In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
these bowl games are almost a joke.......
hillbille
Member Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭
I have only watched one from start to finish, but have watched 10-15 minutes of a lot of others. The amount of starters opting out and transfering is ridiculous!!!! I understand not playing if injured but just saying I am not going to play because I might get hurt and not drafted is wrong. The least they could do is make them pay their scholarships back. The got a free education for playing ball the least they could do is play the last game for the team. I saw at least 3 teams were using their 3rd string quarterbacks and I think ohio state had 4-5 opt out and they weren;t in some small toilet bowl like alot of the others........
Comments
How about those Mountaineers!
not sure we would have won if they hadn't been playing their 3rd string quarterback??????
auston I understand the possibility of injury, but it was there every game of the season, and the team was the one who let him show his talents to make those millions, there needs to be some loyalty to the game/team that gave them the chance to show their talents. or at least make them repay those scholarships they received........
most give them passing grades wether they deserved them or not. and I am sure a lot of money goes under the table to them also, as gifts or pay for jobs they don't show up for. so for the most part yes.....
American football is a joke at all levels
This demonstrates how utterly corrupt "college" football is today.
If you studied the top 40 players on a top team such as Alabama, how many of those players are taking real courses and are going to get a degree? Out of forty, I doubt there are five who are real college students.
College football is just a bunch of farm teams for the NFL. College programs are a bunch of wh**res who will do anything for money. Nike swoosh on the jersey, no problem, as long as Nike gives them a million. The Alabama coach makes a salary of $11 million, ten times what the COLLEGE PRESIDENT is paid. And yet, like the wh**re he is, he does ads with a white duck for an insurance company, for a few million more.
Big-time college football is as much a business as the NFL. It’s all about the money, period.
If you want to get outside of that mess, better go down to your local Division 3 school where there aren’t straight athletic scholarships, and everyone playing knows that college ball is their last hoorah.
I totally agree. The real sport of football is played at the lower levels where guys play for the love of sport and competition. Those are the guys I'd have a beer with.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
If something isn't done, these mediocre bowl games will get even worse than they already are.
We don't need more Georgia/FSU blowouts.
I have no idea the solution. Anybody got any ideas?? I certainly don't.
Yep, GA/Fl game certainly was an example
I'll add a little icing to this cake.
A few years ago.......I read an article that stated that within 3 years of leaving the NFL, for whatever reason........78% of the players were BANKRUPT!!!🙄🤔
Says alot about......education.....colleges.......the NFL........and todays society in general.😣
"A few years ago.......I read an article that stated that within 3 years of leaving the NFL, for whatever reason........78% of the players were BANKRUPT!!"
I have read those statistics. The dream of every high school player is to spend a few years on the college "farm team" and then transfer to the NFL. They think life will be heaven, when they make the NFL.
Most college players never make the NFL, and those who do are broke a few years after their football career is over. Many of them have debilitating injuries, including brain damage from concussions. They didn't bother to get a college degree, so they are 30 years old, injured, and broke. Qualified to do what? Be a greeter at Walmart?
I don't imagine things will change until folks realize there are better ways to spend their time and money.
When my sons played football and baseball,the best real ball games were when they were about 12 years old.No worries about jobs,cars,girlfriends,just playing ball the best they could.I see some of the college athletes and doubt the know the ABCs. But they can play football.
Pro football needs to be like baseball, if a kid is any good sign the kid right out of High School and develop your teams needs, no need to wait for college. In baseball contracts are guaranteed, in pro football they're not, you get hurt.....sorry Charlie, we want your parking pass back. Colleges would fight tooth & nail to prevent this from happening, there's BIG money/income in college sports and colleges don't want to lose the income.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
There is a whole lot wrong with today's colleges/universities - and it's not just football.