OT: Mark Emmert signals cataclysmic shift coming to college athletics
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On the bright side I won’t be here to see the complete deconstruction…….or as I told the doctor when informed I wouldn’t need another colonoscopy for 10 yrs, “good doc, cause I’ll be dead before then”😳😁🤣Concedes that college athletics is moving towards deregulation and decentralization.
Emmert: 'Right time' to decentralize NCAA sports
NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday now is the "right time" to consider a decentralized and deregulated version of college sports.www.espn.com
A few years back, I commented on this forum that college football and basketball were quickly transforming from amateur to professional sports. We were seeing athlete-students, not student-athletes. Also, that many were attending universities only as a stepping stone to the pros. A basic difference between pros and amateurs is that pros are paid. This difference is now forever blurred. One possible unintended consequence is that some schools could choose to continue amateur athletics while others will affiliate and financially support non-student paid athletes. I can't support the latter - that's what the NFL and NBA are about.
The NFL is sitting back laughing at College athletics. They now have a legit minor league funded by idiots who support College Football.
I love college football for what it is...or used to be. I absolutely LOVE the start of college football season and there's nothing better than a fall afternoon, windows open, football games on all day. But, things change. Life moves on. It's now only a matter of time until college football is no longer collegiate and it will become unwatchable for me. All of what makes college football fun will be gone...the students, the bands, etc. As much I love college football, I don't need it. I guess some need it to the point that they would delude themselves into thinking that a team comprised of non-students is still representing the university.
The only thing that really makes me sad about moving on without college football is that I'm not more sad. I've got a 4 year old, 2 year old and #3 on the way this Thursday. My Saturdays are now about them. Where I used to be able to veg out and watch college football all day, it's now gotten to the point that I have to plan ahead and carve out time to watch a game here and there. And I'm fine with that. This world is going to hell (literally) and while there's a part of me that still wants to love college football as much as I always have, I realize there are so many other more important things and with how the game will be fundamentally changed it only solidifies in my mind that their other higher priorities. Can't sit around desperately clinging to college football because I love what it used to be.
Kudos to ESPN, though. They pulled a fast one on us. They came along and gave us all something we desperately wanted...more football...and then they killed it. There's plenty of blame to go around...schools getting tied up with the facilities arms races, coaches for getting money hungry and greedy...but ESPN fueled it all because they are the financier the whole thing.
The one good thing about college football's inevitable demise is that I will never have to watch ESPN again.
The only thing that really makes me sad about moving on without college football is that I'm not more sad. I've got a 4 year old, 2 year old and #3 on the way this Thursday. My Saturdays are now about them. Where I used to be able to veg out and watch college football all day, it's now gotten to the point that I have to plan ahead and carve out time to watch a game here and there. And I'm fine with that. This world is going to hell (literally) and while there's a part of me that still wants to love college football as much as I always have, I realize there are so many other more important things and with how the game will be fundamentally changed it only solidifies in my mind that their other higher priorities. Can't sit around desperately clinging to college football because I love what it used to be.
Kudos to ESPN, though. They pulled a fast one on us. They came along and gave us all something we desperately wanted...more football...and then they killed it. There's plenty of blame to go around...schools getting tied up with the facilities arms races, coaches for getting money hungry and greedy...but ESPN fueled it all because they are the financier the whole thing.
The one good thing about college football's inevitable demise is that I will never have to watch ESPN again.
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