College Football Thread

Carp said:
Why is it a stupid rule? Is Todd Gurley not getting free education, free housing, free food, free media exposure, plus whatever other incentives we don't know about? And he's getting all this for playing a game.
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Why does the school and NCAA have to charge so much and make so much off a game?
 
bravesnumberone said:
We're too busy collecting our morality trophies. We don't have time to be doing something audacious as defending our players and lawyering up. Oh, well, losing him sucks. He was a great player and a great kid. Wish him the best in the NFL. We have to move on.
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My guess is UGA just called his bluff. Didn't think he'd actually snitch, because it basically ruins him as a memorabilia dealer, at least on the college level.
 
He obviously didn't feel bad enough to rat out everyone he had listed on his eBay account. One of these days, someone's going to, and 5-6 schools are going to be affected at once.
 
bravesnumberone said:
Why does the school and NCAA have to charge so much and make so much off a game?
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I guess because they can, and they know we'll pay for it.

Any college football player from a major university and on scholarship is potentially getting anywhere from $100k-150k (or more in many cases) worth of incentives for playing college football for 4 yrs. Oh how tragic!
 
Carp said:
I'm guessing you don't realize the difference between professional and amateur.
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I stated the difference when I said if he didn't like it, no one forced him to join the NCAA. He could go play in some other league until the NFL. Doesn't make what the NCAA does right.
 
Carp said:
I guess because they can, and they know we'll pay for it.

Any college football player from a major university and on scholarship is potentially getting anywhere from $100k-150k (or more in many cases) worth of incentives for playing college football for 4 yrs. Oh how tragic!
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And they should be allowed to make as much as they want from their own likeness. I can't honestly tell you I'm in favor of all that's handed to them.
 
Making college sports into professional would bet the dumbest thing they could do. It would ruin the game. College still has the edge over professional sports and players get incredible amounts of benefits for playing college sports. I hope no one actually believes the star player for Georgia would struggle to survive while at Georgia. All it is college kids being greedy.
 
If I were in his position I'd do the same thing. although I'd probably ask for more money for my autograph.

gilesfan said:
Making college sports into professional would bet the dumbest thing they could do. It would ruin the game. College still has the edge over professional sports and players get incredible amounts of benefits for playing college sports. I hope no one actually believes the star player for Georgia would struggle to survive while at Georgia. All it is college kids being greedy.
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the benifits from all 3 years combined don't add up to a tenth of the revenue he creates for the university in a single season. also he could suffer a career ending injury in any game and never get his payday.
 
keithlaw said:
If I were in his position I'd do the same thing. although I'd probably ask for more money for my autograph.

the benifits from all 3 years combined don't add up to a tenth of the revenue he creates for the university in a single season. also he could suffer a career ending injury in any game and never get his payday.
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And? UGA will go on without him and barely see a difference in revenue. Why does he in particular deserve to make a large amount of money (other than what he's already making) off of UGA's success? They were a successful and high revenue generating team before he arrived.

Together, just the 85 scholarship players probably cost the football program millions per yr to feed, house, train, and educate these players. That isnt chump change. That doesn't include the non full scholarship players either. I'm sure together it definitely adds up to about 1/10 of the teams revenue.
 
keithlaw said:
If I were in his position I'd do the same thing. although I'd probably ask for more money for my autograph.

the benifits from all 3 years combined don't add up to a tenth of the revenue he creates for the university in a single season. also he could suffer a career ending injury in any game and never get his payday.
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How much has Gurley Georgia above what the next man up would make? If he doesn't want the NcAA to make money off him, don't play college football.

You don't think Gurley has insurance?
 
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