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re: Hope all of you NIL fricktards are enjoying the death of college athletics.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 11:08 pm to RunningJacket
Posted on 4/14/25 at 11:08 pm to RunningJacket
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Come on. You think schools like GT and Vandy were buying players? So tell me why every signing day we had players flip on us if we were paying.
Yes, I do. Don’t be naive. You act like paying players was only big bags of cash.
It was summer jobs that didn’t require showing up. Borrowing cars. Cash handshakes when dropping by the office. A microwave. Sounds specific, doesn’t it?
Boosters aren’t all billionaires, they are also the local businessmen in podunk towns that love the connection to the team.
Funny thing about small towns that pump out athletes. Hard to hide the truth.
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Posted on 4/14/25 at 11:21 pm to ukraine_rebel
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and also a lot of athletes take majors that do nothing to help them.
Can't cry you're being exploited when you don't do the minimum to help yourself.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 11:24 pm to GooseSix
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No college athlete is worth a million bucks
Take away the broad entertainment aspect of college football and someone who teaches football schemes and techniques to 100 college students (usually without any educational certification) with a few life skills mixed in there sure as shite isn’t worth $10,000,000 a year either.
But that’s what coaches are making now.
Why does a college coach make 50-100 times the salary of a high school principal responsible for the education of 3,000 kids? Why doesn’t a college professor teaching something valuable to society like engineering make as much as a frickin’ football offensive coordinator?
Why did Tennessee sign a QB from California instead someone Nashville or Memphis who might still be decent and actually give a flying frick about playing for the Vols? Because wanting to be a Vol is not as important as winning.
You fans are some spoiled frickers.
Here’s what you want:
1. You want high level games played by future NFL players.
2. You recruit these players from all over the country and expect them to have the loyalty of a homegrown talent even though you will replace them in a heartbeat if someone better comes along.
3. You expect these players to be satisfied with a scholarship and some perks while they support a $15,000,000 - $20,000,000 coaching staff and a multibillion dollar entertainment industry.
4. You want them to be legitimate college students even though you will still recruit them if they can’t spell their fricking name and push them through with an army of tutors and favorable classes.
The whole fricking thing is bullshite.
Posted on 4/14/25 at 11:38 pm to RunningJacket
Don't know if you're a troll or not, but you sure are hanging your hat on that one game. UGA is 20-3 vs Tech this century and I don't see things changing anytime soon. Tech's Tech. They pulled your 2024 Homecoming Queen from Zoo Atlanta.
This post was edited on 4/14/25 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 4/15/25 at 1:50 am to gamecockman12
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Your argument makes zero sense. "Your own free will". That has nothing to do with the fact that me, as an alumnus of SC, would rather see kids play for the school on the front of the jersey compared to shopping around their individual services to other schools like some knock off NFL league.
Quite literally “your own free will”.
You would rather watch a lower tier school because it’s more pure. But you choose not to.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 2:19 am to GooseSix
Yet Alabama was cheating by doing under the table with recruits for a long time! Now the field is evening out. Isn't that the reason why Nick Saban retired?
Posted on 4/15/25 at 2:26 am to GooseSix
Why you such a pussy?
Posted on 4/15/25 at 2:33 am to TrueLefty
Heupel will be looking for a quarterback from the transfer portal to start for Tennessee. Some quarterbacks on his list will be from top schools that have several great backup quarterbacks that can start for Tennessee. He will be licking some chops. I don't even like Heupel and Tennessee.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 6:51 am to pankReb
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Quite literally “your own free will”.
You would rather watch a lower tier school because it’s more pure. But you choose not to
You're completely missing the point, and I don't think it's worth explaining it to you. There's a reason why you're not getting any upvotes to your posts, because they make absolutely no sense. Carry on.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:08 am to gamecockman12
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You're completely missing the point,
No....I'm not. You're just being boneheaded.
It is completely up to you if you want to watch a lower-tiered team or your own. Where you graduated from doesn't require you to remain loyal to that football team.
It really is very simple.
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There's a reason why you're not getting any upvotes to your posts,
astounding that you consider to be a relevant or valuable metric.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 7:22 am to HunterDawg
Hunter,
You sure are defensive. I’m simply showing the difference in eras. When UGA had the bagman system Kirby recruited an NFL defense and won back to back Natties and beat teams like GT by as much as they wanted.
Now in the NIL era they are just a normal team who can win games and play awful. You guys should absolutely beat GT year after year due to recruiting. That you barely beat us shows the gap has shrunk and that suddenly Kirby and his staff aren’t as brilliant. No different than when your team showed Saban was beatable when the talent is equal.
Good luck dealing with those 5 star negotiations every few months. Kirby has done a great job keeping it together so far but as losses occur you know the issues will surface.
You sure are defensive. I’m simply showing the difference in eras. When UGA had the bagman system Kirby recruited an NFL defense and won back to back Natties and beat teams like GT by as much as they wanted.
