College Football season is almost here!

archives said:
Ought to see the NFL test for intelligence, rivals a fifth grade final exam

And we are heading towards the divorce between the two, when college athletics becomes totally professional, which is the Avenue they are heading down, the split will occur, only college connection will be in name only
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If NFL players are stupid, at least they're not pretending to be college students.
Come to think of it, how smart can anybody be to take the very real risk of quadriplegia playing that stupid game.
I've seen it happen before my eyes.
While our Patriots were having their twenty-year run of excellence, I watched them...but never felt right about it.

I can take pride in having involved myself with the nice safe sport of boxing.
Nothing can go wrong there. I boxed as an amateur while in high school and a professional, strictly at the local club level, while in college.
And despite that, I actually graduated from college.
Only to be drafted into the military, of course.

When it comes to college football, however, I'm mostly upset at the way it pollutes academia.
I'd rather give the scholarships to kids who worked like hell academically to earn their way in.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
The kids need cash stipends for playing because they certainly don't give a fat fuck about the valuable scholarships they're getting.

I would love to see academia at every level divorced from all sports programs.

Let corporations waste their money on them.

Every time I hear some idiot kid not be able to deliver a simple grammatically correct sentence to a sideline reporter, I hate college sports more.
If you can't speak properly, you didn't prepare to enter college in the first place. Take remedial classes first.
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While one could argue there's an element of truth to that in today's current environment the official ruling is

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NiftyNiblick said:
If NFL players are stupid, at least they're not pretending to be college students.
Come to think of it, how smart can anybody be to take the very real risk of quadriplegia playing that stupid game.
I've seen it happen before my eyes.
While our Patriots were having their twenty-year run of excellence, I watched them...but never felt right about it.

I can take pride in having involved myself with the nice safe sport of boxing.
Nothing can go wrong there. I boxed as an amateur while in high school and a professional, strictly at the local club level, while in college.
And despite that, I actually graduated from college.
Only to be drafted into the military, of course.

When it comes to college football, however, I'm mostly upset at the way it pollutes academia.
I'd rather give the scholarships to kids who worked like hell academically to earn their way in.
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They got caught cheating . The team cheated and Brady cheated also.
 
cawacko said:
Do you think schools with a lot of money wouldn't give more to the players, under union rules, if they could? Of course they would. On your recruiting visit they would just tell you "under union rules you will get (pick a number) $100K and we know if you go to (pick a school) Kansas State you will get $25K". How's that any different?

My Saban story was about dealing with boosters. Go look at the sh*t show that is Auburn right now and how their boosters are so involved and f'ing everything with different factions trying to fire the coach, hire a new one on the side etc. It's a mess. Texas has more money than anyone and they've sucked for a long time and a big reason is their various booster factions that battle for power. This isn't new nor unique to those two schools but they are high profile right now.
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Sure, some schools will offer more, however remember, it is the players negotiating with the school. If Alabama wants to promote generous benefits to football players, athletes in other sports might have a say, Alabama can’t spread the money across all sports. Plus it is transparent, and eliminates the donor’s influence and players’ agents

Texas sucks cause they are incompetent, look how many basketball coaches they have been thru in the past few decades.

You keep missing the overall point, let’s put it this way, NIL and the transfer portal is like stimulants in baseball, changes the game, more you add, the better the performance, to ignore such is like saying McGuire, Bonds, and Clemons deserve more recognition for their statistics
 
ExpressLane said:
They got caught cheating . The team cheated and Brady cheated also.
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Deflategate was a total fraud.

Brady wouldn't give up his phone because there was personal stuff on it, largely involving his friends, and he's rather take the fall than rat them out--over things that had nothing to do with football.
Brady showed class.

The NFL disgraced themselves on that issue, but then again, they disgrace themselves routinely.
Brady is the Greatest Football Player Who Ever Lived, and the Brady-Belichick-Kraft Patriots were the Greatest Football Team of All Time...end of story.
 
ExpressLane said:
Like using race on college admissions?
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Yes, like that. I'm a Social Democrat and I'm an economic liberal.
I believe in equal status under the law.
Jim Crow was racist. A color-blind attitude toward race isn't what I consider to be racism.

All races have proven to be capable of producing very competent people.
If individuals are not capable of being competent, they should throw a bag on it and fuck for fun--not procreate.
Irresponsible procreating regardless of race is immoral and should be criminal in my view.
 
archives said:
Sure, some schools will offer more, however remember, it is the players negotiating with the school. If Alabama wants to promote generous benefits to football players, athletes in other sports might have a say, Alabama can’t spread the money across all sports. Plus it is transparent, and eliminates the donor’s influence and players’ agents

Texas sucks cause they are incompetent, look how many basketball coaches they have been thru in the past few decades.

