The SEC. It just means more.
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None, since they cracked my chest. How about you?
BTW, your old school's sports teams were that bad?
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In a true sense, they're not professionals. The athletes are not paid by the school to play. The schools can't even give them money for a pizza and a beer.
The best players have tended to play for schools that give them the best shots at a pro career. Media exposure, training facilities, nutrition, etc. Hence, the domination of the SEC
What has changed significantly is NIL money.
The question morphs...Is NIL the mark of a professional athlete?
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@Jolly said in The SEC. It just means more.:
None, since they cracked my chest. How about you?
Didn’t mean to dodge the question. I could more two years after they cracked my chest than two years before.
I would struggle to get to ten, 18 months ago, often times giving up around 6-7. Then I tore my rotator cuff in June of 2022 and have been afraid to try.
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It's annoying watching student athletes make announcements about "entering the transfer portal" so they can play for other schools. No more school loyalty. NIL lets the athletes make money, which shifts lots of the priorities/focus. Then you have conferences that no longer make geographic/logical sense. It's becoming quite the mess. They should keep things simple.
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They could have, but the schools got greedy, using an athlete's NIL to push merch.
Give Bush back his Heisman.
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Problem is, at a SEC school, especially LSU, Alabama, etc., football pays for a lot of the other sports. Especially women's sports and more obscure men's sports (golf, anyone?). And at a LSU, football also pays for some academics.