Agree 1000%, but they're not psuedo pro, they are full on pro. Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, etc. Those are professional sports teams, full stop. The fact that you require your players to go to classes doesn't change the fact that they're professional athletes. I have to take legal classes not to get disbarred, that doesn't make me a student-lawyer...
Kevin Wilson
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Intramurals or D2 / D3 are now the purest form of what college football was supposed to be. Wish they had some inter-school games between the best actual non-scholarship students at major universities.
I want a rule where the coach has to be a student and they can’t coach more than 4 years.
And the refs can't get paid more than $30 per game.
Ehh they are pseudo pro until they unionize and have a league minimum pay scale.. the pros get minimum $50k a game and full benefits after a period of service.. the schools are still bound by title ix as well.. nfl franchises dont have to pay equal salaries to womens teams..
You don't have to have a union to be a professional. 80% of workers don't have a union. Your point about minimum and benefits are why they SHOULD have a union but it doesn't make them not professional, any more than a barista at a non-union Starbucks location is less of a professional than one at a unionized location. The XFL players didn't have a union.
they do receive a free education, worth upwards to $250,000.00, if they choose to go to class
Interestingly, NFL players receive tuition reimbursement if they go to college and for some period after they retire. This is paid for by the players union.
Ok, it doesn't matter for the point, that NFL players like college players get free college Tho college players get more paid for if they're at an expensive school.
This is the worst coaching hire since Burns hands down.
I was always proud of Monty when he won. He wasnt the best but he was passionate and I liked the way the players loved him.
Wilson just looks like an angry old white dude who drinks too much and hates his life.
I want him to lose every game this year to expedite the process of getting rid of him.
I was always proud of Monty when he won. He wasnt the best but he was passionate and I liked the way the players loved him.
Wilson just looks like an angry old white dude who drinks too much and hates his life.
I want him to lose every game this year to expedite the process of getting rid of him.
I don't think I like the direction this is heading - "old white dude who drinks too much"
Bro.
“The players loved him” line is garbage. He had zero control of that team, the locker room, or the classroom. His teams were the most undisciplined groups we’ve seen here.
I’m not a Wilson fan, but let’s not sit here and try to romanticize Montgomery’s time here… it was, for the most part, ass.
Since Graham left, we’ve made 3 major dud hires and they’ve all sucked in their own special ways.
Monty is part of the reason we are in this mess
Wait, I’m confused. I thought Montgomery’s time was bad. Sounds to me like you think it was great!
Posteriorly yours,
Barrister
Montgomery’s team lost games in all sorts of creative ways, but at the very least it did seem like we at least had some sort of chance every week. We just ended up disappointed more often than not. Now it just seems hopeless, but I still won’t pull for my team to lose no matter what.
And don’t forget that Graham’s successor did win a championship and meaningful bowl game, something Graham couldn’t do himself no matter how hard he tried.
