I never thought this would happen but if you ever paid attention to how screwed up the game we all loved is....for example:
1) The money being spent by maybe 10 or so programs around the country, with the majority of the being SEC, is truly an arms race. Coaching, on the college level, matters so much in this game. I'm not only talking about head coaches. I'm talking about all the way down to support staff and who can have it. Only a few schools can afford the money being pumped in for these assistant coaches & support staff. I think we at, FSU, know this very well.
2) Likewise to coaching salaries, facilities is another top 10 schools.... and everyone else. It matters. Who has the best weight rooms, who has the best locker rooms, best stadium experience, etc.
3) I think what I loved about college football was the fact that these guys were students first. Maybe I was young and naïve but today it seems like these guys are minor leaguers. Then you live in my state, and have GA Tech, which is not a football factory yet they try to compete with the football schools of the south and you begin to realize how screwed up this is. How many FSU, UGA, or UT football players can pass real science/math calculus? They ALL have to do this at GA Tech. Likewise, just a general question but are the admission standards the same for football players at Duke, Wake Forest, Vandy as they are for Alabama, Arkansas and LSU?
Part of the problem is me living in suburban Atlanta. Where all things live and die through Georgia football... 365 days a year. The whole concept is weird.... if you have your daily ups and downs on what an 18-21 year old does on a football field (and yes, 21, if they are that good they will go pro at 22). When I lived down in Florida it was FSU on Saturday and the Dolphins on Sunday.... and then bball in the winter, and baseball in the summer. I think living here makes you wonder about the emphasis that is put on college kids for their athletic accomplishment.
Does this bother anyone else? Make you think? Wonder? Or just as a UGA friend puts it--- "nope. I like what it is".
1) The money being spent by maybe 10 or so programs around the country, with the majority of the being SEC, is truly an arms race. Coaching, on the college level, matters so much in this game. I'm not only talking about head coaches. I'm talking about all the way down to support staff and who can have it. Only a few schools can afford the money being pumped in for these assistant coaches & support staff. I think we at, FSU, know this very well.
2) Likewise to coaching salaries, facilities is another top 10 schools.... and everyone else. It matters. Who has the best weight rooms, who has the best locker rooms, best stadium experience, etc.
3) I think what I loved about college football was the fact that these guys were students first. Maybe I was young and naïve but today it seems like these guys are minor leaguers. Then you live in my state, and have GA Tech, which is not a football factory yet they try to compete with the football schools of the south and you begin to realize how screwed up this is. How many FSU, UGA, or UT football players can pass real science/math calculus? They ALL have to do this at GA Tech. Likewise, just a general question but are the admission standards the same for football players at Duke, Wake Forest, Vandy as they are for Alabama, Arkansas and LSU?
Part of the problem is me living in suburban Atlanta. Where all things live and die through Georgia football... 365 days a year. The whole concept is weird.... if you have your daily ups and downs on what an 18-21 year old does on a football field (and yes, 21, if they are that good they will go pro at 22). When I lived down in Florida it was FSU on Saturday and the Dolphins on Sunday.... and then bball in the winter, and baseball in the summer. I think living here makes you wonder about the emphasis that is put on college kids for their athletic accomplishment.
Does this bother anyone else? Make you think? Wonder? Or just as a UGA friend puts it--- "nope. I like what it is".
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