Well if the jerseys don't have Memphis on it I don't watch. It could be UT vs Ole Miss in the championship and wouldn't watch.

College athletics at the highest level has been ruined. No turning the clock back.

It's been a long time since I agreed with so many people in the same post. College sports have become so disheartening. In so many ways, it's become what turned me off of pro sports about 45 years ago--lack of loyalty to the team due to selfishness, etc. And, yet, like so many, I can't give up on my team, our team: The Tigers!

(05-22-2022 06:42 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 12:48 PM)danny1 Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 12:03 PM)3rdgenerationtiger Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:37 AM)danny1 Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

Yep. All players should have been paid a set amount. Greed caused the cow to get out of the barn.

Karl Marx approves of this message.

Oh Lord. You are one obsessed little man. Is there any topic that you are comfortable discussing without turning it into a political debate?

In this day and age almost everything is tied to politics. Only those with their heads buried in the sand fail to recognize that.

Yeah, but politics spoils everything it touches, including sports. It’s a shame.

(05-22-2022 07:59 AM)cmt Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:04 PM)murphster Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

I'll wait and see what occurs over the next couple years but I already feel like I'm losing interest in college sports. Changes like the transfer portal and NIL. I understand why players may want money or why a player may want to transfer but there other issues created by these changes.

Agree completely. I have little energy left for this dumpster fire. When the players on the Grizzlies are more likely to be back next year than a college starter, there is a real danger of nobody giving a crap anymore.

There were good ways to get student athletes well deserved stipends, but $8,000,000 contracts while other players get nothing is not it.

Oh my gosh - that is absolutely correct. Some of the other posters will now declare you to be a communist in 3…2…1…. It would be laughable if it weren’t true!! (That some will label you a communist for such views)

(05-22-2022 07:59 AM)cmt Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:04 PM)murphster Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

I'll wait and see what occurs over the next couple years but I already feel like I'm losing interest in college sports. Changes like the transfer portal and NIL. I understand why players may want money or why a player may want to transfer but there other issues created by these changes.

Agree completely. I have little energy left for this dumpster fire. When the players on the Grizzlies are more likely to be back next year than a college starter, there is a real danger of nobody giving a crap anymore.

There were good ways to get student athletes well deserved stipends, but $8,000,000 contracts while other players get nothing is not it.

Definitely should be a cap on the NIL. Everything is a double edge sword. Athletes will be targeted at a younger age. Wouldn't be surprised to see some athletes on the id channel. One player jealous of another player's success then does the unthinkable

(05-22-2022 07:59 AM)cmt Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:04 PM)murphster Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

I'll wait and see what occurs over the next couple years but I already feel like I'm losing interest in college sports. Changes like the transfer portal and NIL. I understand why players may want money or why a player may want to transfer but there other issues created by these changes.

Agree completely. I have little energy left for this dumpster fire. When the players on the Grizzlies are more likely to be back next year than a college starter, there is a real danger of nobody giving a crap anymore.

There were good ways to get student athletes well deserved stipends, but $8,000,000 contracts while other players get nothing is not it.

Welcome to the real world. In the NBA, Ja gets a $200 million deal, and another kid get a 2 way contract. That's reality. Your worth is what someone else perceives it to be. Not everybody gets a trophy in the real world.

(05-22-2022 07:47 PM)mapdude Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 07:59 AM)cmt Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:04 PM)murphster Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

I'll wait and see what occurs over the next couple years but I already feel like I'm losing interest in college sports. Changes like the transfer portal and NIL. I understand why players may want money or why a player may want to transfer but there other issues created by these changes.

Agree completely. I have little energy left for this dumpster fire. When the players on the Grizzlies are more likely to be back next year than a college starter, there is a real danger of nobody giving a crap anymore.

There were good ways to get student athletes well deserved stipends, but $8,000,000 contracts while other players get nothing is not it.

Welcome to the real world. In the NBA, Ja gets a $200 million deal, and another kid get a 2 way contract. That's reality. Your worth is what someone else perceives it to be. Not everybody gets a trophy in the real world.

But the discussion isn’t about the real world. If a player is good enough at that age to rake in $$$ of that magnitude, they should be able to skip college and go get their $$$. In what “real world” do people get free health care, free or low-cost meals? A fair stipend for all would be enough for those that play collegiate sports. Plus, they get access to an education that can help them the rest of their life.

Yes, in real life you get paid for what you bring to the table. But college isn’t real life…yet.

