My Issues With Our Coaching

[bravejason]

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Enough rambling on: A question I would ask is: If the young man does not care about an education, then why should he go to a University? Why not get paid immediately? Minor league systems could teach players how to manage finances as well as a college can.

A minor league football league is not going to materialize until a drastic change occurs in college football. As far as I can tell, the NFL has zero incentive to develop such a league so long as colleges keep producing football trained athletes. An outside organization would have a very tough time sustaining such a league because it would have to complete with both the NFL and college football.

 

[RonJohn]

A minor league football league is not going to materialize until a drastic change occurs in college football. As far as I can tell, the NFL has zero incentive to develop such a league so long as colleges keep producing football trained athletes. An outside organization would have a very tough time sustaining such a league because it would have to complete with both the NFL and college football.

I believe drastic changes are likely to happen within 10 years from lawsuits or from the NLRB. There are some schools where it should be pretty obvious that the players are in fact unpaid employees while the schools quasi pretend that they are students. The NFL is a monopoly that forces the kids to go to college. The NCAA is a monopoly that enforces working wages and conditions. Neither is evil by itself, but there are programs and coaches that absolutely take advantage of and use the kids solely because they are forced to attend by the NFL.

 

[AE 87]

I think Roof just misunderstood Paul's accent when he said, "We just need to be butter."

 

[TheSilasSonRising]

Homer Rice attempted to get a Sports Management degree added at Tech. If I remember correctly, he even convinced The Hill to OK it. Unsurprisingly, it was vetoed by the BOR.

Interesting. Any links to all those goings on?

Thx.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

Interesting. Any links to all those goings on?

Thx.

You will have to search the AJC archives or (less likely) BOR transactions through the years.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

Interesting. Any links to all those goings on?

Thx.

With such short notice, I haven't been able to find what I mentioned, but I did find this from 2013. It's a BIG leap forward for Tech, but I don't know what kind of impact it has had thus far.
http://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/2013/3/23/4137172/georgia-tech-sports-major-program-hts

 

[B Lifsey]

You will have to search the AJC archives or (less likely) BOR transactions through the years.

BOR meeting minutes back to 1996...probably not far enough back for this topic.
http://www.usg.edu/regents/meetings

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

BOR meeting minutes back to 1996...probably not far enough back for this topic.
http://www.usg.edu/regents/meetings

Yeah, probably need to go back further than that, and even then, who really wants to read all the minutes? LOL

 

[Ibeeballin]

I've wondered this for a long time, and You would be uniquely qualified to answer this question- are the academic requirements at Tech too rigorous for our teams to be able to put the needed amount of time both physically and mentally into being 100% prepared and technically sound to play football?

No. Like anything else the effort you put in is the effort you get out. Most of the SAs try to avoided the project laden or extremely hard classes in the fall anyway to avoid it becoming too rigorous.