As soon as revered as school soccer showcases, bowl video games have gotten meaningless.
Final yr Florida State went 13-0 within the common season, however then hordes of their gamers opted for the “portal” and FSU was embarrassed by Georgia of their bowl recreation 63-3.
A number of bowl video games have been impacted by this final yr and plenty of anticipated the NCAA to maneuver the portal entry date to mid-January to counter this fiasco, however, inexplicably, they did not?
This yr, the identical free company jockeying has a number of faculty rosters decimated by pre-bowl recreation portal-mania. Bowl video games was once a reward and supply of delight. Now, many bowl video games are simply meaningless exhibition contests with second-, third- and fourth-stringers taking the sphere. This farce is delivered to you by clueless NCAA and school athletic directors who’ve severely broken the enjoyment and credibility of school soccer.
Tom Trumpler
Camarillo
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So school coaches corresponding to Brian Kelly, Mike Gundy and Mike Norvell are paying into their faculty’s NIL with the intention to save their jobs.
Hunch right here is, some USC athletes can be seeing greater checks very, very quickly.
Collegiate sports activities have been ruined by the NCAA.
Fred Wallin
Westlake Village
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I’ve an excellent thought for USC coach Lincoln Riley: renegotiate your contract. You make $10 million a yr. Ask for $7.5 million. Take $2.5 million and use it to attempt to save your defections. Pay them out of your pocket if it’s important to.
Did not Tom Brady take a pay minimize to win a Tremendous Bowl title or two?
Jeff Hawley
San Clemente
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I’m a fan of the USC custom to not put the gamers’ names on the again of their soccer jerseys, however till the NCAA figures out this NIL and switch portal catastrophe the Trojans may must put the names on the jerseys simply to know who’s nonetheless there!
Ted Bartscherer
Pasadena
Painful instances
The Lakers have been going downhill since Phil Jackson left, since Jerry Buss died, since disregarding Jerry West and hiring Rob Pelinka.
You may’t blame the gamers. They did not put collectively this crew, Pelinka did. For years, he is been buying and selling their good, younger gamers and draft picks for a dream.
Lakers administration made a ridiculous supply to Tyronn Lue, not permitting him to choose his personal teaching employees. They handed on Jayson Tatum for Lonzo Ball, who had the worst capturing kind on the planet, and handed on Jaime Jaquez Jr. for somebody no person ever sees. The various good, younger gamers they let go are excelling on different groups.
The Lakers could possibly be extra entertaining and aggressive; they’re no enjoyable to look at. It is painful to look at them. However they’re making new followers … for the Clippers.
Steven Lee Jacobs
Oxnard
Profitable the offseason
Whereas all people’s distracted by Steve Cohen and the Mets grabbing Juan Soto, the Dodgers are raiding the free company kitchen.
I would not be stunned in the event that they discover a technique to land a fourth former MVP to the lineup or one other former Cy Younger Award winner.
I am not hating on the Dodgers. Simply jealous that my crew known as the “Evil Empire” for all its spending whereas the Dodgers get a free go by the payroll police.
Adam Silbert
New York
Let him play ball
Kudos to umpire Benny Gallo for holding true to his beliefs! I, too, felt the identical approach about not desirous to take the COVID-19 vaccine however luckily for me I used to be already retired and didn’t need to undergo what he’s gone via. Hopefully some MLB crew provides him a job.
Phillip Trujillo
Ontario
No second probability
So disgusted to learn that Michael Vick, who was convicted of horrific abuses together with torture and deaths of a number of of his “combating” canine a couple of years in the past, has been employed to teach soccer by Norfolk State.
This isn’t a type of “everybody deserves a second probability” eventualities corresponding to reformed drug addicts or previously incarcerated individuals who made dangerous selections and are actually rehabilitated. Anybody able to the atrocities that Vick was accountable for is past redemption. Disgrace on Norfolk State.
Glenda Laguna
Highland
Charging ahead
It appears to be like just like the Chargers have been wanting previous the Tampa Bay recreation to the divisional recreation with the Broncos in any case.
Vaughn Hardenberg
Westwood
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