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2 year technical program like you get in juco combined with 2 years worth of basic personal and business financial management skills would be a great combo.
The fact we haven't gotten caught doing something tells me we aren't doing enough.
^^^^This^^^^ if you aren’t cheating you’re not trying hard enough
They didn’t want their cut. The vast majority of them were already getting more than their fair share. They were minor league athletes and were compensated pretty well for that. Much better off than minor league baseball players that weren’t paid a ton to secure long term rights if they make the big leagues. Better than arena league football players.
Who couldn’t see this mess coming? I don’t think anyone is surprised by how this turned out. Disgusted yes, surprised no.
THIS ALL DAY ^^^^
I’d be willing to be about 2/3 of the “college material” non athletes who enroll every fall don’t have the technical or reading skills to pass the electrical or plumbing tests.
Anyone here want to tell their employer forget my salary. I want you to give me some really good training I might be able to use 4 or 5 years from now, a dorm room, and a meal plan in the cafeteria?
I don't really care about any of this. Those players also got a free education, healthcare, housing, food, and a platform and opportunity to showcase their skills for the next level. They got access to world class facilities and elite coaching. They got unlimited athletic gear. They got access to world class strength, conditioning, and nutrition programs.
Is your insinuation that Mississippi State is the employer of the students who play sports here? That is the dumbest 17n thing ever said on this message board.
Anyone here who, as a 17 or 18-yr-old coming out of high school, good enough to get a scholarship so that you get all that free education that would help you get a career if football doesn't work out, room & board, all the poon-tang you can handle and training & facilities on a platform that will get you exposure to NFL scouts with a chance to become a multi-millionaire as soon as you graduate, would turn that down or think you were getting ripped off?
True, but I think that is temporary. In time, the market will adjust like any other market - the terms and conditions will get tighter and "free money" will not be as available.
Let's be honest: When has MSU ever done enough? The University motto is "Just Trying To Get By"
Yes, if my teammate in high school told me he was getting all that plus a new car, an apartment, and $250,000 to play at Alabama. I would look for that deal before signing for just a full ride at a university.
This is a big issue for all college athletes, especially the smaller sports. Those coaches take advantage of them there as well. Steer them into kinesiology, etc. That's why we now have a whole economy of fitness out there now.
Stop making this argument. Nobody is bltching about capitalism or players making some money. Do you see anybody here that thinks the NFL is bad? Of course not, so STFU with your woke diatribe. Nobody also cares about true NIL, I don't think you'll find a single person who cares if Will Rogers does a car commercial.
If a "student athlete" can be "steered" into a curriculum (that they don't want to be in) by a coach for the coach's and team's sake then they should have never been in college in the first place. It's time to stop letting "the tail wag the dog".
The big money guys will learn after a few more season of guys taking the money and run that they are just wasting money. It will stop. Look at A&M after that number one class they bought in 2022. Then many of them transferred. They finished 14th in 2023 and 24th 2024. They learned really fast.
It's not steered its forced. If your choice of career is to play Professional Baseball and for whatever reason you don't get drafted out of High School a path to that career is to play college baseball. The schools know this and they recruit players on those previous players that have been through the program and made a career in that sport. However because of the charade they talk about all these other curriculums that you are forced to pick from to be able to play Baseball there. There is no Baseball or sports degree. Yes there are great facilities and coaching but you have to waste 20 hours a week studying something you don't want to. If they would just drop the charade and create a curriculum for professional sports and prepare each person, as every other student in that school, for the career of the students choice it would be better. I should have full access to those facilities and coaching full time. There can be plenty of courses outside the act of playing baseball, such as communications, marketing, contract law, financial studies, foreign language, media that can make up such a curriculum to fully prepare the student for their career. On the backside of that the school has a good chance of payback by making these students successful in the career of their choice. How many of my ex teammates, along with other student-athletes, have given back to the place that helped them achieve their success. Schools all over this country have buildings, fields, libraries, departments, facilities named after an alumnus from all the careers they teach. At State we have places with ex players names on some of those things. Just treat professional sports as any other career for which you prepare students.
****, I'd have done it for the room, board, tuition, and poon-tang.
Why should there be a degree path where over 90% of the participants fail at actually fulfilling that career? Did you ever think that making the players attend classes is trying to prepare them for life because their minds are too clouded with the idea that they’re gonna get rich playing a game?
Again let's treat them different than any other student. What percentage of acting students succeed in Hollywood? What percentage of music majors become famous performers or composers? What percentage of art majors sell major works of art? Who the <17> are you to tell others what path they should take because something is hard?
This isnt being totally dismissed, at least not by most people.
the players!