I think we’ll see a settling of dust of some sort and a new norm established. One that will have us all looking back and wondering, how was it ever different. Change is always scary. But those who accept it and adapt are the ones who survive and advance.

(05-22-2022 09:53 PM)former guest Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 07:47 PM)mapdude Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 07:59 AM)cmt Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 01:04 PM)murphster Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

I'll wait and see what occurs over the next couple years but I already feel like I'm losing interest in college sports. Changes like the transfer portal and NIL. I understand why players may want money or why a player may want to transfer but there other issues created by these changes.

Agree completely. I have little energy left for this dumpster fire. When the players on the Grizzlies are more likely to be back next year than a college starter, there is a real danger of nobody giving a crap anymore.

There were good ways to get student athletes well deserved stipends, but $8,000,000 contracts while other players get nothing is not it.

Welcome to the real world. In the NBA, Ja gets a $200 million deal, and another kid get a 2 way contract. That's reality. Your worth is what someone else perceives it to be. Not everybody gets a trophy in the real world.

But the discussion isn’t about the real world. If a player is good enough at that age to rake in $$$ of that magnitude, they should be able to skip college and go get their $$$. In what “real world” do people get free health care, free or low-cost meals? A fair stipend for all would be enough for those that play collegiate sports. Plus, they get access to an education that can help them the rest of their life.

Yes, in real life you get paid for what you bring to the table. But college isn’t real life…yet.

I have to disagree. College is every bit real life. When I went to college I didn’t play sports and I was allowed to work and earn money. The GI Bill paid for my college. But that didn’t mean the army didn’t have to pay me a salary and give me food and lodging. I got it all from the army. And I wasn’t prohibited from making money when I got out and went to college.

These players are getting a free education yes. But all of their spare time is absorbed with their sport. It’s a profession whether we like it or not. If they are not allowed to make money on their NIL then it’s no different than indentured servitude.

College football: 7th consecutive season of attendance declines… 2021 was the steepest on record.

I do not see how the transfer portal & NIL reverses this trend.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-footba...ince-1981/

(05-22-2022 09:53 PM)former guest Wrote:  In what “real world” do people get free health care, free or low-cost meals?

Illegal aliens in Brandon's World.

can we move the political bs to the political forum? I enjoy political back & forth as much as the next but there is no sense clogging this forum with biden trump posts. There is another place for it.

Message bored posters of the world, unite!

(05-23-2022 08:06 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 09:53 PM)former guest Wrote:  In what “real world” do people get free health care, free or low-cost meals?

Illegal aliens in Brandon's World.

^^THIS^^

(05-22-2022 09:33 AM)Crazier Wrote:  Well if the jerseys don't have Memphis on it I don't watch. It could be UT vs Ole Miss in the championship and wouldn't watch.

Talk about a nightmare scenario

(05-23-2022 08:06 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 09:53 PM)former guest Wrote:  In what “real world” do people get free health care, free or low-cost meals?

Illegal aliens in Brandon's World.

Sounds like the voice of experience. Where did your family cross the border?

(05-21-2022 01:01 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 12:03 PM)3rdgenerationtiger Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:37 AM)danny1 Wrote:  

(05-21-2022 11:26 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  College sports is no longer about the fan & its going to end up alienating the very people who pay the money to afford the NIL’s. The golden goose is being cooked.

Yep. All players should have been paid a set amount. Greed caused the cow to get out of the barn.

Karl Marx approves of this message.

The NFL, the most popular & successful professional sports league in the country, has a salary cap & splits league profits equally… so does the SEC.

That being said, players playing at 3 schools in 5 years will ultimately kill fan interest… particularly at schools in the the G5 and bottom third of the G5.

The SEC doe not have - and never has had - a salary cap.

(05-23-2022 12:47 PM)former guest Wrote:  

(05-23-2022 08:06 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote:  

(05-22-2022 09:53 PM)former guest Wrote:  In what “real world” do people get free health care, free or low-cost meals?

Illegal aliens in Brandon's World.

Sounds like the voice of experience. Where did your family cross the border?

I55

(05-21-2022 10:17 AM)mapdude Wrote:  In this new era of college sports I don't think the kids care as much about bowl games and the NCAA tourney anymore. They are more interested in the $$ and getting to the next level. Because of that I don't think NCAA penalties have as much weight in a kid deciding where he will play.

What do ya'll think?

There is nothing wrong with that.