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RE: Is college athletics turning into another professional apparatus?
(08-16-2022 04:52 PM)OdinFrigg Wrote: My opinion may not be popular on this board, but a 60+ school separation from the rest of college football and other sports will have long term negative consequences. Add whoever, the excitement for it is just about gone. Maybe I am reading too much speculation that is anticlimactic. This we’ll just adjust to NIL as we move along and we’ll get to the rules later, will be a bumpy road unaware where the exits may be. A playoff, to be decided by a load of BIG and SEC teams, and can’t do without Notre Dame, and bid or two tossed elsewhere, will be the thrilling decision for the profiteers. The four best will be in there somewhere I suppose.
Academics left the formula long ago. They can’t pretend much longer that the majority of these football and basketball players are real students. They would be better off to acknowledge the reality.
You are 54 years too late with your opinion. Perhaps a century too late. And those imbeciles up North who call it academic are hypocrites, and the NCAA is a bureaucratic money filching boondoggle which banked 2 billion in endowments to perpetuate itself by propping up the illusion of amateurism. It has always been a wealthy well educated minority which has hired ringers instead of students to project regional power for their own aggrandizement and called it "sport" when really it was a publicity proxy war.
I don't castigate your stance, simply the wholesale naivete that it has ever been remotely clean and above board. What I applaud is that a huge underground economy which by its nature made young men and women complicit in its hypocrisy, complicit in its skirting of law, and which has flourished on the physical sacrifices of the poor without compensating even the injured is finally judged and found wanting!
So, piss on the NCAA and the last vestiges of slavery it represented, and hoorah that CEO powerbrokers can no longer claim a tax deduction for their upscaled cockfights, and welcome to the compensation young people will receive for the skills they possess and the physical and mortal risks they assume!
It all needed to change. And while change will take time at least the old ships have been burned and only a novel way forward exists! I weep not for the devil and his losses!
(This post was last modified: 08-16-2022 06:42 PM by JRsec.)
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