Alabama textbook scandal widens

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TXVOL07 said:
to answer your first question, yes.

to comment on your statement, Is that fair? If you think so, Florida will rule the SEC. USC will win EVERY national championship (which will be played against Notre Dame). That sounds like great football to me!!! You bet, lets pay em all, and do so based on the schools "media potential"/ "how many dollars they generate". I guess teams/schools like South Florida can go jump in traffic. Who the hell cares what they did, what have they done for us lately. Show me the money, thats a great mentality. I wonder if that will catch on when they become pros? :search:
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see, those schools had the same advantage when everyone paid players and still nobody dominated every year. Those same schools still have a tremendous advantage on the recruiting trail today, but parity is still winning out.
 
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Afterr all, he was in AL when the story broke so I'm sure it was a 'conspiracy' to get bama. They are absolutely giddy over their win over TN...it's not like we even put up a fight but they think they have REVENGE on Fulmer.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
see, those schools had the same advantage when everyone paid players and still nobody dominated every year. Those same schools still have a tremendous advantage on the recruiting trail today, but parity is still winning out.
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SMU paid a hell of alot more as far as rebuilding their way back to the top. Where is their recruiting? And while, I'll agree with you that parity is winning out today, you have to recognize that paying them and the concept of trying to regulate said payment between schools/confrences/sports is a fight that cant be won.
 
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VolsWinRLose said:
I cannot credit anybody's believing that the football program is anything except a football program.

The University of Tennessee fields a football team, not the other way around. I don't give a leaping d*mn what the college makes from the players' efforts. Until amateur football actually becomes a farm team for the pro's in name as well as in reality, we're talking about student-athletes. They play football to finance their college careers, not to pad their own pockets. The adoration of the fans and the post-graduation job help are gravy. If they don't like it, let 'em do what I did - work and take out loans.
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:clap: Well put.
 
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VolsWinRLose said:
I cannot credit anybody's believing that the football program is anything except a football program.

The University of Tennessee fields a football team, not the other way around. I don't give a leaping d*mn what the college makes from the players' efforts. Until amateur football actually becomes a farm team for the pro's in name as well as in reality, we're talking about student-athletes. They play football to finance their college careers, not to pad their own pockets. The adoration of the fans and the post-graduation job help are gravy. If they don't like it, let 'em do what I did - work and take out loans.
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Show me one student that has ever done more for this university as a student (not a graduate or alumnus) than either Peyton, Tee Martin, Al Wilson, or Peerless Price.

Peyton's 4 years here and the NC that Peerless, Al Wilson, and Tee brought to this university would pale any engineering, computer science, or poly science major's contribution that was here at the same time in the mid to late 90's.

The same is true today. Arian Foster does more for the university than any current student right now does in terms of generating revenue.
 
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