Comments on: SEC to cap the crap

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:04:52 +0000

I can see the attempting to gain the advantage by securing plenty of potential athletes, but honestly with all the players that end up leaving after a year instead of investing in a college education (and seeing how many pro athletes make fools of themselves), perhaps a better course of action would be the follow the rules and invest more in the players that matter and do whats best. Its like the military making an investment in soldiers. You need to spend the money to make a better product. A Navy Seal is by far a much better war machine than your average infantryman, due to training (which costs money).

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:19:36 +0000

I’m 100% with you on this one. It makes no sense for a college to spend a ton of time trying to attract players that won’t even play for them. I understand the idea that if you recruit a bunch of people, you have a better chance of finding a super star. But this isn’t high school, you have already seen which players are good and which players get the grades. Go after the good ones and leave the others to fend for themselves.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:17:48 +0000

I guess I can see adding a few people that you think will be pretty good to your roster to start out with and then see how they pan out once they get to the beginning of training, but 12 extra… really. That seems crazy. Especially when you do it expecting people to fail out because of grades.

By: Whitney

Whitney — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:16:16 +0000

It seems like colleges all over the country are always trying to bend the rules no matter what sport. It seems everytime I turn around there is some other school that isn’t breaking any rules, but it being so ignorant about something that it forces a new ridiculous rule to be put in place. What is happening to college sports these days?