The waves of spring breakers have begun in the crescent city. We didn’t get a break this year from the holidays through the upcoming fest season. It’s nice to have the city full again, but I’m kinda tired of dodging hungover tourists to start and avoiding drunks at the end of my workday.
Yup. How many Colorado State players are going to follow their coach to Minnesota. And most Gopher fans will be ecstatic at the prospect. Too bad if you're a CO State fan.
At this point, the best thing for the revenue sports (maybe the non-revenue ones, too) would be a student-athlete union. If we're paying players (and there are reasons to do that), it should be possible for schools to lock them in to multi-year deals, as long as the deals are guaranteed. It wouldn't solve all of the problems, but you could cut down on the roster volatility which seems out of control.
I also think that there's no way you can really be getting a great education if you wind up at 3+ schools in 4 years. Switching schools one time makes sense, because maybe you wound up in a bad situation, but I can only imagine that it's a nightmare trying to get degree requirements fulfilled when you are transferring going into your third or fourth year of school and you took classes at two or three different schools already. Even if it technically works for you to get a degree, there's a decent chance you have some holes in your coursework.
Even though spring starts March 1, that's still rather early for Spring Break.
The waves of spring breakers have begun in the crescent city. We didn’t get a break this year from the holidays through the upcoming fest season. It’s nice to have the city full again, but I’m kinda tired of dodging hungover tourists to start and avoiding drunks at the end of my workday.
Drake had their best season in over fifty years!
Drake coach and four players going to University of Iowa next year.
College sports suck.
DeVries and all but 2 guys left at the end of last season. McCallum comes in with a boatload of transfers. And now is leaving. One-and-done.
College coaches have been mercenary for a long time. The transfer portal and NIL have enabled the players to follow suit.
It sucks, but I don't blame the kids. The NCAA willfully exploited athletes for profits for decades.
The system is the problem.
I fully expect Drake to end up with the South Dakota State coach and his ten underclassmen.
It's tough to watch.
Yup. How many Colorado State players are going to follow their coach to Minnesota. And most Gopher fans will be ecstatic at the prospect. Too bad if you're a CO State fan.
At this point, the best thing for the revenue sports (maybe the non-revenue ones, too) would be a student-athlete union. If we're paying players (and there are reasons to do that), it should be possible for schools to lock them in to multi-year deals, as long as the deals are guaranteed. It wouldn't solve all of the problems, but you could cut down on the roster volatility which seems out of control.
I also think that there's no way you can really be getting a great education if you wind up at 3+ schools in 4 years. Switching schools one time makes sense, because maybe you wound up in a bad situation, but I can only imagine that it's a nightmare trying to get degree requirements fulfilled when you are transferring going into your third or fourth year of school and you took classes at two or three different schools already. Even if it technically works for you to get a degree, there's a decent chance you have some holes in your coursework.