Deacsfan27
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Those are fair assessments and I will set my snark towards capitalism aside and take the L on my analogy.
HahaGet outta here with your nonsense, commie
Don't disagree at all with your analysis, but over 1,200 or so colleges compete in intercollegiate athletics and we're talking 100 or so that all this change really affects. Granted these 100 are by far the focus of talent, media attention, fan support and financial impact, but the other 1,000 or so will hopefully still be able to field teams, pay for a player's education or at least throw some financial aid their way, and provide some casual interest and entertainment for their fans and alumni. Either way, ready for the shoes to drop/chips to fall, etc. and figure out where we are in all this.The next shoe to drop is going to be when schools are allowed to pay the players, but now we can’t afford to have soccer and tennis teams because we have to use that money on football and basketball. People are going to hate that too. Pandora’s box has been opened, and we’re never coming back from it. College sports will never be as enjoyable as they were 10 years ago.
I get that. My point was that Forbes seems to shop at Aldi and picks up some produce that's not quite ripe and let's them ripen into a pretty decent dish (even if it ultimately disappoints, it holds promise). We can go out and perhaps find a better chef that can work wonders with good ingredients, but may not have the eye/ripening system that Forbes has, so we have to start shopping at Whole Foods, which may be outside of our budget (plus fighting the crowds of richie riches for the limited offerings).I get the value to the player, but as an alumni/fan, I don't give two shits if we have all-conference players but we can't make the tournament. It arguably makes the situation even worse. Clearly the talent is there. Yes he gets credit for identifying and developing them, but if that does not translate to making the tournament then overall he is still a failure.
You can pay for high-quality ingredients, but if the chef sucks then the dinner is still burnt and awful. On the contrary, a good chef can turn some mediocre ingredients into a great meal. We see that with plenty of teams and coaches every single year. But we never see it ourselves.
Too many cooks in the kitchen. Sit back and let Forbes cook in the portalI beg of all of you, please give us some more sports/food/cooking analogies. These are making me chuckle.
Except that, as a part of all of this, courts are now ruling that the athletes are employees of the schools and have the ability to unionize under the NLRA. There is a pretty strong consensus that this analysis will be extended beyond the NLRA and that athletes will be deemed employees for purposes of other federal labor laws. This has implications for wage and hours laws and minimum wage issues, which impacts all schools and has the real potential to be the end of non-revenue sports at major schools and the end of smaller schools' entire athletic programs. If it is ruled that athletes are employees and must be paid, smaller programs (e.g. the Valpo bowling team or Albany field hockey team) are facing elimination rather than a school actually continuing those programs and coming out of pocket for them. For that matter, schools as large as Stanford have already considered eliminating many athletic programs (11 in the case of Stanford alone, although they reversed that decision following backlash and fundraising) due to the expense of supporting non-revenue athletics.Don't disagree at all with your analysis, but over 1,200 or so colleges compete in intercollegiate athletics and we're talking 100 or so that all this change really affects. Granted these 100 are by far the focus of talent, media attention, fan support and financial impact, but the other 1,000 or so will hopefully still be able to field teams, pay for a player's education or at least throw some financial aid their way, and provide some casual interest and entertainment for their fans and alumni. Either way, ready for the shoes to drop/chips to fall, etc. and figure out where we are in all this.
People have been saying that for several years now and it hasn’t really happenedHow long before the horror stories on tax Ignorance and/or evasion start to run ramped among these young adults?
Several years is about on the IRS's timeframe...People have been saying that for several years now and it hasn’t really happened
Forbes and staff have always been secretive about their portal recruiting, and word is that policy has been ramped up even more in this portal recruiting cycle because: a) they have a major portal needs, b) all schools are well aware that WF has been strong at evaluating portal talent, and the last thing WF wants is to have another school get turned on to a WF portal target after WF has made that player a priority c) for the most part, WF portal targets are aware that going public with WF interest in them could jeopardize their recruitment.Any news?
people don't really watch minor league sports. i think as college sports get closer to that, interest and revenue will start dropping. not a super popular opinion, but i think amateurism (or at least the guise of it) and other restrictions made up a big part of the appeal of college athletics. i do think there was some good in-between to provide addition level of compensation back to some athletes so it didn't all get funneled into coaching salaries and unnecessarily opulent facilities. but probably too late now.
I bet Cam Lemons knows it all but he just isn't at liberty to tell us.Forbes and staff have always been secretive about their portal recruiting, and word is that policy has been ramped up even more in this portal recruiting cycle because: a) they have a major portal needs, b) all schools are well aware that WF has been strong at evaluating portal talent, and the last thing WF wants is to have another school get turned on to a WF portal target after WF has made that player a priority c) for the most part, WF portal targets are aware that going public with WF interest in them could jeopardize their recruitment.
So, as much as possible, WF is trying to limit the flow of any news on portal recruiting until the player is ready to publicly commit. Put another way, no one outside the staff and the targets knows much right now.
Apparently, there are visits going on in the next week.
That's not how it works. He would tell you he knows but isn't at liberty to tell.I bet Cam Lemons knows it all but he just isn't at liberty to tell us.