Official: "Its College Football Season" Thread

[trickskier]

wow come on tricky. a little less cutty and a little more reality. the tide is for real. ingram and richardson are the two best backs in the nation and unfortunatly for the rest of the country they wear the crimson. it will be a good game. i look for julio jones(dang he is a hoss) to have a good day. but all in all the backs make mcelroys job alot easier!

you want to put a bottle on the game tricky?

No - I very seldom bet on teams that I do not follow.

[TX.X-30 fan]

You guys sure get wound-up aboot semi-pro football......................

Lets see what percentage could even be considered true "students" without special considerations, and then lets looks at the graduation percentages................ :wackit:

[trickskier]

You guys sure get wound-up aboot semi-pro football......................

Lets see what percentage could even be considered true "students" without special considerations, and then lets looks at the graduation percentages................ :wackit:

Good idea - I would like to see you do a spread sheet. Please include all teams in this weeks Top 25

[TX.X-30 fan]

Good idea - I would like to see you do a spread sheet. Please include all teams in this weeks Top 25

None of the major teams are any different and its sad when tuition's rise on students and they pay the head coach 5 million a year. The football programs no longer have anything to do financially with the universities its all about extending the football program and 5% about the university and the scholastics.


Sports do dumb-down the masses and keep the general population fat and drunk......

[get_sum]

WOOOO PIG SUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!


RAZORBACKS!!!!

The HOGS are gonna wipe their *** with a "ROLL" of "TIDE" scented toilet paper!!!

[trickskier]

None of the major teams are any different and its sad when tuition's rise on students and they pay the head coach 5 million a year. The football programs no longer have anything to do financially with the universities its all about extending the football program and 5% about the university and the scholastics.


Sports do dumb-down the masses and keep the general population fat and drunk......

Football programs pay for 90% of all sports at major universities.

The coaches salaries are paid mostly by boosters not tuition.

I will agree that athletes rule over scholars...........................

[DemolitionMan]

Football pays for all of the other sports male and female.

[trickskier]

Football pays for all of the other sports male and female.

Thanks - Being "Republican" I was being conservative ---

[DemolitionMan]

Thanks - Being "Republican" I was being conservative ---

The NCAA had to spread the wealth.

[trickskier]

The NCAA had to spread the wealth.

Unfortunately, I think the wealth has been more than spread in the NCAA ---

[ShamrockIV]

Football pays for all of the other sports male and female.

somebody has to fund the mens and womens ping pong teams!!!!! i think the schools can handle 5 milli a year. when your stadium hold 100k plus it does not take long to make some cash!! just think if they sold beers for 8 bucks like the nfl!!

[stuartmcnair]

None of the major teams are any different and its sad when tuition's rise on students and they pay the head coach 5 million a year. The football programs no longer have anything to do financially with the universities its all about extending the football program and 5% about the university and the scholastics.


Sports do dumb-down the masses and keep the general population fat and drunk......

You obviously have no clue on this. Alabama's athletics department takes no public money and gives millions back to the University. No state funds pay for coaches. Alabama football graduates 80% of its players and had 13 graduate students play in the National Championship last year. Our quarterback is a finalist to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship when he completes his masters at the end of this year. Academic achievement is stressed as much at Alabama as on-field achievements. Don't sell these kids short as it is a very demanding life to be a student-athlete.

[TX.X-30 fan]

You obviously have no clue on this. Alabama's athletics department takes no public money and gives millions back to the University. No state funds pay for coaches. Alabama football graduates 80% of its players and had 13 graduate students play in the National Championship last year. Our quarterback is a finalist to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship when he completes his masters at the end of this year. Academic achievement is stressed as much at Alabama as on-field achievements. Don't sell these kids short as it is a very demanding life to be a student-athlete.

I do have a clue compadre, look at the degrees and if thats true in bama then more power to bama buts its not nationwide and look at the degrees. The quarterback example is anecdotal at best.

Look more at what these football programs spend and then look at the steadily rising tuition's at these universities, these programs may pay for some sports but virtually nothing goes back to education. What is a college for anyway to promote education or football? The major programs are only part of these universities in name .

Just as in the nation as a whole the priorities at most have been hijacked.

[TX.X-30 fan]

Sunday, September 19, 2010 3:14 AM EDT


Colleges: Where the money goes

By Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus


Williams College in Massachusetts charges $41,434, or an inflation-adjusted 3.2 times what it did 30 years ago. The University of Southern California's current tab of $41,022 is a 3.6 multiple of its 1980 bill.

Tuition at public universities, in a time of ailing state budgets, has risen at an even faster rate. The University of Illinois' $13,658 is six times its 1980 rate after adjusting for inflation. San Jose State's $6,250 is a whopping 11 times more.

If you look at how that added revenue is being spent, it's hard to argue students are getting a lot of extra value. Why? Colleges aren't spending their extra revenues, which we calculate to be about $40 billion a year nationally over 1980 revenues, in ways that most benefit students.

One thing colleges are spending more on is athletic teams, which have become a more pronounced and costly presence on campuses everywhere. Even volleyball teams travel extensively these days, with paid coaches and customized uniforms. Currently, 629 schools have football teams, 132 more than in 1980. All but 14 lose money.

Williams College in Massachusetts charges $41,434, or an inflation-adjusted 3.2 times what it did 30 years ago. The University of Southern California's current tab of $41,022 is a 3.6 multiple of its 1980 bill.

Tuition at public universities, in a time of ailing state budgets, has risen at an even faster rate. The University of Illinois' $13,658 is six times its 1980 rate after adjusting for inflation. San Jose State's $6,250 is a whopping 11 times more.

If you look at how that added revenue is being spent, it's hard to argue students are getting a lot of extra value. Why? Colleges aren't spending their extra revenues, which we calculate to be about $40 billion a year nationally over 1980 revenues, in ways that most benefit students.

One thing colleges are spending more on is athletic teams, which have become a more pronounced and costly presence on campuses everywhere. Even volleyball teams travel extensively these days, with paid coaches and customized uniforms. Currently, 629 schools have football teams, 132 more than in 1980. All but 14 lose money.

[TX.X-30 fan]

Not very hard to find rational folks willing to be honest tell the truth about how tuitions ahve risen X inflation on the backs of students to fund these programs.

http://www.zimbio.com/NCAA+Football/articles/17/Idiocy+Funding+College+Football