re: Players opting out shows the difference of character between our generations.

Commitment
Pride
Responsibility

Not in the mind of todays Athletes

Good thing our young men and women in the Military have a different attitude

“The only easy day was yesterday”

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Yeah but you as a fan and a booster who pays millions are different beasts

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so you're actually saying players have an obligation to play for the big dollar boosters, but not for the average fan.

Interesting.

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These players have been straight-up exploited for years by the ptb. TV, schools, coaches, NCAA have made millions on the backs of these "student-athletes" giving them next to nothing in return. Most returned to poverty whence they came. Now a very few will make a few dollars from NIL, but it is still disgraceful how they are treated financially because the ptb can get away with it.

Athletic revenue should be a profit-sharing undertaking with the kids who are generating the money. All of them.

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Well ,using your knowledge , why don't these poor , being ripped off young kids just frick all the universities and either start their own college , or go and get all that good training at the facilities at Grambling and make all these rich WHITE people who donate millions to these univeristies keep their money , and leave it to relatives instead of funding $1,000,000 NIL's .How does that sound ?

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Players opting out shows the difference of character between our generations.

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OK, boomer - although, ironically, you are actually sort of right. The older generations expected college kids with not-yet-fully formed brains to batter themselves endlessly for your amusement.

Wanna know what's actually changed? We have a lot more data now.

It's weird to me that some of you seem to have a standard of blind allegiance with zero self-interest for student-athletes. That is ridiculous. And that actually probably led to a lot of the squandered fortunes of pro athletes over the years that you same boomers seem to love to gleefully make fun of. There is WAY less of that now, as the student athletes have become much more mindful of their health and their long-term finances.

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Pussification of America

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You see it in the fanbase of college football programs like LSU that were once great, but have become an average, ordinary, typical shell of their glorious pasts. The players aren't pussies, it's the fans who leave early in the third when their team trails by two scores.

Bullshirt. Football players and coaches have been among the most entitled group of people in America for decades. because they're generally slower when it comes to realizations, they've finally figured out they were being exploited and have finally started to do something about it.

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I abhor the term "progressive" because it's a false narrative. All conservatives should refrain.

I call it non-progressive or regressive...

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I can dig it - like switching ‘radical’ to ‘loser’

Still thought we could have done ‘small dick losers’ or even have thrown a homophobic term in there, but hey.

A lot of these players who "opt out" or quit, then enter the draft, aren't going to make life-changing money. Some won't even make a roster.

Maybe some will return and get a degree, then become a coach because they don't know how to do anything else.

The good news? They'll also be teaching classes. These "educators" will be teaching your kids.

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A lot of these players who "opt out" or quit, then enter the draft, aren't going to make life-changing money. Some won't even make a roster.

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There's an argument that it's even more important for players in this category - they have one slim chance to maxmimize their value, so they really can't afford to lose it at all.