Posted on Dec 21, 2016
Saban: Playoffs to blame for players deciding to skip bowls
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Hot topic today and the past few days about players skipping bowl games. I have always felt these guys get a free education, room, and board- plus the platform to turn pro and secure their future. If they don'y play- I say they have not fulfilled their obligation for their scholarship and should repay it. I also believe it would help them later in life that they have to graduate to earn the draft. Those are my thoughts- would like to hear from others.
Saban: Playoffs to blame for players deciding to skip bowls
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LTC Stephen F. Colonel, are you equating those college athletes who try to avoid injuries with those who attend our service academies and then become supplicants to play professional sports rather than performing the military duty they contracted for?
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LTC Stephen F.
Not exactly my friend CSM Charles Hayden. I can only speak from my experience as a cadet at West Point. The other Service Academies have their own rules.
At West Point we had "free board and room" and were inspected with little notice at times :-)
We paid for uniforms, haircuts, etc. The law established an account which was funded at 50% of a 2LT from some time in the past. We were allotted $50 per month as plebes in 1976. the rest of the money went into an account which was debited for books, uniforms, haircuts, etc.
Every cadet could resign up to the beginning of junior year [Cow] with no punishment or funds owed. For those who were forces out after that point they could be reduced to enlisted-man status to work out what they owed in terms of years served. If that was not possible they owed the government money for the education that they had been furnished ...
At West Point we had "free board and room" and were inspected with little notice at times :-)
We paid for uniforms, haircuts, etc. The law established an account which was funded at 50% of a 2LT from some time in the past. We were allotted $50 per month as plebes in 1976. the rest of the money went into an account which was debited for books, uniforms, haircuts, etc.
Every cadet could resign up to the beginning of junior year [Cow] with no punishment or funds owed. For those who were forces out after that point they could be reduced to enlisted-man status to work out what they owed in terms of years served. If that was not possible they owed the government money for the education that they had been furnished ...
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You got that right, other kids work hard to pay for their education, if these bums skip out, pay your tab.
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I agree with you, Maj Marty Hogan, but the prospect of big money is simply too tempting. For many of these athletes, if not most, pro football is the goal.
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Maj Marty Hogan
LTC Stephen C. and then they become bigger problem kids in the NFL. Domestic violence, drugs, gang rapes...they feel untouchable and get light sentences when they do get caught. Being good at a sport shouldn't be a free pass.
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