re: Im old. I hate kids nowaday. I hate NIL deals. Kids so soft nowadays.

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God damn baw lmao

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He’s a civil engineer he’s smarter than everyone. Don’t believe me, just as him.

Reminder- that most basic engineering degree is also from the Ivey McNesse Stat University

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So, like any other student.

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But prior to the transfer portal an athlete had to sit out a year not like a non athlete student. This is the biggest problem.

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i likely won’t read a dumber comment today

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That assessment says more about you than it does the comment.

No one who ever participated in college athletics was forced to do so involuntarily, and no one is entitled to do so either. I don't know whether the NCAA legitimately meets the legal definition of a monopoly or not, nor do I really care.

We're talking about people hoping for a career in entertainment. We're not talking about utilities that can mean someone freezes to death in the winter if they get shut out of it, or something that will affect commerce for the whole economy, like the air travel industry or trucking. We're talking about a relatively inconsequential endeavor that only a small percentage of people will ever be successful in no matter what.

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CAPITALISM, CAPITALISM, CAPITALISM (except with college athletes because I liked the game better when they couldn’t get their market value)

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It's not a violation of free market principles in the least for two private parties to agree to an arrangement in which one or both voluntarily limits opportunities for the consideration of the benefits afforded by the agreement.

Which is what kids signing with schools to receive a scholarship (and expert coaching, and training, and nutritional advice, and television exposure) with an NCAA member school were doing.

"I give up my right to pursue the following opportunities that I otherwise would be free to pursue, and I do so to receive the following benefits."

That's not anti-capitalism. At all.

It's the same thing as signing a non-compete contract or agreeing that any inventions you develop remain the intellectual property of the company you work for. It's the same as professional agreements made every day in a multitude of industries and fields.

If you don't like or agree to those terms, you simply don't sign the contract.

All that said, if people are dumb enough to donate money to pay these kids millions of dollars to play minor league football, that's fine with me. Doesn't bother me at all.

I just don't like B.S. And what you wrote was mostly B.S. IMO.

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But prior to the transfer portal an athlete had to sit out a year not like a non athlete student.

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They also got benefits that a non athlete student didn't get.

My daughter majored in theatre in college. So she was hoping for a career in entertainment, same as the football players.

They got featured on national t.v. a dozen times a year.

None of her theatre productions got featured on t.v.

That directly benefitted those players. Even the ones who won't make it to the pros. After their eligibility is up they will still be remembered fondly by millions of fans in their state, so if they open an insurance office or car lot or when they go for jobs, they have notoriety and name recognition that non athlete students don't get.

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I'm old

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Same

I get irrationally angry about 7-year-old kids driving around in $20,000 golf carts

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Im damn proud to be alive in the 80s and 90s when real men played sports. There some legends rolling over in their graves at these wussies playin sports now.

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Damn straight.

Like that Whit Weeks injury today. Most players back then would have walked it off after they popped their ankle back in place. Probably wouldn’t have missed but a few plays.

But that pussy Whit let them put a boot on him and take him off in a cart, and he missed the rest of the game.

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this country is goin to hell

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Let me guess... You're a redneck that lives in some small town like Zachary or Livingston Parish.

The US is actually thriving way more today than any period prior, especially the 80s and 90s. The S&P 500 has increased at over 15%+ per year for the last decade. From 1980 to 2010 it barely increased at all. 401k's have skyrocketed in the last 10 years, the same time you say the country has gone to hell, when in fact 401k's went to hell from 1990 to 2010. Every smart, rich international citizen puts their earnings straight into the S&P 500 and don't touch their countries' stock market. Every major Tech company is HQ'd here. 18 of 20 largest market cap companies are HQ'd in the US. The companies that will own the world (Amazon, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Tesla) all are centered in the US and show 0 sign of slowing growth with 25% year over year net income growths. AI was started and pretty much completely US centered. Quantum computing, the next thing in 10 years will also be US created and centered.

US has 50 of the world's top 100 universities. 50% despite 4% population. Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, Stanford acceptance rates are all 3% to 4%. No other university outside the US has an acceptance rate of even below 15%. That includes Oxford, Cambridge, and U London. That is how competitive the US is. Immigrant green card acceptance rate is 2%. Only 1 in 50 get accepted because it is competitive to get citizenship here. US has won most medals at olympics since 1996. Most gold medals since 2012. The US lost a lot of Summer Olympcs to Eastern Europe in the 80s and 90s. Now the US wins total medal count and gold medal count every Summer Olympics today.

The dollar has gained on every single currency the last 5 years. There isn't one single currency of the hundreds of different types and countries that has gained value on the US Dollar in the last 5 years. 1 euro equaled to $1.40 in 2009. It is now $1.04 per Euro. Soon the USD will surpass the Euro.

