Say you stay in your house despite a hurricane warning. You have plenty of notice, but you just decide to stay put.TDub wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:59 pm https://www.espn.com/college-sports/sto ... ege-sports
Beginning of the end?
Not that the NCAA is fully beaten yet. It is the creeping dry rot of sports and has been maintaining a chokehold on the industry through decades of well-compensated malfeasance so spectacularly clumsy that the Austro-Hungarian Empire wants its text messages returned. The Supremes broke from their time-honored pose kneeling on the neck of progressive America to chastise this anthrax pinata with an eye toward having it torn down and reconstituted as an ATM in a liquor store, but the NCAA still has lawyers dressed as weasels and vice versa to prolong its death rattle for years to come.
Still, to have Emmert explain how it might be time for schools and conferences to inherit increased powers of governance and banking is telling the fire outside town to stop and unburn all that acreage, lest you get angry and hold your breath until it does. Emmert has finally reached his apex of fecklessness, and he is now no longer adequate as a comedic foil because he is down to insisting that at least he gets to use his own pen to sign the surrender papers. The only thing left to do is to watch the conferences and schools backstab and screwjob each other into mutually assured bankruptcy … and their time … starts … now.
We won’t miss DeChambeau’s bullying now that it has been called out by a second-level executive, nor will we miss Emmert’s knack for seeking to lead a parade that has already trampled him en route to the town square. But now that their times have come, we’ll need new foils to laugh at because in the matter of golf, someone’s got to be the Republican in the clubhouse all the other Republicans in the clubhouse hate, and in the matter of the NCAA, well, it’s hard to hate a deposed king until we know what a bastard the new king will turn out to be.
I don't disagree with any of this. Pigs, fat; hogs, slaughtered.pdub wrote: ↑Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:35 am That analogy only works if you, hiding in your house from the hurricane, previously took payments from a mad scientist who manufactures hurricanes so you could pay for your big, awesome house on the coast when you could have listened to some of your friends and just moved somewhere cheaper, closer to them, and had a better life.
Instead, your mad scientist has done what he does, and has manufactured his hurricane, and you're all, well, didn't see this coming.
I'm not sure where exactly this analogy is trying to head. My opinion is that all that's really going to happen is a more transparent and equitable distribution of money. I don't think the sport itself is going to change, except maybe some borderline NBA guys will stay in school longer.
Nope, there’s never before been a single instance of shoe guys funneling shady money to student ath-o-letes.
Now the rich get to make more money. You should be ashamed.
Funny how you can structure things to think about them as you see fit when it suits you.
Disagree with this premise.
I think the nature of a fair market is that it sort of moots disagreements over what value is. That's the idea, anyway.
I'll go ahead and knock this premise down a peg too.
