Insights To Nick Saban Retiring

And I’m saying while there may be easier classes in here aren’t “easy” majors and the core classes to obtain a diploma in those majors aren’t easy. For example outside of a few arts and letters majors most everyone must take at least one semester of calculus.
Calculus is a piece of cake. It is needed for statistical studies, econ and any math or physics related subjects. Not so much for phys Ed majors.
 
By never, you mean 2023, right?
I expect this from little brother OAM. Not Georgia. I figured UGA fans would be thanking THE National Champion Michigan Wolverines for doing what UGA could not, beat Bama. Hell -- we beat up Bama so bad, we forced Saban to retire. A simple thank you would be suffice.
 
I expect this from little brother OAM. Not Georgia. I figured UGA fans would be thanking THE National Champion Michigan Wolverines for doing what UGA could not, beat Bama. Hell -- we beat up Bama so bad, we forced Saban to retire. A simple thank you would be suffice.
Your coach beats an SEC team and abandons you for a nothingburger NFL team. I don't know who won.

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Your coach beats an SEC team and abandons you for a nothingburger NFL team. I don't know who won.

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No such thing as a 'nothing burger' NFL team. NFL is the pinnacle of the sport for players and coaches. You reach the NFL, you are the best of the best.

I think you will be seeing quite a few coaches leaving college, who have the opportunity, for the NFL, as NIL and the portal dominate the sport. So I don't blame Harbaugh for leaving at all, as he said, you can't win a Lombardi Trophy in college football.
 
No such thing as a 'nothing burger' NFL team. NFL is the pinnacle of the sport for players and coaches. You reach the NFL, you are the best of the best.

I think you will be seeing quite a few coaches leaving college, who have the opportunity, for the NFL, as NIL and the portal dominate the sport. So I don't blame Harbaugh for leaving at all, as he said, you can't win a Lombardi Trophy in college football.
You can't be a repeat NCAA champion if you leave after the first.
 
Look, it might happen in some states at some level ... I mean Texas HS have 40 million dollar stadiums. But in most areas, high school football doesn't mean shit.

There have always been high school cheaters ... mostly recruiting, paying for parents to move into a district, etc. The problem you have is there won't be the anti-trust aspect because there is no huge commercial value. HS football isn't going to suddenly get multi-billion dollar TV contracts. Coaches are getting paid millions.

You will get the Little Bron and Zeus type situations in basketball, but it will be the exception, not the rules. And because this is all local, the anti-trust aspect just isn't there to keep the schools from enforcing their rules. It's not mutli-state, so you won't have one state legislature passing rules that affect another.
You are right on most of that but if the NIL box is opened for high school sports there is going to be some really shady shit that goes on with the top division with boosters paying players to move. It won't take long and legislatures will get involve and make kids sit a year if they transfer or will try to.

AAU basketball will be a free for all.

All of this is just a horrible idea.
 
There have been accusations of that in parochial schools for years. I have heard of cases in both Illinois and Wisconsin.
In Alabama, if you are a private school they make you play up a division in sports from where your enrollment would have actually put you. So a team that should be in 4A will play up in 5A because they basically can recruit out of area. It's not fun for most of those schools let me tell you.
 
Um actually they take the same classses as everyone else. Thats the big knock on their recruiting and a big pitch made by other schools to negatively recruit players.

They’re not in athlete only dorms they’re mixed in with the general student body.

Yes they have taken players that wouldn’t ordinarily qualify but then again their acceptance rate is about 12% so I’m not sure what your problem is here. And also they’ve had to turn away athletes that couldn’t qualify even those lower standards for athletes.

Tell me, what are the easy majors that players get to take at ND?
That is what they tell you but there are a lot of "Correspondence" classes going on everywhere. My daughter had a friend who turned down a Volleyball scholarship because the team recruiting her told her she couldn't major in Pharmacy because she wouldn't have time for it. I couldn't believe they told the kid she couldn't have a scholarship because of her major but she told them to fuck off and took an academic scholarship and was happier for it.
 
That's the stupidest, most arbitrary requirement I've ever heard.
If you can't handle calculus then you don't need to be in college. The whole point is to educate at a higher level and Cal 1 aint that high.
 