The US and Canada were equal in 2011 in GDP Per Capita. Both countries were around $52k. Today, the US GDP Per Capita is $83k while Canada is at $55k. What was equal is now the US leading Canada by 60% in GDP per Capita.

The US now spends as much on military as the entire rest of the world combined does.

Homicide and Violent crime rates today are now 50% lower than what it was per capita in the 1980s and 1990s. The country is much safer with now only 1 murder per 2 murders of back then. Search on google "Homicide rate since 1980 in US graph" if you don't believe that. It's actually believed to be from lead poisoning of the generation born from 1940 to 1960. There is an extreme coorelation between lead measurements in the air and homicide/violent crime rate. It is almost identical in the slopes, peaks, and bottoms. Lead poisoning is known to alter the brain and caused someone to be more violent than usual.

I just hit you with tonna facts as to why the US is a much, much better country today than the 80s and 90s.. moreso than any other comment in this post that will revert to bias and ad hominem. Data, facts is always the best way to go in any argument. The US is dominating and thriving in the world even more so than the 80s and 90s. It is on the upswing to new heights, especially with all the major tech centered here, both AI and I think eventually quantum along with how dominant our higher education is.

Preach.



Facts are hard for people to accept when they try to get all their news from Fox or CNN.

If you removed 5-6 urban cities from violent crime stats, violent crime would be so rare, it would almost be non-existent.

If you can't be an economic success in this country, you need to take a hard look in the mirror.

America is the greatest country on Earth and that's why people die trying to get here.

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Your average young Harvard grad is much, much smarter today than Harvard grads who are over 50 years old.

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Surely you don't really think that's what that means.

When I took the SAT and ACT in 1987 we got exactly zero coaching or "teaching to the test," and I didn't know a single person who took any SAT prep courses. I guess they existed then, but we didn't know about it.

Now the schools teach to the test like mothers, and everybody who aspires to an Ivy League school takes a prep course.

Studying the material that's going to be on the test doesn't make anyone "smarter." If you think Ivy League students are smarter now than they were then, go visit some of their protests during which they illegally occupy campus buildings and then give press conferences whining about the school not feeding them, or wear "Queers for Palestine" shirts while oblivious to the fact that being queer in Palestine gets you 10 years in prison.

Not to mention, a lot of those admission slots now go for DEI admissions—which wasn't the case back then.

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College is much harder today than ever with new advanced material discovered and competing against a lot more people.

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That's ridiculous. My wife teaches at the college level in a major university. Students now earn almost nothing. They decide what grade they want and "negotiate" with the professor if they don't get it for "extra credit" assignments so that they can get their A. And of course 95% of the professors let them get away with it, because they are afraid of the "instructor evaluations" (which also didn't exist back in 1980), students hand in which foolishly do matter in most schools for faculty promotions and raises.

Also—and this is a studied fact—cheating is MUCH more rampant now than it was in 1980, from high school through college.

Also, just go to YouTube around the 4th of July and watch the various videos of college students being interviewed celebrating the holiday who can't tell you who the US won independence from.

I employed college students and recent graduates in my company and I think if anything they know less than we did at their age. And not just about history. Math, too.

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Meaning younger people have to work 7/3rds or 233% harder than boomers to buy a house.

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Again, not necessarily. You're leaving out that in 1981, for example, the interest rate was around 18%. Unless you're buying a house with cash, that makes a huge difference in your mortgage payment. You're also leaving out that average home prices increased by around 50% between 1970 and 1980. You're ALSO leaving out that the average house now is 40% larger than the average house in 1980, and that today the baseline for appointments is significantly higher. So yeah, the houses are more expensive, but a large part of that is because they are bigger and nicer. In 1980 houses were still being built in many places in the country without central air, for example, so no need for ductwork or an AC unit.

When you consider all the factors in the cost of living equation instead of just the surface data, the gap isn't nearly as wide as young people claim. It's tougher today than it was in the 90s, but roughly the same as the 80s and only slightly tougher than the 70s and 60s.

The biggest difference is that you young people today have been filled full of victimhood and entitlement narrative.

I don't think young people today are lazy. I do think y'all are hella entitled. Like, by orders of magnitude greater than previous generations.

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But prior to the transfer portal an athlete had to sit out a year not like a non athlete student.

They also got benefits that a non athlete student didn't get. My daughter majored in theatre in college. So she was hoping for a career in entertainment, same as the football players. They got featured on national t.v. a dozen times a year. None of her theatre productions got featured on t.v. That directly benefitted those players. Even the ones who won't make it to the pros. After their eligibility is up they will still be remembered fondly by millions of fans in their state, so if they open an insurance office or car lot or when they go for jobs, they have notoriety and name recognition that non athlete students don't get.

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Um…I’m not really sure how this compares but I guess if your daughter transferred from LSU to say Baylor in the middle of the Fall theater season she would not have to sit out the Spring theater season as a Baylor Bear. But that’s not really the question.

To be, or not to be? That is the question.