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Can Football Change the World? - cardcrimson - 11-06-2022
Anybody know what happened to this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBCkec9csdo
RE: Can Football Change the World? - PAsportsfan - 11-06-2022
He stayed the same
RE: Can Football Change the World? - cardcrimson - 11-06-2022
(11-06-2022, 05:39 PM)PAsportsfan Wrote: He stayed the sameCare to opine as to why?
RE: Can Football Change the World? - PAsportsfan - 11-06-2022
Not sure, guessing he didn’t set new goals once he achieved the HC position?
RE: Can Football Change the World? - cardcrimson - 11-06-2022
(11-06-2022, 06:35 PM)PAsportsfan Wrote: Not sure, guessing he didn’t set new goals once he achieved the HC position?He'd been the HC for two seasons when he gave the talk. . . .
RE: Can Football Change the World? - Card07 - 11-07-2022
College football has very clearly moved away from student-athletes towards minor league semi-pro training camp for pseudo-students.
What Stanford did with recruiting in the 2009ish timeframe was nothing but remarkable. Not sure it works in the era of NIL and the transfer portal.
RE: Can Football Change the World? - Mick - 11-07-2022
(11-07-2022, 06:14 AM)Card07 Wrote: College football has very clearly moved away from student-athletes towards minor league semi-pro training camp for pseudo-students.
What Stanford did with recruiting in the 2009ish timeframe was nothing but remarkable. Not sure it works in the era of NIL and the transfer portal.
I don't think it's semi-pro so much as it is "pro." They can be paid directly through NIL, they can transfer to play for another team with few barriers, and they still get room, board, tuition, books, gear, training table, coaching, and, I suspect for the majority of them, they are admitted to a university that, in the absence of football, they wouldn't have a prayer of being admitted.
The only reason that universities are involved is a century of tradition from Princeton v. Rutgers in 1869 onward. Otherwise, it would be the San Jose Apaches semi-pro team playing in front of average crowds of 3,800 -- an unsustainable model at best. You remember the Apaches, right? Jerry Bradley and Jack Schraub from Cal, Chon Gallegos and nine other guys from San Jose State; Bob Conrad, John Guillory, John Read and C. B. Simons from Stanford; Gary Filizetti (who later founded DevCon) from Santa Clara. Almost every player was in their early '20s. No one wanted to see them. Put a "Michigan" jersey on, and 110k want to see them.
RE: Can Football Change the World? - gailtate - 11-07-2022
(11-07-2022, 06:38 AM)Mick Wrote:(11-07-2022, 06:14 AM)Card07 Wrote: College football has very clearly moved away from student-athletes towards minor league semi-pro training camp for pseudo-students.
What Stanford did with recruiting in the 2009ish timeframe was nothing but remarkable. Not sure it works in the era of NIL and the transfer portal.
I don't think it's semi-pro so much as it is "pro." They can be paid directly through NIL, they can transfer to play for another team with few barriers, and they still get room, board, tuition, books, gear, training table, coaching, and, I suspect for the majority of them, they are admitted to a university that, in the absence of football, they wouldn't have a prayer of being admitted.
The only reason that universities are involved is a century of tradition from Princeton v. Rutgers in 1869 onward. Otherwise, it would be the San Jose Apaches semi-pro team playing in front of average crowds of 3,800 -- an unsustainable model at best. You remember the Apaches, right? Jerry Bradley and Jack Schraub from Cal, Chon Gallegos and nine other guys from San Jose State; Bob Conrad, John Guillory, John Read and C. B. Simons from Stanford; Gary Filizetti (who later founded DevCon) from Santa Clara. Almost every player was in their early '20s. No one wanted to see them. Put a "Michigan" jersey on, and 110k want to see them.
And in 1967, Bill Walsh was head coach.