Topic: Buckeyes WILL in fact get nothing...

[greenskeeper]

Let's look at today's environment? OSU may walk away with nothing more than a slap, Auburn got nothing...Oregon too will get nothing. So why not cheat? Why not pay? Every player is getting under the table stipends at the major college level. Its disgusting. I'd rather lose with dignity than win with malaise. This could be the best thing that's ever happened to college football. Let OSU Auburn, Meechegan Notre Dame all go pro, let them start playing on Sunday too...and let's see if in the USA there is a fan that wants to watch true college football. If not, let Hamrick go into coal country and find Marshall a fiscal sponsor...sounds like prostitution doesn't it? Thank you NCAA, you are indeed whores.

[wvmafia]

Let's look at today's environment? OSU may walk away with nothing more than a slap, Auburn got nothing...Oregon too will get nothing. So why not cheat? Why not pay? Every player is getting under the table stipends at the major college level. Its disgusting. I'd rather lose with dignity than win with malaise. This could be the best thing that's ever happened to college football. Let OSU Auburn, Meechegan Notre Dame all go pro, let them start playing on Sunday too...and let's see if in the USA there is a fan that wants to watch true college football. If not, let Hamrick go into coal country and find Marshall a fiscal sponsor...sounds like prostitution doesn't it? Thank you NCAA, you are indeed whores.

As Marshallguy04 has said, I'm probably the only guy in the country who cares.  But if he's right and nobody cares that the big boys are getting away with everything short of murder, doesn't that speak volumes to the way America sees college football?  Is it apathy or is it that they genuinely don't care. 

I guess what surprises me is that there is not a general call to arms of the "purists" of college football to try to make the NCAA do what the public wants them to do.  I guess what I'm trying to say is if people would be "turned off" by these guys being made officially professional, why isn't there an outrage or backlash now?  I don't think the game would lose ONE SINGLE fan/viewer.  The sport is at its peak of popularity and it's basically a professional sport as it is.

ANYONE WHO THINKS THE GAME WOULD SUFFER ONE IOTA IF PLAYERS WERE PAID PLEASE ANSWER ONE OF THESE QUESTIONS:

Why would the "legal" paying of players turn you off, while the "illegal" paying of players has you saying "everybody is doing it, what do you expect"?  What would change the popularity of the game?  Why would Joe Six-Pack all of the sudden think that the game "isn't truly amateur anymore" and stop watching/supporting?

AND...  If paying players became legal and an amount was agreed upon, and Marshall was one of the schools who "survived the cut" and got to play with the "big boys" instead of being relegated to a "lower level" would you stop supporting Marshall, because it "wasn't truly college football anymore"?  Or is what turns you off the fact that MU will most likely be left behind (maximum) or be at a competitive disadvantage because of the financial strain on the Athletic Department?