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re: Respect for Saban as a coach, but he's a hypocrite when it comes to pay for play!
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:05 pm to Strokers Ace
Posted on 3/14/24 at 10:05 pm to Strokers Ace
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It's the epitome of hypocrisy for someone who was making north of TEN MILLION dollars a year to lecture us about paying student athletes.
$15,000,000 staffs to lead an extracurricular activity at an institute of higher learning doesn't really jive with the spirit of college sports or amateurism either - but coaches sure as hell don't have a problem with that.
It is a lot easier to sympathize with Johnny Fivestar when his coaches are making millions off his back, would recruit a better player to replace him in a heartbeat if his play were subpar, and would leave him and the rest of the team high and dry for another dollar at any time.
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isn’t sustainable
I keep seeing this term. "NIL is not sustainable!" "The transfer portal is unsustainable!"
Alabama, Georgia, LSU, etc., will all have 85+ players next year, and millions of people are still going to watch all the games. And the new playoff system will be a huge draw.
There will be a few hurt feelings over players transferring out, and fans realizing players are more concerned about money than jumping on a grenade for their program. But in the end, there will still be exciting and profitable games being played.
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Posted on 3/14/24 at 11:40 pm to Globetrotter747
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Alabama, Georgia, LSU, etc., will all have 85+ players next year, and millions of people are still going to watch all the games. And the new playoff system will be a huge draw.
Yeah, that's the EXACT same kind of shite Nascar said when they added the playoffs and started doing everything for money rather than preserving what made the sport great and drew in all the existing fans to being with.
All the new fans were going to make up for the loss of the "few" that would quit watching. The "show" itself was going to be a major draw and it was going to be bigger than the NFL.
They sold out for cookie cutter tracks in "bigger markets". Cars with hard tires that pretty boy rookies could compete and make commercials for the brands. They added the "playoffs" to create more drama. They made it a "team sport" by pretending the people who change the tires are like the lineman of the sport.
And now they struggle to get people to the tracks. They keep adding more and more gimmicks to make it better, but they drove the fans away because they destroyed the very things that drew them in.
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