Posted on 11/30/2021 5:41:35 AM PST by C19fan
Kelly did the same thing as head coach @ Cincinnati who was heading to a bowl game.
Kelly bolted Cincy - before their bowl game - to take ND job.
Scholarships are getting paid. Not my problem if the players choose not to take advantage of it.
Because he knew what Florida (then coached by Meyer) would do to them.
This.
Folks - no tax payer money is needed for college football.
College football pays 100% of its own expenses, and then it subsidizes all the other college sports teams (except basketball) that NEVER make enough money to pay their own way.
It was Kelly getting a chance to coach at ND.
He once stated while at Cincy that ND would be the only gig that would make him leave Cincy...and so he did.
the NCAA should consider some kind of spending cap
Yeah, that’s a great conservative idea, whenever it’s “not fair” to spend your money as you want, let’s have a bunch of idiots tell you how to do it.
I question the entire value premise behind college, period. Not just college sports, which is just an entertainment business after all.
Nothing about college sports is about education. None of it.
It’s a business. College, I don’t know what that’s about anymore.
Well do you want to be only 20 college football teams? Because that’s how you get only 20 college football teams.
Evidently they decided not to offer Jimbo Fisher after that poor coaching performance vs LSU last Saturday.
Nothing about college sports is about education. None of it.
As Arsenio Hall used to say, “Things that make you say Hmmmmm….”
It’s about promoting a left-wing agenda. All of it, including sports.
But these are Universities, their main “business” is not football. Yes I get that for a small portion of schools, it can be a big business and profitable even with the crazy spending, but certainly not for the majority of universities.
It’s tradition that made college football different than the NFL, but pretty much now college football doesn’t look much different than the NFL at all.
And the corporatists have taken over College Football, via Disney’s ESPN.
As a Ga Dawg fan, with many years being oh so close, things go around and come around. I remember when Clemson was nothing. I remember when Florida was good. I remember when FSU was king.
Caps make the whole game ordinary.
I would guess that “all of the money” being spent has gone through an Internal Rate of Return analysis. The people running these huge football factories are not financially stupid. If they are offering huge salaries, they know they will make it back, plus 15-20% within 5 years.
Its not the universities that should anger people, its the NCAA. I did some work for them. It was like working for Stalin and the Mafia at the same time.
Kelly fixed Notre Dame and put it back on the map. He’s done a great job there. He got a whole bunch of cash moved his way and he took it. Living in LA is pretty nice, especially climate and cuisine-wise. Even the politics is better, somewhat.
Sucks if you’re Irish, like I am, but all I have for him is gratitude and well wishes.
If you’re a college football fan, one should find a lower division (II or III Level) team to root for. They are more representative of what college sports should be about.
AP and Coaches Polls both rank Oklahoma State one place ahead of Notre Dame.
If Georgia loses a close game to Alabama on Saturday, there is a strong possibility Georgia will stay in the Final Four.
If Alabama loses to Georgia, I think Alabama is out for certain.
If Michigan loses to Iowa on Saturday, I think Michigan is out for certain.
If Cincinnati loses a close game to Houston (ranked #16), that will be 50-50 for Cincinnati, because Cincinnati will have just one loss.
“Stalin and the Mob”
I am stealing that.
Oh, I agree with the payback. Someone is making a ton of money. But when I talk to friends who now teach at my alma mater, and they say engineering is getting cut down while building a new practice field, I wonder just who is making the money and where it is going.
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