Shaq said he is not going give money to LSU if a player is not going to commit for 2-3 yrs

I won’t donate to a collective for the same reasons.

I’ll follow players social accounts (on mute) so they can increase their ability to make their own money but I’m not donating $1 to a collective until this shite gets under control.

shite is out of control

Then you don’t really get to complain when LSU falls behind. Point blank. You either play the game as it is or get left behind while everyone else loads up through the system we’ve got—not the one we wish we had.

Sitting on the sidelines talking about how it “should” be while refusing to support the collective is exactly how you end up watching Bama, Texas, and others stack rosters while we fade. This isn’t about liking the system—it’s about competing in it.

Change will come eventually, but until then, either help LSU stay in the fight or step aside for the ones who will. You don’t get to gripe about outcomes if you’re not willing to do your part.

Who could have foreseen the chaos that would happen.

College athletics is madness now. At least pro has contracts and some leagues have salary caps. Not suggesting what the solution is, but these are wild times.

Didn't Tenn's QB receive a ridiculous amount to go there. Reported 8 million? Out of High School. And now he holds out for more, because he feels the market has reset? No loyalty to them for rewarding him and taking such a risk on him out of High School.


It's crazy to me.

Any way we can hire Shaq as athletic director?

“You either play the game as it is or get left behind”


Or you innovate which is how sports have progressed since time and memorial.

it’ll be great if all the top programs and donors rise up and follow suit

unfortunately i think there are some who are going to continue to spend wildly just for the sake of calling themselves champions

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Then you don’t really get to complain when LSU falls behind. Point blank. You either play the game as it is or get left behind while everyone else loads up through the system we’ve got

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Here we got Shaquille Oneil, undoubtedly the most capable and likely person to move the needle for LSU in this regard, and you completely read through the fact that his point is that this game does not lead to “loading up” as his complaint is they will not stay with no guarantees on their end.

All nuance of the discussion is very clearly lost on you. It’s sad that you think you had a point here.

EVERYTHING they touch they destroy. They will destroy college sports too. Already have really. He is 100% correct. The people that gave money to this clown at Tenn....to gain his experience....they won't give again. The people with big money usually aren't dumb people...I was as passionate a college fan as there is...but fk em...hope it all burns down. Give them an inch, they take a mile. Now they want equal profit sharing....you can't make this up. Meanwhile some of the brightest students who will go on to do great things in life, inventing life changing procedures, etc...just get room and board....but a guy who was born an athletic freak with a 50 IQ gets millions for, in many cases, absolutely nothing. Kid from Michigan that was going to LSU...he has not proven anything. Can he be great? Sure. Like shaq said though, giving them this money lowers that drive to be the best. They have destroyed it.