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RWLRAR

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but they are about as bad as I have ever seen them. It hurts to lose talents like Gibbs and Mason, but the truth is O.J. Simpson and Barry Sanders would have a hard time being successful behind our O-line. Same for the QB's. I've seen physical growth from the O-line, but something is missing from the technique. If someone can fix that, we can be successful sooner rather than later with whoever we have in the backfield. The D-line will have to apply more pressure, so our secondary doesn't constantly get put on front street. I've only missed 4 Tech-uga games since 1984, this was one of them, and I have lived 500 miles from Atlanta and even more from Athens for the past 20 years. I saw enough the week before at Notre Dame. I would give up if I could, but I will never be able to. I would like to be able to look forward to football season, instead of dreading it. Since we are sticking with Collins, I'll get behind it...but he better f'ing fix things quick. Grant Field also needs to be grass and we need more traditional uniforms and less blaring rap music to get "crunk," and more fundamentally sound football. And way more wins. That's all.
 
RWLRAR said:
Grant Field also needs to be grass
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edit: I was going to use this in the threats of violence thread as a joke, but I specifically held onto it for the next time some ignorant whore decided to talk öööö about the turf. As a joke.
 
Short of death/catastrophe, this is about as bad as it gets. I guess you could say that if we lost all of our games it’d be worse, but really that would be accelerating the end of this three ring circus sideshow - which most of us would be grateful for. So yeah, we’re at optimus sucktus.
 
I started to sense it when the first big round of conference reallignments happened a few years ago, destroying long-standing traditional rivalries like they were just so much chaff.

I got a bad feeling with the transfer portal.

And I was afraid that NIL was going to be the final NaIL in the coffin.

For decades college football has balanced on the edge of legitimacy. Payments to family under the table. Golden handshakes from boosters after games. No-show summer jobs at companies owned by boosters. Rock bottom admission standards for athletes. No-show classes. Phony "college" majors. But if you squinted tight enough and swallowed hard enough, it still sort of seemed like amateur college athletics.

The thin veneer is gone for good. I see fewer and fewer connections between the football teams and the educational operations of the colleges whose names they bear - at least in P5 and arguably throughout FBS.

This past week's coaching carousel and the events in Tech's football program have really driven that home to me. I guess I have several months now to contemplate what, if anything, "college" football means to me any more. Maybe there will not be very many others like me . . . but I doubt I will be the only one.
 
1982Jacket said:
I started to sense it when the first big round of conference reallignments happened a few years ago, destroying long-standing traditional rivalries like they were just so much chaff.

I got a bad feeling with the transfer portal.

And I was afraid that NIL was going to be the final NaIL in the coffin.

For decades college football has balanced on the edge of legitimacy. Payments to family under the table. Golden handshakes from boosters after games. No-show summer jobs at companies owned by boosters. Rock bottom admission standards for athletes. No-show classes. Phony "college" majors. But if you squinted tight enough and swallowed hard enough, it still sort of seemed like amateur college athletics.

The thin veneer is gone for good. I see fewer and fewer connections between the football teams and the educational operations of the colleges whose names they bear - at least in P5 and arguably throughout FBS.

This past week's coaching carousel and the events in Tech's football program have really driven that home to me. I guess I have several months now to contemplate what, if anything, "college" football means to me any more. Maybe there will not be very many others like me . . . but I doubt I will be the only one.
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I think you should follow your heart and give it up. Just stop caring about it and even talking about it forever. It will never again be what you want it to be and waiting several whole months will not change that. Just do it now do it
 
ThomsonJacket said:
You missed the CCG years?
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People really don't get it. We were over .500 every year with talent like Calvin and Choice and some absolutely stellar defenses, together earning some all-time great Tech victories - and this place was still an absolute ööööfest and a war zone with a quantum of the humor it has now. Please stop comparing them.
 
