No sir, you missed my point. If the product on the field were the main factor in my apathy, I would have checked out long ago. But I'm a Gator and I love college sports, student athlete who want to be Gators, etc. So I was willing to watch the crap that from the previous coaches. That didn't...
We had a lot of people trumpeting that players were getting ripped off and thus should get paid. Never mind the $200k education, the benefit of professional development, and yes, the odd bag of cash/car/etc. Well, they wanted to professionalize college sports; this is what you get.
With the...
Without a doubt the product on the field affects my apathy. But not as much as you may think. I watched Zooker, MushDwag, Shark Humper, Mullet, and Karl's first year. So that means that I sat thru 2 losing seasons in a row before my apathy got to the point that I did mind missing games in the...
I agree with you on the coaches' salaries. Dumbo's $76 million buyout was immoral. But we are going to have to agree to disagree because I still believe, as someone who put himself thru college, they are getting a hell of a value.
And as I said, I am close to checking out. This past season I...
I see what you did there, "professional leagues". If they make employees of the student athletes, I will quit watching. And honestly, I am almost there now.
"universities getting these massive TV contracts and the players getting nothing" - this is factually incorrect. They get a $200k...