Again, they earned more during their time there than they got paid. For every Matthew Stafford there is a Troy Smith who earned the university millions of dollars and got drafted in the 5th round.

Yes, the university invest a lot of money and they deserve their more than fair share. But we are only talking about 20-30k a year! I got more of an opportunity to make money than many football players and I brought zero dollars to the university.

Well, IF they follow all the rules, then they have EARNED a free college education

And 50 or more years ago when the NCAA wasn't a development league that made lots of sense as payment.

Steen, you must not know many football players, or ex-football players. The fraternity is deep, and these guys, even the 2nd and 3rd string players, get jobs that aren't open to everyone. On top of that, Troy Smith, that guy that earned the U millions and (only) got drafted in the 5th round, IS A MILLIONAIRE, or has at least earned more than a million dollars based upon the training that he received at OSU.


I think we need to start another thread that is titled "OSU and free used cars..."... I called it when that putz was being paraded around and having his picture taken in Corvettes that he was going to be a problem child... I can't even say "I told you so" because it was painfully obvious... He is exactly what I thought he was...

Smith wasn't much of a problem child at OSU, though he had a bit of a big head for sure. But he earned MORE than what he has received so far. He has made others way more money than his fair share. Has he made a lot of money? Sure, but while he was making others tens of millions a year he was eating at the school cafeteria. Again, millions of college students live the life every day, I did it as well. But these players are bigger contributers to the schools than the professors for goodness sakes... again... people should get something representative of what they have earned. BIG times rookies bringing in millions in revenue to a team because of new jersey sales and peaked interest should get paid as such. Even if they haven't played a snap, their name recognition alone banks the teams lots of extra income. The players should be able to earn a small amount of money while in college... why shouldn't they?

WJB, you are starting to sound very socialistic... it's weirding me out.

How about that game last night Steen? Talk about a nail-biter. GO BUCKS!

See the bowl game thread... I was sweating...

Seems as if Tressel makes a huge impact in these young kids minds:

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/ ... p_per.html

"I don't think I'm really ready for the NFL," Pryor said. "I think I've got a lot of learning and better decision-making I have to make on and off the field.
"And I think even off the field, I think I need to grow up a little bit more and mature as well in that standpoint. So I just have a lot of growing up to do. And we'll take steps. I talked to Coach Tressel and we have a plan going down and I have to follow it exactly how he put it."

What coach works with kids on that level so well? I know some here think the only honorable thing to do for such a minor infraction is to sit them for the bowl game, but that is silly.

Tressel is a class act and shows it with how he acts with the players. There was question to whether or not Pryor was going to come back and it seems pretty sure that he will, all because of Tressel's influence. He made all of them come back if they wanted to play the bowl game and that is an awesome and fair compromise to make sure all get their fair punishment. he's teaching them to be men... not just football players.

What thats total BS...they should be getting PAID to learn that lesson right Steens??

oh cummon you know I had to poke a lil fun!

You? Never!!!

Note that all of the suspended OSU players ARE coming back for next season to face their suspension. Seems that JT has a pretty good handle on these kids learning to be men.

Latest poll on student athletes time spent on a sport compared to what is allowed:

Sounds like everybody should be on probation.