While technically true (4-4 conference record in 2007), this makes me scratch my head and wonder what the point might be.Quote:
Mike Gundy, who coaches at Oklahoma State and whose regrettable, if not sufficiently regretted, comments were featured in a recent post, is paid $5 million per year, and as the Sports Illustrated article on his comments points out, his teams have not had a .500 record in conference for several years.
Yeah this is a really dumb point. They were 5-4 in 2019, 6-3, in 2017, and 7-2 in 2016 and 2015. In fact he's had a .500+ record in conference 10 out of the last 12 years...rbcs_2 said:While technically true (4-4 conference record in 2007), this makes me scratch my head and wonder what the point might be.Quote:
Mike Gundy, who coaches at Oklahoma State and whose regrettable, if not sufficiently regretted, comments were featured in a recent post, is paid $5 million per year, and as the Sports Illustrated article on his comments points out, his teams have not had a .500 record in conference for several years.
It's an interesting article with some very salient points. The one flaw in his logic is that most of the large industrials (like Bethlehem Steel or Sears) that went down through the years were replaced by other more efficient business models or better/cheaper alternatives. He could have gone further with an argument that another sport would become more popular, or that college football will eventually price itself out of the market. I can't see another sport replacing it at this point, but future generations may go more for soccer. I can see football pricing itself out of the market and just becoming too expensive for the average fan, but For now it seems that fans will pay a lot for something that only happens 6 or 7 times a year.Texas A & M said:
This may be the end of the golden era of college football.
https://academeblog.org/2020/05/20/why-big-time-college-football-is-likely-on-the-verge-of-becoming-sears/
Mort Rainey said:
The world would suck balls without (pre-wuhan flu, woke, entitled kids making rediculous demands) college football.
Houstonag said:
The leadership across the nation in the NCAA, NFL, MBA, MLB etc is horrible and gutless. They have lost me forever. I saw it coming years ago and it is a sorry state especially for the colleges. The liberal leadership has hurt and damaged the academic as well as the athletic side. If all boils down to leadership and being truthful. TAMU and all the other schools will never recover.
Aggies2009 said:Houstonag said:
The leadership across the nation in the NCAA, NFL, MBA, MLB etc is horrible and gutless. They have lost me forever. I saw it coming years ago and it is a sorry state especially for the colleges. The liberal leadership has hurt and damaged the academic as well as the athletic side. If all boils down to leadership and being truthful. TAMU and all the other schools will never recover.
You spend an awful lot of time posting on a forum about people who have lost you forever. Just go, if you're going to. Nobody cares
Hawk2007 said:Aggies2009 said:Houstonag said:
The leadership across the nation in the NCAA, NFL, MBA, MLB etc is horrible and gutless. They have lost me forever. I saw it coming years ago and it is a sorry state especially for the colleges. The liberal leadership has hurt and damaged the academic as well as the athletic side. If all boils down to leadership and being truthful. TAMU and all the other schools will never recover.
You spend an awful lot of time posting on a forum about people who have lost you forever. Just go, if you're going to. Nobody cares
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