You can't be a repeat NCAA champion if you leave after the first.
A Lombardi Trophy means way more than winning a trophy you already won. Now if UM had lost in the championship game -- I think he would have stayed at UM. He accomplished his main goal at UM.

I love college football, but it is the minor league of football. The NFL is the top of the sport. I can't fault anyone for leaving college to go to the NFL.
 
A Lombardi Trophy means way more than winning a trophy you already won. Now if UM had lost in the championship game -- I think he would have stayed at UM. He accomplished his main goal at UM.

I love college football, but it is the minor league of football. The NFL is the top of the sport. I can't fault anyone for leaving college to go to the NFL.
I can find fault in Harbaugh for anything he does.

We good. :beer2:
 
If you can't handle calculus then you don't need to be in college. The whole point is to educate at a higher level and Cal 1 aint that high.
That's the stupidest, most arbitrary requirement I've ever heard.
 
I can find fault in Harbaugh for anything he does.

We good. :beer2:
I get it. The guy is a hell of a coach and I wouldn't be surprised in the least to see the Chargers make a big jump this year.
 
You are right on most of that but if the NIL box is opened for high school sports there is going to be some really shady shit that goes on with the top division with boosters paying players to move. It won't take long and legislatures will get involve and make kids sit a year if they transfer or will try to.

AAU basketball will be a free for all.

All of this is just a horrible idea.
The NCAA is where it is because (1) they are a multi-billion dollar business, (2) it pays its coaches and administrators millions of dollars, (3) it was getting picked apart by 50 different state legislatures, and (4) they were clearly violating anti-trust laws. None of those apply to high school sports.
 
I expect this from little brother OAM. Not Georgia. I figured UGA fans would be thanking THE National Champion Michigan Wolverines for doing what UGA could not, beat Bama. Hell -- we beat up Bama so bad, we forced Saban to retire. A simple thank you would be suffice.
I am trying to figure out your objection to my statement. Your team clearly cheated ... your conference determined that, and your ex-coach had to sit out half the games as punishment. So, clearly, you cheated in 2023. You are still under investigation for at least two different violations. So, again, where am I wrong about you cheating in 2023?

What do you mean by something UGA could not do? I know you don't follow this closely, but UGA beat Bama for the NC in 2021, so why would I think of thanking you for beating them in the semis in 2023? Congrats?
 
Yes, a few here and there. So what? They would have gotten paid one way or the other. Now it's out in the open. But, my high school that sucks at football ain't paying their players. They lose money. And no alumni care that much about high school football. If they do in some places, power to them.

It will self-regulate. It already is. See the post above about TCU. On a UGA board, a guy who has given the schools athletics over a million dollars made a post about how he's about tapped out. He can afford it, just isn't going to do it.

I have no empathy for millionaire coaches bitching that their job is tough. Fuck 'em. Earn your millions, dipshits.
No one, not even me or you is going to believe this, but.... I think I actually agree with everything you posted in this brief and poignant essay.
 
You are right on most of that but if the NIL box is opened for high school sports there is going to be some really shady shit that goes on with the top division with boosters paying players to move. It won't take long and legislatures will get involve and make kids sit a year if they transfer or will try to.

AAU basketball will be a free for all.

All of this is just a horrible idea.
you'd be surprised how many players try to relocate to other High schools here in TX.. but the UIL is pretty good at ruling what's approved and what's not.. but it still goes down.. families literally move to the other side of town for their kid to switch high schools.
 
At the pro level you should be playing for the money. NIL has taken the Amateur out of high school and college sports. IMO, no college player should be making more than a professional player at the very least.
Cfb hasn’t been amateur in half a century. Everyone was making money except the principals.
It passed beyond being a 2 billion dollar industry many years ago.
 
You are right on most of that but if the NIL box is opened for high school sports there is going to be some really shady shit that goes on with the top division with boosters paying players to move. It won't take long and legislatures will get involve and make kids sit a year if they transfer or will try to.

AAU basketball will be a free for all.

All of this is just a horrible idea.
That already happens, how do you think Kyler Murray ended up in Allen?
 
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