FlyDownTheField83

Who pays you to post this?

Look, I need more of your words like voluntary and indoctrinated to beat my fellow ranters as we try to get your word count up….

By the way, if something happens once a twice a year, that is not “all the time”. I would say you need to think before you post, but I need more crazy words out of you…..

To take on a few more of your false claims; that the NCAA/admins are not enriching themselves, they are just poor people working for the good of the kids and are always good and true…etc…. The salary of an athletic director at NCAA member institutions was $60k to $100k per year in 1990. The average salary of these same ADs in 2023 was $1.1 million. There has been no change to that basic job description, but their salary is more than TEN TIMES greater. No one else with the same job over that period of time got raises of this enormity. Do not even get me started on the coaches.

Some of the arguments made in the anti-trust case that you want to flippantly set aside because they do not meet your criteria of being a credible experts relate to the fact that the NCAA has a virtual stranglehold on access to the NFL where players make millions (I.e. not room and board and a scholarship). In the 2023 draft every single one of the 259 players drafted to the NFL came from NCAA member institutions. In the 2024 draft 255 of the 257 players drafted came from NCAA member institutions (1 from the CFL and 1 from a rugby organization ). These statistics make clear that if you want access to the NFL you must go through the NCAA football programs. As well, college coaches not only recognize this fact, they use it to recruit players to their teams. Saban regularly bragged to recruits that his program was the best at getting players,to the NFL. This shows that for all practical purposes the NCAA has a monopoly on getting players in the NFL. The NCAA then used this monopoly power to force players not to use their own name, image and likeness (NIL) to earn money while playing in the NCAA. If a player did this they were kicked out,of the NCAA and effectively blackballed from the NFL. This argument is only one of the ideas reviewed and accepted by the courts at all levels. There are others that show the NCAA being complicit in artificially denying players earnings while college players.

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None of what you are saying is illegal

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On 8 August 2014 in the Ed O’Bannon versus NCAA lawsuit over NIL the court found the NCAA was in violation of antitrust laws (said it was illegal), in 2015 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed most of the district court ruling (said it was illegal), and in 2016 the US Supreme Court refused to take up this case indicating that the lower courts rulings were correct (said it was illegal).

3down10 your long standing background in filibustery and nonsensesagation is very impressive. However, I will take the fact that rejected appeals up to the US Supreme Court mean that you are LYING when you say the NCAA has not broken the law.

Great post, my best to his family, and hope for recovery….

Your failure to recognize what everyone else knows makes you, at best, deluded. The NCAA does not provide too good of a service, they colluded with the institutions in order to artificially restrict the player’s earnings. That is a fact, your refusal to acknowledge it makes it no less a fact.

Do you really believe Saban only was guaranteed to make $200k by the U of A ? However they structured his compensation, with booster support , etc…they damn well made sure Saban was getting the same as the top five coaches were being paid, like $10million a year. I do not blame them, Saban was great,…..in the old flawed system.

If you want to describe your fantasy as “conviction” that is your view, deluded and stupid, but you have a right to your opinion. I respect your right to state it (over and over and over, ad nauseum), but the world has moved on.

Ink stained was right, it is a waste of time to argue with you.

Cami Joe is correct. Most defined benefit pension funds 40-50 years ago had limitations and oversight by real committees that limited use of the funds. The financial services companies wanted to get their hands on that money and invest it so they could make money off it. So the poorly managed defined benefit pension funds were highlighted and these firms promoted fear of DB pensions. They also worked politicians to make laws that would write high liability for pensions on the company books.

All of this led to companies like Vanguard getting huge 401k dollars, and becoming financial giants using the retirement funds of middle America.

Your numbers: 54 cops killed, 28 by whites, 17 by blacks

Blacks make up 15% of the population, but your numbers say they make up 31% of the cop killings. So, according to YOU, blacks kill cops twice as often as whites.

Sorry the facts don’t match your feelings.

I can’t believe a Bama fan would pass up an opportunity to obsess over Auburn.

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…Without a collective bargaining agreement…

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A union and a collective bargaining agreement are a pipe dream - not going to happen.

The parameters look like they are being set one lawsuit at a time….

I think you may be onto something here. The ridiculous mess that is college football is causing fans to jump off that ship.

I admit to having Birmingham Stallions games on a few times already this year, and complaining to my wife about some of the throws Matt Corral has missed. A sure sign of some level of interest.