Posted on 01/02/2022 5:56:38 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard sparked a firestorm of criticism on Saturday for their public lamentations about some college football players choosing not to play in bowl games that have no consequence to the pursuit of a national championship. The pushback that they received for their antiquated thinking shows how far the mainstream attitudes have come when it comes to players with NFL prospects preserving their ability to finally get paid for their talents, abilities, and sacrifices.
I thought it was that way already.
“Without the Universities most of these guys and their families would remain in the ghetto and in poverty for generations”
Exactly. Without Virginia Tech, Mike Vick would have ended up in prison.
Frankly, these days if I were a good athlete, I’d play soccer. Why? There are literally hundreds of professional soccer teams spread around the globe, as opposed to only 32 professional Football teams.
So what you're saying is, with Virginia Tech, Mike Vick still ended up in prison.
Or, is there a sarcasm tag missing? lol
I hope the players continue to push back and collect as much endorsement money as they can. The universities using them as free labor will hopefully come to an end in my lifetime and the SEC and Big 10 can evolve into true minor leagues.
He punched out of school without any desire to get a degree. Favorite degree of football players at Tech who go on to the NFL: Real Estate.
What? Only black athletes are showcased? Only black kids are poor?
The education they receive for free with ‘laundry money’ & now with names, image and likeness pay many will get thousands,some millions, in income from their ‘online businesses’, social media accounts & several other ways to get paid.
The education alone is worth what people pay for it.
That is upwards of $50,000 per year for tuition, room & board. five year red shirt can make the equivelant of $250,000 in education room & board alone over a five year college career. Most athletes don’t ‘pay back’ through play the money they take in scholarship. Those that do are in one of the elite college programs & are top athletes in those.
All an elite college athlete has to do is keep their nose clean & follow the rules & they will be more than taken care of by the university after their career, even if they don’t make it to the NFL.
They also can & should get a quality degree as part of the bargain. The smart ones do.
When athletes brag on getting a "free ride" through college, they are not exaggerating.
Division 1 FBS is a good bit higher than that.
130 schools x 21 scholarships per year = 2730 players.
Division 1 FCS is 63 scholarships / 4 = 15
1500 more players = 4230
Not every FCS school uses their full allotment of scholarships.
With walkons plus Division II, III, and schools not playing a full schedule there could be as many as 16000 eligible in any given year.
However most of the 256 drafted are going to be Div I FBS.
So for them it’s maybe 8%. Div I FCS chances are a lot lower, and Div II/III, etc. are much lower.
Please provide the link for your stats, thanks.....
I'm not talking about eligible, my statement was about actual NFL draftees...........
There has never been 16,000 draftees in the history of college football. I think you get my point.
What I meant was how many seniors in college football?
32 teams x 8 rounds = 256 players is definitely the numerator (how many were drafted?)
The denominator is tougher.
D1-FBS schools get 85 scholarships. 85/4 = 21 per year.
(some years will be more some will be less).
130 x 21 = 2730
D1-FCS schools get 63 scholarships. 63/4 = 15 per year.
I count 126 D1-FCS schools. At some schools football is not such a big deal, and not all scholarships are used. On the other hand there are walkons (kids without scholarships)
126 x 15 = 1890. So we’re up to 4620 in the denominator.
I counted 153 Division II football schools. That’s approximate.
225 Division III football schools.
It’s extremely rare for a D2 or D3 player to get drafted but it has happened. I would think you’d have to be a starter to even be considered. 22 starters offense/defense, kicker, punter, returner, long snapper, etc...let’s say 7 players on each team x 378 = 2646.
OK, the denominator is up to 7266, well short of 16000.
256 / 7266 = 3.5%.
I’m scanning over last year’s draft. Mike Strachan - Charleston WV; Zach Davidson Central Missouri; Chris Garrett Concordia-St. Paul; Quinn Meinerz Wisconsin-Whitewater. I’m pretty sure those are the only D2 & D3 players taken. 4/2646 = 0.15%.
When I get ambitious I’ll count how many FCS and FBS players there were.
thousands of pro soccer teams
In 2018 and 2020, the Democrats clearly and permanently solved their voter turn out problem.
The Democrats have had a completely legal national majority for at least two decades. They can win the White House without voter fraud, and they can get small majorities in both houses of Congress - if they get all their legal voters to the polls.
The only reason we won in 2016 is because White Conservatives always have the highest turn out, because Trump was a completely unique candidate, and because polling in WI, MI, and PA was off by a few percentage points in each state.
It does not matter how badly the Democrats govern.
Only a small percentage of their usual voters will even think about switching to the GOP.
LOL Republicans nearly won the house in a bad year with significant chanting with a D+6 generic polling advantage. What do you think happens when its R+10 like we’re seeing now (Hint 2010), especially with high levels of inflation which is going to get worse this year - not better.
Their majority grows every year because of new naturalized citizens and a higher birth rate.
Our voter deficit increases every year because white Republicans have a higher death rate, a lower birth rate, and almost zero immigration.
34% of voters in 2020 were non-white. They voted more than 70% Democrat.
Republicans need 60% of the white vote just to break even.
Last time we got 60% of the white vote was 1988.
Bottom Line - if the Democrats turn out their core legal voters like they did in in 2018 and 2020, we will be lucky to break even in the House and Senate in 2022.
If the Democrats turn out their core voters in 2024, only a completely unique candidate like Donald Trump can beat them.
The sky is falling the sky is falling!
The sky has already fallen.
The Republican Party has had no consequential leadership since we allowed the Democrats to destroy Newt Gingrich in 1995.
Our only job now is to postpone the economic and political destruction of the USA for as long as possible.
Puff puff pass
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