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and its really sad that Leonard Pope has to be connected with this academic fraud at uga. Obviously, this kind of thing is happening all over the place.
Leonard Pope is about as close as it comes to a can't miss in the NFL. As such, he will be very successful financial wise in the very near future. Leonard Pope will not have to worry much about his grammar skills when he graduates to his full time job.
My question: just because Pope is not "college material", is it fair to exclude him from the physical training and development he needs and deserves before he goes to work? I don't think so.
The point is, that he has no place to go other than a place like uga that will outwardly cheat to get Leonard and the like on their team.
The ncaa is a joke. They know exactly what is going on but they will do nothing about it.
Its not a tragedy that Leonard Pope can't do college work. What is a tragedy is that the NFL and the ncaa have conspired to keep this farce going. Regardless of what anyone says, allowing kids to "graduate" that can't do the work diminishes the degrees of regular students that have busted their ass to get a diploma.
I have the solution, but the ncaa would never go along with it.
The solution is for professional football to mirror pro baseball and create a minor league system. The ncaa will never go along with this out of fear that they would lose revenue. They would feel that college football would be watered down and as a result, no one (sponsors and fans) would pay for it.
Maybe they would be right to a degree, but this is ridiculous.
Personally, I am very happy to see the growth of college baseball. Not long ago, kids with MLB aspirations would not play college ball. They would sign with any team regardless of the round they were drafted in.
With better exposure for college ball, more great baseball players are going to college, but only the ones that can pass the school work. For talented kids that aren't college material, they still have the opportunity of being drafted.
For once, baseball seems to have something right.
By the way, how often have schools been in trouble for their baseball programs? Seldom.
Its not that baseball players are smarter than football players, its just that great football players don't have any other option but college. What a Joke. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif
Leonard Pope is about as close as it comes to a can't miss in the NFL. As such, he will be very successful financial wise in the very near future. Leonard Pope will not have to worry much about his grammar skills when he graduates to his full time job.
My question: just because Pope is not "college material", is it fair to exclude him from the physical training and development he needs and deserves before he goes to work? I don't think so.
The point is, that he has no place to go other than a place like uga that will outwardly cheat to get Leonard and the like on their team.
The ncaa is a joke. They know exactly what is going on but they will do nothing about it.
Its not a tragedy that Leonard Pope can't do college work. What is a tragedy is that the NFL and the ncaa have conspired to keep this farce going. Regardless of what anyone says, allowing kids to "graduate" that can't do the work diminishes the degrees of regular students that have busted their ass to get a diploma.
I have the solution, but the ncaa would never go along with it.
The solution is for professional football to mirror pro baseball and create a minor league system. The ncaa will never go along with this out of fear that they would lose revenue. They would feel that college football would be watered down and as a result, no one (sponsors and fans) would pay for it.
Maybe they would be right to a degree, but this is ridiculous.
Personally, I am very happy to see the growth of college baseball. Not long ago, kids with MLB aspirations would not play college ball. They would sign with any team regardless of the round they were drafted in.
With better exposure for college ball, more great baseball players are going to college, but only the ones that can pass the school work. For talented kids that aren't college material, they still have the opportunity of being drafted.
For once, baseball seems to have something right.
By the way, how often have schools been in trouble for their baseball programs? Seldom.
Its not that baseball players are smarter than football players, its just that great football players don't have any other option but college. What a Joke. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif
