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It's funny to see Hilgart in long sleeve anything in that article. He famously was in short sleeves for every game I saw VT play on TV and many of those were frappin' cold.
You know which stakeholder you didn't mention once in your response? The fan. (and to be clear - I'm not saying that's right or wrong - just pointing out that it's quite telling)
There only reason anyone at all is upset about Revenue Sharing/Collective Money/NIL is that hurts/shifts the competitive balance of the sport (Note: I'm only talking about player money here - not realignment, not the transfer portal, just player compensation). It's a net positive for everyone except the fan.
Which gets to point - if fans aren't the primary stakeholder here, then why are we structuring it like they are? If fans are the primary stakeholder, then let's just fully professionalize the sport.
The reason NCAA football/basketball are in this predicament is because for decades now, the NCAA (which is comprised of university presidents and administrators) has insisted on having their cake and eating it too. They wanted to pretend that college athletics have a higher meaning/moral calling, but they also want to monetize that in every and any way possible.
You can only carry on that facade for so long until it breaks.
If you want to help those who need it more than why do it by sport and not socioeconomic status?
I think that's a great point. Is the goal of the scholarship to entice the best players to come to your school, or is it to be more equitable and give opportunities to individuals who otherwise may not have one? What's the goal of having non-revenue sports? What's the goal of having non-scholarship athletes?
there was an article in the last year or so about the NBA that 20 years ago there were a lot more players coming from poverty and now there are more players in the league from kids of NBA players than poverty.
That tracks.
One thing that really struck me when listening to Who Killed College Football was that being a professional athlete wasn't a high paying or very desirable career until the 80s. In the 4-5 decades since, that has drastically changed. As a result, you've seen sports become more professionalized (for lack of a better term) at every level - I'm not just talking about kids getting money; moreso the way that sports leagues are run, kids are coached/trained, etc.
I remember hearing that QP3 didn't have a dedicated QB coach, and how unusual that was for a top 100 QB recruit. That's the stuff I'm talking about.
Coming full circle to your comment about the NBA players... it makes sense... The guys who come from NBA families know how to train, who to train with, what leagues to play in, etc. And, beyond the know-how, they have the financial means and (presumably) the genetic gifts.
What's your favorite memory\moment as a sports fan? Hokies or otherwise
Waffles or pancakes?
Powell signed with UNC
Maybe the portal has called, and he is resting for his new assignment.
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So basketball and football bring on revenue, and that revenue has increased at rates much higher than the value of a scholarship. But we have kept the compensation for athletes the same while the coaches have skyrocketed.
The original argument was a scholarship should be enough for student-athletes but now just for revenue sports? Scholarships exists so that people with all kinds of talent have a chance to get an education because a college education is more than just your major, for many people it is learning how to live away from their parents, and how to deal with things they've never expirenced. I'd never seen lacrosse, rugby, or wrestling prior to college. I knew of them but never met anyone that played them, didn't know the rules. There are many things that colleges should be doing to offer a well rounded education to all students and having sports is one of those. If you are only tieing scholarships to revenue sports then you are missing the point of college, its not about making money, VT isn't a for profit university.
What are we rethinking? Everyone gets a scholarship? Because the opposite is only people that want to go into debt or have rich parents get to go to VT.
Or do you mean like roll up the athletic department into the universities and then sue every D1 school for excessive compensation for coaches? There are only like 80 football coaches making over 1 million, and lots of college head coaches making less. Really drive this back to amatuer sports?
Sure the system has been broken for pretty much always it's that the money wasn't enough to show how bad it was until lately. The only real fix is collective bargaining which should cover all ncaa athletes.
there's nothing going to get me on the hype train this year. It's going to be brutal.
I too am becoming more and more pessimistic about this season. But I'm sure I'll hop back on the hype train in a few months.
At a certain point we have to take a step back and say "What are we doing?"
This is my thought as well. The powers that be need to go back to first principles and ask themselves why are they doing college sports? Who is it for?
It's generous because Swimming doesn't bring any money into the university, and not much in terms of promotion.
So it's nothing but cost.
Which contrasts with Football and Basketball, which at least bring some level of revenue and publicity.
At a certain point we have to take a step back and say "What are we doing?"
I didn't mean the comparison as an insult. Poteat did enough, although I would have liked to see him be a little better with his back to the basket.
because it attracts student students
But the real question is: do those student students study?
We can hope.
3 turkeys?
3 transfers?
I feel like Poteat was very under-appreciated.
Yeah Harris retweeted Hansberry commitment with three turkeys. Hope it's a sign of things to come.
By the end of the year (he had some injuries in early part of season) he was the second best player on WVU after Javon Small. I can easily see Hansberry being a 14/7 guy if not better.
Alaska was the first family vacation my wife and I took after being married. That is, not our honeymoon, but first post-honeymoon vacation. I had wanted to get up to the Arctic Circle to get a picture at the sigh for the Arctic Circle on the Dalton Highway. We have it saved somewhere, although the picture someone got on that trip up to Prudhoe Bay where I was stepping from 1 tectonic plate onto another was even better. You clearly see the furrow in the ground.
Went for 3 days on a land (drive up) and air (fly back) tour with Northern Alaska Tour Company to do that part. Neither of us are really "tour group people" but it was going to be a hassle to get up the Dalton and then permission to go through the oil fields to get to the coast and I said, heck, just pay someone else to do all this. The trip was a blast.
agreed
Sweep game on now. ACCNX