Why even care anymore? 2.0

Here is a thought, if Dorman switched to coach the men’s basketball program and Tinkle switched to be pitching coach, would either really get any worse or would we see some improvement from either/both groups?

Gas Can Dorman at it again. The bullpen has given up 8 runs in the 7th still no outs. Crazy how bad this bullpen is. 13-12 Beavs just got caught again by the bullpen implosion.

The lawsuit is moving forward and the NCAA/major conferences are beginning to negotiate a way out of the mess by proposing that all major colleges carry an annual salary budget of $20 mil per school to pay athletes across all sports.
And in the meantime, SEC/Big10 are attempting to pull all of the major brand name schools into their sphere of conference competition. The irony of this parallel universe would be that at the very time athletes have the most to gain, the schools will actually have the most to lose. If the lawsuits continue to fall on the side of the athletes, then the response of a lot of schools will be a fairly reasonable one, begin dropping sports to avoid the high cost of paying athletes. I can imagine that the D1 model of full ride scholarship will be an extinct dinosaur in very short order as an immediate response to the ruling that every D1 school must allocate $20 mil of the athletic budget to athletes. This will be an absurd sequence of unintended consequences which will ultimately kill the golden goose that provides for all of the various sports, coaches, administrators, conferences, sports agents, recruiting sites, club sports and organizations that feed into the university systems.
College athletics has only had tremors to this point, but once every school is on the hook for $20 mil, it will be the death knell for a lot of athletic programs, and sports opportunities for athletes will no longer what we have known.
I kind of expect that some schools will begin approaching the whole amateur sports with a bit more sanity and without scholarships like all of NAIA etc. It will be an extracurricular for the student, not a job for the athlete who attends a school for 6 months before transferring or going pro.

Imagine if the SEC/ESPN and BIG10/FOX got their way and they gathered the 30 big name schools between their 2 conferences in order to depart but were also negotiating such a large yearly sum as a sort of salary cap within their conferences and by accepting such a number, they knew that it would obliterate all of the other athletic departments that may try to compete with their conference goals. I’m almost convinced that the timing of these 2 elements isn’t exactly a coincidence, nor is the impending implosion of the ACC. Realistically, the only schools left for these conferences to pick off are Notre Dame, Clemson, Florida St and maybe North Carolina or Miami. Beyond these, all other schools land in the mid range programs no different than most of the Big12 or PAC2.
All MWC, MAC, AAC, WAC, Sun Belt schools would be immediately eliminated form the picture if they were required to have a budget 5-6 x the annual athletic budget in order to pay athletes.
I think ESPN is behind the scenes playing the whole thing for timing and waiting to implode the ACC on their preferred timetable, and also trying to play king-maker over all of college football for their own bottom line. ESPN is killing sports, and needs to be stopped. I wish ESPN and FOX were both forced to relinquish their contractual obligations to specific leagues which creates its own programming biases over time. ESPN used to report on sports 30-40 years ago but somewhere along the way they decided to predetermine sports as a part of their bottom line and lining their own pockets in the process.

The eventual fallout of all of this will be a minimizing of the spots on rosters across the country in all sports, not just football. Every college athletic department will be affected and some will dump enough money to stay in the game, football at least, but it is very predictable that a lot of schools will just begin shutting down several sports, or even the entire athletic department.

For they have sown to the wind, and now they will reap the whirlwind.

Too Late Rich doesn’t sound as good as Too Late Nate but the principle is still the same over and over…Beavs already down 6-1 in the top 3rd after Kmatz gives up a grand slam, errors by Trosky, Hainline, passed ball by Weber, a couple of walks and it all falls apart on Kmatz in 9 batters. Goodness this team isn’t very mentally tough at times. They just seem to fold when things go badly. Maybe they are putting a lot of pressure on themselves but it seems like a loss of focus too.