University of Tenn QB may bolt because of 'contract negotiations'

[StickierBuns]

Pull off the mask and call it what it is. Semi professional sports. Then treat it accordingly

Hell, just call it professional sports. Because you're right, that's what it is.

[JimmyinSD]

Oh no!  Who could have seen this coming?  Let it burn IMO.   Maybe a phoenix will rise and return the college ranks to the real student athletes and in doing so will make this level of sport competitive and worth following again.

[JustInTime]

Oh no!  Who could have seen this coming?  Let it burn IMO.   Maybe a phoenix will rise and return the college ranks to the real student athletes and in doing so will make this level of sport competitive and worth following again.

I think I’m more likely to give Kate Upton a Colorado Campfire than to see real student athletes, outside the military academies, return to prominence.

[StickierBuns]

I think I’m more likely to give Kate Upton a Colorado Campfire than to see real student athletes, outside the military academies, return to prominence.

You bring the marshmallows....

[purplefaithful]

I'm glad the kids are getting some of the pie - many come from marginalized homes and this will help all of their families sooner than later in life.

But it cant be the wild west as it is today.

To call this a thoughtless roll-out by an entity as big as the NCAA is would be an under-statement.

[JustInTime]

Well, bye.

[bigbone62]

Which sucks because college sports should not boil down to whomevers boosters can buy the best team

For the most part it's always boiled down to that though. Only difference is now it's both legal and very public.

[supafreak84]

For the most part it's always boiled down to that though. Only difference is now it's both legal and very public.

I think that's true to some extent, but pales in comparison to the level it's at now which is completely out of control. When you have powerhouse programs spending in excess of 22 million dollars on a roster to win a National Championship...it's a problem. When you have celebrity boosters paying millions of dollars to swing star recruits to their favorite programs...it's a problem. When a kid wake up one morning, decide he doesn't like the taste of the cornflakes in the team cafeteria and can just transfer right then and there...it's a problem. How would you like to be a program like, of let's say Virgina, and you spend the time and resources developing a player only to see that player succeed and leave the next year because an Ohio State booster just gave him 3 million dollars to transfer to their program and you can't compete financially? Everybody is a Ledouche James gun for hire

[purplefaithful]

I suspect college football player fan jersey sales trends have mirrored wall street as of late too.