Worst case scenario should the ducks win this afternoon . . . .
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Truth be told playing players isn’t new but the portal and free agency sucks and we lose the connection to the players. Ultimately it hurts the players long term never having to deal with adversity. Lose Lose …
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Absolutely. Even the illusion of this guy picking our? team because he genuinely liked the city/people/university more than any other has been shattered. It's still true in many cases that some dude and his family wanted to GTFO out of LA/Ohio/Florida and loved Eugene/Seattle/Boulder, but there's always going to be the fact that he just got paid to do it.
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I disagree. though you are correct in how all of those illegal exchanges of money were happening.. look at Willie lyles... There was still an amateur aspect that held the scale down. That's over. Now you get to tell kids they get their own shoes you get to give them millions upon millions of dollars out of high school and there's no limit to how much you can throw at them.
Stanford's a horrible example because they don't give a shit about football to the point where they want to dump money in it as they have other projects. Oklahoma state happens to be in a very difficult area with other schools around.
And even if they were to step up it is now a bidding war for players and how many of them can they keep up with. I stand by my comment, college football's dead
I'm just really fucking happy I got to go to the National championship after we clown stomped Oregon on the way out of the pac-12 and likely the last year that college football even resembled its former self.
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What about Lyles? Oregon was doing shady shit but do you know what the actual violations were? I read the whole document. It was less than $200 in benefits from a booster(they said he didn't have a pre-existing relationship with Seastrunk even though he used to live with him before either of them knew Oregon was a state in the Union), and the failure to provide written scouting reports when video scouting was provided. That's_it. And they got dragged for YEARS for that. Fuck the NCAA.
And Stanford isn't a horrible example because it's an illustration that Oregon is the opposite. They DO give a fuck about football from top to bottom and they reap benefits from that beyond approving pay checks.
Stanford cares about crew and women's volleyball. Seem familiar?
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What has Penn State ever done wrong?
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That's where you went wrong, Stanford cares about women's volleyball because they have a massive tradition of being a powerhouse for 30 plus freaking years. It'sa very light lift for them. It's not that they care about it as a way of financing it because they don't need to because any volleyball player would want to go to Stanford just to play volleyball for Stanford and get a Stanford education. However A lot's going to change this spring when they likely start kicking in revenue sharing amongst all sports and then it's just going to turn into the wild west and so long college sports.
As for the Lyles report. LOFL SureJan.gif
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Pretty sure with the Lyles stuff Chipper used a university check to pay a bag man. I don't think it was a remarkable amount either, like $20,000. I also remember the big headline was Lyles gave them clearly fake shit to show what he was supposedly paid for and it had a scouting report on a dead kid or something. I miss the old college football scandals. My uncle was telling me a couple of years ago Reggie Bush's dad would walk around the sidelines of The Coliseum with a paper bag asking for money to be put in it.
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Yeah it was like $25k for scouting reports, including a dead kid. The violation was including video on some but not written reports. It was obviously to curry favor to get Seastrunk.
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not one duck fan that has registered on HH went to a game this year. Not one.
They are all old and poor
