And the end of college football begins..

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In the mid-eighties or early nineties, due to tax evasion circumstances, the federal government took over several well known and well established brothels in the state of Nevada where such activities are legal.
After a year of having these establishments in their control, every one of them was losing money and a couple had filed for bankruptcy.

So I ask you, why should we trust a government that couldn't run a whorehouse be entrusted to run college sports?
 
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Billions of dollars would go away if that were to happen.

I don't think we have anything to worry about.
 
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Rocky Top Raby said:
Why shouldn't they get a share of the revenue they make for the university or be able to make money from sponsorships?
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They’re getting a scholarship and free education. How about paying them and letting them finance their own education? I mean if the scholarship doesn’t have a monetary value like the pro-pay crowd believes
 
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Big government to the rescue!!! They know what’s best for all aspects of life. We can add college sports to the list. Hey, people keep voting for them to lead our country. At some point you have reap what you sow. This will alter college football in a way that can’t be rescued. I wouldn’t typically get political, but that’s what this thread is and it’s maddening.
 
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The Original Fade said:
They’re getting a scholarship and free education. How about paying them and letting them finance their own education? I mean if the scholarship doesn’t have a monetary value like the pro-pay crowd believes
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So you have a problem with them even being able to go to say a local car lot and do commercials, or Houndogs and sign memorabilia for a check?
 
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Rocky Top Raby said:
So you have a problem with them even being able to go to say a local car lot and do commercials, or Houndogs and sign memorabilia for a check?
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The referenced bill goes WAY beyond reping a local car lot or whorehouse. It takes the incentive to have sports teams away from the schools. Did you even read the link?
 
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So I guess that scholarship from UT, that is worth $13k for in-state and $31k for out-of-state for players is worth nothing, considering they get a full ride to play a sport they love..... I say go ahead and pay them, but do not give them scholarships.....let the power conferences get in bidding wars for players, everything we love about college athletics and what is left of the purity of the sport will be further tainted by the stench of the almighty dollar and entitled kids......

Reagan was right...."The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. "
 
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The next four years will probably see toilet paper tracking.( only one square per trip to the john) It's only gonna get worse.
 
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On the "plus" side, we would be able to focus on the real meaning of sports - having the most inclusive trans intersectional, multi ethnic, non binary gender identifying, pan religious (Atheism is ok, Christianity is not, Judaism is ok as long as its only cultural) team (surprisingly all homogeneously proud political progressives) to gather for a virtue signaling competition as to who is the most ideologically woke.
 
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Gandalf said:
On the "plus" side, we would be able to focus on the real meaning of sports - having the most inclusive trans intersectional, multi ethnic, non binary gender identifying, pan religious (Atheism is ok, Christianity is not, Judaism is ok as long as its only cultural) team (surprisingly all homogeneously proud political progressives) to gather for a virtue signaling competition as to who is the most ideologically woke.
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"There are a lot of long words in there, we're naught but humble pirates."
 
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Revenue share after the scholarships are paid? They conveniently left out travel expenses and other resources available to athletes only that cost a ton of money. There's no way women's basketball and baseball are profitable when you factor in all expenses.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Revenue share after the scholarships are paid? They conveniently left out travel expenses and other resources available to athletes only that cost a ton of money. There's no way women's basketball and baseball are profitable when you factor in all expenses.
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Lol, if people cared at all about sports other than football, $21 million dollar buy outs would become a thing we used to do back in the day.
 
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Gandalf said:
On the "plus" side, we would be able to focus on the real meaning of sports - having the most inclusive trans intersectional, multi ethnic, non binary gender identifying, pan religious (Atheism is ok, Christianity is not, Judaism is ok as long as its only cultural) team (surprisingly all homogeneously proud political progressives) to gather for a virtue signaling competition as to who is the most ideologically woke.
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Damn, nailed it.
 
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VolunteerCeltic said:
So I guess that scholarship from UT, that is worth $13k for in-state and $31k for out-of-state for players is worth nothing, considering they get a full ride to play a sport they love..... I say go ahead and pay them, but do not give them scholarships.....let the power conferences get in bidding wars for players, everything we love about college athletics and what is left of the purity of the sport will be further tainted by the stench of the almighty dollar and entitled kids......

Reagan was right...."The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. "
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And we are just one generation from freedom.
 
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The Original Fade said:
Proposed bill would overhaul college sports
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What a pile of horse crap. But then it's always been a pile of horse crap. The trick here is not to accomplish everything they want to legislate. The trick here is to set the framework through which everyone views the conversation. You may not win today, but you can rewrite definitions and try again tomorrow. "Exploit exploit EXPLOIT." The poor, poor student athletes are EXPLOITED. It's always the Big Bad Schools and the student-athlete victims.

You want some cognitive dissonance, here's your cognitive dissonance. In the same breath that these leaders wheeze incessantly about how college athletes are exploited, they would also shout about how college debt is unfair and creates a lifetime of financial oppression for students who take on burdensome college loans. So when we talk about a regular student, the debt from college is a price too high to pay, but when a college athlete gets a full ride at a large university, all of a sudden, they aren't being compensated at all. So which is it? How can it be one way over here, but the other way over there? How can both exist simultaneously? Behold, the miracle of political and social talking points in action. And woe to anyone who would dare challenge those talking points.

Exploited. Yes, exploited. Every. Single. Athletic. Scholarship. Is. Voluntary. But never mind that. Anyone who participates is exploited. They are compelled -- no, forced!

Again, it's not the win today. It's setting the table for the wins to come tomorrow.

I don't care if someone wants to argue about forcing schools to give players money. But I would prefer they be plain about it. They want the power to tell schools how to compensate student-athletes. They want the authority to set the prices and compensation for 18-21 year olds playing in a varsity college setting. Do you think they care if it destroys the school's athletics program? Do you think they care if the other programs are shut down to adjust for the financial burdens? Do you think those empty suits parading around the rotunda could be bothered to take the time between fundraisers to give a damn about how college sports works? Well that would imply that they knew what they were doing. Hah. I'll ... hah. I'll just leave that right there.
 
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