This is pretty creative ... I like it. Not something I've heard before, but it makes a lot of sense to me.
Herbie is a company man and ESPN wants the best product on the field. ESPN, fans, and the NCAA don't give 2 sh!ts about the players. ESPN needs eyes on the set. NCAA needs it's money for the "amateur" sport and the fans just need a W so they are butt hurt. The ones that are opting out usually have a legit shot of being drafted so natually they would like to get drafted high as possible so they can get the highest salary possible. Yet people doing that in everyday life aren't considered bad apples.
It's just a different world than the one most of us Boomer posters grew up in. We grew up in a world where people had more commitment to institutions, your school, your country, maybe your church or whatever institutions you joined. Now it is all about the individual. Kids in the Seventies were referred to as the Me Generation by the people who fought WWII and now we have the Me Generation on steroids. There is a reason Apple did all their market research and decided to call their biggest product the iPhone.
CFB World Reacts To Kirk Herbstreit's Controversial Comment Today
On Saturday morning, ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit made headlines with his comments about the state of the game today. "I just don'tthespun.com
Because fans will, for whatever reasons, watch Michigan play Robert Morris, and allow the NCAA to make money off of the broadcast?
So the funny thing is some of this is now showing up in the nfl. Players refusing to play or sitting out. A really strange path where all of this is going.
Coaching football is going to be like herding cats. Glad I don't have to do it.
I think it can work. The amounts are not punitive and the model benefits both parties. An athlete should be allowed to leave for the NFL and opt out of a bowl game. A school should be compensated for their investment and potential loss of revenue from having him leave early. That amount will come from the athletes year 1 NFL contract. The current system leaves the university with tab, a fractured team and loss of revenue.This is pretty creative ... I like it. Not something I've heard before, but it makes a lot of sense to me.
I guess it comes down to how the University uses those hypothetical dollars to improve the program. What do they do with the money? Facilities?
No it is not. At least half the teams have no business playing and no chance of winning. Once you get past ~16 teams, the quality drops significantly.
By the same token, fans will watch Alabama play UTSA in a college football playoff. The post which I responded to stated that after five weeks we know the best two teams. The same is true in MBB. That was my point.
For starters you can’t play 2 games in 4 days in football. So logistically it doesn’t make sense to have a 68 team football playoff.
Wait a second! every time i stop by your restaurant you seem to have opted out that day
Wife’s gotta work at least one day.Wait a second! every time i stop by your restaurant you seem to have opted out that day
How do you possibly judge kids opting out of bowl games to protect their future harder than you judge head coaches leaving for new jobs before the season is over. Head coaches have already got all the money in the world. Do you realize how much difference there is in pay between a first rounder and a second rounder, these kids prepare to have a good combine which can change their families fortunes forever. You question how much these kids love football, do you question if Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley love football? Maybe ESPN should broadcast some games without ADS “for the love of the game”
I am very sympathetic to the players. I am not judging whatever decision they choose to make. They are exceptional athletes. They are still young. When they are interviewed, they show a lot of maturity. They are handling the difficult task of being a college student and playing big time football. Some are on the cusp of big NFL contracts that they have worked very hard for. They have earned it for sure. Some come from situations where they did not have a lot of money. Their futures depend on their bodies and they are making the right decisions for themselves.
What is the definition of irony? Kirk Herbstreit, who makes about $2mm a year to make obvious comments during a football game, lecturing unpaid college players about how disappointed he is that they just don't care as much about football as he did when he played because they do not want to risk injury before the draft.
I would remind us all that after 5 weeks this season PSU was 5-0 and we were talking playoffs.
