MugzyBrown: The day when athletes sign to be slaves for 2 years before jumping to the NFL the benchwarmers get a "Medical Hardship" so that Saban, et al, can continue their oversigning practices.

FTFY

Crowell to UGA!!!

/am I the only Bulldog here???

two percent: The Florida State University! Go Noles!

LOL

the median nfl salary in 2009 was 770K
the per capita income for adults in the US in 2009 was 25149.

in one year, an average nfl player will make what it will take an average citizen 30 years to make.

GO TEAM!

coeyagi: Is that what we've come to? Idolizing a black high school student with a 1.8 GPA and a 850 SAT score?

//yes, especially in Alabama, where those figures may be above average

Why are you talking about Eric Bledsoe?

what is a fax......

Hang On Voltaire: Check out who they got getting the faxes off of the machine

I will be very sad if that's a Bama male swimmer's body.

URAPNIS: One of the things, among others, that I hate about living in Alabama.
No, I didn't catch the game.
I don't know how the quarterback is doing.
I don't give a shiat about Auburn either.

Yeah, it must be terrible having to live on the Gulf Coast. Cry me a freakin' river.

lohphat: coeyagi: Is that what we've come to? Idolizing a black high school student with a 1.8 GPA and a 850 SAT score?


Because in America we don't mind funneling scarce public resources to people who will make millions of dollars a year.

Priorities? LOL WUT?

Seriously we need to decouple sports from schools and let the newly-formed sports clubs and fans fund the hype and leave public money to funding the development of students who should be contributing to the economy the rest of us use.

No wonder we're IMPORTING engineering students.

Idiocracy was prophesy.

While I agree in some ways that major college athletics needs some serious reform...........this idea that public money is funding major college athletics is absurd. These programs are fully funded via donations, merchandising, ticket revenue and TV revenue. At the end of the day, many of them donate signifigant money back to their host school.

lohphat: The country's obsession with sports vs academics is why we can't have nice things.

No shiat. And one of the things I hate the most are the ESPN-style "news" updates where a-holes in neckties treat this drivel as if it's actual news.

hawkrock1123: Crowell to UGA!!!

/am I the only Bulldog here???

Nope! DREAM TEAM ASSEMBLE!

Now if we can just keep them out of jail...Rev. Drew needs to preach to'em

/go dawgs!

LouDobbsAwaaaay: Kangaroo_Ralph: Auburn doesn't require their players to attend classes.

Good. This should be the standard across the board. There is no reason these kids should be wasting time snoring through a class so they can be given an A based on their football skills, while somebody who actually wants to attend college gets rejected.

Throughout grad school whenever I ran a class, I'd have 2-5 kids show up three weeks after classes started with a piece of paper that basically said "I am an athlete, so I can skip whenever I want, not do any assignments, and still get at least a B, or else the athletic department will go to war with you".

Never mind him. He's a butthurt Tide fan.

timujin: I read the first sentence as National Singing Day and was confused as to why high school football players were involved.

/yeah, idiot

I did too.
Now everyone at the office is looking at me like I'm nuts.

Football is stupid. I can't stand it and i don't follow it.
When the bear lost to the fudge packers I didn't care but it was fun seeing all the losers cry about it. I'm glad the bears lost now I won't need to hear about them till next season.

Stanford keeps Wayne Lyons, James Vaughters, and Remound Wright despite the coaching change, nice!

lohphat: coeyagi: Is that what we've come to? Idolizing a black high school student with a 1.8 GPA and a 850 SAT score?


Because in America we don't mind funneling scarce public resources to people who will make millions of dollars a year.

Priorities? LOL WUT?

Seriously we need to decouple sports from schools and let the newly-formed sports clubs and fans fund the hype and leave public money to funding the development of students who should be contributing to the economy the rest of us use.

No wonder we're IMPORTING engineering students.

Idiocracy was prophesy.

College football players tend to graduate at a higher rate than average students. Just FYI.

1.8 GPA and 850 on the SAT gets you into prep school at best. Probably Junior College. If you're going to rail against the system then you might as well rail against facts rather than supposition.

"Funneling scarce public resources" ... what? College football is a money-maker. The teams only have 85 players. At a school of 10,000+ that's hardly even a blip on the radar. How are they a drain when they pay for themselves and every other organized sport in college?

As for the economy "the rest of us use" ... um, it's the same economy. You do realize that everyone is making a profit, and idiot new-money millionaires spend all of their money, right? To say that they don't contribute to the economy when they're paying for everything for themselves, their families and their hanger-on's is ludicrous.

Sure, Idiocracy was prophecy, but more likely Jersey Shore, My Super Sweet 16, and 16 & Pregnant are going to get us there faster. Dumb kids have been playing college football for years. I just watch them beat the shiat out of each other on Saturday. I don't have to listen to them talk.

coeyagi: //liberal who thinks entitlement is killing this country

Man will you be mad when you find out what kind of entitlements rich white men get, especially if they're big bankers or farmers. But they don't have an Al Sharpton, so it's not as big a deal.

