I Hate Team Sports

[AZRedhawk44]

In my time in Minnesota as a kid, I played lots of hockey.

Sometimes on roller blades, sometimes on ice skates, sometimes in boots over the top of a frozen lake crusted with snow compacted by people driving their cars out to go ice fishing.  Hell, in PE at school we'd play indoor hockey with shitty plastic sticks and a racquetball ball, running in tennis shoes.

Never owned any protective gear.  Never owned ice skates (I did have roller blades).  Just padded up in the winter with about 4-5 layers of clothes, though the -20 degree temps made that obligatory.

High entry cost doesn't stop people from playing hockey.

I expect in about 20 years we'll see more than a few Somali hockey players from Minnesota.

[zxcvbob]

Hockey isn't bad.  I don't think I've heard any SJW socialist anything out of them.

And they have the best stadium music out of any of the major sports.  The others are all pop, R&B, rap and so on.  Hockey is all rock.

I thought RollerBall had the best music.  (Bach on a theater organ)

[Hawkmoon]

I suspect that will be ruined soon as well. Was it Gavin Newsom who passed a state law mandating college players be compensated? When they start making eight figures, their heads will swell as well.

Newsome (and California) went the wrong way on that one. What they wanted to do is actually (for once) well-intended. It's obvious even to a blind man that big college football is nothing more than the farm system for the NFL. Big football rakes in gazillions of dollars for the universities, the players run the same risks of serious injuries as professional NFL players, so I can see the argument that they (the college players) should be paid (penly, above the table) for playing.

But ... I'm old enough that I think college should be about education first and foremost. I think college football needs to be dismantled from the top to the base, then reconstructed to take the $$$ out of it.

[MechAg94]

The problem comes in that most of the college football programs generate revenue to pay for the program as well as the rest of the athletic department.  Most school football programs do not generate enough revenue to pay for all that.  Only probably the top 20 or 50 programs do that.  That is why so many small programs sign up to play schools like Alabama, they get paid and it goes a long way to cover the costs.  A lot of them depend on alumni donations as well.  The benefit is the high profile sports attract more students. 

1) you would need to decide which schools have to pay players and do you expect them to pay for all athletes or just football players. 
2) Do you expect the richer schools to help the smaller schools pay players in some sort of profit sharing? 
3) If it isn't all football players, you will then run into problems with players who didn't make the team that pays players or got kicked off the team.  Now they sue or something.
4) Players get paid now.  They get monthly stipends in addition to all the scholarship benefits.  They can also get housing allowances if they live off campus which some can do. 
5) On the education side, the NCAA requires players to make progress toward a degree each year/semester and teams are required to report/publicize their graduation rate. 

IMO, there are so many players just in division 1 football that if you divided up all the money, I just don't think it would be all that much.  And I think people down play the real value and benefit of full ride scholarships.  A lot of these kids don't come from rich families.  Even if they don't make it to the NFL, they can graduate (a high percentage of them often do) and automatically have a leg up on the rest of their life.  My fear is this effort to regulate the whole thing will screw things up.

[Ron]

Team Sports = good, it's how men practice coordinated action to achieve goals.

Proffessional Sports = bad mostly, it's been perverted by being monetized.

[WLJ]

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[WLJ]

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