Now in the NIL era they are just a normal team who can win games and play awful. You guys should absolutely beat GT year after year due to recruiting. That you barely beat us shows the gap has shrunk and that suddenly Kirby and his staff aren’t as brilliant. No different than when your team showed Saban was beatable when the talent is equal.
Good luck dealing with those 5 star negotiations every few months. Kirby has done a great job keeping it together so far but as losses occur you know the issues will surface.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 8:50 am to pankReb
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No....I'm not. You're just being boneheaded.
It is completely up to you if you want to watch a lower-tiered team or your own. Where you graduated from doesn't require you to remain loyal to that football team.
It really is very simple.
Where you graduated from absolutely is important criteria for who you remain loyal too lmao. What an utterly stupid take.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 10:16 am to GooseSix
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Hope all of you NIL fricktards are enjoying the death of college athletics.
quote:Should have stopped Nick Saban who b(r)ought multi-millions to every team he ever coached and passed the $30 million threshold with 2008 bama recruiting class.
No college athlete is worth a million bucks. fricking morons..
THAT is what killed college athletics. 10 years later his school of assistants, boyKirby, Kiffin, Sarkasian were all over college ball for 10's of millions.
There was no other choice but to bring million dollar college players out of the Saban closet, Texas' Lamborghini fest, etc
A bama fan declaring million dollar players - - "morons!" is laughable -- moron is the OP.
PUKE!
This post was edited on 4/15/25 at 10:18 am
Posted on 4/15/25 at 10:36 am to RunningJacket
I'm not defensive at all, nor should I be. You're either a troll from another SEC team that's been annually beaten like a rented mule by UGA, or you're a Tech fan on a SEC board. You're basing your entire argument on one game. Might I remind you that lots of mid level teams have come close to beating UGA. Tech's success last year has little, if anything, to do with NIL/transfer portal. Tech has a really good HC and QB in King. What Tech doesn't have is the fan base and money like a program like UGA has. Just look at the disparity in the size of the stadiums and attendance. If UGA wanted King, all they'd have to do is throw a bunch of money at him and he'd be in Athens. Tech usually gets up for its in-state rival, and should. A win over UGA would make their entire season. But if you look at last year's schedule, there is absolutely no indication whatsoever that NIL/transfer portal has evened the playing field. UGA is and will always be heads and shoulders above Tech.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 10:46 am to ReauxlTide222
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“just play for free like it used to be”
It was never "free".
You can argue players deserve a cut of the massive money made on the sport, but they were compensated.
A college degree costs a fortune. They got a full ride. Housing on any major college campus is a major cost. They got their own facilities, training facilities, professional training, private gyms, food and in many cases a shangri-la "football only" facility that would make multi-millionaires jealous. They got exposure not only though broadcast contracts but by being sold through university marketing and social media.
Right now, college football is a product rapidly declining in quality and rapidly increasing in expense. It will destroy itself and the players will share fully in that result.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 12:07 pm to AUCom96
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It will destroy itself and the players will share fully in that result.
No players or really anyone involved with the sport cares about anything beyond what they can get right now. That's players, coaches, ADs, agents...everyone. That's why self policing will never work.
I always said players should get a certain % of all revenues generated, set aside in a trust for when they graduate or leave school. The "players can't afford a pizza" BS was always a myth. Now they're driving Lambos. It's pretty ridiculous if you take a step back.
The transfer portal is the #1 issue though. It's like free agency 24/7. Players are just constantly shopping themselves instead of focusing on developing. It's eventually going to hurt the NFL's product. Imagine if Mahomes just shopped himself every off season for the highest bidder. Sounds beyond stupid...completely unsustainable...yet that's today's college football.
This post was edited on 4/15/25 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 4/15/25 at 12:17 pm to Chad4Bama
Bunch of pinko commies in this topic.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 12:24 pm to Chad4Bama
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The transfer portal is the #1 issue though. It's like free agency 24/7.
You get it. This is what is going to destroy the sport.
The money is not going away now. People need to get over that and I think they will get over that. But the thing that gives people like Nico and his daddy the balls to try to pull the crap they did is the current transfer portal.
Again, it's simple. "You'll get your money, you have to commit to us for X period of time. If you want out before that commitment is done, you have to give the money back."
Posted on 4/15/25 at 12:33 pm to Tammany Tom
Yeah well they shouldn’t have been making millions putting the players in video games and the like.
The NCAA furked this up for their profits big time.
Also, just look at the applications and enrollment numbers and how Athletic success drives higher enrollment for those schools.
Colleges knows this.
And now the players know this.
The NCAA furked this up for their profits big time.
Also, just look at the applications and enrollment numbers and how Athletic success drives higher enrollment for those schools.
Colleges knows this.
And now the players know this.
Posted on 4/15/25 at 5:54 pm to gamecockman12
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Where you graduated from absolutely is important criteria for who you remain loyal too lmao
Based upon your choice. Once again….plenty of people graduate from one school and root for a different one. I personally know several MSU grads who are bama fans and Ole Miss grads who are MSU fans.
If you decide that the current state of CFB isn’t bad enough to start rooting for a team on a lower level…..that is a decision YOU’RE making.
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