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[TN Toffee]

I don’t know what the guy from Alabama has in mind, but I think the reality that this virus is going to have an effect on football season this fall is FINALLY starting to sink in here. As recently as a week or two ago, I think if you polled people, the majority would have said the season would go ahead as scheduled, with full crowds at the stadiums. I know there’s been debate about asking professional athletes to risk their health during all this, but even considering having unpaid “student athletes” do it purely so other people can line their pockets is particularly galling.

 

[TN Toffee]

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I don’t know what the guy from Alabama has in mind, but I think the reality that this virus is going to have an effect on football season this fall is FINALLY starting to sink in here. As recently as a week or two ago, I think if you polled people, the majority would have said the season would go ahead as scheduled, with full crowds at the stadiums. I know there’s been debate about asking professional athletes to risk their health during all this, but even considering having unpaid “student athletes” do it purely so other people can line their pockets is particularly galling.

Always found it interesting/a bit weird how popular college sports is in the US

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Always found it interesting/a bit weird how popular college sports is in the US

With relatively few professional sports teams and most of them centred on big market cities, the colleges are where fans go for the local identity in their teams that's so important to British sport fans (except supporters of a number of Premier League football teams)

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

With relatively few professional sports teams and most of them centred on big market cities, the colleges are where fans go for the local identity in their teams that's so important to British sport fans (except supporters of a number of Premier League football teams)

Yeah, just so different I guess. Do minor/developmental league teams get much support in terms of attendance etc?

 

[Grinch]

Yeah, just so different I guess. Do minor/developmental league teams get much support in terms of attendance etc?

Yeah most of the major sports, football, basketball, and baseball sell out pretty damn well for like the lower division D1 schools and even D2. And then your major schools like Michigan can hold 107k, Penn State 106k, Texas 102k and the numbers continue to stay high. Way for both school and programs to stay afloat. I remember when Louisiana was trying to recover from possible higher education school funds, the football program donated like $10M to the university to stay afloat. Major money maker for schools and without it, most schools wouldnt make it

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Yeah most of the major sports, football, basketball, and baseball sell out pretty damn well for like the lower division D1 schools and even D2. And then your major schools like Michigan can hold 107k, Penn State 106k, Texas 102k and the numbers continue to stay high. Way for both school and programs to stay afloat. I remember when Louisiana was trying to recover from possible higher education school funds, the football program donated like $10M to the university to stay afloat. Major money maker for schools and without it, most schools wouldnt make it

That's interesting, but I meant the minors/D Leagues in the Pros, since I guess that's the nearest equivalent you have over there to our football league pyramid?

 

[Grinch]

That's interesting, but I meant the minors/D Leagues in the Pros, since I guess that's the nearest equivalent you have over there to our football league pyramid?

Honestly, I think the pyramid would just go through the schooling ranks... Middle School, High School, College, and then Pros. If you are good enough for the next rank, you make your way up. The minors are similar to like the Everton U23, 21 and youth system to me. are a few going to make it to the big time, sure. But college, if you either make it or you dont. I kind of got a little off track but no their attendence is horrendous honestly. College gets the glory as the prime time athletes go and come from

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Honestly, I think the pyramid would just go through the schooling ranks... Middle School, High School, College, and then Pros. If you are good enough for the next rank, you make your way up. The minors are similar to like the Everton U23, 21 and youth system to me. are a few going to make it to the big time, sure. But college, if you either make it or you dont. I kind of got a little off track but no their attendence is horrendous honestly. College gets the glory as the prime time athletes go and come from

It's not a crazy system tbf, and encourages athletes to get at least something resembling an education (which often isn't the case here).

100,000 people packing into a stadium, and the pressure that puts on kids makes me a bit queasy though. (And yeah I know there's sometimes kids of similar ages playing in the PL, but they're definitely the exception rather than the rule, and are surrounded by grown men with much more experience who can - hopefully - guide them)

 

[TN Toffee]

It's not a crazy system tbf, and encourages athletes to get at least something resembling an education (which often isn't the case here).

100,000 people packing into a stadium, and the pressure that puts on kids makes me a bit queasy though. (And yeah I know there's sometimes kids of similar ages playing in the PL, but they're definitely the exception rather than the rule, and are surrounded by grown men with much more experience who can - hopefully - guide them)

The part that makes me queasy is those 100k people paying their way into the stadium plus the millions of people watching at home justifying the huge TV contracts that earn MASSIVE profits for almost everyone involved, except for the kids playing the games, who are literally forbidden from profiting in any way from the whole scheme.

Just as an example, a guy who played here at Tennessee about 15 years ago revealed some “improper benefits” he’d received during his playing days...

The tipping point was when the star running back and his roommates were broke and hungry and needed to call on then-head coach Phillip Fulmer for assistance.

While Fulmer lent a hand, Foster could not help but notice the hypocrisy the next day.

“There was a point where we had no food, no money, so I called my coach and I said, 'Coach, we don't have no food. We don't have no money. We're hungry. Either you give us some food, or I'm gonna go do something stupid.' He came down and he brought like 50 tacos for like four or five of us. Which is an NCAA violation. [laughs] But then, the next day I walk up to the facility and I see my coach pull up in a brand new Lexus. Beautiful.”

 

[TN Toffee]

It's not a crazy system tbf, and encourages athletes to get at least something resembling an education (which often isn't the case here).

100,000 people packing into a stadium, and the pressure that puts on kids makes me a bit queasy though. (And yeah I know there's sometimes kids of similar ages playing in the PL, but they're definitely the exception rather than the rule, and are surrounded by grown men with much more experience who can - hopefully - guide them)

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Just one prominent example of the farce that is the “student athlete” at a big time American university.

UNC athletics report finds 18 years of academic fraud - CNN

Independent report finds that for 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina took fake "paper classes" to keep athletes eligible.

www.cnn.com

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

The part that makes me queasy is those 100k people paying their way into the stadium plus the millions of people watching at home justifying the huge TV contracts that earn MASSIVE profits for almost everyone involved, except for the kids playing the games, who are literally forbidden from profiting in any way from the whole scheme.

Just as an example, a guy who played here at Tennessee about 15 years ago revealed some “improper benefits” he’d received during his playing days...

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Just one prominent example of the farce that is the “student athlete” at a big time American university.

UNC athletics report finds 18 years of academic fraud - CNN

Independent report finds that for 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina took fake "paper classes" to keep athletes eligible.

www.cnn.com

Jesus... Not sure what to say about that. All weirder/worse than I thought.

 

[Ruairi77]

Yeah most of the major sports, football, basketball, and baseball sell out pretty damn well for like the lower division D1 schools and even D2. And then your major schools like Michigan can hold 107k, Penn State 106k, Texas 102k and the numbers continue to stay high. Way for both school and programs to stay afloat. I remember when Louisiana was trying to recover from possible higher education school funds, the football program donated like $10M to the university to stay afloat. Major money maker for schools and without it, most schools wouldnt make it

The university/state pays the football coach $9m a year

 

[Grinch]

The university/state pays the football coach $9m a year

Only a few but yes!

 

[TN Toffee]

The university/state pays the football coach $9m a year

Yep.

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