Deshaun Watson: Trust Fund Baby (UPDATE: ~40% through Contract)

[NoSaint]

40 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:

It is definitely an unbalanced situation but college football players on scholarship already get close to $200,000 in a free education 

 

They get their housing paid for and they get meal plans 

 

Now , the argument has been that colleges make a lot of money off of them so they should get something in return.. which is fair 

 

But life isn't fair... They are called student athletes for a reason.. 99% Don't Go pro so focusing on your academics should be a big part of any college football player 

 

They will do anything to help you get your degree and get you the best job you can get... All while having your school paid for , your housing and food paid for, and being King of the Hill

 

Even before nil schools like Alabama scholarship players would have $3,000 stipends a month... That's on top of their scholarship and Free housing and food 

 

Even UB players got a stipend.. even if it was $500 a month... That's along with everything else with your scholarship

the answer still is and always should’ve been: if you want pay to be an entertainer go be a professional

 

the idea that colleges have these just absurd arrangements attached and a for profit unaffiliated league couldn’t be reasonably offered is wild. I know the toothpaste is decades out of the tube but just remarkable how wild it’s gotten and will get when the obvious original answer is to give an alternative path for professional athletes outside of college settings and colleges remain academic settings

Edited 15 hours ago by NoSaint

[Buffalo716]

55 minutes ago, NoSaint said:

the answer still is and always should’ve been: if you want pay to be an entertainer go be a professional

 

the idea that colleges have these just absurd arrangements attached and a for profit unaffiliated league couldn’t be reasonably offered is wild. I know the toothpaste is decades out of the tube but just remarkable how wild it’s gotten and will get when the obvious original answer is to give an alternative path for professional athletes outside of college settings and colleges remain academic settings

The problem is the best path to the pros has always been division one football 

 

None of these Semi-Pro teams.. or amateur leagues or even potential future feeder leagues have the money and the infrastructure to develop 18 to 23-year-old kids into professional football players like these elite institutions that have been doing it for 100 years 

 

Ohio State and Georgia and Alabama and schools like that have better facilities than any NFL team.. they do... That's not to say NFL facilities like the bills aren't world class...they are... That just shows you how good the sec's facilities are and big tens

 

So no independent or minor league system will ever have the hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars poured into their facilities like these major division 1 schools do 

 

They've been playing college football for 130 years some of these schools , some more... They are the pipeline 

 

It's not like professional baseball where kids can get drafted and developed into a minor league system or signed from other countries and developed through the minor leagues 

 

The minor leagues is division 1 football

Edited 14 hours ago by Buffalo716

[Warcodered]

1 hour ago, f0neguy said:

Concerning the Texans..  Going from a last place to first place schedule is going to expose them for what they are.  They’re a good team on the way up but nothing more.  They’re not elite and I won’t be surprised if they don’t win their division.

A combination of having a 1st place in their division schedule and said quality opponents having a year of tape on Stroud will definitely make this year tougher for them. Still I'm not sure what team in that division challenges them.

[GunnerBill]

11 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

The problem is the best path to the pros has always been division one football 

 

None of these Semi-Pro teams.. or amateur leagues or even potential future feeder leagues have the money and the infrastructure to develop 18 to 23-year-old kids into professional football players like these elite institutions that have been doing it for 100 years 

 

Ohio State and Georgia and Alabama and schools like that have better facilities than any NFL team.. they do... That's not to say NFL facilities like the bills aren't world class...they are... That just shows you how good the sec's facilities are and big tens

 

So no independent or minor league system will ever have the hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars poured into their facilities like these major division 1 schools do 

 

They've been playing college football for 130 years some of these schools , some more... They are the pipeline 

 

It's not like professional baseball where kids can get drafted and developed into a minor league system or signed from other countries and developed through the minor leagues 

 

The minor leagues is division 1 football

 

I don't think @NoSaint is questioning that reality. He is just saying it is, as a system, strange. And if you were starting with a blank sheet of paper it is not the model you'd design.