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Spaniel said:
Understood. Very succinct explanation. I suppose coming from the UK where the Oxbridge boat race is our big sports event for universities, it's difficult to get my head around the idea of what a university is over there as opposed to here. Big cultural schism.
Not sure I'll ever be comfortable with it but at least I now understand.
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The main problem is the powers that be have decided that players can't get paid. There is this facade of amateurism. And in college (American) football, you literally can't go to the NFL until you've been out of high school for 3 years. The NBA is 1 year. So (American) football players have no choice but to go to college, while basketball players can risk playing overseas, or go to college for 1-2 years before entering their name in the draft.

In the revenue producing sports, we don't have an established minor league system/academies (or lower level/younger club teams tied to the professional teams) so if you're an athlete, essentially you have to go to college to continue your playing career and have any hope of playing professionally.

So you end up with people at a university who hold a grudge against kids in a system that they can't really avoid without forgoing their dreams. We've tied their talent to college, even though they may not be interested in more school. I'm not sure educators' fully accept/understand/appreciate that.
 
Clynelish said:
Only that they were not part of the group training yesterday, doesn't necessarily mean that he won't be avaliable on Sunday.
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I figured it was because they had to come back from Argentina so took an extra day off. If there was no Gazza then perhaps Jose's anti argie agenda has them off doing hill sprints behind the carpark.

Just need to get our more "festive looking" players a mug of mate.

 
1882 said:
It was summit like; "...give a shit, Spurs" bookended by "fucking and FFS" most probably!"

It was more a reaction to going 1-2 down in the FA Cup... a Cup I still desperately want to see us to win again...

It was also a bit of a personal vent against much of the sheer indifference to the FA Cup nowadays from modern Football... (not anyone on HERE of course, but y'know... the wider footballing World!)
I just want us/Spurs to CARE about the FA Cup!


I don't know him, no... but even if I did, he would deny all knowledge of me after my little 'performance' !!
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My sentiments exactly.

I've never seen us win the fa Cup. At least you have
 
I really don't want to jinx anything, but anyone else starting to get that feeling that we are back?

I really can't see Villa living with us at the weekend, and then bring on the <removed>s for the top 4 if Man Utd can do us a solid.

COYS!
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AcrossThePond said:
The main problem is the powers that be have decided that players can't get paid. There is this facade of amateurism. And in college (American) football, you literally can't go to the NFL until you've been out of high school for 3 years. The NBA is 1 year. So (American) football players have no choice but to go to college, while basketball players can risk playing overseas, or go to college for 1-2 years before entering their name in the draft.

In the revenue producing sports, we don't have an established minor league system/academies (or lower level/younger club teams tied to the professional teams) so if you're an athlete, essentially you have to go to college to continue your playing career and have any hope of playing professionally.

So you end up with people at a university who hold a grudge against kids in a system that they can't really avoid without forgoing their dreams. We've tied their talent to college, even though they may not be interested in more school. I'm not sure educators' fully accept/understand/appreciate that.
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Haven't the NBA tried to find a way around that by offering something like "youth contracts" to kids that are out of high school in the G-League? Some form of low salary (for the sport) contract for kids that don't want to go to College where they play in the G-League until they can add their name to the draft.
 
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