Uh, the ratings dropped in the first half of that season. By the end, they were back where they were at.....and by the following season, started going up again. Nothing stops the football machine.
Does anybody get the feeling college football as we know it
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They dropped the protest in on that level. Yes things do stop the football machine. HS will be dropping the sport. CTE is a death sentence for the sport long term.
I'm probably older than you are so stow the millennial bullshit. Symbols mean something as long as what they symbolize isn't a lie. If your loyalty is more to the symbol than the ideals it is supposed to represent, that's a problem.
They wouldn't want to go to UGA without the athletics, either. They're here to play football. We should all be adults about it and accept that reality.
When my dad played college football at Florida black kids werent allowed to attend places like UGA or UF. Other people have been through way worse than white people are facing now, but youd never know it.
The 'quote' is ‘If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain' supposedly by Winston Churchill but doubtful, especially considering his variety of positions during his life. Now, what's 'conservative' about bigotry, what is conservative about the GOP since Eisenhower?
Deer Lowered. You believe Kap lost his job due to kneeling? I must have watched more football in that time period than you.
Charlie Trippi said flat out that even in the 1940s, star players got jobs in the offseason to take care of them for being great. He came to UGA because he got a better offer for a job in the summers. Paying players has been the norm for almost 100 years. Name Image and Likeness simply puts structure into it and keeps the financial giver from going to prison for tax issues. The ONLY reason this issue is gaining momentum is the NIKE/FBI/Adidas probe in hoops put wealthy donors, sponsor execs and coaches in jeopardy. Follow the money.
Defeat of naziism, integration of the schools, civil rights act, voting rights act, affirmative action........should I keep going?
He got benched before the protests. He also had an offer from dancer he turned down.
College football has always been the minor leagues. The minor leaguers are just going to get compensated more.
Why will you quit caring? The players already are getting the cost of attendance stipend. What has that changed? Nothing.
Minor league baseball isn't a fair comparison, IMO. No one knows the players from the time they are drafted. They also don't have a TV deal for people to watch.
The NBA D-league is comprised of lower talents. The top talent from high school and college go directly into the NBA. And again, the D-league doesn't have a network contract to show them.
The NBA's usage of zone defense THIS year was up 50% back in January.
MLB didn't change much after the '94 strike. Recent years have led to shifts in strategy and philosophies (such as limiting the starters to 5 or so innings) but it's still the same. Some teams spend a lot on payrolls and George Steinbrenner did the same back in the '80s. Dave Winfield made too much money back then and Justin Verlander makes too much today. Still the same 90 feet between bases.
The QBs are getting the most money because it is the most important position in all of sports. The beauty of this is to see other teams adopting an alternative strategy and trying to win with QBs on their rookie contracts to spend elsewhere on the roster. How is this bad?
People will only stop watching because they have an infinite amount of other things to do now as opposed to when you were a kid.
You know what the complaints were in the NFL '60s? The merger.
'70s? Moving of the hash marks.
'80s? Defenders had to get their hands off WRs after 5 yards.
'90s? No huddle takes off.
Remember when Saban complained about spread offenses just a few years ago?
Every one of these moved the sport forward.
Gotta evolve, brother.
yes it’s racist and spews bigoted propaganda. Boo hoo if you don’t like it. The kid already said he could have handled it better. But clearly there are issues since current and former players blasted the culture there.
Kap absolutely got blackballed for a while. However, he had offers to be a backup, and if you want to say ego, his ego couldn't handle the idea of being a back up. Personally, I don't think Kap really had a burning desire to come back to football, as much as he wanted to prove a point about what the owners did to him.
Gonna be kneeling in CFB this year. Count on it. Won't surprise me if Kang and Nicky Satan are right there with them.
Anybody on this board who post or reads it on a regular basis, is more then likely not just a huge UGA fan but a huge football fan period. And we have some on here that have followed the sport for 40 years or even longer. I guarantee that even before message boards they complained about changes to the game. My personal cross to bear, I hate the targeting rule with a passion....it drives me bonkers in most cases when its called. And I am sure others have similar issues like that over that 40 years. But guess what, no matter what happened, we all kept watching. And we will all keep watching now. At some point maybe the sport evolves to a point where people quit watching, but we are no where near that point right now.
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That has gone on for decades in CFB and CBB. A certain RB showed up on our campus driving a pretty sweet vehicle, by all accounts, in 1980. I'm sure the backup didn't.
I was personally told about some '90s basketball players and vehicles on a certain campus...only the stars got them.
I don't think you've seen it all...at all.
Garrison Hearst and Andre Hasting had matching white sports cars. I think 300Zs but my memory could have the car type wrong. Robert Edwards drove a tricked out brand new SUV. Just a few I can remember when around campus.
I'm voting based on the VPs, honestly. Both of those guys are ready for the nursing home.
That's EXACTLY why he lost his job. He lost job because of folks like you that got upset that he was kneeling instead of standing for the flag. He lost his job because just like many others the flag DOES NOT stand just for patriotism. That is the part all are missing.
So you are saying we should keep things the way it is? We shouldn't object to racism and cop killings?
He was benched before the kneeling and he lost his job just like Flacco. Flacco just took the Denver deal unlike Kap.
I will just be honest, I don't want anyone oppressed. But I also don't particularly like all this bleeding into sports. I completely understand why it has, and I don't blame the players for speaking up. But sports used to be the place, that if you had enough of the negativity in the rest of the world....you could escape to sports. Sports were pure and ignored all the noise. The fact that we have lost that, probably forever, that does make me sad.
I passed Hines Ward everyday at the same intersection and boy was he driving a sweet ride.
I agree with you. However, a lot of this nonsense went on in the locker rooms by some coaches and now its coming to surface.
Opinions vary, but yes, college football as we know it will end. All things must end. This couldn't possibly go on forever. Personally, I thought it would end by a combination of fans not going to the stadium because the "live experience" is hellishly expensive for most people, and the current focus of concussion safety is changing the way the game is officiated and making it less and less appealing to fans.
But once politics rears it ugly head into it...as the Titanic found, the ship can only hold so much water. Just too many leaks.
The Powers That Be have worked really hard to keep politics out of college football, but these are not ordinary times. This is a full on Neo Maoist Cultural Revolution, and "they" are not going to allow you to stay in the middle. You either take their side, or suffer
But once politics rears it ugly head into it...as the Titanic found, the ship can only hold so much water. Just too many leaks.
The Powers That Be have worked really hard to keep politics out of college football, but these are not ordinary times. This is a full on Neo Maoist Cultural Revolution, and "they" are not going to allow you to stay in the middle. You either take their side, or suffer
Being benched and not given an opportunity are two different things. To say that there are 64 QB's in the league right now is laughable. The commissioner didn't like it and therefore he wasn't allowed to have employment in the NFL.
I think he turned down a lower offer from the 49ers to stay with them. I also believe the Broncos may have offered him. Those are the two I can think of off the top of my head. I think there may have been a few more that talked with him but didn't offer when he didn't want to be a backup. I am not saying the NFL didn't perhaps spin some of this....but it was my understanding back in the day, he wanted starter offers and did not get any. So he waited, not knowing that eventually he would simply be ignored by the league as a punishment.
- Gundy was an idiot for doing that.
- Anyone thinking he could be fired for that is an idiot.
- Anyone that may quit watching CFB because of stuff like this is a snowflake who should be ashamed of their weakness.
Nail on head. In the future, football will be on HBO and pay per view like boxing. It also will not be in the high schools due to CTE.
