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Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:55 pm to PBD4BAMA
All sports have gotten completely beyond the scope of what they were intended and their need.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 4:57 pm to bamafan1953
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Ours too. We dropped our season tickets after '23 season. Thought I would miss going to the games. But so far, I don't miss it a bit. Some of due to the hassle associated with going, the exorbitant prices and advancing ages!! LOL.
Frankly, a lot of folks in my generation give the boomers hell but it was the boomers in the family leaving us or getting too old to do gameday saturdays that ended it for us. I'd gotten a package on my own merits but we had some family pass or get less able so the family tailgate really started to diminish. Without the home base on campus, it was really an inferior experience for us. Keeping a good family tailgate up is real work and it wasn't something we were prepared to own with young kids and all those commitments nor was the other half of the extended family able to lead it. The prices being what they are really sealed it. Saban retiring felt like the right time to get off the ride. End of an era. A lot of great memories were had though.
Posted on 4/7/26 at 9:32 pm to Archives
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Do they even attend class? Do they have to?
They have to register for class…beyond that, I doubt it
Posted on 4/8/26 at 1:06 am to FairhopeTider
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Big 10 won the Football title and both basketball titles. Meanwhile Sankey is filing affidavits against his own schools. Cuck bastard.
I’m beginning to put more stock in the conspiracy theory that Sankey the Yankee is a Big 10 plant sent to destroy the SEC from the command chair.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 4:10 am to PBD4BAMA
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Not a single starter was a Michigan signee. School pride is dead….RIP!
It works both ways, though, and fans and coaches don’t want to acknowledge their own contributions to the current state of college sports.
1. Fans would rather win with mercenaries than lose with in-state talent. The players do not care about the schools, but the fans and schools do not care about the players other than their ability to deliver on the field. This goes back a lot further than NIL and the portal.
2. Coaches like Dabo and Saban can whine all day about wanting an emphasis on education and development, but no one is getting paid eight figures based on graduation rates, players becoming model citizens, or even NFL careers. Those salaries are 99% about what happens in college stadiums on game days.
College coaches want to be seen as educators, but they want to be paid like entertainers.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 8:01 am to Globetrotter747
At least Saban and Dabo tried to make young men who were prepared for life after football. The decline and fall of college sports will show an eerie but inverse relationship to the rise of ESPN/Disney’s money and influence in the marketplace.
This post was edited on 4/8/26 at 8:02 am
Posted on 4/8/26 at 10:51 am to phil4bama
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At least Saban and Dabo tried to make young men who were prepared for life after football.
Yes, but coaches with $100,000,000+ contracts helped cause the current state of college football.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 11:00 am to PBD4BAMA
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They have to register for class…beyond that, I doubt it
Remember when some football players would be ruled academically ineligible for bowl games?
Posted on 4/8/26 at 3:43 pm to Globetrotter747
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Yes, but coaches with $100,000,000+ contracts helped cause the current state of college football.
In this we agree. I remember the simple times where people were outraged over Saban's $4 million/year salary back in 2007. Now every SEC head coach, with the exception of Vanderbilt's, makes well north of that figure.
Posted on 4/8/26 at 6:51 pm to Globetrotter747
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It works both ways, though, and fans and coaches don’t want to acknowledge their own contributions to the current state of college sports.
1. Fans would rather win with mercenaries than lose with in-state talent. The players do not care about the schools, but the fans and schools do not care about the players other than their ability to deliver on the field. This goes back a lot further than NIL and the portal.
2. Coaches like Dabo and Saban can whine all day about wanting an emphasis on education and development, but no one is getting paid eight figures based on graduation rates, players becoming model citizens, or even NFL careers. Those salaries are 99% about what happens in college stadiums on game days.
College coaches want to be seen as educators, but they want to be paid like entertainers.
The mental midgets and air thieves are going to be real mad at this post because it is 100% on target.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 8:46 am to JIB
They fuk up everything they touch. It is already documented for you.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:24 am to PBD4BAMA
At this point, since pretty much none of the players have any loyalty to the school, frankly, I don’t think the school should be required to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars desperately trying to keep them academically eligible. If the players don’t care about getting their education/degree, why should the school be on the hook for battalions of tutors, learning aids, and having regular students on work study literally getting players out of bed and walking them to 8:00 am or 9:00 am classes like they’re 5 year olds?
You laugh but I have a buddy whose kid was on work study and that was his job. He had to get two starters up out of bed and literally walk them to class like they’re small children. Ridiculous.
You laugh but I have a buddy whose kid was on work study and that was his job. He had to get two starters up out of bed and literally walk them to class like they’re small children. Ridiculous.
Posted on 4/9/26 at 11:30 am to Amarillo Tide
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You laugh but I have a buddy whose kid was on work study and that was his job. He had to get two starters up out of bed and literally walk them to class like they’re small children. Ridiculous.
Plenty of them are normal, responsible people but every team has their share of guys who showed athletic promise early enough in life that they never really had to learn any of that because most of the adults around them are either incompetent and non-functional themselves or enablers who treated the kid as a meal ticket and never let him fail.
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