Go Beavs!

This got little discussion yesterday, but it’s worthy of it’s own thread and discussion. Here is a synopsis.

Can anyone think of a positive way this effects the Beavs, or any other small market team? California pushed the issue, and that makes sense since every CA school has deep pockets. It should give those schools an advantage.

This take by a Vol’s blog is disturbing, but worth a read for some National perspective.

This will go down the inevitable rabbit hole where marketing departments usurp athletic departments. We will see 18 year old multi-millionaires with their own reality TV shows, etc. A college degree is already a watered down joke, but this will add to that. And of course the obvious that any smaller market team will not be able to compete.

I don’t understand the arguments for this change. Players are already paid via scholarship, free food/training/medical, room and board, tuition, etc. NCAA football is supposed to be an amateur sport. What this change does is take the worst of both worlds — we will have the poor product that is NCAA football combined with the inflated egos of young, rich people. Add it it a litany of new ways to cheat.

Yuck.

Can anyone come up with a realistic counter as to how this at all helps college football? The only thing I can come up with is we get contraction from this and the smaller teams split from the power 5 and form their own conferences.

In the prior comments, I explained that if you’re not seeing the recruiting feed it’s due to the AdBlock Plus plugin in Firefox. This leads me to concluded any/all issues with the Twitter feed are due to individual browser settings. Companies have been locking down more and more on their browsers. You might have to go in and manually adjust the settings.

As far as the Arizona game, I think we all agree this is the Beav’s best shot at a win. For some reason I thought this game was at home, but I must have confused it with ASU. That’s unfortunate because at home I’d take the Beavs in this one, but on the road I’m going Arizona by a hair.

34-31, Arizona.

Cursory watch of Arizona tells me Tate isn’t the player he once was, but he’s still good enough and mobile enough to make the difference. Beavs are riding their confidence and are rested, so they have a shot if everything clicks. We’re about due for the “good Luton” to show up, too (i.e. bad D).

Go Beavs.

Go Beavs.

20-17 is my prediction. Not sure which team wins.