1. One Super Rat is down; the other two will play for all the cheese.
2. Brian Kelly's hissy fit in the PC was an embarrassment to ND and to himself.
3. So what do we do for a QB? Buchner or nothing? Or do we get a transfer? Stay tuned.
4. It's time to smash the dogma of the inviolability of the offensive line: It's taboo to substitute in the offensive line. They're a band of brothers who have a chemistry that can't be tampered with. What this does is to leave us with a bunch of cherries for next season. In the past, a whole second unit of the offensive line would go in for a possession and/or play together for an extended time in blowouts. Also, there is no reason why individuals can't give a starter a blow once in a while in a contested game.
Our defensive line, on the other hand, has revolving door substitutions. The more that others play, the more they get experience and feel like a real part of the team, and the more they are prepared to be a starter later in their career.
5. Bowl games have to be cut drastically. This year was good preparation. Opt-outs debase the games. UNC would have beaten A & M last night if they had all their skill players. We'll somehow survive without the Cheez-It and Gasparilla bowls.
6. Expanding the CFP to eight teams will ensure more embarrassing blowouts by the Super Rats.
7. Opt-outs: The ugly tentacles of the NFL, driven by money, continue to diminish college football. Bo Schembechler's impassioned speech: " No player is more important than the team, no coach is more important than the team, the team, the team, the team!"--is laughable now. NFL draft prospects on teams will start to opt-out during the season if their team is struggling, not to mention the bowl games.
8. However, despite all of its problems, college football is still the greatest game around!
this could easily come from the massive amounts of money going to the coaches. Why stay and help your school make more money when your health is on the line and likely could cost you millions in draft money?
I like amateurism but it's a total joke and farse when everyone else is making literally billions off of your work... there is a revenue share problem. A "free" ride for a degree is a joke compared to what the schools make relative to the cost based on what the players do for them.
For the top-tier schools if no football players played they would be out of 50-$200 million annually and many of their schools would go under from financial issues. Time to pay players what they deserve even if it's putting it in a fund until they meet certain requirements.
The NCAA and schools have made it about money and have given it to everyone except the guys doing the work. Opting out is the player's only option for getting theirs.
The players are paid, sir! They are paid with four or five years of an education very very few people can afford!
They are paid with four or five years of free room and board.
They are paid by exposure to NFL scouts that would never have heard of them had they not played college football.
They are paid by the opportunity to become qualified for a fantastic salary most people can only dream of.
They are paid with a life time of networking only a select few will ever be privileged to experience.
An on and on and on!!
Did they work their buns off for that pay? Sure. But they also had a lot of fun and were rewarded with opportunities only a very few will ever receive.
Now before anyone tires to say my statements reveal personal envy .... forget it. I don't envy anyone who has worked for what they have or have accomplished, All I have done is to point out some facts that seem to be getting overlooked. Specifically, the players are paid and paid well.
Notre Dame is likely worth > $300k now I imagine?
Times (85) scholarships??? $25.5M....
Yeah, pay them...they deserve it
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