Actually, it is just the reality of big time college sports today.....and people like many on these boards who seem to think that winning sports programs should be the most important focus of colleges today are one big reason why things like this are happening. If you are going to wrestle with pigs, expect to get some mud on you.
The old days of college sports being about student-athletes are gone. Money has killed them.
I don't think it is a "new thing". It is a disgusting trend that has gradually grown out of control as the influence of money has bastardized amateur athletics.
However, it wasn't "always" like this. There was a time when collegiate athletics was worth giving a damn about. It may have never been perfect....but it was a damned far different cry from what it has become today.
I don't think it is a "new thing". It is a disgusting trend that has gradually grown out of control as the influence of money has bastardized amateur athletics.
However, it wasn't "always" like this. There was a time when collegiate athletics was worth giving a damn about. It may have never been perfect....but it was a damned far different cry from what it has become today.
I know for a fact that there were female "escorts" for UNC recruits in the 60's.
But yeah it's all about that new-age money grab. Damn kids.
Bob Knight was probably doing something to get recruits to sign to play in Bloomingdale fucking Indiana
Anyone who doesn't think that money has corrupted collegiate athletics has his head up his ass.
The ACC is a perfect example. Money is the reason the ACC went from a geographically-compact 8-team conference where each school had long rivalries with the other schools in the conference and played every other school every year in football and home-and-home every year in basketball....to a ridiculous 15-team conference spread from Syracuse to Louisville to Miami, where WF is playing Louisville, Syracuse & Boston College every year in football instead of its biggest rival, Carolina.
No one is saying that. I agree very much with you that's happened.
This is not even remotely close to being an example of how money has ruined college athletics.
Nobody should ever respond to bob. Except his alter ego aceeight on that fantasy thread.
Lmao that you think schools throwing trim at recruits is a new thing.
And people shouldn't act like this is so much worse because it's strippers/escorts being hired. You think the hot coeds that show up to entertain 5 star recruits at Alabama aren't being paid a fee on the side?
Were they offering the same service to a greater number of students? That would be the UNC solution. Just call it a Sex Ed laboratory course.The university paying prostitutes to have sex with recruits isn't the best look
And we are surprised Giles wants to take all his official visits?
Also page three and no pics? Smh.