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Which is why I'm broadly in favor of decoupling the revenue sports from the universities.

Yeah, college is what you make of it. A lot of football and basketball players are just doing the bare minimum academically when they are really there to be part of the multi-billion dollar athletics complex. And there's definitely a lot of academic cheating, overly supportive advisers/tutors, etc. The ones who want to make the most of their academic opportunities would probably IMO still have that option in a world where college athletics separate from the NCAA and officially become the developmental pro league that they have been operating as for decades already. The ones who aren't so academically inclined could focus on their actual profession with the benefit of collective bargaining to compensate them appropriately and help set them up for life after sports. The general studies type degrees do basically nothing for the guys who graduate with them already anyway, so I don't think there's a very real societal benefit to them being forced to get worthless degrees in the name of preserving college athletics. This level of football is as good as it's going to get for the vast majority of them. I find it pathetic the NCAA is begging for Congress to bail them out at the expense of athletes rather than being a forward thinking organization and actually, I dunno, leading / governing effectively.

These kids ain't been here to play school in a very long time, as Cardale Jones said in 2012.

If the NCAA's main objective is to get Congress to pass a bill, I think it's not only a tenable result but their desired outcome.

Bracing myself for Sam Alexis to not get his 5th year while TKR plays a 6th

I have a buddy who does the scorebug for the Eagles and he says basically the same thing. Doesn't pass the smell test.

56-0 us

Crapola like the end of the UM-WMU game, with all the gambling / prediction market apps, is far more damaging to the "integrity of the game" than paying players, letting them transfer every year, and even giving the class of 2022 a 5th year would be (including those who spent 4 weeks or whatever in NFL training camps because they had no eligibility to come back... because of the NCAA's strategic timing behind 5 for 5 policy)

So the Big Ten just wants people to disbelieve their own eyes, huh? Yeah, sure, whatever...............

Investigate them. I'm drunk, I don't care. Someone has to go to jail.

Storming the field for beating WMU! Lol! Pathetic for the winningest program in CFB.

Holy crap

Not the same level of upset as App State, but the vibes have to be similarly awful. Losing to a directional school in your state at home to start the new coach's era... ooooff.

Michigan fans are gonna be pooping themselves