Kansas Crimson

TDub wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:55 am The courts said we can't allow players the option to play in a professional league or play in a collegiate league with rules and stipulations for participation?

So high school leagues are illegal?

TDub wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 12:42 pm nobody ever has to sign am NDA or a no compete clause again

TDub wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:14 am

twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:55 am

TDub wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:09 am

none of that = wants to strip all the prospects out of college basketball.

You're argument is so extreme.

So let's say top 50 are gone, for ease of argument 2 top prospects off each top 25 team.

So, Hunter and Elmarko are gone.....twocoach and nobody else is gonna watch now. ?? serious?

The whole discussion is absurd because it would never happen. So how exactly do you see that working? Is the ncaa going to say "anyone ranked in the Top 100 is ineligible to play for an ncaa program? Good luck with that. See you in court.

I get his point but it's a purely hypothetical rant due solely to the fact that he hates the current model and in no way is a solution that should be treated with any sort of seriousness as it is not based in reality at all.

But if you're bored and want to keep arguing about what would happen if this impossible scenario magically happened then go for it.

what....the fuck? Thats your understanding of the argument? My god.

pdub wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 7:10 am Love it.
The less like college football the better.
We could call it something like the Nationwide Football Legion.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... conference

TDub wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:50 pm at this point I might as well rope the wind and I know exactly the responses/reactions ill get from each but...

over the last couple weeks I've had several conversations with some old friends, several I haven't talked to in a while. All of them are what I woukd qualify as sports fanatics, not all of the same team or even sport, but, very very into sports. Sports has a lot to do with why we were/are friends. I was sort of amazed that throughout the conversations the universal, to a person, thought was that these fanatics were all more or less apathetic about their teams, and Sports in general. These are people who used to live and die sports, a loss ruined their week etc. All of them felt, while they still cared, increasing apathy for all of it. As pretty much each one said, nobody cares anymore, nothing matters but money. Nobody is loyal, why should we care. General consensus is that college sports doesn't exist anymore, only rhe Mascots. Pro sports salaries have gotten out of control and, for the most part, the players are sort of whiny babies and the coaches aren't any better.

I know some of this is just age, we aren't 20 year old students anymore, we have kids and jobs and careers and things to worry about more than Game day. I think some level of apathy towards sports as anything more than entertainment as we age is normal. But, a big part of me thinks the sports world has overplayed its hand and will, in the next decade or so, reap what is has sown.

We shall see.

TDub wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:50 pm at this point I might as well rope the wind and I know exactly the responses/reactions ill get from each but...

over the last couple weeks I've had several conversations with some old friends, several I haven't talked to in a while. All of them are what I woukd qualify as sports fanatics, not all of the same team or even sport, but, very very into sports. Sports has a lot to do with why we were/are friends. I was sort of amazed that throughout the conversations the universal, to a person, thought was that these fanatics were all more or less apathetic about their teams, and Sports in general. These are people who used to live and die sports, a loss ruined their week etc. All of them felt, while they still cared, increasing apathy for all of it. As pretty much each one said, nobody cares anymore, nothing matters but money. Nobody is loyal, why should we care. General consensus is that college sports doesn't exist anymore, only rhe Mascots. Pro sports salaries have gotten out of control and, for the most part, the players are sort of whiny babies and the coaches aren't any better.

I know some of this is just age, we aren't 20 year old students anymore, we have kids and jobs and careers and things to worry about more than Game day. I think some level of apathy towards sports as anything more than entertainment as we age is normal. But, a big part of me thinks the sports world has overplayed its hand and will, in the next decade or so, reap what is has sown.

We shall see.

TDub wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:40 am I think that response falls within the "nothing matters but the money" portion of my post.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:50 am

TDub wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:40 am I think that response falls within the "nothing matters but the money" portion of my post.

They’re businesses. I don’t think it’s realistic to expect 30 business owners to get together and say “let’s donate all operating profit above X% to charity.”

But, I also don’t think they should be winning a rigged game by enjoying uncapped profits (wind-aided by tax breaks) by way of taxpayer-funded assets.

jfish26 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:50 am

TDub wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:40 am I think that response falls within the "nothing matters but the money" portion of my post.

They’re businesses. I don’t think it’s realistic to expect 30 business owners to get together and say “let’s donate all operating profit above X% to charity.”

But, I also don’t think they should be winning a rigged game by enjoying uncapped profits (wind-aided by tax breaks) by way of taxpayer-funded assets.