2017 College Football Offseason...Stoops Retires

[Kodos]

I can't blame him. I love football, but I have my own misgivings about it.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

Ed Cunningham, a longtime ESPN CFB color guy (and Washington alum from the '91 National Championship team) has quit, mainly due to his concerns about the safety of the sport:

Bye.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by dawgfan

Ed Cunningham, a longtime ESPN CFB color guy (and Washington alum from the '91 National Championship team) has quit, mainly due to his concerns about the safety of the sport:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/s...T.nav=top-news

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Bye.

Ah. Classic Jon. A guy who quits because he doesn't want to feel complicit in the long-term damage done to players' health on the field gets dismissed with "Bye". But left-wing coach tallies or players kneeling during the anthem: now THERE are some compelling reasons to quit a sport.

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

12, apparently, based on ESPN's urgent need to update that headline.
It's the #1 story on the right hand links portion of their page.

Whomever decided that they needed to keep a running count of this stuff can die in the same fire with the idiots doing it. It's literally finished off what remaining interest I had in the NFL, just as the left-wing coaches tally has killed off the NBA for me now.

Yay, sports.

[Ksyrup]

I see not much has changed around here.

[Kodos]

Whoa. A Ksyrup sighting! How've you been?

[tarcone]

He cited Iowa's CJ Beathard as the straw that broke the camels back. Let me tell you, every Iowa fan is on his side. that was a ridiculous thing the Iowa staff did. we were getting smoked and we kept trotting out our injured senior QB because, as our HC said "He deserved to be out there."

[Ksyrup]

Doing well enough to show my face around here, I guess.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Kodos

Ah. Classic Jon. A guy who quits because he doesn't want to feel complicit in the long-term damage done to players' health on the field gets dismissed with "Bye".

I think there's more hype than reality in the whole issue frankly, with a bunch of doctors trying to get their name in the news for fifteen minutes. We've seen it years ago with pro wrestling, why would it be any different here?

If he wants to go, he's free to go (hence the "bye") ... but nobody particularly gives a fuck that he's leaving. As a wise old office manager was fond of saying "put your elbow in a bucket of water ... now remove your elbow & look at the hole that's left ... that's how much you'll be missed when you leave".

This is a perfect example of that concept.

But left-wing coach tallies or players kneeling during the anthem: now THERE are some compelling reasons to quit a sport.

There's a limit to how many clueless, worthless fuckwits anything is worth putting up with. The NFL has grossly exceeded that number.

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by CU Tiger

For Power 5 Teams the athletic department budget is totally separate from public funds.

I cant speak 100% to all smaller schools, but Im not aware of any that public funds subsidize athletic departments.

That's BS and you know it if you take off your parochial booster hat. As of s few years ago, according to USA Today, 23 div 1 public schools are self-sufficient. It looks like like from 2011 to 2012, subsidies increased by $200 million - while academic departments were being cut, merged or closed.

Public institutions' mission is not to provide professional entertainment to the masses.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

That's BS and you know it if you take off your parochial booster hat. As of s few years ago, according to USA Today, 23 div 1 public schools are self-sufficient. It looks like like from 2011 to 2012, subsidies increased by $200 million - while academic departments were being cut, merged or closed.

Public institutions' mission is not to provide professional entertainment to the masses.

I don't claim that schools spend appropriately across the board but many of those schools that aren't self-sufficient are that way because the non-revenue sports are predictably enormous drains on AD budgets.

Rutgers has an enormous subsidy but the football program reported a $3MM profit last year, and that's with only getting a tiny share of the eventual B1G payout and included about $3MM in severance for Flood and his staff.