Why do people have a hard time with players being booed on the big time D-1 level?

30.September, 2009

I don’t understand why people get pissed off by it-mainly in the local media. The cost of tickets for some schools is more than professional teams’ and when you are at (basketball) Duke, UNC, Kansas, UCLA, Arizona, etc. or USC, Ohio St, Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Florida, Bama, Tennessee, Georgia, Miami, FSU (football) you are basically SEMI-PRO to me. You aren’t a pro, but whenever your team is bringing in millions and millions in revenue and your coach is making millions, you are not truly a collegiate team. To me, lower D-1, D-2, Jucos, and NAIA schools are the only real collegiate teams.

the players are 18-22

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2 Comments für “Why do people have a hard time with players being booed on the big time D-1 level?”

  1. Level-2 sagt:
    01.October, 2009 um 4:47 am

    the players are 18-22
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  2. baudkarma sagt:
    01.October, 2009 um 4:55 am

    The team may be making millions, the coach may be making millions, but the players aren’t seeing any of it. A very few of them might go on to the pros, but the rest will play out their eligibility and then try to face the real world with a few credit hours in "kinesiology" or something equally useless.

    I’m not saying you can’t boo college players, but treating them the same as professionals making millions of dollars just isn’t fair.
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