re: Derek Stingley partnering with Walk-On’s

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no, they're mad because this is a slippery slope that could transform college sports to basically a pro league. We already have pro sports, college sports is different.

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The only difference is that these kids aren't on salary. It basically is a amateur pro league already. These kids take bullshite classes, have to practice around the clock, fill stadiums to 100k capacity, etc. You have people who haven't attended college in decades or at all, cheering for a team because simply it is "their team". It has nothing to do with education. If people are against players being paid a salary, fine, I can see how that could get really complicated but to be against them making money off of their own name and likeness, that is just stupid.

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But we fear it's headed down that path and could destroy what makes college ball different (and far, far better) than pro ball.

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You do realize that college ball is already tainted with deals that happen under the table right lol? You think seeing players on billboards and local commercials will hurt college football? The thing that makes college ball great is the recruiting aspect and the atmosphere. That won't change

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no, they're mad because this is a slippery slope that could transform college sports to basically a pro league

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Then the coaches should have to be chemistry professors, there should be no commercials, no sponsor signs at the venues, no Bank One Drive Summary on the radio broadcast, no Capital One Cup for the all-sports standings, it should be the Peach Bowl instead of the Chik Fil A Bowl.

The "love of the game" model is long dead. It's a billion dollar business except the people who are the actual product have restrictions imposed on them that would be ridiculed if they were proposed in any other industry or any other aspect of college life.