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If all college football players had to pass a high school exit exam to play div 1 football
Posted on 5/22/24 at 6:49 pm
Posted on 5/22/24 at 6:49 pm
Would you be more open to unlimited transfers by athletes? Would it be better for the sport if it the student aspect were more focused. The talent level might dip and some believe that would turn fans off but I think that’s more an nfl problem, college fans tune in for the logo on the helmet not the player wearing the helmet.
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Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:05 pm to bamabaseballsec
You're on the right track, IMO. None of this has anything to do with education or sportsmanship. At this point, it should either go back to real students competing as amateurs, or go full professional. Universities should have to sell their athletics programs, facilities and related intellectual property. Go back to the original purpose of tertiary education, which is currently failing and taking the country down with it.
This post was edited on 5/22/24 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:06 pm to bamabaseballsec
We ain’t here to play school.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:09 pm to bamabaseballsec
The corruption would not leave the proposed high school exit exam untouched.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:13 pm to bamabaseballsec
I think they should totally disconnect athletics from academics. It’s basically a professional team with the school’s branding. Who cares if the players get degrees?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:30 pm to bamabaseballsec
Make players meet the same requirements as normal students who are admitted to the various schools. How many players at UF/UGA/Texas do you think scored even close to the average SAT of 1400 or so?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 8:36 pm to TheWalrus
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I think they should totally disconnect athletics from academics. It’s basically a professional team with the school’s branding. Who cares if the players get degrees?
The standards got lower, as they often do when a certain demographic is involved. It wasn’t always like this. Just listen to Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell speak. Wilt’s interview on Howard Stern was incredible. Feel like Jordan’s generation was the last generation of players who weren’t morons.
Then came Allen Iverson and flat earth Kyrie.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:02 pm to Dawgfanman
quote:Shut your whore mouth!
Make players meet the same requirements as normal students who are admitted to the various schools. How many players at UF/UGA/Texas do you think scored even close to the average SAT of 1400 or so?
You really want your school to become about as relevant as one of the Ivies when it comes to college sports?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:09 pm to wdhalgren
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Universities should have to
sounds like some communist shite to me.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:16 pm to 49 to nada
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You really want your school to become about as relevant as one of the Ivies
Nah, if you made ALL schools go this route, then you'd have real students playing sports. the quality of play would be different, no doubt about that.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:28 pm to Bacon84
The talent would definitely drop, but I think there’s a good portion of those guys smart enough to do it if they knew they had to(no is nfl ready out of high school and college nil at top level would be greater than any minor league the nfl had)
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:26 pm to bamabaseballsec
It wasn’t too terribly long ago that in order to get a football scholarship there were certain academic requirements to meet or you went to juco or a lower division school, supposedly.
I guess it’s Katy bar the door now letting anyone in no matter what while real students struggle to afford the price of college or admission standards.
It pissed me off back in the day and to hell with all of them now.
I guess it’s Katy bar the door now letting anyone in no matter what while real students struggle to afford the price of college or admission standards.
It pissed me off back in the day and to hell with all of them now.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:56 pm to bamabaseballsec
I think it’d probably be fun to have a bunch of athletically above-average normal students go out and play another school in Football in front of fans. Actually feel like it’s “us versus y’all” rather than the guys we pay to live in the same city as us against yours.
ETA: I know I just described High School football
but still back in the day, college ball was just that on steroids.
ETA: I know I just described High School football
but still back in the day, college ball was just that on steroids. This post was edited on 5/23/24 at 12:01 am
Posted on 5/23/24 at 2:58 am to Clark14
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It wasn’t too terribly long ago that in order to get a football scholarship there were certain academic requirements to meet or you went to juco or a lower division school, supposedly.
They still have high school course requirements and GPA that they have to make (2.3). They did drop the SAT/ACT sliding scale requirement they used to have.
But the guys in college today usually have been farmed out to a decent high school. They way more prepared for college than the dudes coming in to college football the late '80s and '90s. Many of those guys were coming out of inner city schools and a lot of them were full fledged gang members.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 3:56 am to bamabaseballsec
They can’t speak proper English let alone read a book or do math’s
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:25 am to TheWalrus
We are the only country which pairs academics and competitive athletics. And athletics is perhaps the only profitable part of a university. The goals are different for a university and its “semi-pro” athletes. The fans are stuck in the middle.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 5:33 am to bamabaseballsec
They should have to go to class, take their own test, make minimum grade point average. No pass no play no matter how much NIL money you get.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:01 am to bamabaseballsec
High school students don’t have to pass a high school exit exam in too many places.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:02 am to wdhalgren
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You're on the right track, IMO. None of this has anything to do with education or sportsmanship. At this point, it should either go back to real students competing as amateurs, or go full professional. Universities should have to sell their athletics programs, facilities and related intellectual property. Go back to the original purpose of tertiary education, which is currently failing and taking the country down with it.
If things continue to head in the direction they are headed, and there is no indication that they won't, it is pretty easy to imagine a large number of Universities simply doing away with their athletic programs altogether. Most of them are not making money and none of them bring money to the university that academic research does. There is already animosity between academics and athletics at just about every school.
Posted on 5/23/24 at 6:04 am to bamabaseballsec
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Would it be better for the sport if it the student aspect were more focused.
Yes. This current wave of quick cash grabs is horrible for the sport that was already having a serious cultural problem in terms of off field development.
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