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LouisEly

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I think we're on our way towards college sports being fully professional sooner rather than later.

 

Which would be a travesty, and is frankly not realistic or sustainable anywhere close to what we consider to be college sports presently.

 

Aside from college football and men's college basketball, there are few sports that generate enough revenue for schools to support those individual programs on their own even without having those players on the university payroll. The only way this works financially in the long run is if colleges remove the scholarship aspect from the sports programs, and they essentially continue running specific athletic programs as entertainment for their universities - essentially the athletes playing at the colleges aren't students anymore. That works for the bigtime revenue sports, but it simply doesn't work for 90%+ of the rest of college sports.

 

If you thought student athletes were treated unfairly prior to having the option to pay kids as athletes in a collegiate sports program before, just wait until $$ becomes the sole driver without worrying about these kids actually having to be students to see how bad things get.

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College sports existed long before there were billion dollar tv contracts. I'm sure that schools will be able to operate low revenue sports if they want to.

 

As for those huge deals (CBS will pay $1.1B per year for March Madness from 2025-2032), it's pretty gross that a whole industry is getting wealthy on the backs of unpaid players. If the NLRB recognizes player groups as bargaining units, that could also open players to receive worker's compensation if they are injured as workers (players) for their universities.

 

That's especially meaningful in football.

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Oregon with one of the most impressive choke jobs I have ever watched. The amount of penalties and dumb things they did over the final two possessions of the game in regulation was hard to believe. I mean just wow. Fitting regulation ended on a free play with 00:00 on the clock for Stanford to tie it.
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I think there is a real chance the B10 has no one in the playoffs.

B10 West is terrible and the East will have no unbeatens unless Michigan or MSU run the table.

Alabama losing to Texas A&M makes it wide open. If Alabama beats Georgia and your only unbeatens are Cincinnati and one of Oklahoma/Oklahoma State, anything can happen.

 

I have a bad feeling that this is going to be the year that becomes the poster child for expanding the playoffs where you have Cincinnati as one of two unbeatens and then ten schools with one loss.

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I’m not a huge Badger fan, so please help me understand the angst against Iowa. Is it because the Badgers are still in contention for the Big Ten West or do fans legitimately hate Iowa? I’d like to see any team besides Ohio State (and maybe Penn State) come out of the Big Ten.
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I’m not a huge Badger fan, so please help me understand the angst against Iowa. Is it because the Badgers are still in contention for the Big Ten West or do fans legitimately hate Iowa? I’d like to see any team besides Ohio State (and maybe Penn State) come out of the Big Ten.

I really don't have anything against Iowa. I'm pretty much with you on not wanting Ohio State repping the Big 10 AGAIN. I usually root Big Ten in the bowl games, especially the Rose Bowl, but I'm pretty much burned out on the Buckeyes and I'm pretty sure I speak for most everyone else too. I'd wouldn't mind Michigan coming out.

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Echoing sentiments above......

 

Ferentz seems like kind of a d-bag.

I usually root for the B-10 in bowl games.

Anyone but Ohio State.

 

Edit to add, I don't "hate" the Gophers the way most Gopher fans hate UW, but PJ Fleck seems like kind of an ingratiating (word I can't say here).

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Cincinnati will probably be up to #2 in the AP and Coaches poll. I realize those polls ultimately don’t matter but if they end going going undefeated with a road win over Notre Dame and somehow don’t make it into the playoff it’ll be a real black eye for College Football. In that scenario you have to have at least 2 but likely 3 one loss teams ahead of them. Likely Georgia, the Big Ten Champion, The Big 12 Champion (assuming either Ok or OK St finish with one or no losses, and then another one loss team. I really, really hope Alabama doesn’t win the SEC over Georgia and then both of them get in, but it’s a definite possibility.
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Revisiting the BIG 12 and BIG 10 rumors I think Oklahoma State would be a good team to add to the BIG Ten West. Oklahoma State would be a better Nebraska and would actually be able to compete with UW. The BIG Ten West is an absolute joke and is the JV squad of the BIG Ten when UW is having an off year.

 

Adding OK State would add another competitive team to the BIG Ten West. But knowing the BIG Ten they would probably put them in the East and move one of the cupcake teams over to the West.

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I’m not a huge Badger fan, so please help me understand the angst against Iowa. Is it because the Badgers are still in contention for the Big Ten West or do fans legitimately hate Iowa? I’d like to see any team besides Ohio State (and maybe Penn State) come out of the Big Ten.

Legit hate Iowa. They are a rival like Minnesota, only with a good football program.

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Cincinnati will probably be up to #2 in the AP and Coaches poll. I realize those polls ultimately don’t matter but if they end going going undefeated with a road win over Notre Dame and somehow don’t make it into the playoff it’ll be a real black eye for College Football. In that scenario you have to have at least 2 but likely 3 one loss teams ahead of them. Likely Georgia, the Big Ten Champion, The Big 12 Champion (assuming either Ok or OK St finish with one or no losses, and then another one loss team. I really, really hope Alabama doesn’t win the SEC over Georgia and then both of them get in, but it’s a definite possibility.

 

As if every year where half the D1-A teams are barred from the Invitational fake championship even if they go undefeated isn't a black eye for college football? One day they'll catch up to the rest of college football, professional football, and high school football and crown their first actual champion.

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