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re: Eli Ricks to Alabama
Posted on 12/16/21 at 6:02 am to Bubdylan
Posted on 12/16/21 at 6:02 am to Bubdylan
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This is becoming gross as hell.
I'm a Bama fan and I like winning, so of course I'll enjoy it as long as it works in our favor.
But now winning is ALL this sport is giving me.
If the winning stops, I'm out. Cuz this crap is too hard to enjoy for anything besides winning. Thanks, CFB, I guess.
This sport has always been about money. Where has all the indignation been when the institutions and head coaches are the only ones continuing to get filthy rich?
Suddenly we go from purity and honor in college football to chaos and greed. When in reality, the only thing that has changed is the rearranging of some assets. And big business is footing the bill at that. Much to do about nothing.
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Posted on 12/16/21 at 6:39 am to bamameister
Sure, it's always been about money, and has always contained disgusting elements. And one some level, the athletes who lay their bodies on the line deserve a bigger share of the money.
But the structures in place to maintain some semblance of the positive shaping of young men and the fan's experience of a unified team with some elements of loyalty and good faith, of "team", have been perserved, even if there has been hypocrisy and dark caveats to the design, have worked on a fundamental level.
Now these kids will be given over to the worst angels of their nature. I never wanted them to be as bad as the "rich old guys" who perpetuate the money end of the sport. They don't handle it very well at that age.
And while the pressures of the old system remained, as artificial as they were one some level, the sport was better.
But the structures in place to maintain some semblance of the positive shaping of young men and the fan's experience of a unified team with some elements of loyalty and good faith, of "team", have been perserved, even if there has been hypocrisy and dark caveats to the design, have worked on a fundamental level.
Now these kids will be given over to the worst angels of their nature. I never wanted them to be as bad as the "rich old guys" who perpetuate the money end of the sport. They don't handle it very well at that age.
And while the pressures of the old system remained, as artificial as they were one some level, the sport was better.
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