re: BOOM! WSU's Response To Players That Support PAC-12 Player's Demands

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Football players dont work any harder than any other athlete, they just play a more popular sport

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Agree with this.

Had a swimmer as on of my roommates back in college.Practice schedule and training was grueling.

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talent drop across the board doesn't cause what you're describing happened to the Ivy League.

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Sure it is along with 1 platoon and 2 platoon rule changes.FB was a big money maker for those schools and there was lots
of shady shite going on to recruit the best
players.

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Tulane would be playing JUCO players, they wouldnt keep the same level of talent

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And schools like Southern Miss,Memphis and
HBCU's would be playing at P5 levels compared to other schools that have much higher standards IF your premise is based off signing up regular students to play. I MIGHT go to a game or two but I'm not wasting my time watching an inferior product on TV.

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This is only true due to the loyalty of fans of their respective universities. You take that away and the market falls apart. At least that's the way it would be for me. I'm still watching UGA football no matter who the players are. I won't give a shite about any NFL minor league and won't watch it.

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I would still follow UGA football but if there were, say, 20 minor league teams across the country where the top talent with a shot at the NFL played one another CFB would not have the following it does now because a lot of that following is a regional thing and the fans have no ties to the university. CFB would look more like it did before money made it what it is today and that would be a good thing for the sport and the Universities....basically play with what you got.

There is still a market for Junior College Football, the Ivy League, Division 2 or whatever its called today....that will never go away because a minor league NFL team in Birmingham, say affiliated with the Falcons, Saints, Panthers and Jaguars, would not be the same market for what is going on in Tuscaloosa on Saturday....when Auburn and Alabama are playing on a Saturday night it would still be televised and probably draw 80K people or whatever it draws now...but the game between the NFL minor league teams played in Birmingham on the same day would be a nation wide TV draw where the iron bowl would be what it should be an that is a regional draw in the south. There are entire swaths of the nation with huge population centers where the NFL is far more popular than CFB is....the majority of the NE and the Western US...I live in Washington State...I hear it from people all season long about the "damned SEC being on every channel....". I don't hesitate to point out that if there were any interest outside of Washington for WSU Football it would be broadcast in Florida in prime time...but it ain't. The rest of the nation is not as enamored with CFB as we are in the south...partly because most CFB played outside of the south is garbage and about on par with a big high school game in the south.

If there were a minor league, it would have plenty of guys who arent eligible to play college anymore but not quite NFL caliber.

The league wouldnt be entirely composed of kids who went straight there from high school unless it was regulated as so, in that case you'd be basically replacing college football and then I'd agree with your comment.

There's no reason for the NFL to do that though and its hard for an independent league to stay viable thru the first few start up years.

Baseball's minor leagues take a lot more high school kids than a football version would and the product of college baseball doesn't suffer.

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Because they don't generate enough money in the free market

You sympathize with non producers that don't earn enough in the free Market, yet you scorn the high achievers that produce and earn tons of profits and tons of cash in the Free Market, and play their Sport at such a high level that the impartial TV Execs validate their excellence & success by writing huge checks to Televise their Sports

I wonder why?

Tell your damn swimmer to create more excitement, that's what American viewers want

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Nice melt, I never said they deserved full scholarships though, I just said they work as hard as any other athlete without many of the benefits.

Also odd that you're defending these player's demands by saying non producing sports should be cut yet their demands are 100% against that.

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Baseball's minor leagues take a lot more high school kids than a football version would and the product of college baseball doesn't suffer.

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You feel this way because you have never experienced the alternative, MLB has always had their own Minor League System, think of the alternative Universe, where 100% of the Top HS Players were funneled into the College System and had to stay 3 yrs, imagine how much better and exciting College Baseball would be

Your comments are based only on what you have lived through, imagine College Baseball where the Mike Trouts and the A Rods have to play College Baseball for 3 years because there is no Minor League alternative

If that happened, College Baseball would have different and larger TV Deals and every campus that plays P5 baseball would have 35-40K seat baseball Facilities, and tons more Money would flow into College Baseball, like I have always said, the money eventually follows the Talent

The reason you feel the way you do above is that you never experienced anything else

Money follows the Talent, always has

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Why is it when I ask "I wonder why?", you default to some sort of reply involving racism

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Because you only infer to what white people want when you ask the question. It's completely obvious what you're doing. Again, you used the swimming team as the example and called it "your swimming team" as if we're all too dumb to know what you're talking about.

Your posts are filled with your racism everyday on here and it shows that you believe that others think the same way you think. Just because your ways of thinking are all race related doesn't mean that everyone else's are.

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Still amazed that you have so much sympathy for welfare sucking leeches in the College Athl Depts, but you don't have the same sympathy for those needing welfare in American society

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Are you suggesting that the players ar Colorado State and Wake Forest get paid the same as the players at Bama, Ohio State and LSU?

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The reason you feel the way you do above is that you never experienced anything else

Money follows the Talent, always has

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I agree, if we were starting at ground zero but we arent.

Minor league baseball has been around since 1901, thus college baseball never really got off the ground in much of the country.

Also, you're forgetting that an 18 year old can go play minor league baseball against 28 year olds and be competitive, very few 18 year olds will be able to play minor league football against 28 year olds and be competitive.

Also, why would the NFL even pay for all of this?