Posted on 04/07/2024 8:35:00 PM PDT by Round Earther
Amid some already-historic changes around college football that include major conference realignment and an expanded playoff format, some interested parties are proposing another structural change to the sport: a so-called "Super League," according to The Athletic.
The group calls itself College Sports Tomorrow. Composed of sports executives, university presidents, and at least one NFL official, it has a plan: Take the 70 most important programs in college football, including every Power Five school and Notre Dame, and name them as permanent members of a national league.
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Why should the University of Texas keep West Virginia afloat and why should Michigan keep Rutgers afloat?
Because everyone wants to see Texas vs. Oklahoma and Michigan vs. Ohio State, but college football would last no more than one year if these were the only teams in the sport … and these pairs played each other ten times in a season before they all (miraculously) were selected for the four-team NCAA football championship playoffs.
The evidence doesn’t seem to support what you’ve posted there. Yes — it’s true that major sports like football and basketball are huge revenue sources for NCAA Division I schools. But the quality of education at these schools has declined over time as the sports revenues have grown. When was the last time a school with a top football or basketball program had a Nobel prize winner? Has it ever happened? And aren’t the top academic schools in the U.S. the ones with terrible sports teams — or even no sports teams at all?
How about this radical idea. Colleges should focus on educating students.
It’s been a long time since the Nobel Prize was a barometer of smarts. By the way, getting a computer science degree from Bama requires building you own pre compiler.
Or am I the only one who sees college is an institution of higher learning first and foremost?
They’ve already destroyed college football with the transfer portal and the NIL.
“...There should be no socialism, and the poor schools living off wealth distribution from rich schools is pure socialism...”
And Title IX created welfare revenue for all the women’s sports. They rely completely on the football program to survive. It is a fact that most women do not PAY to watch sports. Women’s sports are subsidized entirely by men.
Maybe a Nobel Peace Prize ... but in STEM fields I still think they're a decent barometer.
But in any case, you can just substitute your own metrics for academic reputation and see how these top sports schools stack up against other colleges and universities across the U.S.
It’s nowhere near time. Start a minor league but keep your money grubbing hands and Vegas betting hands off nearly teenagers.
They’ve completely fucked up College Football.
When did Missouri become a SOUTHEASTERN state?
And the lowest team from tier 1 is relegated to tier 2.
And more crooked...
*When all of the kneeling for the anthem was happening I was hoping congress would revoke the anti-trust exemption.*
More reasons than one. I think of the Peacock subscription required for more games now/Thursday nite thru Amazon. Getting taxpayers to pay for stadiums that they can’t afford to attend.
My biggie-the NFL Draft. It’s illegal big-time as any 18 year old has every right to pick his own employer. I’ll be glued to the TV as I’m a draftnick.
I already did. In my comment # 44 that you replied to I stated: "By the way, getting a computer science degree from Bama requires building you own pre compiler." Let me 'splain it to you.
1) My statement quoted above is immediately after the one you quoted from my post (the one where I said that Nobel Peace prizes no longer indicate smarts).
2) Bama is one of the "top sports schools".
3) As far as using my "own metrics for academic reputation" I did that in the sentence quoted above. I, a software engineer, obviously am interested in the training of programmers. If you don't understand what it takes to make software, then I can understand you not appreciating what I meant by Bama requiring their computer science students to make a pre compiler in a required course for a BS in CS. Software compilers are some of the most complicated software made. Any programmer who can make one (which means any programmer getting a CS degree from top sports place Bama), can make any software. (Exceptions are software applications in special fields such as rocket engineering that requires aerodynamic engineering knowledge, or MRI's that require radiation knowledge and anatomy knowledge, etc.)
So if you have a software job opening and want to fill it with a junior programmer with about the best training you can have (but no experience), it's hard to beat someone with a CS degree from Bama. Don't ask me about other fields. I know just my field.
The biggest issue facing college sports is that they have to fix the transfer portal. Having to “re-recruit” your own players twice a year, while trying to recruit new talent is going to end college sports. A player should be allowed to transfer no more than 1 time. If they transfer a second time, that is fine, but they are ineligible for playing varsity sports.
Well, in your field there is no Nobel Prize. Same with mine. In my STEM field, I see very few professionals from Division I schools with top sports programs. And the borderline exceptions (because they rarely have top sports teams) are specialized schools like Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and Texas A&M.
The easiest way to “fix” the transfer portal is to sign new recruits to four-year contracts. Any freshman who isn’t willing to sign doesn’t get recruited. And if you sign a player from another program through the transfer portal, then you set the term of the contract equal to that player’s remaining years of NCAA sports eligibility.
In 11th grade I was shopping around for colleges. All of them told me that they'd be best at making me a programmer. I realized that they couldn't all be right. So I asked programmers and IT directors already in the field which training was best. I realized that they would be the best people to ask because those were the people I'd want to one day hire me. I fully expected them to tell me to go to either Georgia Tech or Auburn. Nope. They told me that Bama's CS program was the best one. So I got that CS degree and immediately afterward accepted my first programmer position (before I even walked the stage).
As the years went by and I moved up with my experience, I became one of the senior programmers interviewing applicants. I always ask a softball question of what their most challenging project was. If they got a CS degree from one of the three Univ of Alabama schools, they always answer that it was the compiler course. Even the ones who've had years of experience. LOL To this day, even with my decades of experience, I always reply with "me too". LOL Of the applicants who don't have CS degrees from the Univ of Alabama schools, I'm often amazed at the past projects that they say were tough. Usually I'm like, that's nothing compared to some of my simplest projects in my career. There are times I wonder if other schools are capable of teaching programmers to be real geek level programmers.
By the way, if you got a CS degree from my school and wanted a specialization in network programming, a required senior level course was in numerical modeling. LOL
But, hey, go ahead and say that the good sports schools have no real training.
The NFL should be concerned, it could be serious competition for pro football. I enjoyed watching Iowa play and have zero interest in either the NBA or WNBA. The ratings proved it.
Neither should tax money.
They’re flush with TV dollors now. They should pay their own way.
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