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Leisher wrote: I have no idea who this guy is, but here's hoping he's got the inside scoop.

Leisher wrote: Let's be honest, the only team with a chance at the CFP is OSU. The only reason to play the B1G season is to see if OSU fucks up somewhere.

TheCatt wrote: Big Ten fucked up.

There has been no new information from police on a potential suspect, but according to Cleveland.com, the Columbus Police Department incident report stated Garrett told police he encountered a man and woman "arguing and being aggressive."

According to the report, Garrett told the man to stop fighting with the woman, then the man turned toward Garrett, pulled out a handgun and fired.

Garrett was struck in the face, but as the police described it, he had a through and through gunshot wound to his cheeks.

Garrett was pronounced to be in stable condition when he was transported to the hospital, and he is expected to make a full recovery.

TheCatt wrote: Has anyone checked in on the PAC12?

TheCatt wrote: That OSU player with the new cheek piercing. Vague enough to make one wonder...

For instance, if football and basketball players at schools in those five biggest conferences (commonly known as the “Power Five” conferences) were able to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement that included sharing 50% of their teams’ revenues, the NBER study finds, the average salary for football players would be $360,000 while the average basketball salary would be $500,000.
Instead, the NBER study finds that “less than 7%” of the revenue from college football and college basketball — which includes multi-year television broadcast deals worth billions of dollars — ends up going to those sports’ athletes in the form of academic scholarships and stipends to cover living expenses.

Cakedaddy wrote: They can also skip college and go right to the pros.

TheCatt wrote:

Cakedaddy wrote: They can also skip college and go right to the pros.

No, they cannot.

TheCatt wrote: They can only go to the junior nba league.

TheCatt wrote: Football players have to be 3 yrs removed from high school

Leisher wrote: Yes, they can go to the junior league, but are we certain a Lebron type of player couldn't immediately go pro? Many, many players spend one year in college and then are in the pros.

Leisher wrote: There is science behind this one.

All of this continues to have a negative financial impact on our 28-sport program. We expect to lose between $30 million and $52 million of projected revenue, including ticket sales, sponsorship and television revenue, conference distributions and concessions sales. This is money that we count on to fund our 28 teams and provide scholarships and important services to our student-athletes (including academic, medical and nutritional support).

We already have cut our sport budgets by 10 percent for 2020-21, implemented a spending freeze, halted non-essential travel and left 17 full-time open positions in the department unfilled. In addition, earlier today we shared with our department a difficult decision: effective October 1, we will implement a salary reduction or furlough to each full-time member of our staff, as follows:
Coaches and staff members making $200,000 or more will have their salaries reduced by 20 percent,
Coaches and staff members making $100,000 to $200,000 will have their salaries reduced by 10 percent, and
Coaches and staff members who make less than $100,000 will be furloughed for 15 days.
These reductions will be in effect until June 30, 2021.

Cakedaddy wrote: But the "They get an education" holds weight because they can't go pro without the college. These kids are getting groomed by people with the highest level of experience, clout, etc in the sport. That has value. A LOT of value. How much do those coaches and staff make? Divide that by the number of players taking that 'sports ball' class and that's how much their education is worth, along with the other education the SHOULD be getting that will support them after the sport.

I would argue they are already getting $100,000's in value for their service.

Leisher wrote: World class coaching. World class medical. World class physical training. World class nutritionists. A college education. All the pussy they can handle.

They're not getting nothing.