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Should we just do away with academic enrollment requirements
Dec 6, 2022, 12:09 PM
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next for college football? I know it wouldn't go along whatsoever with the pretend game ESPN, FOX, the Conference Commissioners, etc. are playing -- good old college football of old, same as always, giving it the old college try and trying to win for alma mater of such and such school. Notice how they never, EVER bring up guys' NIL deals during games. You think that's such happenstance?
I mean at some point the acknowledgment of the transition to professional football for teams that are, for some reason, housed by Universities has to be made right? This is getting beyond silly.
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CU Medallion [58896]
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Who would prefer it if college football players (and all
Dec 6, 2022, 12:37 PM
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college athletes) had to be real, actual college students, just like every other student, who has to have good SAT scores and excellent grades in high school, and goes to class every day and must maintain good grades in legitimate classes (No "Getting Dressed" or "The Art Of Walking" or "Tree Climbing" - yes, these are real) while in pursuit of legitimate degrees (No "Personal Representation" degrees? Miss too many classes, you get benched or kicked off the team. Make bad grades, you don't play. Students first, and college is not the minor league for the NFL.
I'd be perfectly fine with that. I'd love it just the same.
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Hayull naw, that would be boring and the game would suck. |
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Absolutely, that's how it should be. |
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They are - just the same as any other student who doesn't play sports. |
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Let's just stop pretending, and do away with all academic requirements. |
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Rock Defender [71]
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Re: Who would prefer it if college football players (and all
Dec 6, 2022, 1:12 PM
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I went to Furman. You are pretty much describing our guys. But unless we change we'll never win another FCS Championship. So do we stay like we are, play pretty good but not great or do we do fake college sports like almost everybody else?
Things have gotten stupid enough that my dream for college sports would be to go to the DIII model. No scholarships and NIL discouraged by the schools. That would also mean a less demanding practice schedule for players. It would take decades to screw it back up.
Or I'd like to see entrance requirements for athletes set HIGHER than regular students. It makes sense because to do a college degree and play sports you need to be a really good student. So if you want to play college sports you work really hard in HS.
That's the opposite of what we've been doing. They get to mirror fogging level in the classroom and concentrate on sports. Then they're allowed into schools where they have no business being. If they hang around they get their phony degree if their tutors write good enough papers. But many don't hang around because the whole student thing is so foreign to them after 12 years of bogus HS work.
Oh, but the quality would drop. Sure would. Who cares? Its already dropping. If realish Clemson students are playing real UGA students you get a competitive game. Oh but what about all those great athletes who refuse to be students? Well, they can get jobs. Or maybe somebody will start a minor league. Nobody would watch it though. Football needs colleges more than colleges need football.
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All-In [44227]
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I'd love the DIII model where student-athletes are students
Dec 6, 2022, 1:19 PM
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first, and are required to be accepted to school based on academic merits and not because they are good at a sport.
We know that will never happen, because people love their football and are willing to see their school compromise its academic requirements in order to have a better product on the field.
Plus, there is way too much money in football now.
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Rock Defender [71]
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Re: I'd love the DIII model where student-athletes are students
Dec 6, 2022, 2:31 PM
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My daughter's school, Notre Dame has struggled with this for years. They fired multiple natty winner Frank Leahy and cut scholarships because Father Hesburgh wanted to de emphasize football. But after stinking for about 8 years they hired Parseghian and decided to start winning again. They did the same sort of thing after Holtz. They jacked up entrance requirements. Of course, if everybody else did the same thing, it would work out. But there is no way SEC schools would ever start using real college students. Where would they even find any?
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All-In [26708]
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yes. its fake.
Dec 6, 2022, 1:13 PM
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don't even make them go to class.
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