Of course he wants it returned to the way it used to be. It benefitted him and Bama. I don’t trust the names mentioned here to have the overall best interest in mind for ALL of college athletics.
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Yeah, that is implied. He retired the minute everyone else could do legally what he did illegally for a decade.
No doubt, college athletics itself is simply going to implode from the weight of financial stress this is imposing on all D1 Athletic Departments. You can't only have a handful of Athletic Departments that benefit from the current situation and the rest going into an unsustainable financial abyss that the cannot escape from as they write checks they cannot afford in an effort to keep up with the Jones' so they won't fall further behind.
If something isn't done soon, and get the situation under some kind of control, college athletics is going to be destroyed.... non-funding sports eliminate first.... then everything for many Athletic Departments when they go bankrupt from debt (or State's refusing to fund their bottomless spending). This is going to be to the detriment of 99% of D1 athletes, to the benefit of 1% while it lasts. There are upwards of 200,000 D1 Student-athletes participating per year right now - that number is going to implode over the next decade unless some entity gets control of this situation and makes it sustainable.... which it most certainly is not right now (complete uncontrolled, unregulated chaos right now).
Joe is turning in his grave right now with the way things are going. He never wanted this kind of bull ****.
What “names”. “The way it used to be” is a whole heck of a lot better than the crap that’s happening right now. At least these “names” want to get things back to what is somewhat sustainable instead of letting us head down the path of complete destruction.
Whatever money most of these entitled kids get now will be blown through by the time they’re 25 years old. Then what??? We’ll have the most athletic gas pumpers and Walmart greeters on the Planet.
I don’t give a crap if Saban or anyone else wants to cheat. We seemed to be able to handle things pretty darn good by being a clean Program where parents knew their kid would leave with a diploma. Parents didn’t send their kids to Penn State for a new car or jewelry. They sent them here for a good education, to learn discipline, and leave with a realistically better future.
For 80 to 90% of these kids, a diploma would mean a heck of a lot more to them in 20 or 30 years than a few quick bucks stuck into their back pockets at 18 or 19 ever will.
Back in the day even proposing the idea was sacrilege. I never met Joe and don't pretend to know what he would do today. But I am certain of the fact he brought up the idea of giving the players money which caused outrage among many.