Calipari is right. The majors should split from the NCAA and pay players to keep them in school longer. Let amateur athletics be played by schools that are actually amateur and not pretend.
Oh no you didn't! Did you just compare Brett Favre and his 62% completion rate to Tebow and his 46% passing? Favre was a Very Conventional QB who did all the things a conventional QB can do plus many things not every QB can do. TT is a high school shot putter masquerading as an NFL QB.
But not as underpaid as his players are. They, too, contribute to all that income, but their income is capped at the cost of a scholarship, thanks to the NCAA Cartel. Saban has no cap.
Rondo may pull a Rose and sit out all next year until he "feels comfortable" ... medical clearance to play or not. Wilbon will spend the year defending his decision to leave his teammates high and dry, though, so not all will be lost.
Follow The Money. Everything the NCAA does is about Money ... getting more for the NCAA and the powers that be. You have to give them their cut ... just like businessmen who have to give a percentage to the gang enforcer on the block. The NCAA is a Cartel and a racket.
An undrafted free agent. No major commitment. If one wants to take a flyer on someone based on physical skills alone, a 305-pound guy with 4.78 speed sounds like a good flyer. Probably won't work out, but nothing of substance lost. And if it DOES work out, they have a Freak on their side.
Wallace is an idiot from Mississippi, nuff said. He would have been dumb enough to support anti-black racism back in the day before pro sports integrated.
Matthew 6:6 - But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Tebow is too busy drawing attention to himself to heed the Word he supposedly believes. Combined with his skill deficit, no team needs his presence.
With slotting, agents have very little influence over a rookie's contract except by selling him to GMs and getting him into a higher draft slot. Smith's agents failed.
He had trouble winning with an NCAA team that had twice the talent of most of its competitors. Why would he be successful in the NFL where his team would not have that edge?
As if anyone needed more evidence that Rexy is a total idiot. Perhaps he doesn't understand that the Orioles have a business of their own ... their job is NOT to promote the NFL.
"Football players don't work harder than swimmers do."
And Conference commissioners don't work harder than custodial staff or college football players do, but they get paid more. Football players generate a LOT more revenue than swimmers. In fact, they generate a lot more revenue than Bowlsby does, but HE gets paid a LOT more money. If Bowlsby thinks people are paid according to how hard they work, he just disqualified himself from gainful employment.
A five year deal in 2008 ... so he had a "contract" for 2013. A four year deal in 2012 ... so he had a second "contract" for 2013. And now he is trying to get a third contract for 2013 ... one where he will actually receive money in 2013. Such is the nature of announced "contracts" in the NFL.
Let's see ... Howland's team won the Pac-12 conference championship THIS YEAR .. he has been to the Final Four three times ... he has been named Coach of the Year in three different conferences as well as National Coach of the Year. Yep ... gotta get rid of him.
It is a shame and a surprise that the only two teams that clearly did NOT illegally collude during an uncapped season are the only team teams that get penalized. Play by the NFL rules, not the law.
NO ONE knows this far out when ANY injured player will be ready. AD's historical recovery (and I am SURE that no PED's were involved) has created a false sense of how quickly this can be done.
Tebow is too busy drawing attention to himself to heed the Word he supposedly believes. Combined with his skill deficit, no team needs his presence.
And here I thought the goal of batting was to score runs.
And Conference commissioners don't work harder than custodial staff or college football players do, but they get paid more. Football players generate a LOT more revenue than swimmers. In fact, they generate a lot more revenue than Bowlsby does, but HE gets paid a LOT more money. If Bowlsby thinks people are paid according to how hard they work, he just disqualified himself from gainful employment.