Posted on 12/30/2018 5:49:12 AM PST by C19fan
Alabama and Clemson will meet in the CFP National Championship for the third time in the past four years, and the Crimson Tide are again the favorites.
Alabama has been installed as a six-point favorite over Clemson in the championship game on Jan. 7 (ESPN, 8 p.m. ET) in Santa Clara, California.
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Unlike other sports, football players have no professional option. There is no minor-league like other sports, and for that I blame the NFL who continue to have, for the most part, a taxpayer funded minor-league.
Yep. I am not a Georgia fan, but Alabama and Georgia are the
top 2 teams in the country.
I guess the powers to be did not want 2 SEC schools competing
for the National Championship.
ND had no business playing in the Championship round.
They got wiped out.
“Unlike other sports, football players have no professional option. There is no minor-league like other sports, and for that I blame the NFL who continue to have, for the most part, a taxpayer funded minor-league.”
I repeat:
College sports are NON professional, mind you. They should stay that way.
Do you advocate for professional field hockey or lacrosse? Professional rugby, luge or bobsledding? Professional weightlifting, shot-putting or javelin?
Of course you do not. There are millions of college athletes in sports and there is no professional league to graduate to...just because college football is played it does NOT mean that college football players deserve compensation.
You have earned yourself a place on my ‘just bitchin’ list’ as well.
Congratulations! You are a WINNER, er WHINER...
ND and the selection committee are a national joke. Roody just was not man enough.
There are professionals in all the sports you mentioned. Yes, I do advocate for people getting paid for their effort. I see no nobility in amateurism which is a sham concocted years ago by the elites to keep the “deplorables” out of sports.
If the selection committee truly wanted the 4 best in the country, Georgia should have been there. Only they, and Clemson, can hang with Alabama.
Notre Dame had no business being #3. Their schedule isn’t championship caliber and they have no championship game.
College football is a professional sport. The money and contracts are obscene for such a amateur sports except for the students! Jimbo Fisher just signed $75 million coaching contract. Many ADs run like a NFL GM offices and the ADs and the coaches are flying around on private jets and getting bonuses left and right. The tv contracts are driving more money into these universities big time
ROLL TIDE!!
Not when coaches are paid millions of dollars a year.
they are paid...about $50k\year to get a great education so they can move on and have a productive life after playing, eat like kings at a training table that would make you yearn with envy, are revered and basically worshipped, etc., etc., etc...that’s not to mention that they love the game they play.
you’re talkin to one of those former athletes...care to ask me any questions so you can begin your study?
Jim Harbaugh earns every penny. /s
Student athletes are paid with an education and degree. That is the deal. If they don’t like it, they don’t sign it.
LOL, Michigan fans are just as nutty as their coach.
A large number of those students are getting a sham education with majors like Leisure Studies. I guarantee you if there were a legitimate minor league like baseball those “students” would go in a heartbeat. Instead incidents like North Carolina happen. If a student can’t get into the school as a student, they shouldn’t be able to get in as an athlete. I know all schools lower their standards for athletes, they shouldn’t.
Baylor says HI
Not too far from the truth.
Totally agree. There is a broad line between the cost and the value of a sports scholarship. Though the dollar amount remains the same, the value is decided by the recipient and his/her coaches and mentors.
A great education? Training table? Comradery perhaps. But is it true that the practice jerseys are stenciled “Working for chump change. This jersey and the wearer are property of the State of Alabama”?
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