Monday, July 18, 2011

What would happen if a college football team decided to go on strike and not play until they got paid?

At this point amatuerism is dead in college football. The constant rule violations and NCAA investigational theaterics is a joke. Does anyone really think that Reggie Bush or Terrell Pryor showed poor character? They were getting screwed by not getting any of the BILLIONS that everyone else is making on their backs. The NFL is facing the prospect of missing a season because its players have a union and stand together so they don't get cheated. Why not in college sports? How great would it be to have College Game Day show up along with a few hundred thousand fans and tailgaters only to find out the actual players are picketing instead of playing. OK, full disclosure, I root for the buckeyes. But at this point, the whole BCS system needs to to be burned to the ground and I say that even though the buckeyes have benefited more from the BCS than any other team. Maybe the justice department might do some good by throwing out the monopoly card but I suspect that nothing will come of it. College football is the only college sport that benefits from the three year rule that forces a star to wait three years before going pro. That's just un-American. I hope that there is an agitator in one of the locker rooms this year that has had enough. If want to post ideas or scenarios that an NCAA player strike might look like then go ahead. If you want to complain about the buckeyes do it somewhere else. Your team is either breaking the rules also or deluding themselves that character is part of the game of football. Talent, winning, smashing your opponent in the nose . . . that's football. The rest is just something else.

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