Bad Weather Helps Savannah State Beat the Spread vs. FSU

If there was one university that knows how to take a beating it's Savannah State.

Last week, the Tigers were the sacrificial lamb for the Oklahoma State Cowboys as they lost 84-0. What is the price of a loss like that you say? About $385,000. That's how much Oklahoma State gave Savannah State to play (let's face it, lose) in Stillwater. This weekend they got more money from another university to play against them. This time it was the Florida State Seminoles paying $475,000. Savannah State doesn't belong in Tallahassee and yet they were invited to play against the #6 ranked team in the country.

What was the spread? 70 1/2 in favor of FSU of course. Amazingly, however, Savannah State beat the spread. It was 55-0 in favor of FSU when bad weather came and called off the rest of the game in the third quarter. What a bargain. Savannah State got 4th quarters worth of money for only 3 quarters of destruction.

It's ludicrous to think that this kind of thing is acceptable in the "Amateur" system of college football. It's done every year and yet we just accept it because we want to be entertained and don't care about the details. I don't blame Savannah State for taking the money for either game but I am upset that the NCAA just allows this kind of thing to happen. It's just another piece of hypocrisy on top of the big pile BS that is the NCAA.

P.S. Hope Devon Walker gets better soon.

Lawsuit for Paying College Players Gets Interesting

There is a new twist in a lawsuit in the college world. In order to get a lawsuit deemed class action against the NCAA, lawyers argued that anything that use's a players names, image, or likeness whether on TV, a video game, or other products, should be shared with the players. So the NCAA can feel like their ethic of "Amateurism" is held together, money earned can be "temporarily held in trust for those individuals until cessation of their collegiate careers." Winning this lawsuit could mean "hundreds of thousands" of dollars each year to Division I basketball players and "tens of thousands" to college football players.

I'll be honest, I hope they win the suit. I'm not sure how far it will go in the courts but the players do deserve compensation for their efforts nowadays. No matter how someone wants to paint the picture, "Student Athletes" are indeed workers. They agree to go play for a school and in return they get some sort of scholarship (or payment). The problem is that the money earned today is outrageous compared to when this system first started. Nowadays the NCAA and Conferences are getting billions with TV deals, advertising, video games deals, and other products. Meanwhile the players are not getting a dime of any of that. If the players had a union, they would've voted to go on strike a long time ago.

The amateur system needs to go. It's not fair to kids who play for universities across the country. They still play for pennies while the NCAA and the Universities make off like Kings.