You keep missing the overall point, let’s put it this way, NIL and the transfer portal is like stimulants in baseball, changes the game, more you add, the better the performance, to ignore such is like saying McGuire, Bonds, and Clemons deserve more recognition for their statistics
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Clearly the union effort has gone nowhere in college sports. But I am still intrigued how you think it would actually work. Are players going to know before they commit to a school how much they will receive? Or is that not determined until they get there? And if the latter are they going to threaten not to play if they don't get what they want? Do they get to keep their scholarship if they go on strike?

Football and to some degree basketball subsidize all other sports. There is about zero chance they are going to let the woman's softball team unionize at some school. They make no money. Who is going to pay them?

Texas A&M just got arguably the greatest recruiting class ever last year and they aren't winning and some want Jimbo Fischer fired. N.I.L. isn't the only factor involved in kids choosing a school nor does it guarantee success.

I cannot follow your line of thinking that unionizing means there isn't going to be a difference in payouts among schools, so therefore have no affect on recruiting while N.I.L. does.

I don't like the portal but it's progressive. Coaches can leave at any time so why can't players? It's player empowerment (so the argument goes).
 
NiftyNiblick said:
If NFL players are stupid, at least they're not pretending to be college students.
Come to think of it, how smart can anybody be to take the very real risk of quadriplegia playing that stupid game.
I've seen it happen before my eyes.
While our Patriots were having their twenty-year run of excellence, I watched them...but never felt right about it.

I can take pride in having involved myself with the nice safe sport of boxing.
Nothing can go wrong there. I boxed as an amateur while in high school and a professional, strictly at the local club level, while in college.
And despite that, I actually graduated from college.
Only to be drafted into the military, of course.

When it comes to college football, however, I'm mostly upset at the way it pollutes academia.
I'd rather give the scholarships to kids who worked like hell academically to earn their way in.
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"Nothing can go wrong in boxing"? Ok...
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Deflategate was a total fraud.

Brady wouldn't give up his phone because there was personal stuff on it, largely involving his friends, and he's rather take the fall than rat them out--over things that had nothing to do with football.
Brady showed class.

The NFL disgraced themselves on that issue, but then again, they disgrace themselves routinely.
Brady is the Greatest Football Player Who Ever Lived, and the Brady-Belichick-Kraft Patriots were the Greatest Football Team of All Time...end of story.
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It wasn't a fraud. If anything it was a little "underblown".

Did anyone catch what I did there? Damn, I'm good!
 
I had a blast watching NCAA Football yesterday. Texas upset Oklahoma St., I was at a local bar in SAT watching Texans celebrating :)

I haven't finished watching the replay of the Washington Husky game, but Marshawn Lynch and his mom were at the game in Berkley.

DURING HIS INTEVIEW ABOUT BEING INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME, MARSHAWN DROPED THE "F" BOMB. So "Marshawn".

Happy NFL Football Sunday all!
 
LurchAddams said:
AND.. what about yesterday.. bit of an upset over oSo, wasn't it? I was watching it, along with a lot of local fans here in SAT :)
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The Longhorns plagued themselves with penalties that ended up losing the game for them.

However, I think that the OSO and TCU are better teams overall this year.

But I do believe that Texas will be a better team and bounce back next year.
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
The Longhorns plagued themselves with penalties that ended up losing the game for them.

However, I think that the OSO and TCU are better teams overall this year.

But I do believe that Texas will be a better team and bounce back next year.
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Oh! You're right Oklahoma won, I looked at the score backwards. But moving to the NFL - even though the Cowboys won yesterday, which I didn't want - the Seahawks won and Green Bay.. lost - to the Washington Commanders! I love seeing Aaron Rogers lose - he's an anti-vaxxer who's full of himself.
 
LurchAddams said:
Oh! You're right Oklahoma won, I looked at the score backwards. But moving to the NFL - even though the Cowboys won yesterday, which I didn't want - the Seahawks won and Green Bay.. lost - to the Washington Commanders! I love seeing Aaron Rogers lose - he's an anti-vaxxer who's full of himself.
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All big trees eventually fall. Rogers will go down as one of the best quarterbacks in history, but, this year, his offensive line is probably the worst he has ever had to play behind in Green Bay. They may be out of the hunt this year! It's Defense is waning as well this year. But, I believe on any given Sunday- they can still win.

The Dallas Cowboys are my hometown team. I've seen them rise and fall many times! I will never apologize for them to be my favorite NFL team to watch. We've definitely had our share of Super Bowl and Championship wins! I still back them even when they are down! And I still enjoy watching them play whether they win or lose. They really don't have to be the best for me to enjoy watching them play today.
The Packers are on our schedule and I look forward to our chances of winning that game!
 
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