You love college football yet you want these kids to be paid? Yeah I'm sure that will help make the game better. They are going to school for FREE while the other students are paying $200,000+ for a 4 year degree. It's these players choice whether or not they want to take advantage of getting a degree instead of taking classes like Golf or Ballroom dancing (Leinart). As Cardale Jones from tOSU said, "I aint here to play school". How many NCAA players make the NFL each year, less than 3%? Even if you do make it, the average NFL career is 3.3 years.
You want the kids to be paid, fine but then they have to pay for their education as well. So how does that work exactly? Does the starting QB make the same as the 3rd string TE? Do they all get paid the same? What about the women's soccer team and the men's water polo team? Do they get paid as well and if so, how much?
Once we go down that road, college football is dead. At least for the schools who actually give a damn about academics. There would need to be two leagues. Call one the Academic League and the other Semi-Pro. The NCAA can be reduced to a trade cartel, monitoring the semi-pro. The academic league teams police themselves. Then all the kids who have no interest in "playing school" can go to the semi-pro league and get paid and sit out any game they want to better their draft position.
You said you would be fine if Peppers sat out the Orange Bowl game against Florida State. Why? Don't you want to win? Or is this just a meaningless game to you? Why even have these bowl games. Let's just have the playoff and be done with it because as you said, players don't care and they're meaningless games anyway.
Scholarships are guaranteed at most schools. Maybe not at your school where the tree climbing, let's sleepover at a recruits house Harbaugh pulls a scholarship from a kid who had been committed for 2 years because he could get a higher rated recruit to sign. I guess if you aren't cheating, you better go home because most of the big boys are already doing it. What's the incentive for doing things right anymore?
Heck ND self reported a nothing scandal and got hammered for it. Meanwhile schools like UNC fought the NCAA about their school wide academic scandal and have felt nothing of the magnitude ND just had to endure.
The Sabans, Meyers, Pete Carroll's and Harbaugh's are revered and held in such high esteem without any regard to the cheating we all know they do. So why do things the right way if all your going to get in return is embarrassment?
Winning cures all, winning covers all, win, win, win. ND needs to either join the Ivy league or lower their standards and join the rest of the blue bloods.
Paying players, players sitting out... Tell me as a college football fan how that's good for the overall product of collegiate athletics?
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One coach who spoke to Bleacher Report was told on his first day that his quarterback might be part of a campuswide gambling ring.
One was given an academic report that showed more than 50 of his players failed to go to class during one week in November. Every player. Every class. For the entire week.
One was met by rumors of a raging drug problem in the locker room. He drug-tested the entire team during the first team meeting. More than 30 percent of the team failed.
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For Bret Bielema, it was 20 players in his first 18 months at Arkansas. When he arrived in Fayetteville, the first academic report he received showed 18 players with sub-2.0 GPAs, and the Hogs were having a player arrested on average once every 68 days. Players were flunking out and getting into trouble, and no one was holding them accountable.
"It wasn't just that guys weren't going to class or doing the work," says Rutgers assistant defensive backs coach Aaron Henry, an Arkansas graduate assistant from 2013 to 2015. "They weren't even logging on to the computer system to begin the work. They wouldn't even do that. That doesn't just happen overnight. That stuff is ingrained."
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