RussianOffense said:
Everyone gets their own thread to complain
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Rightfully so. Anyone who has no complaints about the season that just happened either doesn't really care, or is too stupid to understand what a historical failure it was. I'm here to say that I'm not, can't give up on Tech Football. If we pay someone half a million dollars to teach our players how to block, they should be able to do it. I don't think that is too much to ask
 
RWLRAR said:
Rightfully so. Anyone who has no complaints about the season that just happened either doesn't really care, or is too stupid to understand what a historical failure it was. I'm here to say that I'm not, can't give up on Tech Football. If we pay someone half a million dollars to teach our players how to block, they should be able to do it. I don't think that is too much to ask
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Each complaint thread comes with replies complaining about the thread rather than addressing the complaint. It took an executive order to get more threads made in the Other Sports board, for whatever reason people here hate not being able to have every conversation on a single page and yet not one of these boomer öööös wants to join a StingTalk discord.
 
1982Jacket said:
I started to sense it when the first big round of conference reallignments happened a few years ago, destroying long-standing traditional rivalries like they were just so much chaff.

I got a bad feeling with the transfer portal.

And I was afraid that NIL was going to be the final NaIL in the coffin.

For decades college football has balanced on the edge of legitimacy. Payments to family under the table. Golden handshakes from boosters after games. No-show summer jobs at companies owned by boosters. Rock bottom admission standards for athletes. No-show classes. Phony "college" majors. But if you squinted tight enough and swallowed hard enough, it still sort of seemed like amateur college athletics.

The thin veneer is gone for good. I see fewer and fewer connections between the football teams and the educational operations of the colleges whose names they bear - at least in P5 and arguably throughout FBS.

This past week's coaching carousel and the events in Tech's football program have really driven that home to me. I guess I have several months now to contemplate what, if anything, "college" football means to me any more. Maybe there will not be very many others like me . . . but I doubt I will be the only one.
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#1 there are no phony majors, all States have Boards or Regents or Chancellors at the State Level to oversee Colleges.

The problem with CFB is obvious, if the players that Generate the Revenue got a small piece of the pie (money generated) that would balance the scales.

Instead it goes to Coaches, and if I was a Coach with a $8 to $11 Million dollar yearly salary hanging in the balance based on winning, then hell yeah I'd cheat too, especially since the NCAA is corrupt anyway.

Before you get your panties in a wad, if all P5 Colleges had a "carve out" for let's say $5MM to pay the REVENUE GENERATORS (FB & MBB roughly 100 players-stipends)

Don't call it a salary, cancel the full cost of attendance stipend, and instead have all NCAA P5 Teams give out these "stipends" to go along with the full FB & MBB scholarships for the P5 -- that's 100 stipends X $50K per stipend = $5 Million in yearly carve out Money.

With everyone at every college getting the same stipend (could be as low as $35K or $3.5MM total) , the Players are more likely to evenly distribute among all P5 Teams rather than loading up at a few Blue Bloods.

Title IX and other things will have to be dealt with, because T9 doesn't say you give everyone the same thing, the Law says equal access to facilities, but the law has been twisted into 2 Sports raising money and then those Monies get redistributed to sports that have equal access to facilities but cannot raise any money.

Regardless, as long as all the Money is concentrated among the coaches , there's no incentive for Players to spread out among the 65 P5 colleges.

BTW, don't let the colleges tell you they can't afford to give FB & MBB the stipends they deserve, coming off of a bad year due to CV19 , College Athl Depts are spending like King Midas while searching for coaches.

15yrs ago at Bama, Saban got $4million and his Staff got $4million total, now Saban gets $11Million and his on field Staff gets the same $11 Million (doesn't include 100 analysts behind the scenes)

In 15yrs Bama went from paying on field coaches $8 million per year to $22 million per yr, there has to be money for Players that generate the Revenues to get larger stipends.

This is the only way to balance the distribution of talented players - pay them the same stipend at all 65 P5 Colleges.

IMO this is the only way to save the Sport going forward.
 
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