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I still watch for love of the game, but NIL, and the transfer portal is straining that love to its breaking point.
Was sitting on the "tracks" watching the DAWGS shutout Bama that day.
I don't think I've ever read a bad article written by Bill.
I'm with your brother, Bill. It's ruining the game of college football. Predictably. Surely.
That doesn't mean I'm fixing to stop cheering for the Dawgs.
I can remember taking wrestling in summer school with a bunch of football players, seeing groups of football players at the drive in movie, stuff like that, when we were all students living in the same world, loyal to DawgNation, glad to be students at Georgia. Now too many are instant millionaires with no loyalty or close ties to the university. Here today. Gone tomorrow having transferred to Georgia Tech or Florida. Yikes.
Go, Dawgs!
A lot of us remember those days fondly.
Wonderful article by Bill King. This entire situation has been created by years and years of toxic American liberalism from academia to judges and greedy lawyers and wokism totally embraced by the NCAA and to a smaller degree by our athletic conferences. Players on college football teams get paid by the athletic scholarships that they are provided and the opportunity to earn degrees at no cost to them. It is irrelelvant that the universities make a lot of money from college football which also funds other Title IX sports. These players are not professionals, and to treat them as such will utterly destroy college football. If the nauseating trends continue, I will simply retire or sell all my UGA memorabilia, stop donating to the university every year, and find other ways to spend my leisure time and money.
Bill King is a national treasure. He loves the University of Georgia like I do. We are around the same age. When we move on from this world, the wonderful world we live in will have changed, not for the better. College football will die and our children will be served NFL minor league football. Very very sad. I believe that the demand for NFL minor league football will only be a small fraction of what the demand it today. So all these greedy administrators and league bureaucrats are very short sighted to think that they can extrapolate the growth of college football over the past twenty years indefinitely. The curve will peak, then decline and we will have lost a beautiful gem called college football.
the only winners in new world of college football are the attorneys.
My first year as a freshman at UGA was 1967 when Kirby Moore was the QB. So much has changed since then. I eventually came back to Athens to practice medicine. I had the honor of being in charge of medical services for GA games for 30 years. I say this to insure all that I have no legal degree and even less knowledge of what can and cannot be done legally about the discomfort all us old timers feel about the circumstances of today's college football. I would like to see restrictions on all freshman signees to receiving "only" free tuition, books, and reasonable spending money plus a trust. After the first year, the trust can be negotiated on a yearly basis. If a student decides to transfer without cause, the trust would be rescinded. The trust would be fully available to the player at age 25. At the accepted age that a player can apply for the NFL draft, the trust amount would be protected if they leave early for the NFL. No one should walk out of high school and immediately become a millionaire without any college production.
A very good comment! I agree 100% with your takes on incoming freshman, and transfers. It is rdiculous for a 17 year old kid who has never played a single snap in college, to be paid 6-7 figures soon as they step foot on campus, or for some it's before they even get out of High School. Its no longer about loyalty to a school, love of the game, or a free education that a scholarship provides you. Sadly, as with most things in the world today, it's all about the almighty dollar.