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(04-12-2025, 06:49 AM)Still Hurtn Wrote: 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.
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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.
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
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(04-12-2025, 06:52 AM)JimmyinSD Wrote: 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.
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(04-12-2025, 07:31 AM)JustInTime Wrote: 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.
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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.
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(04-12-2025, 06:25 AM)supafreak84 Wrote: 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.
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(04-12-2025, 11:20 AM)bigbone62 Wrote: 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
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I suspect college football player fan jersey sales trends have mirrored wall street as of late too.
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(04-12-2025, 11:39 AM)supafreak84 Wrote: 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
I'm all for stricter restrictions on how freely kids can transfer. On the flip side if coaches, their staff and AD's don't like the taste of the team cafeteria cornflakes they shouldn't be able to bail on these kids as quickly as they do.
Fans piss and moan about loyalty but don't seem to want to hold the actual adults in the situation as accountable as they hold the kids. The adults who are a main reason the kids choose the school.
As for Ledouche. 22 years in the league, has played for a grand total of 3 teams. Lol, yep, poster child for hired gun. I don't care much for the NBA, but "the decision" was 15 years ago. For the love of God get over it. He wasn't the first or last.
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