re: Just my thoughts. No trash talk. Just what I see and as objectively as I can see it.

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It’s not about these players. Once something becomes possible, it never goes away and will expand. You just think it benefits LSU. It may. Lane Kiffin is a great offensive coach. My concern is on the future of college football and NIL/transfer portal have done enough damage on their own. Adding the possibility of NFL washouts returning to college will be another negative factor

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I don't think it's just about these players at all, it isn't even about LSU, it's just another step toward the inevitable.

You just have to realize that college football, as you've known it, is done. Think about the arguments we're having here. Pro vs amateur, both groups have agents, both get paid, what is the actual difference anymore?

It won’t end with them and if you are being honest with yourself then you know I am right.

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The kids you are getting back now have played professional ball.

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What is the actual difference at this point? Other than tradition?

Bc the market for players pre-2021 was nowhere near the cost of facilities. Case in point, we were busted and state skated for each of us offering Leo Lewis 10 grand. That’s it! Multiply that over a roster, a bag here, a bag there, and you’re looking at maybe 500 grand, w the Cam Newton types getting 180.

That all changed, and former poors were all the sudden in the game for a relatively small amount of money. Of course that’s now ballooned in short order to what it is and I imagine it’ll collapse on itself in the next 5 years.

We hit about a 25 year black hole after going w the Kinard family after Vaught retired over Vaught’s choice for replacement, and it really wasn’t until Khayat became chancellor in the late 90s that we started seriously fundraising. Of course by then we were decades behind.

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We hit about a 25 year black hole after going w the Kinard family after Vaught retired over Vaught’s choice for replacement, and it really wasn’t until Khayat became chancellor in the late 90s that we started seriously fundraising. Of course by then we were decades behind.

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So if you're spending right along with the blue bloods, why did Kiffin leave for a school that isn't even a blue blood?

I'm not trashing Ole Miss, I'm just saying what you're saying doesn't add up to an outsider.

Why should universities and what we’ve known as college football, college basketball continue to be connected?

- when I last heard of a player being ineligible to play due to academic standing was ??? I don’t recall. Do these “student athletes” have classes they are required to attend and pass?

- at this point the universities are funding facilities, coaching, training, nutrition staffs, providing medical care, paying for facilities to train and stadiums to play the games in.

- in addition, paying players to play, paying them to come and visit.

-paying lawyers to deal with the ever increasing numbers of lawsuits

Why not disassociate the names and the of the universities from all these teams. Don’t pay crazy amounts for coaches and all the other “business expenses”. If some entity wants to organize, pay, train players into teams - have at it!
Universities can rent them facilities, rent them stadiums, trining rooms and equipment, everything those teams will need to get setup and running.

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Yes because the weren't granted a 5th year like every other class was. Their class was singled out. I'm not sure why you can't understand that distinction.

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The rule went into effect in June. They were UDFA's and should have known that they probably weren't going to make the team going into summer camp. Right then, they could've said "Hey, I didn't realize I'd get a fifth year. I'm gonna challenge this and go back. They got the injunction at the end of July. They still kept practicing until the team cut them.

So no. They waited until they knew they couldn't get in the NFL to go back.

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And LK has said he doesn’t like where this is going,but you either play the system or fall behind.

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Isnt it so convenient for Kiffin to not like where its going, while sending it there with turbo speed.

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Wrong. I've never been one of those on here boohooing abotu every change. This seems a step too far. You like because that pet dog you have is beautiful and attacking everyone else. That dog will bite you at some point though. Be ready.

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Where am I wrong? Players have been official paid for the last 3-4 years and unofficially for at least the last 20-25 years. They have huge paycheck today, many rival or exceed “professionals” paychecks. The amateur players have access to full health, diet, and professional consultation/assistance/help just like the pros. These amateurs have top agents. Last, they move teams with the highest compensation package from year to year. These are all facts and no matter how many “wrongs” you want to thrown out, it won’t change today’s reality.

Regardless of any dog in this hunt I may or may not have, the college amateur athlete is no more. Replaced gradually and not so gradually by championship games, brackets, and marketing. It is not coming back either.