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

quote:

---

in 1970, the first round draft picks salaries averaged $45,000 with a bonus of $80,000.

---

You forgot this bit of info.
The median money income of families in the United States in 1970 was $9,870. So 45K +80K bonus was a lot of cash at that time.

quote:

---

your team playing in a meaningless bowl?

---

Double-edged sword. It’s only meaningless because they’re making it meaningless. It means something to every play that chooses to play and every fan that attends/watches.

quote:

---

This is one of the most tired and wore out bullshite narrative's there is. You can't name 10 players who were injured in a bowl game in that 20 years that had there draft stock impact as a result. What makes it even further bullshite is that these players will use this excuse yet do all kinds of risky stuff off the football field. Some of these same kids will quit and claim it is to avoid risking injury yet they lack the mental discipline to back off the devil's lettuce for just a few month's until the combine and draft are over with.

---

It really is. I can’t tell you five or 10 guys who have had their careers altered as a result of an injury during a bowl game. It just doesn’t happen like Twitter want you to think it does. I think the real issue is that there’s no more concept of team anymore. Nobody has pride in representing anything other than themselves these days. Everything is about self branding and self promotion and it has ruined the concept of most team sports these days at the non-professional level

These bowls are not meaningless to the ones that play. Why punish a whole team because a few players opted out?

quote:

---

Lou Holtz. Football coach was
asked what is the difference in
football players today and 50 years
ago. He answered "Simple, Today's
athletes talk about rights and
privileges. And the players 50 years
ago talked about obligations and
responsibilities !"

---

In the 1970s, football players were smoking dope, shooting roids, chugging beer, and chasing tail. The percentage of players with "character" problems is the same as it is today.

Lou Holtz is full of shite.


“[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. . . .
They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it." - Rhetoric, Aristotle, 4th Century BC

“The beardless youth… does not foresee what is useful, squandering his money.” - Horace, 1st Century BC

“Youth were never more sawcie, yea never more savagely saucie . . . the ancient are scorned, the honourable are contemned, the magistrate is not dreaded.” - The Wise-Man’s Forecast against the Evill Time, Thomas Barnes, 1624

"Whither are the manly vigour and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt…” - Letter in Town and Country magazine republished in Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, 1771

“A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages…chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements … they require out-door exercises–not this sort of mental gladiatorship.” - Scientific American, July, 1858

“We defy anyone who goes about with his eyes open to deny that there is, as never before, an attitude on the part of young folk which is best described as grossly thoughtless, rude, and utterly selfish.” - The Conduct of Young People, Hull Daily Mail, 1925

“Probably there is no period in history in which young people have given such emphatic utterance to a tendency to reject that which is old and to wish for that which is new.” - Young People Drinking More, Portsmouth Evening News, 1936

“It’s an irony, but so many of us are a cautious, nervous, conservative crew that some of the elders who five years ago feared that we might come trooping home full of foreign radical ideas are now afraid that the opposite might be too true, and that we could be lacking some of the old American gambling spirit and enterprise.” - The Care and Handling of a Heritage: One of the “scared-rabbit” generation reassures wild-eyed elders about future, Life, 1950

quote:

---

What is way worse than any player deciding to opt out or transfer is the remote idea that any of those players owe you, the fan, any considerations whatsoever.

---

You, and your buddies posting above are a special kind of stupid. What do you think happens to all that NFL money if there are no fans? The players owe the fans everything! No fans, no money!

quote:

---

What if the school is a private university or that boosters pay the coach?

---

Come on, man, even private universities receive huge federal dollars.

And boosters aren't fans???

In 1969 or so LSU’s entire team opted out of a bowl game bc they got their panties a wad.

Where are you getting this inflation stat? I am seeing on multiple websites that $23K in 1970 is equal to around 150K today. That's significantly less than what you're saying, although I'm sure you can explain the difference to me since you have such an incredible grasp on economics and inflation.