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NCAA needs to mind their own Multi-Billion dollar business
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:03 pm
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:03 pm
For a century or so, boosters gave athletes and their families money thru jobs, loans etc. Nobody died.
Let's go back to boosters giving kids "part-time jobs" etc. Taxes get paid, kids can buy a car and enjoy college.
Sorry, but TV networks make billions, Coaches cash in, non-revenue sports get paid, sponsors sell beer, cars, phones, whatever.
Let the ballplayers get their taste. Let the boosters do their thing. Doesn't cost the schools a red cent.
The whole damn thing is absurd.
Let's go back to boosters giving kids "part-time jobs" etc. Taxes get paid, kids can buy a car and enjoy college.
Sorry, but TV networks make billions, Coaches cash in, non-revenue sports get paid, sponsors sell beer, cars, phones, whatever.
Let the ballplayers get their taste. Let the boosters do their thing. Doesn't cost the schools a red cent.
The whole damn thing is absurd.
This post was edited on 4/29/19 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:06 pm to Buckeye Jeaux
The system is so out dated it’s pathetic and laughable. Anyone that believes that totally clean major programs exist are completely naive.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:09 pm to Buckeye Jeaux
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This post was edited on 4/9/23 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:10 pm to msutiger
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Would you be saying that if in this entire ordeal it was Nick Saban instead of Will Wade or are you saying this because your guy got caught with his hand in the cookie jar?
If there’s anything this trial and the accompanying media has shown, it’s that there are few to no clean programs in D1 sports. Fact.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:11 pm to msutiger
quote:I see your point, and I would be on Saban’s arse if he was the one caught, but do I believe Tua deserves some of the money Bama made from him last year? Absolutely. This discussion goes so much further than a petty football rivalry. This is a discussion of ethics.
Would you be saying that if in this entire ordeal it was Nick Saban instead of Will Wade or are you saying this because your guy got caught with his hand in the cookie jar?
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:12 pm to msutiger
quote:exactly right, and I've been saying this from the beginning.
Would you be saying that if in this entire ordeal it was Nick Saban instead of Will Wade or are you saying this because your guy got caught with his hand in the cookie jar?
If Will Wade was coaching at another SEC school, this board would go ballistic calling him a cheater and demanding he be fired.
But Wade wears P&G so he's golden.
Hypocrites.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:12 pm to The Pirate King
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If there’s anything this trial and the accompanying media has shown, it’s that there are few to no clean programs in D1 sports. Fact.
There are over 350 division I basketball programs. Your statement is not even close to accurate. A large handful have had their names surface. Not 300+
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:14 pm to msutiger
quote:I've been saying this since the NCAA started sticking their nose in recruiting about 30 years ago.
Would you be saying that if in this entire ordeal it was Nick Saban instead of Will Wade or are you saying this because your guy got caught with his hand in the cookie jar?
It is the height of hypocrisy for these billion dollar leaches to forbid kids to get some cash.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:14 pm to Buckeye Jeaux
The whole thing is just silly. I don’t see the point of everybody knowing what is going on but pretending we don’t.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:14 pm to geauxtigers456
quote:Tua is getting a ton of value.
but do I believe Tua deserves some of the money Bama made from him last year?
He's getting free tuition, room and board, etc. He's getting massive nationwide exposure under the Alabama brand and from the SEC's relationships with the TV networks, which is incredibly valuable. He's playing in billions of dollars worth of facilities owned by the university and is being coached by the best college coach in the game.
Tua's getting as much as he gives.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:17 pm to atltiger6487
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If Will Wade was coaching at another SEC school, this board would go ballistic calling him a cheater and demanding he be fired.
But Wade wears P&G so he's golden.
Hypocrites.
Not true. The same thing happened the other day when some guy got on the stand and said he was paying Bama football players and I couldn't care less because I realize that LSU was paying players during the same period. Any team that is in the top 10 recruiting rankings is doing this and has been doing it for a very long time.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:18 pm to atltiger6487
Tua is getting a lot more than that. Didn’t his family pick up and move to Alabama?
This post was edited on 4/29/19 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:20 pm to atltiger6487
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If Will Wade was coaching at another SEC school, this board would go ballistic calling him a cheater and demanding he be fired.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I know that I and many others wouldn't be pushing some kind of morality bullshite about it. Of course deep down I'd maybe hope for another SEC school's program to get wrecked because it could conceivably help LSU, depending on what program it is. But I'm not under some impression that there are any "clean" major programs. You know there are TONS of other programs in both basketball and football that are implicated in all of this, right?
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:26 pm to atltiger6487
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He's getting free tuition, room and board, etc
It is anything but free, he gets to perform a difficult time consuming injury prone job in exchange for tuition, room, and board.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:29 pm to Buckeye Jeaux
Title IX- need to get rid of it first or Laura the goalie gets the same cash that Bill the running back does...
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:34 pm to Ebridg3
quote:If it comes from the school, yes. But a local businessman would be free to hire (or not hire) anyone he pleases.
Title IX- need to get rid of it first or Laura the goalie gets the same cash that Bill the running back does...
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:36 pm to EA6B
quote:you clearly missed the rest of my post.
It is anything but free, he gets to perform a difficult time consuming injury prone job in exchange for tuition, room, and board.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 3:40 pm to Buckeye Jeaux
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For a century or so, boosters gave athletes and their families money thru jobs, loans etc. Nobody died.
Let's go back to boosters giving kids "part-time jobs" etc. Taxes get paid, kids can buy a car and enjoy college.
Exactly if the NCAA would come out and say that schools are not allowed to pay players but the rules regarding booster is lifted it would solve all these issues. If someone wants to pay kid to play at their alma mater that is their business, let it happen. It would become a free market and level itself out in no time.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:09 pm to Buckeye Jeaux
I think they should let only us cheat.
Posted on 4/29/19 at 4:38 pm to atltiger6487
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Tua is getting a ton of value. He's getting free tuition, room and board, etc. He's getting massive nationwide exposure under the Alabama brand and from the SEC's relationships with the TV networks, which is incredibly valuable. He's playing in billions of dollars worth of facilities owned by the university and is being coached by the best college coach in the game. Tua's getting as much as he gives.
Stop with this bullshite
This post was edited on 4/29/19 at 4:40 pm
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