Of course you have Uinversity of Tennessee fans ripping a Kentucky kid a new one because he preferred to go to USC instead of hearing Rocky Top every 30 seconds the next four years. The winners and STILL the most delusional fans on the entire planet. Vols, home of the arnj and wot.

coeyagi: 006andahalf: coeyagi: //liberal who thinks entitlement is killing this country

Man will you be mad when you find out what kind of entitlements rich white men get, especially if they're big bankers or farmers. But they don't have an Al Sharpton, so it's not as big a deal.

Yeah, I think that is killing us too. I didn't qualify it, ace.

But your language usage defnitely carried a certain excessively shrill sort of implication, mac.

This is not a repeat from whatever other year it was when some school put a webcam on their fax machine

dobedobeDUE: Of course you have Uinversity of Tennessee fans ripping a Kentucky kid a new one because he preferred to go to USC instead of hearing Rocky Top every 30 seconds the next four years. The winners and STILL the most delusional fans on the entire planet. Vols, home of the arnj and wot.

Fight On!/Tribute to Troy every 30 seconds > Rocky Top every 30 seconds

coeyagi: Yeah, I think that is killing us too. I didn't qualify it, ace.

But your language usage defnitely carried a certain excessively shrill sort of implication, mac.

Internet 3.0 - now with "intent-icons"!

When all else fails, hide behind obtuseness.

Sarcastica75: "I'm not your buddy, fwiend."

I'm not your friend, pal

If the University and the students honestly isn't hurt by having these teams huge money making ventures on campus, then it is fine. However it is apparent that it is damaging or diverting from the University, in terms of opportunity cost.

Take the University of Oregon for instance. Phil Knight, who previously expanded the library - about 20 Million, and rebuilt the Law School (20 Million) and the Business School (15 Million) just got through spending 500 Million on the establishment of an Athletic Student Center (515 athletes use only) expanding the football stadium and building a new basketball stadium, and renovating the track/field facilities.

While his business is sports, he spent 10 times over 3 years on sports what he previously spent over 10 years for the academic side. Not only that but the actual undergraduates have seen no improvement to the other 50 buildings, have no parking places on campus and their tuition has gone up 600% over the past 12 years.

For comparison the 10 coaching staff for the football team and travel expenses for the 6 away games out of state are the equivalent salaries to 60 tenured professors at the University.


Anyways here is an actual efficiency report regarding university investment in sports.
http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/DI_MC_BOD/DI_BOD/2009/April/04,%20_Empirical_Effects.pd f

The summation is that the schools aren't benefitting significantly in terms of ROI, the students/athletes aren't benefitting significantly, and the impact on the biggest football schools is huge in terms of additional negative externalities.

As a Miami Hurricanes fan, I am quite content with what Coach Golden has done in less than 2 months. Only 2 out of 10 players that were committed under Coach Shannon stayed, and by the end of the today we may get around 17-19 players. I'd say I'm pretty excited about how Coach Golden and his staff will do with a full year to recruit.

lohphat:
Idiocracy was prophesy.

biatch shut the fark up. Never stop biatchslapping yourself for that stupid shiat.

hawkrock1123: Crowell to UGA!!!

/am I the only Bulldog here???

Who's that comin' down the tracks!

Crowell looks like a beast and overall this looks like our best class in a while but I've learned over the past few mediocre years to not put too much stock in recruiting...look at UGA's touted 2007 class and how shiatty they turned out to be (cough, Logan Gray/Israel Troupe, cough). I'm more excited about the new strength and conditioning guy we got. Last year the players didn't do jack shiat in the weight room and it showed on the field, but I hear this new guy is intense.

/Eh, probably another 6-6 year

hawkrock1123: Crowell to UGA!!!

/am I the only Bulldog here???

Not a shock. He will start for UGA this fall. He would be third string at Bama

URAPNIS: One of the things, among others, that I hate about living in Alabama.
No, I didn't catch the game.
I don't know how the quarterback is doing.
I don't give a shiat about Auburn either.

Go Troy?

Carl Winslow's .9 MM: hawkrock1123: Crowell to UGA!!!

/am I the only Bulldog here???

Who's that comin' down the tracks!

Crowell looks like a beast and overall this looks like our best class in a while but I've learned over the past few mediocre years to not put too much stock in recruiting...look at UGA's touted 2007 class and how shiatty they turned out to be (cough, Logan Gray/Israel Troupe, cough). I'm more excited about the new strength and conditioning guy we got. Last year the players didn't do jack shiat in the weight room and it showed on the field, but I hear this new guy is intense.

/Eh, probably another 6-6 year

This guy?...Tereshinski?...are you a real bulldog fan?