Bull94

lol coaches jump at the chance to improve their position financially just like anyone else in this world. where was CAAR's loyalty to KSU?

Players are on 1 year renewable scholarships. Players get asked to leave programs all the time. I'm not sure why people expect players to show loyalties to schools when schools don't reciprocate. Notice how we are complaining about the good players leaving and not the bad players that are "asked" to leave. BTW all these players that we are complaining about leaving left other programs to come here

it has absolutely always been that way. some people just have some idyllic vision of the past that didn't really exist.

again....what does this mean? just because the powers that be have been able to control the labor market in college athletics for so long doesn't mean it's right. you know what. I'm ok if lower level schools don't pay their players. in fact division 3 don't even get scholarships. there should be another division. There is a huge discrepancy with ohio state's revenues $250m compared to the 130th place d1 fbs school. they will never be on a level playing field. but when major college programs chase every last dollar(coaches, athletic directors, schools) than the players deserve a cut. the "innocence" of amateur sports is dead. it has been for quite awhile.

are you a marxist? USF will be fine. we may not end up at the top level but with a minimal donor base and not much demand for the product it's understandable. You think we should be "allowed" to compete with programs that bring in 5x our revenue by I guess spreading the wealth. That's not how the real world works. The rays have to compete with the yankees when they spend 3x what the rays do. sorry but the power is shifting to the labor(players) and away from the capital(schools). not much they can do about it and honestly with the ridiculous sums of money being thrown around the players deserve a chunk.

Not sure what you mean. You suggested coaches should sit a year if they take another job. Would you have to sit a year if you wanted to change jobs?

the solution will be multi year contracts. just like professional sports. Everyone has to deal with the issue of players leaving. Ohio State lost their starting QB

the conferences (and thereby the teams/players) need to get a cut of this. Just like professional sports leagues are doing.

so you just want to restrict free trade. got it. maybe capitalism isn't your thing. it may not be perfect but it's the best economic system we have. BTW our basketball team benefited greatly from the ability to get a coach and multiple transfers this year. The system worked in our favor and now that it has people are complaining that some players are moving on. Guess what? they left their last place to come here.

so you aren't in favor of us chasing the dollars? Don't you want the best coach money can buy? How about the nicest facilities we can possibly build? Maybe move up to a conference that pays more? I don't blame players one bit for wanting a cut. BTW I'd be perfectly fine breaking off from the money chasers. put reasonable rules in place.

if it's biting their customers then eventually it will bite them. I find it funny that everyone has a problem with the players trying to get a cut but nobody ever had a problem with coaches,schools or athletic directors etc chasing the dollars.

there has never been 4 year athletic scholarships to my knowledge. Just another way for the schools to take advantage of the athletes. they are 1 year contracts. Looks like that has come back to bite them.

we had 3 returning players this year. seems to have worked out ok. this is how college sports works now. every year is a rebuild until they come up with multi year contracts.

we out rebounded(38-33) them and scored more in the paint(32-28). they hit 6 more 3's while taking 6 more. That's +18 for them.

for the love of god people need to stop with this nonsense. a big who is one dimensional and can only score down low hurts an offense. it clogs the lanes. slows down ball movement and allows the defense to sag back and take away driving lanes for other players. youngblood scored plenty down low. you know who doesn't score down low if we have a one dimensional big man there? Youngblood because the opposing center could sag back and play help instead of having to guard Pryor at the arc. Now if you're talking about a big man who can play in and out then I agree but they are extremely rare BTW we out rebounded them and scored more in the paint than them which everybody has been saying we needed to do more of this year. we lost because they shot(6) and made(6) more 3 pointers than us. that was +18 points for them.