Tuesday Night Live Thread: Give us some Roundtable questions!

I CALL FOOD OFF!!!

..but I believe that Reggie Bush cannot really be faulted to strongly here. I mean, maybe his actions since have been less than admirable. However, being a kid straight out of high school offered all those toys? We all would have taken it. That doesn’t diminish his performances on the field.

Saying that, rules are rules. and his trophy will/should be revoked. He was not complying with all NCAA regs when he won, so he cannot hold the trophy.

Also, since Memphis basketball is facing a similar situation, do you like Derrick Rose would’ve been stripped of his John R. Wooden award that season (had he not finished 2nd)?

In an ideal world where every athlete in a given sport would be paid the same at every school of a certain level, I would still be against it. College football and basketball bring in lots of money on the backs of the student athletes, that is true. However, the short list of Athletic Departments that actually MAKE money illustrates where that money goes. It does not go to making coaches rich (while some are VERY rich, they are the minority – especially considering how short the average career is), it goes to providing athletic opportunities for students in other sports. The players are compensated fairly well, a free education, free food and free room is nothing to shake a stick at. In fact, considering the equivalent cost of what they’re getting for their talents, they’re making more than most minor league ball players.

That being said, I have no problem with ANY athlete attempting to take their talents to the pro circuit. If they’re college grads, college freshman, high school seniors or 10 year olds, if a pro team is willing to pay them for their athletic ability, more power to them. If I would have been offered a 6-figure salary at 18 to work for Dell, I sure as hell wouldn’t have wanted a union telling me I had to attend college for a specific amount of time.

However, if you don’t accept that free tuition/room/board is “fair”, there is no way that all colleges could afford to pay a “fair” wage. Texas may be able to pay all their football/basketball athletes $60,000/year, where Western Kentucky might only be able to pay $1000. Who would decide what is “fair”, and who would pay it for the schools that just can’t afford it? Would the NCAA pick up the slack, or would the schools be forced to drop to a lower division, until the cost of the players equaled their budget? Would Mizzou have to drop men’s swimming and diving to afford to field a football team – the team that finances all the other sports? There would HAVE to be regulation of this, otherwise there would be severe imbalance. That would not be right in any way.

..whiff. You can’t get every drop out, so it’s a waste. Also, more importantly, in violation of the “No Drop of Beer Left Behind Act”

…but it will cost you a $5000 donation.

We have seen in the past, that Mizzou is not the prettiest girl at the dance when it comes to invites to bowl games. Therefore, any factor that helps get a playoff into place – we should all sit back and enjoy.

However, I cheer for Boise State to beat the big boys like VA Tech, Oklahoma, Oregon, etc. – I cannot wait for the day that they are nipped in the butt by a small team that will bring their years of work down upon their heads. This ‘little team’ that I am hoping pops up might just by Dave C and the Wyoming team next week. (well, maybe not.. but I can hope). I know this sort of contradicts what I said above, but it’s what I do best.

It’s not like Boise wouldn’t play any BCS-conference school that was willing to do a home-and-home with them, and they’re also pretty clearly willing to do one-off road games with BCS conference opponents (Va Tech this year, Ole Miss next year). So, if their schedule isn’t tough enough, the problem is that the BCS schools are wimps. And yes, frankly, I include Mizzou in that criticism.

And hey, if Boise goes 12-0 and gets to play for the title even though their schedule is weaker than some 12-1 BCS conference champ, it occurs to me that one way to solve that might be to set up a system where all the BCS conference winners plus two wild cards go into a sort of post-season quarterfinal situation so that the team that wins the title would truly have to prove it on the field. Of course, I imagine Boise would be all for that arrangement. BCS conferences—your thoughts?

Hell—I hope Boise wins the whole thing while a 1-loss Texas or Florida or Ohio State has to sit at home and watch it. Maybe then we’ll finally get some momentum toward a playoff.

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In KC

only if they move the kU game back to the universities. It just seems weird to start and end the year at the same neutral site.

Arkansas in Memphis at the Liberty Bowl. Just trying to think outside the box.

They were close to fruition before Notre Dame wanted a Home & Neutral with Mizzou – then they stalled. Look for a possible one-year scheduling, but we’re talking down the road (2015ish).

Until then, I think playing Iowa would be a pretty good idea.

. . . should make it unnecessary for teams to schedule a lineup of cupcakes in order to guarantee six wins for a bowl game.

 If the economy continue to get worse, it may also help solve the problem by forcing schools to play more competitive games in order to fill the stands.

Toss this one on the fire.

Wow, great form on the question – maybe they will answer one of mine if I wrote it like an English 5000 teacher. Nice work.

…no FCS team had ever beaten a RANKED FBS team.