Please make it stop!

[Girthang]

Enough is enough. Talent fee.

Difficult to watch tuition continue to rise and teachers salaries stagnate but these “student” athletes - many who can’t put 2 sentences together- get more and more public money to play a lesser style of pro ball.

Just my opinion. I split a pair of UK season bball txs and I guess it’s a matter of time.

Curious when fans finally say no.

If you aren't willing to say no, then there is your answer.

You either want it or you don't. You either want to be UT, Georgia, Texas, and other programs that spend more on their programs than we do, or you want to be where we always have been. Everybody on here biches about results simply because we pay our coach a higher salary.

The FACTS are these-

We don't have the history of competitive football
We dont have the history of conference or national success
We don't have the revenue and donors
We don't have a 100k seat stadium
We don't have the recruiting base of most every SEC school
We for decades and maybe still split revenue disproportionately with MBasketball
We don't as a fanbase have as many people that care about football
We don't as a fanbase have as many people that understand football
We bich about $5-8 per person per week more than any group of fans in any major conference

The ONE THING we have HAD TO DO, and done so far, is pay our coaches better to try to offset the rest of these disparities. If we're going to bch and moan about the rest of these necessary steps to compete, we might as well shutter the program, because it makes no fkng sense.

If $10 per week is too much of a "big step" for the "fans" then they REALLY need to stop biching about anything to do with their sports program. It's old. It's fkn tiresome. it needs to stop. It just screams "we're a bunch of unappreciative jackasses that want sht for nothing, and don't deserve any success."

 

[gamecockcat]

If you aren't willing to say no, then there is your answer.

You either want it or you don't. You either want to be UT, Georgia, Texas, and other programs that spend more on their programs than we do, or you want to be where we always have been. Everybody on here biches about results simply because we pay our coach a higher salary.

The FACTS are these-

We don't have the history of competitive football
We dont have the history of conference or national success
We don't have the revenue and donors
We don't have a 100k seat stadium
We don't have the recruiting base of most every SEC school
We for decades and maybe still split revenue disproportionately with MBasketball
We don't as a fanbase have as many people that care about football
We don't as a fanbase have as many people that understand football
We bich about $5-8 per person per week more than any group of fans in any major conference

The ONE THING we have HAD TO DO, and done so far, is pay our coaches better to try to offset the rest of these disparities. If we're going to bch and moan about the rest of these necessary steps to compete, we might as well shutter the program, because it makes no fkng sense.

If $10 per week is too much of a "big step" for the "fans" then they REALLY need to stop biching about anything to do with their sports program. It's old. It's fkn tiresome. it needs to stop. It just screams "we're a bunch of unappreciative jackasses that want sht for nothing, and don't deserve any success."

The problem, as I see it, is TODAY it's $10/wk. Next year it's $15. The year after it's $25. At some point, there has to be a realization that this is just a group of teenagers playing a game. It's not life or death. It's not more important that your family, your kids, your grandkids, your health, etc. And, what, exactly is that $10/wk going to give the fans - more 7-5 records with very minor bowl trips (if they even survive another 5 years)? Is that worth it? Will $25/wk equate into 8+ wins every year? I doubt it. By the time UK fans are paying $25/wk, Bama fans will be paying $50/wk. It's an arm's race and we are destined to fall behind due to the very factors you listed.

 

[The-Hack]

This is not new to Tennessee . They went from Macdonalds bags to direct deposit.

And this is not new, nationally.

 

[Mark80]

It’s not sustainable but eventually there will be a framework put together by the schools to handle it. They however have to wait till all the court cases play out before they can even start that conversation.

In the meantime schools can do whatever they want and no there will not be any blow back against these schools.

I don’t really care for this new era of college football though the kids deserve to be paid in some way imo.

I do think Mitch is a bad AD/business person for how he is handling it. Right now an AD has an ability to transform his program in any sport by letting fans/donors pump $$$ into it. If your fans/donors are willing to foot the bill, then the AD should let them.

I’m not willing to foot that bill personally as I see a whole lot of better ways to improve my family or my community with my money.

Your first paragraph won’t happen someone will always change the rules because it gives them a competitive advantage. Eventually schools will decide to have certain sports and eliminate others. I can see football going down to 40 to 50 schools.