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re: "...you may see the day where players don't have to go to school. I think that's coming."
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:55 pm to Harry Boutte
Posted on 7/9/25 at 5:55 pm to Harry Boutte
100,000 seat stadiums with fans to watch a bunch of engineering majors play football.
I think you’re wrong on this one, cfb fans root for a logo, have ties to the school watch for tradition and spectacle. Not bc they’re an athlete instead of engineer. If caliber of product was the driving force why not just watch nfl.
I think you’re wrong on this one, cfb fans root for a logo, have ties to the school watch for tradition and spectacle. Not bc they’re an athlete instead of engineer. If caliber of product was the driving force why not just watch nfl.
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Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:00 pm to makersmark1
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I quit season tickets years ago and have not been to a stadium since 2019.
This is me too, except once a season I take my nephew to an OOC game, mostly because it's a 20 minute bikeride to Tiger Stadium from my house. But I gave up my season tickets years ago.
The in-stadium experience is practically unbearable these days. The horrible music instead of the band is one thing, but also the interminable wait during TV time outs is the worst. Too much time waiting, not enough time playing. It's just fricking boring nowadays. Every time they try to shorten the overall time, they always cut play-time instead of commercial time.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:03 pm to paperwasp
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elite athletes should break away and form a separate, official minor league
This makes the most sense. College sports would still exist and some kids would still grow and improve in college and go pro but the teams would be made up of actual college students.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:08 pm to bamabaseballsec
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cfb fans root for a logo
More and more, the ones in the stadium care less and less about the actual game, and more and more about just being seen at the game.
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watch for tradition
You mean like the band? Or Nebraska-Oklahoma? Pac 12 vs Big 10 in the Rose Bowl?
No, fans don't seem to really care about tradition anymore. It's about about money and status.
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why not just watch nfl.
Maybe it's just regionalism. Just about every state has a "college" football team, but few have NFL teams. I know that as a kid growing up in New Orleans in the 70s, I couldn't give a shite about MLB because there were no teams in my region.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:34 pm to paperwasp
And then, when they fail to get drafted they'll sue the school.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:46 pm to geauxbrown
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they'll sue the school
**coach screams** hostile work environment!!
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:48 pm to paperwasp
Do they now?
Posted on 7/9/25 at 6:52 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Do they now?
Posted on 7/9/25 at 7:33 pm to madmaxvol
...and that motherfricker didn't have the decency top stay bought.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 7:35 pm to borotiger
and colleges might get a little less rapey with more of the entitled hoodrats off in a separate minor league.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 7:46 pm to Harry Boutte
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The problem with the universities just divesting themselves from the minor league is that they wouldn't be able to come close to filling these 100,000 seat stadiums with fans to watch a bunch of engineering majors play football.
This pretty much captures the intellectual dishonesty in all this. Small time college sports has been out there a while. We all chose to follow the programs with big stadiums and bright lights. And questionable academics. And questions about improper benefits. None of this bothered us.
The fans on this page don’t want to watch Alabama field a team of actual academics. C’mon. People are just mad teams can pay over the table now instead of under it.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 7:51 pm to CaliHorn
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People are just mad teams can pay over the table now instead of under it.
People that aren’t morons realize that straight up pay for play and unlimited transfer portal would eventually kill the sport.
Posted on 7/9/25 at 8:01 pm to paperwasp
Nobody wants to make these athletes employees because some slick state will exempt their taxes for recruiting purposes.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 7:28 am to paperwasp
This has been going on for years. Though I'm an Alabama fan, I'll never forget during a national championship celebration, Jon Sanders from ESPN put a microphone in front of Courtney Upshaw's mouth and he let everyone know he probably never attended one class at Alabama. He couldn't string together one coherent sentence if his life depended on it. Embarrassing...
Posted on 7/10/25 at 8:12 am to jangalang
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some slick state will exempt their taxes for recruiting purposes
Yeah, and I've always thought in terms of benefits.
I'm sure most of the applicable programs are public universities.
If the thousands of athletes on campus at Alabama and Auburn become state employees overnight, who pays for that?
What about the second-string volleyball player who brings in no revenue, but now needs health insurance and state retirement?
And this scenario would be repeated all over the country.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 8:53 am to paperwasp
Then they should be part of a semi-pro farm team like what exists for baseball.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 9:38 am to bigDgator
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I've even more convinced that these elite athletes should break away and form a separate, official minor league (perhaps supplemented by the NFL), and that we should maintain the existing collegiate model for student athletes who want to just play sports and earn a college education.
The only thing preventing this is the fans care too much about winning. Fans would rather win with illiterate mercenaries from out of state than lose with loyal scholars from in state.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 9:44 am to GerryDiNardo
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The student in student athlete has always been a sham
Not always. But for the last 60 years, 100%.
Kids play college football to get paid. That used to mean the NFL. Now it just means NSD.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 9:46 am to TT9
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James Brooks says hold his beer.
Pat Dye was waaay ahead of the game.
Posted on 7/10/25 at 9:47 am to jangalang
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some slick state will exempt their taxes for recruiting purposes.
Given they can only exempt state taxes, if this were the biggest factor then every recruit would be going to TX, FL, and TN.
But if I exempt your 2% state tax and someone in Alabama pays you 5% more, you know what happens.
And that's ignoring changes coming to the SALT exemptions.
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