Play-off selection show and bowl selections

[hungry]

Our great grandkids will have to go to an exhibit to watch football reenactments, because no one will be playing it in 50 years. IMHO. The sport is already dying on its feet; no one realizes it yet.

What is IMHO?

 

[thewolverines24]

What is IMHO?

In my honest opinion

Or intense multiple hollering orgasms. It's one of those two. You guess which one.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

sure. why not?

I don't think the benefits we get from having a women's crew team that no one watches or cares about outweigh the damage done from having the exploitative and sleazy regime of football and basketball.

If they really want to play the sport, there are always club teams.

also, I'd wager most of the people that play non-revenue sports are rich kids anyway that would be in college whether or not they received scholarships. who is it really helping?

This is a damn good point! How many poor inner city HS have a crew team? Any? Or lacrosse or whatever non-revenue generating sports they have these days. Why have scholarships available for such sports? To help out rich kids that don't want to pay, or don't really have the gpa to get in to the school, but mommy and daddy want their kid to get in to the school. The whole system has been corrupted.

 

[hungry]

In my honest opinion

Or intense multiple hollering orgasms. It's one of those two. You guess which one.

so if you don't post this, is it a dishonest opinion?

I've, also, seen it mean In My Humble Opinion

so I had to ask

 

[Michchamp]

This is a damn good point! How many poor inner city HS have a crew team? Any? Or lacrosse or whatever non-revenue generating sports they have these days. Why have scholarships available for such sports? To help out rich kids that don't want to pay, or don't really have the gpa to get in to the school, but mommy and daddy want their kid to get in to the school. The whole system has been corrupted.

The recent admissions scandal makes a lot of that pretty clear.

You can get good enough to play a lot of sports at a college level simply by virtue of being wealthy enough to afford the costs to participate & practice them.

I would say: gymnastics, crew, water polo/swimming & diving, tennis, golf, ice hockey & lacrosse are all in that category.

If paying football and basketball players means you have to eliminate scholarships for ALL other sports (which is baseless speculation, of course, but assuming for argument purposes, it's true...) I think wrestling, track and field, and baseball are the only sports where a lot of low-income family student athletes get screwed.

Maybe instead they play on club teams or semi-pro leagues, and get loans and financial aid to attend like everyone else ? I don't know.

regardless, it seems like an odd reason to justify exploiting thousands of OTHER college kids, so that sleazy TV network execs, dumbass ADs, and dumbass coaches can make absurd seven figure salaries to go yell at 18 year olds for 4 months a year or televise their games.

 

[Michchamp]

so if you don't post this, is it a dishonest opinion?

I've, also, seen it mean In My Humble Opinion

so I had to ask

I always thought it was "in my humble opinion"

 

[Michchamp]

the sports I cited above are all the varsity sports at Michigan.

Ivy League schools have even more rich kid sports, like squash, fencing, badminton, sailing, etc.

 

[tomdalton22]

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor spent $17,635,385 on women's teams and received $992,625 in revenue.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor spent $42,711,951 on men's teams and received $99,445,426 in revenue.

 

[Michchamp]

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor spent $17,635,385 on women's teams and received $992,625 in revenue.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor spent $42,711,951 on men's teams and received $99,445,426 in revenue.

Ooh look at Mr. Statistics man! no context, just statistics. draw your own conclusions from his amazing statistics

 

[TheVictors]

This is a damn good point! How many poor inner city HS have a crew team? Any? Or lacrosse or whatever non-revenue generating sports they have these days. Why have scholarships available for such sports? To help out rich kids that don't want to pay, or don't really have the gpa to get in to the school, but mommy and daddy want their kid to get in to the school. The whole system has been corrupted.

Denver has a program called City Lax that was started by a former DU Pioneer player. While the jerseys and make up of the team reflect less resources than the suburban kids, those teams a physical as hell and beat up some of the ?better funded? programs. My son played in a Fall mini league with City Lax (be his other regular spring team- also a Denver ?city? program but one that?s been established since 2008 or so. He loved playing with the City Laxers - a predominately Black and Hispanic roster and kids who were used to pick up ball at the Rec Center and who were generally just tougher kids.


Pretty boys better watch out before all the athletic kids playing other sports discover lacrosse.

 

[tomdalton22]

Ooh look at Mr. Statistics man! no context, just statistics. draw your own conclusions from his amazing statistics

Mr. Statistics man!

That has a nice ring to it. Maybe I'll change my screen name.

 

[Michchamp]

Mr. Statistics man!

That has a nice ring to it. Maybe I'll change my screen name.

StatsManOSU

 

[Michchamp]

Denver has a program called City Lax that was started by a former DU Pioneer player. While the jerseys and make up of the team reflect less resources than the suburban kids, those teams a physical as hell and beat up some of the ?better funded? programs. My son played in a Fall mini league with City Lax (be his other regular spring team- also a Denver ?city? program but one that?s been established since 2008 or so. He loved playing with the City Laxers - a predominately Black and Hispanic roster and kids who were used to pick up ball at the Rec Center and who were generally just tougher kids.


Pretty boys better watch out before all the athletic kids playing other sports discover lacrosse.

okay, so lacrosse is a pretty boy rich kid sport, except on that one (1) neighborhood in Denver

 

[Spartanmack]

This is a damn good point! How many poor inner city HS have a crew team? Any? Or lacrosse or whatever non-revenue generating sports they have these days. Why have scholarships available for such sports? To help out rich kids that don't want to pay, or don't really have the gpa to get in to the school, but mommy and daddy want their kid to get in to the school. The whole system has been corrupted.

we have one in Harlem - I don't think it's affiliated with any one HS, but I think most crew teams are clubs not actual school teams.

 

[byco42]

What is IMHO?

In My Humble Opinion

 

[TheVictors]

In My Humble Opinion

or In My Honest Opinion

 

[TheVictors]

okay, so lacrosse is a pretty boy rich kid sport, except on that one (1) neighborhood in Denver

well its a quickly growing sport across the country and the thing about lacrosse was always, "if Lebron James decided to play lacrosse, he would immediately be the best player in the world" ....Jim Brown played at Syracuse and back then there weren't the same rules in place and he would just run people over and blow them up with his stick.


Logan and Aiden and Walker and Bennett all playing in suburban Baltimore or out on Long Island are the pretty boys for sure.