The NCAA has become the NFL. Amazing that blob of goo has Notre Dame by the balls.
“The NCAA has become the NFL.”
Then it’s time to treat it as a pro league, and tax it, and demand salaries for players. Because if this is how we’re going to do things... fire coaches at the drop of a hat... then you can’t call this amateur athletics anymore, and what the players are doing is essentially a work-study program. Other students get paid for work-study.
We need to decide if college football is about character, sportsmanship, and amateur athletics, or if it’s a professional, profit-making enterprise.
As was said on the radio yesterday, Weis’ buyout is more classified then a defense contractor’s deals with the Pentagon. I’m not a big Awburn fan - in fact, I live and breath Alabama football, but I think this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of - there are schools that would kill to have the record Tubs had at Awburn over the past 10 years.....I truly thought they’d keep him until next year and then let him go but I guess not...there’s a video on YouTube entitled Bobby Lowder’s office in Auburn....watch it - it is hysterical....