Uncommon Opinions

[ImTellinTim]

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Alright - Uncommon Opinion: I prefer cool, overcast days to hot, sunny days.

[TheMatrix31]

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Alright - Uncommon Opinion: I prefer cool, overcast days to hot, sunny days.

Wholeheartedly agree. Summer is bull****.

[MakePlaysOrDie]

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Maybe you should stay in those sections then and do us a favor and stay away from the OS Neighborhood.

My grammar sucks from my EVO.

I'm planning on it.

[AUChase]

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I hate summer when I'm working. Love it when I'm not working.

I can deal with winter weather and work so much better, unlike a lot of Southerners.

[Burns11]

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Sigh... because they are making money off of the athletes. Like another poster said on here, he works for a university and they wouldn't have enough money to give student-athletes any and still be able to keep all of their programs.

But guess what? The NCAA has plenty of money.

Where do you think all the revenue generated by the NCAA goes? You think they have some Scrooge McDuck money swimming pool down at the NCAA offices?

Anyway, on this Steve Spurrier business, let's say yo pay every NCAA athlete $300 per week only during their regular seasons (it would likely have to be longer, giving training schedules and such). There are 450,000 NCAA athletes as of last year, given an average season of 3 months (12 weeks, which is woefully long, or woefully short, depending on sport), that ends up being 6.5 billion dollars. NCAA revenue last year was 800 million, so they are just a little shy of that.

Even if they just pay men's basketball and football (even though that's really unfair), that's still roughly half of NCAA revenues. That revenue is also going to come straight from money the NCAA sends back to universities, so those universities will have to get that money from somewhere else, raising tuition or cutting other sports programs.

[dsallupinyaarea]

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Alright - Uncommon Opinion: I prefer cool, overcast days to hot, sunny days.

I didn't think it was possible to hate summer until I had to deal with 90+ every day for 3 months. It's insufferable.

[ImTellinTim]

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I didn't think it was possible to hate summer until I had to deal with 90+ every day for 3 months. It's insufferable.

It's been over 90 up here the past 3 days. Did not sign up for this **** when I chose where to live.

[AUChase]

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I get tired of the heat sometimes, but at this point in summer, I've all ready adapted to it.

I'm outside a lot too. Its actually been cooler, by Alabama summer standards.

[Fly3]

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Another issue with paying athletes is which ones do you pay? Football and Men's basketball are the revenue generators, so should they get paid while women's tennis players get nothing because they don't generate revenue? Football and basketball players already get more of a benefit, since they usually get full scholarships while baseball and soccer players only get partials.

At my school, yearly costs just for tuition and room and board are around $30,000. Adding in the travel, meal money, etc that each player gets, and they are already making more money than many college graduates will make in their first job.

You pay the ones who bring in revenue and don't pay the ones who don't.

[ImTellinTim]

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You pay the ones who bring in revenue and don't pay the ones who don't.

That's against Federal Law. Any other ideas?

[Fly3]

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That's against Federal Law. Any other ideas?

Link?

Can the ones who bring in no money be compensated less than the basketball and football players?

[Brandon13]

Link?

Can the ones who bring in no money be compensated less than the basketball and football players?

Not positive, but I think that gets into Title IX issues.

[The JareBear]

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Uncommon opinion: Sammi was the hottest chick from Jersey shore. Yeah, I watched that show. Don't taze me bro, don't taze me

[Brandon13]

Uncommon opinion: Sammi was the hottest chick from Jersey shore.

She's not ugly, but she wins that competition by default.

[The JareBear]

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My friends swore that J-Wow was the hottest chick ever.

Eww