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So when does requiring a player to attend school get dropped too?
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:22 pm
People don’t realize this, but the NIL opened up a can of worms for other traditions to be dropped as well, like the whole “student-athlete” thing. The term “student-athlete” could now be misconstrued. Many athletic departments operate separately from the university, and when recruits sign their LOI, it’s usually to the organization in charge of athletics. But what if the players unionize and get the whole “actually attend the school you play for” thing gets dropped? They definitely could challenge the requirement.
Don’t think it’ll happen? Many never dreamed NIL would happen either.
And I’m aware they barely attend school now. With many just taking online classes and tutors do all of their schoolwork, but at least have the appearance of trying to earn a degree. For now.
Traditions are dying and I’m afraid this could be next.
Don’t think it’ll happen? Many never dreamed NIL would happen either.
And I’m aware they barely attend school now. With many just taking online classes and tutors do all of their schoolwork, but at least have the appearance of trying to earn a degree. For now.
Traditions are dying and I’m afraid this could be next.
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Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:24 pm to ForeverGator
About 30 years ago for some. How many one and done BB players attend class?
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:24 pm to ForeverGator
The CFB powers are making moves which appear to be some type of suicide.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:27 pm to ForeverGator
I argued with people on here about the possibility of paying players, that it would open a can of worms. And here we are.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:30 pm to ForeverGator
It will definitely happen, it is a full speed ahead bullet train toward minor league professionalism. Only thing that can stop it is fans stop going and giving their money but we know people are too unwilling to sacrifice anything for the common good.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:32 pm to Auburn80
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About 30 years ago for some. How many one and done BB players attend class?
One and done basketball players have no reason to attend a single class after Christmas.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:33 pm to ForeverGator
Half these kids are taking the equivalent of a middle school class to stay eligible. What we have now might be the biggest joke ever. Making college the goal is one of the most cruel things ever brain washed into poor kids. They treat it like an ends rather than a means. Kids thinking they’ve accomplished something coming away with no skills, body pains and a half finished worthless comm degree.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:36 pm to ForeverGator
College football is over. Anyone who doesn’t believe it is just in denial. We maybe have 5 years left of what we once knew. After that it will be minor league football.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:39 pm to BurgTiger
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Kids thinking they’ve accomplished something coming away with no skills, body pains and a half finished worthless comm degree.
Did you attend college? You know there are many meaningful degrees out there. Not everyone majors in liberal arts.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:52 pm to ForeverGator
Yes and been in a university town my entire life and I have eyes. Backflips are worked to keep many kids eligible. Joke classes offered to keep GPA up. Duh some kids pursue the hard sciences but those are few and far between. Watch a broadcast as they say their majors.
Posted on 7/24/22 at 10:57 pm to ForeverGator
I never attended school and look how bright i am
Posted on 7/24/22 at 11:00 pm to ForeverGator
Like Boobie Miles said “School”? “Subject”? “There’s only one subject, Football”…
Posted on 7/24/22 at 11:32 pm to ForeverGator
How do get a player who’s never known his father, and has only the skill of football, to suddenly get a pile of money and expect him to go to class. Ain’t happening in most instances. College football players are becoming professional athletes.
This post was edited on 7/24/22 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 7/24/22 at 11:34 pm to ForeverGator
Take it a step further. Super leagues make ncaa useless. So if we have paid players without any dollar team cap like nfl - then teams can sign more players like the old days. The haves will oversign to keep from other teams. Wild west
Posted on 7/24/22 at 11:36 pm to Auburn80
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About 30 years ago for some. How many one and done BB players attend class?
People really have been deluding themselves about "student" athletes the last few decades, huh?
Posted on 7/24/22 at 11:37 pm to OU Guy
The NCAA is a self regulating body. If the major schools dispose of it they will likely do something similar to caps.
Posted on 7/25/22 at 12:17 am to Eli Goldfinger
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The CFB powers are making moves which appear to be some type of suicide.
Goes back to the Ed O'Bannon NIL lawsuit. He stated universities were taking financial advantage of athletes, and not allowing the athletes themselves to profit.
You better believe there's somebody, somewhere, trying to build a case that says the NCAA is unfairly suppressing "an athlete" from making money, by ruling him ineligible due to academic reasons. He will argue said athlete not intending to be a math professor, he wants the opportunity to be a linebacker or running back. They will present that he can learn a playbook, and otherwise has the physical gifts required of the sport, and should not be limited by his lack of "irrelevant" academic aptitude.
If that somehow goes to court and gains traction, you may see bigtime football schools begin offering "technical training programs", specialized in 'profitable organized sports'. You could say they'd have a fallback as a coach or scout, if they can't make it as a player.
Look at the performing arts, you could model it after those.
Posted on 7/25/22 at 12:34 am to BurgTiger
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Kids thinking they’ve accomplished something coming away with no skills, body pains and a half finished worthless comm degree.
This. The thinking harkens back to a time where any college degree could walk into an office job, received training to do that job, and make decent money. But that was when college was moderately rare. It's decidedly not so now.
Of course also big business got involved.
Edit: buuut at the same time, many of these kids wouldn't have ever even sniffed a degree w/o sports. So the damage to their body is a risk of trying to make the league more than it is a function of trying to get a worthless degree.
This post was edited on 7/25/22 at 12:36 am
Posted on 7/25/22 at 12:50 am to RandySavage
I thought XFL is the NFL-lite?
Posted on 7/25/22 at 7:22 am to ForeverGator
The thing that sucks...you have kids who are busting their asses to do it the right way.
As much as it pains me to laude an FSU player...Myron Rolle is the epitome of the student athlete. FSU starter, Freshman All-American, Lott Trophy Finalists, 3rd team AP All American, Rhoades Scholar, FSU Medical School, Harvard Neurosurgery Fellowship.
...and you have players bitching because they have to attend their History of Tomato Paste 101 class. F them.
As much as it pains me to laude an FSU player...Myron Rolle is the epitome of the student athlete. FSU starter, Freshman All-American, Lott Trophy Finalists, 3rd team AP All American, Rhoades Scholar, FSU Medical School, Harvard Neurosurgery Fellowship.
...and you have players bitching because they have to attend their History of Tomato Paste 101 class. F them.
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