College Football is Here! Join the GAPol Pick ‘Em Challenge!
It’s that time of year again where adults revel in the athletic accomplishment of boys “attending” schools they likely have no connection to, and celebrate the work of each university’s highest-paid employee who is neither a researcher, teacher or administrator all while these institutes of higher education generate millions of dollars for themselves under the thoroughly discredited sham of amateurism.
Yes, it’s time for the GAPol College Football Pick ‘Em ChallengeTM! Oh, and college football writ large.
Deep down inside, all of you, dear readers, have a burning zeal to show why Rival U is inferior in every way. And the only empirical measure of doing so is to trounce your rivals in this storied, august competition. (If you support schools based in Coral Gables, Statesboro or Gainesville your existence is too piteous to merit further scorn–don’t worry).
To play, simply click this link. You should be taken to group # 40659 called “GAPol Supports GA State”. The password is “Go Panthers”. You can sign up with your Facebook account, email or an ESPN account. Picks are due before kickoff for each game. Confidence points are involved.
Last year’s prizes went unclaimed by the winners so they remain up for grabs this year!
I wish you good luck and leave you with a gif that will symbolize UGA’s season.
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If I make my first week’s picks I will surpass last season.
Ed:
Hey bruh, you’re starting to sound like a broken record now.
They’re amateurs and nobody is forcing them to play. You should the Athletic Associations are separate entities from the school itself. Only a small minority turn a profit. Theses are mostly large schools like Texas, Michigan, tOSU and hell, even Georgia despite the fact they have won jack in my lifetime.
Let it go, man.
Yes but it is basically the minor leagues for the pros. If you want to play pro, you have to go to college… even if you wouldn’t otherwise qualify.
Even the phrase “athletic scholarship” is ridiculous.
Let the colleges pay them, put caps on the salaries, don’t make them go to class. Why not?
Then let the NFL pay for it, then. Oh, wait, isn’t that a billion-dollar organization? There will be no salaries in college athletics. Start a minor league if you want but as long as we admit under-qualified athletes to good schools I say it is even.
You and Ed are wrong and will continue to be.
If Ed was honest about his feelings he would just abandon college football all together, but he doesn’t do that, does he?
No, if Ed was honest he can say as a fan of the sport that he’s incredibly conflicted by collegiate athletics because it’s a fundamentally twisted system. Universities are whoring themselves for 17-year-old boys to wear their jersey far more than they are to get an economist, poet, scientist or anyone else who contributes to universities’ actual purpose. I mean, who do you think is more likely to get exactly what they want at UGA–Kirby Smart or Alan Dorsey?
I have no doubt that there will come a point where I have no interest in college sports anymore. The sham of amateurism to have functionally illiterate athletes be schools’ biggest ambassadors while serving as trade schools for the NFL and NBA should be sickening. But we not only condone that, we encourage schools to do so, just look at the massive fundraising ADs have or the massive non-student/alumni following of schools’ sports teams (something I’m guilty of as well). We’re licensing universities names to sports teams.
Sure, let the NFL pay for it. They can make deals with universities to have their logo on the helmets so the alumni have something to root for.
Why abandon it? It’s like found money. If you saw $20 laying on the street you know it’s not yours but you’re going to pick it up anyway. No one is saying it’s not entertaining, it’s just unfair. And with what we know now about injuries football may be dead in 20 years anyway.
there are ancillary ways to allow the “student athletes” to get paid without an actual salary coming from the school or the athletic association or whatever…let them market themselves–if they would allow the stuff they “ban” right now like getting paid for autographs and sponsorship deals and such most of the athletes would get a little, some would get a lot and i don’t think anyone would end up losing money over it along the way…in fact if the school sell football calenders and posters and such with the entire team, every athlete should get a cut of that…and for most programs i’m sure topps or upper deck would pay for licensing to produce cards, and if their is a team card every athlete would be due something…
Do the players have agents? Does the school get a cut of the players earnings? Does the school do marketing to help the athletes?
I think it’s just simpler to let them be pros in a minor league, run with similar rules to the NFL. I don’t know who pays who to have school logos on the helmets but I think you would want it to be some sort of flat fee or else it would be worse than it is now with only 6 schools getting all the money.
Do you have an age-range limit? Or is this a good place for ex-NFLers to land? Or can you never have been pro before?
Baseball has a minor league system and if you want to start a franchise you have to have the minor teams too. It would be a good model.