From: jfawcett@encore.com (Jason Fawcett)
Subject: Re: Erickson,Spurrier,Bowden
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:54:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation

acdendy@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (ROGER DENDY) writes:

>In article <67166@hydra.gatech.EDU>, mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) writes...
>>acdendy@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (ROGER DENDY) wrote:
>>}
>>}I was bored being stuck at a dorm on weekends.  I ended up doing (GASP!) 
>>}homework.
>> 
{In article (Mark Mitchell) writes...
{That was your choice.  You could have also chosen to make some money

>, the football players have the same choices I had.  They have to 
>balance class time and homework with extra-curricular activities and non-
>essentials like eating, sleeping and entertainment, within the constraints of 
>time and whatever money they can earn.

Bull they had 30 hours of football and weights.  That's the same time you
had to go earn money.  Most of these guys Major in football.

>>These coaches didn't say they wanted to let the players skip all
>>their classes, they just said they wanted them to be paid for all
>>the effort they put forward and the money they *earn*.

The three Fla. coaches said they would play the new NC game if the players at
all Div. 1-A teams got the money.  That would be all Div. 1-A players,
not just the Miami and Washington teams that would have played last year.
Div. 1-A makes millions and millions of $$$$.  Last year the HSN put a 
$40 million dollar deal on the table for one game.  That was the money Bowden,
Spurrier and Erickson want the players to get for the extra game. 

>Football is not a job.  Football is an extra-curricular activity, in which 
>participation is its own reward (how many net.readers would pass it up 
>given the opportunity to participate?).  For scholarship players, a paid 
>education is added incentive.  For those players who are not interested in 
>a university education, there should be an alternative so they don't have 
>to fake it.  That's why I suggested the WLAF.


Get a brain.  The NCAA is at the mercy of the NFL.  Right now the NCAA
is direct competition to the NFL for sports dollars.  The NCAA is cutting
back to make you bookworms happy.  If they cut back too much you will get
your wish, junk football that no one wants.  Go ahead raise the min. GPA
to 3.8 in the core.  See if you make money on the TV's that keeps this going.
Ever wonder why the Ivy league, doesn't get a 30 million dollar deal from
NBC.  

In the 1970's they only put 40 something NCAA games on TV, now they have that
many games on by the end of Sept.  Football is a job.   Several players gave 
their lifes and bodies for just the chance to make it to the top.  If, you
don't know what I am talking about it's because you did sit in the dorm 
with your homework, but you never played the game.

If, you want to know why your little NFL minor league won't work it's because 
the colleges would lose a multi-billion dollar market.  Now it's hard
to keep a NFL quality player to stay in school for three years.  And why should
they, since football is a job.  School is the extra-curricular activity.
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