that will be flat broke in 5 years if they don't make the NFL.
I understand why some kids going to school in expensive cities (Southern Cal, Vandy, UT Austin, etc.) would need more money to survive, but how much money to you need to live a great life in Clemson freakin' South Carolina? I graduated 10 years ago and I was lucky to have my parents help with with rent so I was only responsible for living expenses. I made like $400/month working part time on campus and felt like a king with that much money.
|
|
|
|
|
|
TigerNet Elite [69825]
TigerPulse: 100%
61
Posts: 90849
Joined: 2001
|
Tying a majority of the $ to graduation would have been a great idea.***
3
Sep 23, 2024, 10:47 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Conqueror [11283]
TigerPulse: 73%
46
Posts: 11128
Joined: 2017
|
Re: Tying a majority of the $ to graduation would have been a great idea.***
4
Sep 23, 2024, 10:58 AM
|
|
Except that would have been called racist.
Because the hypocrite liberals would say the black kids aren’t smart enough to graduate.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Blooded [2362]
TigerPulse: 100%
32
|
Re: Tying a majority of the $ to graduation would have been a great idea.***
Sep 23, 2024, 1:21 PM
|
|
Is politics your entire personality?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Game Changer [1836]
TigerPulse: 88%
31
|
Another lost and confused Kamala supporter...
Sep 23, 2024, 10:37 PM
|
|
drawing from a perspective informed by misinformation as well as disinformation-
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Conqueror [11283]
TigerPulse: 73%
46
Posts: 11128
Joined: 2017
|
|
|
|
|
|
Athletic Dir [1101]
TigerPulse: 96%
26
|
Re: Tying a majority of the $ to graduation would have been a great idea.***
Sep 23, 2024, 10:50 PM
[ in reply to Re: Tying a majority of the $ to graduation would have been a great idea.*** ] |
|
Except that would have been called racist.
Because the hypocrite liberals would say the black kids aren’t smart enough to graduate.
Not me. Hail, apparently everyone graduates now. Different day, different time.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Varsity [104]
TigerPulse: 92%
11
|
|
|
|
|
|
Varsity [104]
TigerPulse: 92%
11
|
How are you going to do that?
Sep 23, 2024, 11:05 PM
[ in reply to I was a poor student-athlete... ] |
|
The NCAA has lost every court case about any related issue.
If the NCAA keeps trying this kind of stuff without an antitrust exe option, eventually a smart lawyer is going to involve the feds going after the NCAA's very existence with a RICO case, or something similar under the Sherman and Interstate Commerce Acts.
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1579]
TigerPulse: 92%
30
|
Re: How are you going to do that?
Sep 23, 2024, 11:17 PM
|
|
Do you stay at the same Holiday Inn Express every night?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Varsity [104]
TigerPulse: 92%
11
|
Do you chronically use non Sequiturs and other fallacies?******
Sep 23, 2024, 11:30 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CU Guru [1579]
TigerPulse: 92%
30
|
I didn't say it made you smarter***
Sep 24, 2024, 12:02 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Varsity [104]
TigerPulse: 92%
11
|
It obviously didn't educate you in the facts******
Sep 24, 2024, 5:46 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Elite [5452]
TigerPulse: 44%
38
Posts: 17671
Joined: 2005
|
Re: I was a poor student-athlete...
Sep 23, 2024, 11:08 PM
[ in reply to I was a poor student-athlete... ] |
|
One of the few things you and I will ever agree on.
It just can't survive in this current state.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Game Day Hero [4202]
TigerPulse: 100%
36
|
$$$ are not the total answer
1
Sep 23, 2024, 10:48 AM
|
|
Why did you go to college in the first place? Probably delayed gratification (more money after college versus money immediately). I don't mind chasing the immediately, but in a few years you will start getting the stories of the failures that kicked to the side of the road (either injury, poor development, drug abuse, etc.).
