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Dabo and 'Amateur' Athletics
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Thu May 02, 2019 9:20 pmby SoCal_Pony
“We try to teach our guys, use football to create the opportunities, take advantage of the platform and the brand and the marketing you have available to you, but as far as paying players, professionalizing college athletics, that’s where you lose me. I’ll go do something else, because there’s enough entitlement in this world as it is." - Dabo Swinney 2014
10 year $93 million contract - Dabo Swinney 2019
Stories such as these is why I never apologized for the PonyExpress years and never will.
Re: Dabo and 'Amateur' Athletics
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Fri May 03, 2019 10:27 amby leopold
You can say whatever you want to about college athletics, but Swinney has earned everything he's gotten. Just read up on his life story.
And as far as the nature of college athletics go, he'd probably agree with you, He walked on at 'bama and helped them earn a national championship, probably worth nine figures to a school even back in the early '90's, and probably earned a flippin' $10,000 scholarship as his reward.
Re: Dabo and 'Amateur' Athletics
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Sat May 04, 2019 6:00 pmby mtrout
Next we'll be talking about paying high school players. Highland park's coach makes ~150k. Those kids don't even get free lunch!
These kids get a free degree, virtually unlimited food, housing (or a housing check- $1700+/mo), clothes, medical care, spending money (cost of attendance scholarship) ...hell their whole life is paid for. They ALL get similar compensation to what your average AAF player got.
Re: Dabo and 'Amateur' Athletics
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Sun May 05, 2019 1:05 amby Mustangsabu
No one “earns” 93 million.
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Re: Dabo and 'Amateur' Athletics
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Sun May 05, 2019 8:29 amby dalpony
Mtrout - all the “free” stuff you described, they earn in spades -they virtually work year round- they obviously enjoy it for the most part and they get a wonderful education but they definitely earn it -
Re: Dabo and 'Amateur' Athletics
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Sun May 05, 2019 10:11 amby One Trick Pony
mtrout wrote:Next we'll be talking about paying high school players. Highland park's coach makes ~150k. Those kids don't even get free lunch!
These kids get a free degree, virtually unlimited food, housing (or a housing check- $1700+/mo), clothes, medical care, spending money (cost of attendance scholarship) ...hell their whole life is paid for. They ALL get similar compensation to what your average AAF player got.
The long term body damage as you ache in your 30's for the rest of your life is never mentioned..
Re: Dabo and 'Amateur' Athletics
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Sun May 05, 2019 2:46 pmby mtrout
Football has it rough I’ll give you that. Most other sports are far less abusive.