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Former legendary Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant looks on from the sidelines during a game in 1972. Much has changed in the college football game since Bryant hung up his fedora. | Joe Holloway Jr., Associated Press
Can we just go back to the days when college football’s biggest problem was the unfairness of the polls?
We didn’t know how good we had it.
That was better than today’s anarchy and chaos.
It’s sure better than this: A quarterback at Nevada-Las Vegas — the starting quarterback — is holding out for more money. He says he was promised $100,000 if he came to UNLV and no one has paid up. So he left the team this week after a 3-0 start, the school’s best start in 40 years. UNLV denies it and says it violates NCAA pay-for-play rules.
What!? There are still rules? Who knew.
College holdouts are going to become the norm. Earlier this year quarterback Jaden Rashada filed a lawsuit against Florida coach Billy Napier and a booster, among others, claiming they failed to deliver on a $13.85 million agreement that included an upfront partial payment of $1 million. He left the school.
It was better when players were being paid under the table and we didn’t know about it.
Elsewhere in college football’s Wild West, the league formerly known as the Pac-12 — which was ransacked last year by the Big Ten and Big 12, which was ransacked by the SEC — is making a hostile takeover of the Mountain West Conference.
Five Mountain West teams are leaving to join the Pac 8/10/12/2/7, including Utah State, which is celebrating as if the Aggies just won the lottery. Hold the party; this is not your father’s Pac-12. Only two schools were left behind after last year’s mass exodus, and the Pac Whatever was on life support.
As usual, the Aggies are late to the scene. The league that once consisted of USC, UCLA, Washington,…
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Author : Deseret News
Publish date : 2024-09-27 21:30:00
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