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re: NFL = Slavery
Posted on 3/18/11 at 4:26 pm to The Gooch
Posted on 3/18/11 at 4:26 pm to The Gooch
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As I said in my previous post, I don't think that people feel they are treated "shamefully"......we just feel they should be compensated more than what they are for what they generate.........
I dont' understand. You can't pay an amatuer first off. and everything they generate, gets put back into them. they fly on private planes to alabama and mississippi instead of taking a bus. I'm sure the football team at Nichols doesn't fly to every game like LSU does.
What they help generate, they get the benefits from, not the rest of the students, who actually pay to go to school, and live, and eat.
they are compensated as much as they can be. Just b/c you don't give someone cash doens't mean they aren't being compensated well.
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Posted on 3/18/11 at 4:27 pm to GamecockAlum
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Besides, most fans could give a shite about the name of the players as long as they win. The majority of fans don't care nearly as much about the pieces of the puzzle as much as they care about the end result.
come on, man. Since it's still fresh in my mind, take for example the Fab Five: "Annual athletic royalties more than tripled, from $2 million in the pre-Fab year of 1990-91 [which, NOTABLY, was right AFTER UofM had won a national title in basketball!] to a peak of $6.2 million in '93-94 [which, again notably, was a period in which they did NOT win ANY championships, lulz]." article If no one cared about players, how do you explain that bump? You can't.
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So you are bitching about something you have no stake in and are not offering any solution with anything resembling a better situation/outcome?
Mmmkay.
this is a message board. I didn't think I was sending in a proposal to the NCAA or writing for a law journal. lmao. Just because I don't have a solution, doesn't mean I can't tell that the system is broken... that is some "shitty logic."
This post was edited on 3/18/11 at 4:50 pm
Posted on 3/18/11 at 4:33 pm to DelU249
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No one forces them to sign their LOI. In fact, they seem pretty excited when they do.
I agree. But at that point, they haven't done shite for the school. Once they prove themselves (and many don't), a lot of them start to realize that everyone is getting paid for their actions but them... then they start to get pissed. This is not to say that ALL of them do, just some of them. I imagine a lot of them continue to be excited simply for the possibility to make it to the next level. And that's cool if they're happy. I just don't think it's fair.
Posted on 3/18/11 at 5:37 pm to MI LSU
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come on, man. Since it's still fresh in my mind, take for example the Fab Five: "Annual athletic royalties more than tripled, from $2 million in the pre-Fab year of 1990-91 [which, NOTABLY, was right AFTER UofM had won a national title in basketball!] to a peak of $6.2 million in '93-94 [which, again notably, was a period in which they did NOT win ANY championships, lulz]." article If no one cared about players, how do you explain that bump? You can't.
Because they were winning.
Winning = revenue = profit.
If the Fab Five came out and never broke .500 they wouldn't have made any damn money.
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this is a message board. I didn't think I was sending in a proposal to the NCAA or writing for a law journal. lmao. Just because I don't have a solution, doesn't mean I can't tell that the system is broken... that is some "shitty logic."
Yeah but you are operating under the asinine and misled assumption that there is something wrong with the system to start with. The system is fine. Thousands of athletes get free shite year and year out and don't bring in a red cent for the university.
Posted on 3/19/11 at 9:36 pm to GamecockAlum
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Because they were winning.
Winning = revenue = profit.
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"Annual athletic royalties more than tripled, from $2 million in the pre-Fab year of 1990-91 [which, NOTABLY, was right AFTER UofM had won a national title in basketball!] to a peak of $6.2 million in '93-94 [which, again notably, was a period in which they did NOT win ANY championships, lulz]."
Posted on 3/19/11 at 9:39 pm to MI LSU
Posted on 3/19/11 at 10:11 pm to MI LSU
So winning had absolutely nothing to do with it? I'm sure they would have sold jerseys even if the Fab Five came out and laid goose eggs everywhere, right?
Posted on 3/20/11 at 10:12 am to TigerMyth36
What an idiot, the African- American community ought to pissed about Peterson's comment. Equating making millions of dollars a year playing a sport that no-one forced you to play to REAL SLAVERY. Where is the outrage from the leaders of the African American community?
Posted on 3/20/11 at 10:31 am to tcoachmc
why would people from africa care what Peterson says?
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