[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I don’t even think the college football shit is any good either. In fact, I decided over the summer to boycott all college football games that don’t involve Stanford, since they’re basically the only major, successful sports program in the country that doesn’t resort to some straight-up bullshit corrupted process to attract the best athletes.
The entire SEC is a fucking joke and the only reason their teams are consistently ranked high is because of the biased preseason rankings they get every year. Of course, this is all made possible by the fact that ESPN owns the rights to SEC games, so which teams do you think get the most coverage, the most hype, the most preseason attention and therefore are the most visible to high school kids with Division I prospects.
After all, do you really think ESPN is going to devote any time to legitimately covering all the academic and criminal transgressions the SEC schools seem to commit every year? Of course not. Half the players in that fucking league are criminals who have no business attending any sort of institute of higher learning. It’s a shame that there’s so much money in college football, thanks in large part to ESPN, that schools almost can’t afford to NOT break the rules and allow these dumb motherfuckers who can barely speak English into some of the more prestigious schools in the Southeastern United States.
I’ll watch Stanford, but that’s about it. They’re one of only about a dozen schools to have never been investigated for recruiting or academic violations, and of those dozen or so schools they are the only that enjoys any sort of success whatsoever. Fuck college football. The SEC in particular has turned into nothing more than a corrupt pathway for legitimizing a bunch of outright criminals simply because they have athletic talent. ESPN is as responsible for this phenomenon as anything.[/quote]
As corrupt and ridiculous as all college football is today, it’s been that way since long before you or I were born, and before ESPN got their hands on it.
SEC fooball always used to be on CBS, Notre Dame (still is) on NBC. Watch the 30/30 on SMU, and you’ll see that those rivalries and the competition for getting the best players had jack shit to do with which network they were being broadcast and everything to do with bragging rights at the conference table.
And don’t get up on a high white horse about Stanford homie. They look clean and squeeky mostly in contrast to the shenanigans USC and Oregon have been pulling. I bet all one would need do is a little bit of digging in Palo Alto to get some dark dirt on the Cardinal too. I’m sure Stanford can recruit the best and brightest, but with the way eligibility works nowadays a player has tons more latitude to go somewhere else if they aren’t happy or the curriculum is too hard. Nowadays not only do you have to get the recruit, you have to keep his ass there, and a top notch education can’t be the only incentive that keeps the Cardinal deep in talent.
Congrats on your win BTW.
I love football, all of it. You’ll likely find me at a good matchup on a Friday night around the high schools in my area because I really can’t get enough. But to me, college football is where it all comes together as the best style I like to consume and there are TONS of D-1 games filling up every Saturday with rabid fan bases and pride on the line.
Anyway, sorry for the hijack… This is an NFL thread afterall.
