(09-23-2013 08:52 PM)Buccaneerlover Wrote:  

(09-22-2013 12:38 PM)Mister Consistency Wrote:  This type of stuff is rampant across the NCAA; some schools get caught, others don't, but that doesn't mean those other schools aren't doing the same things. I can't really fault the players for taking an extra $500 or more under the table from boosters or coaches. Some of these kids probably haven't seen $500 in their lives. I never had $500 in my bank account at any one point during college, and I came from a well-off middle class family.

The whole of the NCAA system is a farce. Players who go to schools like Alabama or Georgia get basket-weaving degrees because they're at school solely for their professional development as athletes. The NCAA insists they not get money in any way, shape, or form for anything - even stuff unrelated to their athletic careers - while making billions of dollars off the backs of said athletes. In much of the rest of the world, there are no athletic scholarships at universities, and professional teams and leagues sponsor their own youth development systems, so the kids who want the education can get it, and the kids who want to be pro athletes can do that without the extra pressures of college. The Olympics have a system where athletes can be compensated for use of their image, but not during the season and not for their on-field performance. Either setup would be a huge step up from the mess that exists now.

Some do get basket weaving degrees. That's their decision. For every Cordarelle Patterson out there I can match you with a group of Colquitts, Bartholomews, Reveizs, and a fumbling taco guy named Arian Foster. There are some steretypes that flounder around and use it for a springboard at that level, there are also those that get their education, they go to the large research universities in the midwest, play football and get a degree.
The system isn't broken, the people running it and playing within it are.
Again, with the kids that come in from dirt poor backgrounds, most qualify for need based aid on top of the full ride that includes a MEAL PLAN. They just have to be cool and have an iphone, Xbox and 1000 dollar suits and live off campus instead of doing what they have to do to get an education. It's pure and simple priorities.

Agreed, you mention UGA...Aaron Murray is enrolled in their industrial-organizational psychology doctorate program.

Plenty of smart kids for every dumb kid with a cheap degree.

What's he talking about here?


http://tracking.si.com/2013/09/25/big-te...t=cf_t2_a3

(09-26-2013 05:21 PM)Buc66 Wrote:  What's he talking about here?


http://tracking.si.com/2013/09/25/big-te...t=cf_t2_a3

The Big Ten has always felt they still hold academics sacred with their student athletes, and in alot of ways they do. When you look at the schools in the Big Ten and their graduation rates within its' student athletes, it seems they really do still focus on education as much as possible. Plus, some of the profits that they do make off of athletics goes back into education as well as funding the bazillion varsity intercollegiate sports they have, and if they have to start paying players then that cuts into what they're trying to do. Now they'll follow the herd out of necessity, but they won't like it.