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Do people realize that college football was around long before the NFL?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:07 pm
If you are going to run your mouth at least be accurate. If the NFL were to disappear tomorrow, we would still have college football. Would a few more guys play other sports? Sure. Would college football decline in popularity? Possible. But we had college football long before pro football and we will long after pro football. You know college athletics were originally meant for fun and a free ride(eventually) to get a good education.
Just recently has it become a stepping stone for pro sports
Just recently has it become a stepping stone for pro sports
This post was edited on 9/24/17 at 12:08 pm
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Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:08 pm to iamAG
If there were no money at the end of the road, the stellar athletes would pick a different sport.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:09 pm to iamAG
You actually think great players would still play football over basketball if they had no chance to make a large amount of money?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:09 pm to iamAG
quote:Things are exactly the same now as they were before the NFL...obviously!!!
Do people realize that college football was around long before the NFL?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:09 pm to iamAG
You would still have college football, but we would be back to guys that wouldn't be drafted by the NFL today. Any decent athlete would be playing a different sport.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:10 pm to iamAG
quote:
Would college football decline in popularity? Possible. But we had college football long before pro football and we will long after pro football. You know college athletics were originally meant for fun and a free ride(eventually) to get a good education.
As soon as top athletes starting playing other games CFB would become unwatchable.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:10 pm to StrongBackWeakMind
Like I said some would. Not all would be capable of playing another sport. Quality of play might decline, but it wouldn't go away. It probably wouldn't be noticeable to the average idiot fan like most of y'all are.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:10 pm to StrongBackWeakMind
Like What? There are only so many spots on a basketball roster? The black football players wouldn't play baseball and definitely not hockey.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:11 pm to iamAG
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It probably wouldn't be noticeable to the average idiot fan like most of y'all are.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:12 pm to Sevendust912
Basketball.
Baseball.
Rugby.
Track.
Boxing.
MMA.
ETA: soccer, hockey.
Any sport that would eventually pay them for their services.
Baseball.
Rugby.
Track.
Boxing.
MMA.
ETA: soccer, hockey.
Any sport that would eventually pay them for their services.
This post was edited on 9/24/17 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:12 pm to WestCoastAg
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You actually think great players would still play football over basketball if they had no chance to make a large amount of money?
Perhaps.
What about all the soccer, volleyball, softball, ......... players?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:12 pm to iamAG
quote:
It probably wouldn't be noticeable to the average idiot fan like most of y'all are.
It would definitely be noticeable.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:13 pm to iamAG
quote:
It probably wouldn't be noticeable to the average idiot fan like most of y'all are.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:13 pm to WestCoastAg
Supply and demand people. My goodness y'all are dumb. You add another 5,000 players to basketball. They only have so many scholarships. The leftovers would have to decide if they wanted to go to college for free or stay in the hood. Maybe some top athletes play basketball over football, but it wouldn't be as dramatic as y'all are saying. It's literally impossible with basketball scholarship limits.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:13 pm to iamAG
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Maybe some top athletes play basketball over football, but it wouldn't be as dramatic as y'all are saying.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:13 pm to iamAG
quote:
you are going to run your mouth at least be accurate. If the NFL were to disappear tomorrow, we would still have college football. Would a few more guys play other sports? Sure. Would college football decline in popularity? Possible. But we had college football long before pro football and we will long after pro football. You know college athletics were originally meant f
I know that you, and many of the ones you know in the tiny area of the woods which you've never left, wish things were still like they were back in the pre-civil rights era. But things today are vastly different, even if the changes haven't quite reached your area yet.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:14 pm to StrongBackWeakMind
Those sports require years of practice. This would have to be a generational shift.
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:14 pm to ksayetiger
quote:There's literally tons of professional leagues for soccer players to go to.
What about all the soccer, volleyball, softball, ......... players?
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:15 pm to iamAG
The actual effect is just that football scholarship would more end up going to more middle/upper class kids. It would be on the same level as Tennis or Soccer scholarship.... maybe even lower.
If there is NO professional football league, kids in the hood aren't going to play it. The end.
If there is NO professional football league, kids in the hood aren't going to play it. The end.
This post was edited on 9/24/17 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 9/24/17 at 12:15 pm to WestCoastAg
Take away the incentive for the great athletes and it wouldn't affect the sport.
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ.
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