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#105
#105
I think most schools including Tn just need to adjust to the new reality, perhaps lower our expectations a bit because winning a NC is now on par with winning the Powerball jack pot. . What we should do is set our sights on beating a rival like Florida or Bama and if that happens, be happy about it. Maybe have a winning season.
 
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#108
I get it. In 1998 when Anderson missed a chip shot FG after being perfect all year, I finally quit the Vikings. Just too many heartbreaking moments over 30 years. I’m not there with college football yet, but I understand. I’ve enjoyed NFL football much better than when I was a Viking fan. I actually literally LMAO when they missed a FG a few years back to lose to the Seahawks in the playoffs.

Sometimes a switch just flips. I get it.
 
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#112
10seV4L said:
So, I guess you also believe Wal-Mart employees or the ones working production jobs to produce goods, should be the highest paid ppl in the business too.
Imma a skilled laborer. I love the idea. I have thought the same thing my whole career, us boots on the ground should be the most well-compensated because I am how the infrastructure is built in the first place. Without me and those like me, y'all have no Internet or (any) control systems, to say the least.
But, imma hold my breath. You let me know when a million-dollar industry such as fiber optics and data/communications starts paying technicians like they do their CEO's; if my labor is what creates the product then I should have the same argument as the athletes you champion, correct (?). (@Hairy Vols & co.)
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No. In a capitalist society, even a social democracy like ours, management and executives will make more than front-line employees. What has changed, and it has changed in college football, too (if you compare what players were being "paid" prior to NIL to coach salaries in the 70s 80s and even the start of the 90s) is the multiple. It has gone from 21-29 times the front-line salary to 280-290 times that salary. That's a 10 fold increase. That's what not sustainable.
 
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#115
#115
The Future said:
College football we know is done. $$$$ makers are gonna get their way. There may come a day though, young athletes will have to decide to either join the g-league out of high school or go get a college education. I would much rather watch a group of young athletes compete for their school, with a free education, boarding, and nourishment, even though they are of less talent, then the so called future g-league player out of high school and his/hers family thinks. And maybe once a young athlete makes that decision, that's it. He ain't running back to college. Period. Nadda. First it was baseball, then basketball, now football. Go ahead and start g-league football with all the dam sponsors you want. I won't be watching. Never thought it would come to this, but after 50 years as a True VOL Fan,,, I'm out. ✌️
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Paying for tickets have gotten harder from year to year. It's not just because the ticket prices have skyrocketed but because I'm getting to where I don't want to help fund this mess.

It's turned to how much are you going to pay me? They don't necessarily really like your school anymore than the next one. The thing about college sports was always knowing the kids had a passion to be at the school. That comes with conditions these days. The NIL culture is toxic.
 
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