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  1. Cr1028
    Well played sir, well played. +1 for you, and I'm not being sarcastic, I thought about your post and you make very good points. My argument was somewhat hollow.
  2. Cr1028
    Welcome back Coach Dickey. It is nice to have you hanging around the board.
  3. Cr1028
    Never heard of anyone making millions going semi-pro or being drafted as the top pick from D3 or NAIA.
  4. Cr1028
    Missing Trice but Sed is going to lower the boom this year along with Lairamie Lee. gif borrowed from gmg poster andrewrozell
  5. Cr1028
    You have obviously never run gassers after practice.
  6. Cr1028
    You are missing the point of the lawsuit. The NCAA is the only place players can play after high school, they cannot joint the NFL at that age and the NFL has no minor league. This means the NCAA has the exclusive rights to postsecondary talent and can limit there compensation in any way they see fit. Players are not compensated to the value of their talent and the NCAA and most of its member institutions reap huge profits as a result. A player like Jadeveon Clowney would have been a millionaire straight out of High School like Kobe, Lebron, Josh Hamilton, etc. if it were not for his barrier to entering an open market. South Carolina, bowl games, ESPN, and the NCAA were the beneficiary of his barrier to putting his talent on the market for all bidders.
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    I read it to say one of two players will start against Texas. That is all. If it were your first question, he would've said one of two players that will play against Texas.
  8. Cr1028
    If we could find a way to beat Texas, it could be 2 undefeated teams playing for the CUSA championship.
  9. Cr1028
    Just wondering if there is a confirmed tailgate spot where everyone is welcome before the UT game. There was a good one last time that I remember Chad Rose's dad being one of the folks there and Dr. B and RV showed up. I also remember a "tailgate" in Fayetteville where Mandy made it clear that my friend and I weren't important enough to tailgate with the rest of the Mean Green fans there. Just looking for a spot to hang with the Mean Green nation. Hit up Silo for lunch today. Good burgers.
  10. Cr1028
    I found a picture with some players from the best team Parker ever coached.
  11. Cr1028
    In this suit I would argue that the antitrust issue is with the labor market. Graduating high school football players that have the talent to make a living by playing the sport have little to no employment opportunities other than NCAA football. Many of them do not even want the degree that we hold up as the ultimate compensation. They take piss poor degree plans because their only goal is to maintain their eligiblity long enough to enter the NFL draft. If the NFL had a minor league system, there would be no antitrust issue and this lawsuit would be worthless. Also, if we are talking about fairness here and everyone gets the same(a degree). Is it fair to say that a UNT/Texas State degree is worth just as much as a UT/A&M degree? How about a Rice degree? Stanford?
  12. Cr1028
    In this case, I guess you could pay a flat fee to all players and then give extra based on the percentage games played. Star or not, the percentage of games played would alleviate the 3rd string slacker problem.
  13. Cr1028
    I think it should be a revenue sharing deal. The money the football team brings in above expenses should be divided evenly among the players. I'm torn as to whether is should go to all players, scholarship players, or just players that saw the field. Women's soccer should do the same and if the program loses money, no stipend and their scholarships are just a cost of doing business. My problem is not with scholarships not being valuable enough compensation. My problem is with entities like ESPN and people like Steve Patterson commercializing the sport to the point of insanity. If these folks weren't trying to cash in on their cheap, no-compete, labor, I wouldn't be on DT's side in this.
  14. Cr1028
    1. My guess is he would've gone to Tarleton State, lived at home and commuted. Depending on Financial Aid would have $27k in loan debt if he didn't work, likely would have less than $10k in debt in he made $10/hr working 20hrs a week and contributed $2000 a semester to his tuition. With grants and working combined, would come out of Tarleton debt free without a bunch of goons telling him what a piss-poor bowl mvp quarterback he was who just happens to be in the top five of just about every quarterback measure on UNT's all-time list. 2. Perhaps he is one of the bigger names that graduated last year that is not playing professionally.
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    $70k over a 5 year period is less than minimum wage. The time and effort these kids put in is worth way more than minimum wage. If you were a tradesman and only one company(NCAA) was allowed to hire you for your first 4 years of adulthood, they told you that you would earn a set salary regardless of how well the company did or how well you did on a personal level, and that you could not earn any income outside of that set 4 year amount, you would not be happy. Additionally, if you decided to transfer to a different division within the company(another fbs school), you would have to have a year without pay. Scholarships are nice but non-athlete scholarship recipients get to work outside jobs and don't bring a fraction of the revenue or recognition that the football players on the whole do.
  16. Cr1028
    I'm fine with what he is doing. These programs/conferences are receiving HUGE tv deals. People that attend the games are typically alumni and fans of the program. The tv viewers are typically just looking for excitement (Manziel, Jameis, Clowney). These guys should get a bigger piece of the pie. If college football was still about student athletes instead of money, I could see your point but college football has become all about cash and the players on the whole receive way less than they could/should on the open market. If the NFL had a minor league system to compete with college football then this lawsuit would be useless but because college football has no competition for these players to jump to, college football does have antitrust issues.
  17. Cr1028
    Staying in my own comfy bed. I love it when the Mean Green come to Austin for me. Maybe I missed it in another thread but is there an event going on at Silo? Do we have a tailgate spot like we did back in '06 with Chad Rose's dad? I was there hanging out with Dr. B and RV. It was a lot of fun. Is the bus the place for that meetup this year? I'm just trying to find the right spots to hang since I don't get to mingle with the Mean Green faithful very often in this town. Thanks.
  18. Cr1028
    I went full on homer but just can't help but feel that we are better than just about every one of these teams. UT - loss SMU - win LaTech - win Nicholls State - win Indiana - win UAB - win Southern Miss - win Rice - win FAU - win UTEP - win FIU - win UTSA - win CUSA Championship- Loss Bowl game - Win 12-2
  19. Cr1028
    Sec. 32, Row 26, Seat 17-18. Seats are in a less than preferable locale but that is standard for visiting teams. The best away game seats we had were either to Fayetteville in '07 or Rice in Houston when we got blown out. SMU seats in '07 weren't bad either. Endzone at UT in '06 and OU in '07 weren't great.
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    I just wonder if it would've come to this had there not been such a massive jump of fcs schools to fbs status over the last decade or so. I know about 11 or so have been added in just the last ten years and I wonder how many were added in the 10 years before that.
  21. Cr1028
    I wish the NFL would just have a minor league like the MLB so college football could be more about pride in your school than making cash. It would be nice if college football were more like high school football in that regard.
  22. Cr1028
    Very good point! http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/conferenceusa/north_texas/opponents_records.php?teamid=3198
  23. Cr1028
    We had the 17th best total defense, 14th best rushing defense, and 8th best scoring defense in the country last year. I understand we had some personnel changes but Skladany is still the D coordinator! Trust in Skladany.
  24. Cr1028
    No better time to change that than now. Also, if I calculated correctly, we had a winning record against bowl teams last year.
  25. Cr1028
    Austin American Statesman Poll: "Besides Oklahoma, what's the biggest game on this year's schedule?" http://www.statesman.com/weblogs/bevo-beat/2014/aug/05/20-questions-texas-toughest-game/ Feel free to vote.

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