Warning: Political Takes P12 players threaten to boycott season if demands not met

BMF · Jul 19, 2020

Leave it to the left coast....

They want a union, 50/50 revenue share, 6 years of insurance after career ends, among other things:

Pac-12 players threatening to boycott season if list of demands aren't met for 2020

Pac-12 players threatening to boycott season if list of demands aren’t met for 2020

Th Cal Bears are leading and organizing the charge, and apparently the players will hold a vote soon on the matter.

The Pac-12 has already announced it will play a conference-only schedule this fall, along with the Big Ten. The SEC, ACC and Big 12 are hanging tough and haven’t changed their schedules yet due to COVID-19.

Players apparently feel they have leverage in this situation due to the strong desire for conferences to play games to earn revenue in 2020.

KillerGator · Jul 19, 2020

Would anyone really miss pac 12 football? Plus with 4 conferences easier to pick the playoff...

This is like the South Park episode when Canada goes on strike.

deuce · Jul 19, 2020

How many Fvks to I give.......??????

The Left coast should just join the Canadian Union..

Slug · Jul 19, 2020

Let them strike. Pull their schollys, then recruit new players that aren't entitled bytches. It's almost as if these morons think they were forced to accept free tuition and to have access to world class nutritionists and medical personnel. I served my country and it took me damn near 9 months to get a single MRI. These **** get one at half time if they get a booboo. Go back to your ***********.

JDW · Jul 19, 2020

F*** that...who cares about that ****ty football anyway

URGatorBait · Jul 19, 2020

Are those same players willing to take the financial loss when the season isn't played?

G8trwood · Jul 19, 2020

Make them semi pro, no education. Washed out in 3 years broke and still stupid.

LeeForThree · Jul 19, 2020

50/50 revenue share

Ironhead · Jul 19, 2020

Time to get tough with these little spoiled brats.

Have them take their “vote”.
Then, equipped with all the names of each person who voted FOR this ****, pull their scholarships.

Let them see what REAL students have to do to get into a prestigious University.

Retards.....

g8tr76 · Jul 19, 2020

So the pac 10 is playing politics with college sports. There is a political quote-"never let a crisis go to waste"; as stated they feel they have leverage, I suppose those who want to make everything political are willing to sacrifice college sports for politics. There was a time we could go to a game and chant "if you're not a Gator your Gatorbait", but that too is political due to the word appearing in a song. We are the Gators and we want sports for sport's sake not for some nebulous definition.

We also want our players to be trained so they can be the best players in the country . So we pay for the best coaches and trainers to make that happen and that way our athletes have the opportunity to make the most of their lives The opportunity is there for the players taking, but they must work for it; instead the pac 10 players don't want to work for it; they want "whatever demand" given to them as some sort of entitlement.

So let those pac 10 teams make their demands and watch that conference fall apart. Their coaches and administrators deserve what they allow their players to get away with.

Alumni Guy · Jul 19, 2020

You want 6 years health insurance after you’re done playing ball: put your college degree to use and get a job like the rest of us.

Fodderwing · Jul 19, 2020

The best thing for college football in 2020 is no football.

Durty South Swamp · Jul 19, 2020

Fodderwing said:
The best thing for college football in 2020 is no football.

at this point I'm inclined to agree.

t-gator · Jul 19, 2020

You don't see Alabama players trying to pull this shcit. They don't wanna take a pay cut

PastyStoole · Jul 20, 2020

They need to start teaching actual economics at Berkley again and not that rich-kid virtue-signaling pablum they've been feeding their students since the 1960s. Cal's ideologue indoctrination is coming home to roost, and it's going to become very uncomfortable for the administration there.

BTW, I like the fact that the third-string placekick holder will be getting the same share of the gate as the all-conference quarterback. It perfectly illustrates the folly of the socialist Utopia.

Spurdog98 · Jul 20, 2020

The problem is the Universities are all down with the struggle and might actually cave. Cal berkeley leading the charge? shocker! Friend of mine, staunch conservative, sent his daughter to Cal-berk. She's like Rachael Maddow now minus the flatcocking part. I told him he should have known better but Momma wears the pants.

Why don't we just pay them all 150k to play 3 years of CFB and if they want to take classes then they pay for them out of that money? Pay for meals, lodging, transportation (outside of team functions). And Injuries are workmans comp insurance and they answer to a case worker. After 3 years if they aren't NFL material they get another year of eligibility and Bye, bye. They seem to be ignorant to the security blanket that being a scholly player in D1 athletes brings in the first place. It's no cake walk but neither is the real world. In many ways it's kinda like being in the military but with much less risk of dying or having to kill anyone (Hernandez being the exception). Place to sleep, three squares, a protocol designed to give young people some structure and accountability, which I will assume is still of value, even to the wokeness.

Alagator · Jul 20, 2020

Alagator · Jul 20, 2020

The universities should counter with "How about we just pull your scholarships and send you home instead?"

Of course, they won't... because they're a bunch of left coast puzzies.

TheDouglas78 · Jul 20, 2020

if you get paid, you have to pay for classes, room/board, and food... and the revenue gets split by all athletes equally. They might not realize how much they will lose in that deal.

soflagator · Jul 20, 2020

TheDouglas78 said:
if you get paid, you have to pay for classes, room/board, and food... and the revenue gets split by all athletes equally. They might not realize how much they will lose in that deal.

This.

Another way I’ve explained it is by looking at every recruiting class. Even the best ones have major busts that never live up to their billing. For every Tebow or Harvin, you have double the amount of Chevon Walker/Justin Walker/Corey Hobbs/Jim Barrie types that have their scholarships honored for 5 years, while they basically provide UF nothing in return outside of some “scout team practice”. The overall value of a 4-5 year stint of classes at a school like UF is between 250-300k. So for all the talk of the millions some of these kids are generating, numerically it’s not nearly as lopsided at it’s often portrayed. For every 3-4 busts, they need a player to essentially generate a million, just to break even. So yes, the idea of paying them(regardless of performance, you know they’ll be a union day one) plus giving them a full ride scholarship at a university, makes zero sense.

In general, once again, we’re allowing children and people who have no concept of economics or finance to make decisions about things they simply don’t understand. It’s quite ridiculous.

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