Posted on 09/25/2024 9:34:03 AM PDT by srmanuel
The destruction of college football appears to be complete, a QB from Holy Cross who was a multi-year starter and put up great numbers running and passing, decides to transfer to UNLV to play his final year at a higher level of college football. UNLV is 3-0 to start the season with a big Mountain West Conference game scheduled for this Saturday, the transfer QB decides to QUIT and hints promises about his NIL payments did not come thru, by quitting before the 4th game the player preserves his Red Shirt year and can transfer to another school to play next season.
“...Most starters refused to play in bowl games...”
Yes, look at what 12-0 Florida State versus 12-1 Georgia. Only a few of the starters played in that game. Result was a Georgia Orange Bowl win 60-0.
I remember the “good ol’ days”. “We’re getting a new Offensive Coordinator and you don’t fit into his system, so we’re going to cut you and take away your scholarship”. “By the way, here’s a list of schools you’re not allowed to transfer to.”
Thank God, those days are starting to go away.
I would like to see some statistics that say most leave school with lifelong debilitating injuries.
College Sports are a great hypocrisy, some schools are as you describe, but many, many more have kids that go to classes, leave school with a college education and the opportunity to have a career.
How much does four years of college cost?
But at least let’s stop this farce of actually thinking these are “student-athletes”.
It’s already starting.
Nick Saban got out for the same reason. He didn’t want to deal with all the crap he did when he coached the Dolphins.
I remember when all the talk was about this NIL thing, letting the kids get paid and it seemed like a good thing at the time but of course it opens up many, many cans of worms and will continue to do so. Some University programs will flourish, many will flounder to the point of failure since they won’t be able to get media attention like a Notre Dame or a Nebraska, Miami...etc. Too bad but that’s progress in the big city kids.
Here is a graph of graduation rates for each team in each conference in D-1 College Football.
https://gtswarm.com/threads/graduation-rates-by-conference.27801/
Obviously, they are not all getting degrees in mechanical engineering, the graph shows at least they are learning something.
It’s a myth that all college football players do is show and play in games.
I think a lot of schools are going to drop football, they simply don’t have the money to compete with the big boys.
A lot of those athletes would not get into college IF it was not for sports. Meaning they are not smart.
When I was at Syracuse my neighbor was a second string bench warmer. He got to go to SU for free plus had a full meal plan and books. He knew he was never going pro or would most likely never be a starter in college.
His dad gave him a Dastsun 280Z because of how much he figured it saved him.
His dad owned a car dealership somewhere in NYS. He knew he was going to be selling cars after graduation.
I hope he got a masters. Six years is a long time to play college football.
Tim Green was the opposite. He was the captain of the SU football team. He had a 4.0 average in Computer Science. I was in a couple classes with him. He was a year behind me. He was drafted and played several years for the Atlanta Falcons. Then wrote multiple best selling novels after that. He is now in a wheel chair with ALS.
I don’t think that will happen.
IMO, eventually, 4 major conferences will emerge with 16 teams in each conference, 64 teams total, the conferences will divide up in divisions and use a playoff to determine the conference championship, with the winner regardless of record advances, the polls and some committee deciding who gets in will be gone.
Those schools that don’t get in a major conference will form a new division of college football where they can compete on a even playing field with each other and leave big time college football to the big 4 leagues.
they’re countless stories like this from nearly every school in college football. Players who maybe didn’t have a professional career that went on to very successful careers after college and used their time in college to get a quality education.
Bet he gets it in writing next time
Same deal with high schools. High school participation is down. Less kids are playing football due to safety and other distractions which was not the case decades ago.
Another institution drastically altered
We(straight commission commodity traders) like to hire college athletes.
Mostly because it shows that you don’t give up easily.
I have ex college soccer, football, basketball players sitting all around me.
Several were starters on their respective schools. None of these were division one colleges.
Some played football and soccer at division 1A schools.
One was the starting QB at a division 3 college. He is married with three kids now. He is a 6 handicap golfer. A great skier. Marathon runner. One of those natural athletes that you just wanna hate. His eight year old daughter is a great downhill skier.
I like the idea of having soccer-like promotion/relegation in college football.
I’m sure they’re countless stories like yours, maybe not commodity traders, a lot of former college players take up coaching at the high school level.
I know of 8-10 for UF Gators who were stars in college that are not HS football coaches, all with college degrees.
Maybe in past this was true and in some cases it’s still true, but the majority of college athletes are not dumb jocks walking around campus who end up with debilitating injuries post college.
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