We know that some coaches/places do not have the young men's best interest at heart. Will the money difference be enough to offset the individual development that could occur at the other school? At present, we can just speculate. I compare it to working for a boss that is self centered and does not develop his employees. Tag along with him and you will do well for as long as he does. When he tops out or gets fired, do you have the tools/ability to continue to advance?
|
|
|
|
|
|
TigerNet Elite [69825]
TigerPulse: 100%
61
Posts: 90849
Joined: 2001
|
You mean besides girls and beer!?!?!***
2
Sep 23, 2024, 11:03 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top TigerNet [30668]
TigerPulse: 100%
55
Posts: 22574
Joined: 2007
|
Re: You mean besides girls and beer!?!?!***
2
Sep 23, 2024, 11:17 AM
|
|
Back in the day, I received $5 a week from my parents. But cigarettes cost 35 cents a pack and beer was 40 cents a can. I indulged in both so my money ran out quickly and I ended finding a part time job to supplement my vices. If any sports player receives NIL money, their scholarship should be affected in some way by that. If a player receives a very large NIL payout, his full scholarship should be voided and given to some one who needs it. Won't ever happen but just my opinion.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Valley Legend [13040]
TigerPulse: 98%
47
Posts: 12813
Joined: 2003
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
Sep 23, 2024, 11:23 AM
|
|
The question is no longer if schools will pay players, but how to do it in a way which preserves a competitive landscape instead of a few rich schools dominating the landscape. Professional leagues have salary caps, compensation for free agent moves, reverse draft order and increasing the difficulty of the schedule for better teams.
Otherwise, the free for all we are currently experiencing will only get worse.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [86380]
TigerPulse: 100%
62
Posts: 39060
Joined: 2003
|
I was ALWAYS calling home on the phone with the old "Love you, Mom, PLEASE
Sep 23, 2024, 11:27 AM
|
|
send money" line. And back then, money arrived via snail mail. I sweated out the Friday afternoon mail delivery to the student inboxes many a time, praying to see that letter with $20 or $40 in it. (Note: $20 back in 1972-76 went considerably farther than it does today.) I had a 7 day meal ticket, so that I would not starve, but who wanted to eat school diner food on the weekends?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Conqueror [11283]
TigerPulse: 73%
46
Posts: 11128
Joined: 2017
|
Re: I was ALWAYS calling home on the phone with the old "Love you, Mom, PLEASE
1
Sep 23, 2024, 11:35 AM
|
|
Note: $20 back in 2019 went considerably farther than it does today.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Heisman Winner [86380]
TigerPulse: 100%
62
Posts: 39060
Joined: 2003
|
$20 leaves at Warp Speed these days.
Sep 23, 2024, 11:37 AM
|
|
That's going OUT, that is. It ain't NEARLY that fast coming IN.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Conqueror [11283]
TigerPulse: 73%
46
Posts: 11128
Joined: 2017
|
So true!***
Sep 23, 2024, 12:36 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tiger Spirit [9430]
TigerPulse: 100%
44
|
|
|
|
|
|
TigerNet Elite [69825]
TigerPulse: 100%
61
Posts: 90849
Joined: 2001
|
|
|
|
|
|
Game Changer [1836]
TigerPulse: 88%
31
|
Full disclosure..."money was tight" because..
Sep 23, 2024, 11:27 AM
|
|
of your affinity for hookers-
|
|
|
|
|
|
110%er [3911]
TigerPulse: 100%
35
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
4
Sep 23, 2024, 11:48 AM
|
|
Unless you’re going to be a doctor, engineer, lawyer, etc. college is largely a scam. Half the kids that start never finish.
I went to 2 years of trade school and started out at 70k a year. Pressure from parents and society is putting kids in 100k worth of debt.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top TigerNet [30668]
TigerPulse: 100%
55
Posts: 22574
Joined: 2007
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
2
Sep 23, 2024, 12:47 PM
|
|
I agree and they need to start teaching money management , check balancing, and budget planning in high school.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ultimate Clemson Legend [103006]
TigerPulse: 100%
64
Posts: 99004
Joined: 2009
|
I had 4 kids and a big fat wife when I enrolled and...
1
Sep 23, 2024, 12:51 PM
|
|
5 kids and a big fat wife when I graduated. Money wasn't tight, it just didn't exist.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Head Coach [936]
TigerPulse: 100%
24
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
Sep 23, 2024, 1:12 PM
|
|
I hope when I grow up(I’m 56) that I can live like some of these college students are living today. And I’m not talking athletes.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Athletic Dir [1101]
TigerPulse: 96%
26
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
Sep 23, 2024, 10:58 PM
|
|
Staying in school with a minimum 2.0 GPR maintained my 2S draft deferment and kept me and my friends out of Vietnam Nam until it wound down. So there's that. Many reasons to go to college I guess. Life is a long strange trip.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Solid Orange [1342]
TigerPulse: 74%
28
|
Re: My college days were fun but the defining characteristic was tight money
Sep 24, 2024, 5:49 AM
|
|
Pimps don't have rules!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 37
| visibility 4558
|
|
|
50
