BitterYoungMatador2
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The issue is those parents don't care about rape or coaches banging escorts. They care about their kids' playing time and developing the player into an NFL draft pick.
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I am really sick and forking tired of seeing horrible human beings like freezing briles, who cloaked their bullshirt in Christianity, continuing to get chance after chance after chance. They are bad men and I don't know who would trust their child with them.
It's so great that the State of Alabama is doing so well they could pay to $21.7 million to a dumbass cracker football coach rather than provide education, health care, housing and law enforcement to its citizens. I don't give a shirt if Good Ole Gus is a nice guy who helps little old ladies across the street to the methadone clinic. Or if it comes from the Boosters. It's disgusting.
And it's not much better if it's a private university. They all get enough public funding or tax abatements that without state support the school would fail.Of course it is. Infuriating. Angering. Stipulated ...
But any worse than newspaper executives who oversaw thousands of employees laid off, doled out lavish bonuses to board members and executives, then walks off with seven- and eight-figure golden parachutes plus stock options? Or a CEO of a well-established company who did the same on his/her way out of the door, similarly compensated?
Not really. It's the cost of doing business with D-I football coaches at that level. It doesn't make it right. FWIW, I don't agree with it, either. But none of them are asking me, and none of them care about what I think.
And it's not much better if it's a private university. They all get enough public funding or tax abatements that without state support the school would fail.
It's just the bullshirt "Leader of Men" that gets infuriating. They are selfish whores and the best that can be said about the best of them is that they are indifferent to education.
And like what the media failed to do with trump, they failed to do with this. Every decent sportsjournalist should have a story and column or 2 about this situation. Not the jock-lickers with fake indignation like Bilas, but the real journalists. We're in a pandemic bordering on depression and civil war and fat slobs who make millions to yell at kids are still glorified but morally and economically..
It's out of whack. But that's the market, that's the law of supply and demand and it has become the world we live in.
Yeah. But when alums stake their pride on a football program, this happens. Not a breakthrough at the medical school, not the discovery of a vaccine to cure a disease or to end a pandemic. But did "we" (*puke*) beat Archrival U.?
Perspective gets lost. It's no longer your school, its graduates, what they're doing in the real world or how they're making a difference in the real world. It's "did you beat Archrival U.?" When they do - especially if they do so repeatedly and especially if they do so after reversing a string of losses to Archrival U. - they'll push the "Leader of Men" BS and offer the coaches more money than anyone on campus. More than the Chancellor/University President. More than the Dean of the Medical School. More than anyone else.
It's out of whack. But that's the market, that's the law of supply and demand and it has become the world we live in.
It is not the law of supply and demand. The rules prohibit the payment of the athletes, i.e. price controls. When a market has price controls competition will place in other ways such as devoting excessive resources to coach's salaries, fancy locker rooms, ad infinitum.Yeah. But when alums stake their pride on a football program, this happens. Not a breakthrough at the medical school, not the discovery of a vaccine to cure a disease or to end a pandemic. But did "we" (*puke*) beat Archrival U.?
Perspective gets lost. It's no longer your school, its graduates, what they're doing in the real world or how they're making a difference in the real world. It's "did you beat Archrival U.?" When they do - especially if they do so repeatedly and especially if they do so after reversing a string of losses to Archrival U. - they'll push the "Leader of Men" BS and offer the coaches more money than anyone on campus. More than the Chancellor/University President. More than the Dean of the Medical School. More than anyone else.
It's out of whack. But that's the market, that's the law of supply and demand and it has become the world we live in.