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Originally Posted by
ababyatemydingo
The schools with less resources will still get left in the dust. Including us. The schools with little to no tv money would be obliterated under this plan
Well, yeah, in my original point I said the P5 and G5 should have 2 separate divisions. We would not be that greatly affected by $1.8 million used to pay football players. Everyone would be paying the same $1.8 million. For some schools, like MSU, it would most likely mean reducing the amount of money in the pool for its coaches. The bigger schools would be able to attract better coaches - as it is right now - but it would even out the distribution of talent, which would create a more competitive environment...and giving all those schools with less resources a chance to win at a higher level since they'll have better players.
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Does everyone crying "Socialism!" object to equal sharing of bowl and tv revenues?
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Regarding players being allowed to transfer to another school without sitting out a year: Would this apply to players that would be interested in leaving a "have not" program to chase a ring (and possibly gain more exposure) at a "have" program?
If so, I think we need to draft this puppy up all formal like and run it up the flagpole...
"It is not courage to resist TUSK; It is courage to accept TUSK."
No.
Easy there buddy. Tusk is...well Tusk is Tusk. Tireddawg 12.20.17
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Originally Posted by
TUSK
Regarding players being allowed to transfer to another school without sitting out a year: Would this apply to players that would be interested in leaving a "have not" program to chase a ring (and possibly gain more exposure) at a "have" program?
If so, I think we need to draft this puppy up all formal like and run it up the flagpole...
Shotgun will head the Committee on Monitoring Transfers to Maintain Competitive Balance**
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Originally Posted by
Quaoarsking
Does everyone crying "Socialism!" object to equal sharing of bowl and tv revenues?
You talkin' to me?
"It is not courage to resist TUSK; It is courage to accept TUSK."
No.
Easy there buddy. Tusk is...well Tusk is Tusk. Tireddawg 12.20.17
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Originally Posted by
Matty Dispatch
Well, yeah, in my original point I said the P5 and G5 should have 2 separate divisions. We would not be that greatly affected by $1.8 million used to pay football players. Everyone would be paying the same $1.8 million. For some schools, like MSU, it would most likely mean reducing the amount of money in the pool for its coaches. The bigger schools would be able to attract better coaches - as it is right now - but it would even out the distribution of talent, which would create a more competitive environment...and giving all those schools with less resources a chance to win at a higher level since they'll have better players.
And the Ole Miss's of the world will still try to offer more.
Not only did Mississippi State embarrass LSU on this night. Davis Wade Stadium wrecked Tiger Stadium in music choice, atmosphere and, most of all, volume.
When I'm 80 and deaf, it's not going to be all those Springsteen concerts or Queen at Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans on Halloween Night in 1978, it will be this game...............Glen Guilbeau--Sherveport Times
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Originally Posted by
Matty Dispatch
It would be nice if MSU, or Iowa State, or Kentucky, or three dozen other school had a snowball's chance in hell to win something significant. College football is romanticized because players are doing it "for the love of the game". Well, they are getting a scholarship too, and many wouldn't be playing if they weren't. You can structure CFB like the NFL but still have all the tailgating and the traditions and the band and the cheerleaders and all the things you love about CFB. Except it would be better because teams other than the same handful could actually win something.
We had chances in 1999 and 2014 and shit the bed both times. The reason Bama and schools like Bama are always good is because they put a lot more emphasis on being the best and have had DECADES of success to use with recruits to entice them to campus. It is what it is.
I was thinking about this yesterday, as a matter of fact. And yeah, I get tired of seeing the same ol' shit every year too but I really don't think we're that far off from being a pre-season top 25 team every year. We just have to keep our program at the same level (minimum) as it is now and continue to win.
The reason the usual suspects keep making the playoffs is
1) they're usually really good
2) they get the benefit of the doubt when they lose a game (see Auburn almost making it if they won the SEC).
3) many blue blood programs are overvalued every year (Notre Dame, Texas, Ohio State, etc).
We're getting better recognition as an athletic department, which will help. 2014, 2015, 2017, and our football coaching search have done a lot to raise perceptions about MSU to the national media. Other sports (WBB and baseball) being top tier also help.
It's frustrating but I don't think the answer is some kind of regulated draft or artificial restriction of who can go where.
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Originally Posted by
ababyatemydingo
Name one socialist economy that has been / is successful and thriving. The socialist utopian theory does not ever translate to actuality. They all fail. Quite quickly, actually.
No one argues to go full socialist where doctors and janitors are making the same salary, but we have swung far too right on the economy. During the 50s-70s when the middle class was built, this country had far more balance between capitalism and socialist ideals.
But to answer your question, Canada and the scandanavian countries (and a lot of Europe) aren?t doing too bad on this list from that liberal rag, Forbes magazine, when it comes to starting businesses.
https://www.forbes.com/best-countrie...business/list/
Or this one from business insider
http://nordic.businessinsider.com/th...siness-2017-3/
Then you look and see many of the same countries listed among the highest quality of life in the world
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/...uality-of-life
So yeah, I think any intelligent person would at least admit that some socialist ideas might be worth investigating to better our lives in America.
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Originally Posted by
Quaoarsking
Does everyone crying "Socialism!" object to equal sharing of bowl and tv revenues?
Pro sports might be the most socialist business/industry in the country.
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