Minnesota (5-7) paying QB $30k to play in bowl game.

[chito_and_leon]

The graduating 2nd string QB is the only guy who hasn't transferred so they're paying him $30k to stick around for another month and play in the bowl game.

Amateur athletics is indeed a pure and beautiful thing.

Minnesota football rumored to be paying $30,000 for QB to play in bowl game

 

[aTUfan]

bs. Getting a FREE education isnt enough?

NCAA = semi pro

 

[TulsaAM]

The college game is over...

 

[TulsaAM]

This probably means the end of the current college bowl game configuration.

 

[Original TULSAFAN]

College sports

SUCK now

 

[TULSARISING]

I hope Minnesota gets drilled and that the qb has a terrible game so that they just wasted 30k

 

[drboobay]

I hope Minnesota gets drilled and that the qb has a terrible game so that they just wasted 30k

Jealous?

 

[TULSARISING]

Jealous?

Nope , I always cheer against “ P5” schools . They are the ones that are ruining college football with all of this “ NIL” crap. I’m also one of those that thinks college and NFL coaches make way too much anyway .

 

[chito_and_leon]

Nope , I always cheer against “ P5” schools . They are the ones that are ruining college football with all of this “ NIL” crap. I’m also one of those that thinks college and NFL coaches make way too much anyway .

LOL, don't hate on the poor Gophers too much. They're much closer to us than they are to Ohio State or Michigan.

The Gophers are like these two guys, they exist only to give entertainment with their deaths.

 

[TULSARISING]

LOL, don't hate on the poor Gophers too much. They're much closer to us than they are to Ohio State or Michigan.

The Gophers are like these two guys, they exist only to give entertainment with their deaths.

That’s pretty good 😂

 

[TULSARISING]

Before you know it , watch teams start “ renting out “ their back up qbs for a week to other teams … surly not , but I didn’t think we would ever end up the way things are now either 😂

 

[drboobay]

Before you know it , watch teams start “ renting out “ their back up qbs for a week to other teams … surly not , but I didn’t think we would ever end up the way things are now either 😂

Loan.

Just like Mckennie to Leads.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Loan.

Just like Mckennie to Leads.

Temporary Portal, under the try it before you buy it plan.

 

[chito_and_leon]

LOL, don't hate on the poor Gophers too much. They're much closer to us than they are to Ohio State or Michigan.

The Gophers are like these two guys, they exist only to give entertainment with their deaths.

Gophers are just a bunch of lovable losers! FIU transfer "commits" to Minnesota on Monday and flips to Louisville on Friday. I especially like this from his Twitter post "I’d like to thank Minnesota for giving me the opportunity to be a part of their program. " LOL. Tho in his defense the Gopher DC did leave and they've had some other guys decommit.

But seriously, without competitive balance rules, there will be 10 - 15 super programs and a bunch of Washington Generals. And then a different group that is more similar to true amateurism, where we will be. The "amateur" college teams will have a provision in their scholarships that if a player leaves to go to a "pro" college team, then the player has to repay their scholarship. Which the "pro" college team would pay for him. And then you have a paid promotion program and drboobay will have his wish.

FIU transfer defensive lineman Jordan Guerad decommits from Minnesota, quickly commits to Louisville

 

[aTUfan]

Gophers are just a bunch of lovable losers! FIU transfer "commits" to Minnesota on Monday and flips to Louisville on Friday. I especially like this from his Twitter post "I’d like to thank Minnesota for giving me the opportunity to be a part of their program. " LOL. Tho in his defense the Gopher DC did leave and they've had some other guys decommit.

But seriously, without competitive balance rules, there will be 10 - 15 super programs and a bunch of Washington Generals. And then a different group that is more similar to true amateurism, where we will be. The "amateur" college teams will have a provision in their scholarships that if a player leaves to go to a "pro" college team, then the player has to repay their scholarship. Which the "pro" college team would pay for him. And then you have a paid promotion program and drboobay will have his wish.

FIU transfer defensive lineman Jordan Guerad decommits from Minnesota, quickly commits to Louisville

just a big 5 bottom freeder.

 

[TU Sepp]

Why is a 5-7 team even in a bowl game?

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

Why is a 5-7 team even in a bowl game?

A five win team with the highest Academic Progress Rate becomes bowl eligible if there aren’t enough six win teams.

This rule has been in place for about 10 years.

 

[chito_and_leon]

just a big 5 bottom freeder.

Yeah, and also counterintuitively firmly middle of the pack in the Big 10. How does a superleague work where half or more of the teams are bottom feeders with no hope of anything else other than a flash in the pan year or two every couple decades?

 

[aTUfan]

Yeah, and also counterintuitively firmly middle of the pack in the Big 10. How does a superleague work where half or more of the teams are bottom feeders with no hope of anything else other than a flash in the pan year or two every couple decades?

coattails

 

[TulsaRulzOSUdrools]

The bowl system is a joke anyway. It needs to be done away with. 24 team playoff. Let's do it

 

[HuffyCane]

One of my tinfoil hat friends is convinced the portal is timed the way it is to slowly erode the public’s interest in bowls and disrupt gambling on them.

They will never go away on their own. They are too popular and they all make money. But if you want a 24 team playoff or more, you can’t have the PopTarts Bowl outperforming first round games. So you have to kill the bowls first without upsetting the public.

So goes the theory anyway.

 

[drboobay]

One of my tinfoil hat friends is convinced the portal is timed the way it is to slowly erode the public’s interest in bowls and disrupt gambling on them.

They will never go away on their own. They are too popular and they all make money. But if you want a 24 team playoff or more, you can’t have the PopTarts Bowl outperforming first round games. So you have to kill the bowls first without upsetting the public.

So goes the theory anyway.

Kill the bowls.

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

Kill the bowls.

Then what am I going to watch on that prime Monday afternoon before Christmas time slot?

 

[lawpoke87]

. But if you want a 24 team playoff or more, you can’t have the PopTarts Bowl outperforming first round games.

I support any bowl where the winning team eats the mascot afterwards.

 

[noble cane]

Before you know it , watch teams start “ renting out “ their back up qbs for a week to other teams … surly not , but I didn’t think we would ever end up the way things are now either 😂

I am looking forward to roster trades and prospect (commit) swaps

 

[chito_and_leon]

As long as there's plenty of football over the break, nobody cares about the bowls. Except the cities where they're held - and the congressmen who represent the districts where those cities are located and have hearing powers.