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Would you be as excited to cheer on your team if the players are not students?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:16 am
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:16 am
Universities employ lots of people - professors, administrators, maintenance guys, etc.
If your starting QB is similarly employed by your school, but is not a student, does it change anything for you? Do you still go to games or watch on TV?
Keep in mind, he might be your QB from his mid-20's thru his mid-30's. This would not be the 18-21 years olds of yesteryear.
They'd still wear the uniforms and play in the stadium. Band, cheer, dance would still be there. Aesthetically it would all look the same.
If your starting QB is similarly employed by your school, but is not a student, does it change anything for you? Do you still go to games or watch on TV?
Keep in mind, he might be your QB from his mid-20's thru his mid-30's. This would not be the 18-21 years olds of yesteryear.
They'd still wear the uniforms and play in the stadium. Band, cheer, dance would still be there. Aesthetically it would all look the same.
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Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:22 am to RidiculousHype
Yeah
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:33 am to RidiculousHype
Football has barely been students since 90s.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:38 am to DarthRebel
Yep, and at the risk of sounding like my Grandpa, I miss the days when regional pride was real. Having highly paid mercenaries as a "school's" team has changed my view of cfb. It's lost the lustre I once imagined was real.
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Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:45 am to Trumansfangs
Does it count if the player does his classes online at " pay and pass .com"?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:53 am to Trumansfangs
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Yep, and at the risk of sounding like my Grandpa, I miss the days when regional pride was real. Having highly paid mercenaries as a "school's"team has changed my view of cfb. It's lost the lustre I one imagined was real.
I am your grandpa's age... When I first started following OU football as a kid in the late 60's...
We had a center from Oklahoma... who snapped to a QB from Oklahoma... who handed off to a tailback from Oklahoma... or threw to wide receivers from Oklahoma. Most of the team was from Oklahoma. I remember playing Tennessee in the Orange Bowl. Most of their guys were from Tennessee.
OU's tailback from those teams ended up winning the Heisman. The center and one of the wide receivers ended up with long pro careers.
Even in the late '70s... I Remember Alabama winning two national championships with an entire backfield that was from Birmingham.
You'd never see that today.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 8:53 am to RidiculousHype
The “education” is a total sham, a bunch of tutors do the work anyway.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:04 am to RidiculousHype
Are most of them really students now?
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:17 am to kywildcatfanone
That ship sailed long ago. Maybe 20% of them are real students and maybe 10% of them could have gotten into their school had they applied with like everyone else.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:17 am to RidiculousHype
They really aren’t students in any sense of what an actual student does. At this point they’re semi pro players
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:19 am to RidiculousHype
With free agency and huge contracts, I’ve gradually lost interest in the NBA and NFL.
I can see that starting to happen with the college sports as well.
I can see that starting to happen with the college sports as well.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:26 am to Gunga Din
Rose colored glasses. OU has lived off of Texas recruits forever, just like Arkansas.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:27 am to RidiculousHype
So, basically, an NFL fan.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:29 am to RidiculousHype
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Would you be as excited to cheer on your team if the players are not students?
I want them to at least have attended classes at some point, but no I don't care if they're currently taking classes.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:30 am to Trumansfangs
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Yep, and at the risk of sounding like my Grandpa, I miss the days when regional pride was real. Having highly paid mercenaries as a "school's" team has changed my view of cfb. It's lost the lustre I once imagined was real.
This is me, too. I'm increasingly drawn to D2. The problem is that it's hard to find any information about D2 teams. Even getting scores can be a challenge during the season.
I've even kicked around the idea of doing coverage of the D2 conference the schools in Arkansas are in.
This post was edited on 3/6/26 at 11:07 am
Posted on 3/6/26 at 9:36 am to RidiculousHype
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Would you be as excited to cheer on your team if the players are not students?
On the face of it I want to say "no." But when I think about it I never once think of them as students when they are playing unless TV shows a random graphic of the player being SEC student athlete of the week or whatever.
So yeah, I would probably still cheer for them.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:02 am to Gunny Hartman
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Rose colored glasses. OU has lived off of Texas recruits forever, just like Arkansas.
This is both true and not true...
In the 1940s-1960s OU's teams were 80% Oklahoma guys.
Starting in the 1970s the shift to recruiting more guys from Texas started.
Ironically... all but one of OU's National Championship teams were made up of mostly Oklahoma players. the 1985 champions had a lot of Texans.
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:15 am to RidiculousHype
Honestly, I like the illusion
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:19 am to RidiculousHype
They are already not students except in name only
Posted on 3/6/26 at 11:27 am to RidiculousHype
I am almost done now. That would be it for me. In a year or two it may not change at all and it will still be it for me. Emotional attachment is pretty frayed now.
Will likely still watch the bigger games and playoffs because I love watching college football, even that will go away at some point.
Will likely still watch the bigger games and playoffs because I love watching college football, even that will go away at some point.
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