I’m not playing lawyer on a Sunday but I’ll address the first part. WTF difference does it make if it’s regular season or post-season. Does anyone think the players are being paid for regular season only, and they’ll have to negotiate a new deal for the post season?
Well they are not getting paid to play, otherwise they would be considered employees and we all know the schools don't want that. As long as the NCAA/Schools keep playing this game where the players are not employees, criticizing the players for prioritizing their self interests is a fools errand.
No, they are being paid to play. You can’t possibly believe otherwise. Yes, I understand the legal framework for it is different, but so what? Why doesn’t reality matter?
Guess the sarcasm wasn't clear enough. Yes, they are obviously getting paid to play, everyone can see that. Yet the schools and the NCAA keep trying to live in this alternate reality where the athletes are not employees for their own self interests. As long as the schools and the NCAA continue to prioritize their self interests, why should we criticize the athletes for prioritizing their own?
When the team comes first coach did what he did, the wheels came off. We would have been better off declining the bowl game given the circumstances. Even the interim coach leaves. Bowls are not going to be quick to pick us after this mess. At some point too, there is an unwritten compact with the fans - next time have a $5-7 million buyout clause. I will argue Mora did that much damage to the program or more. I have zero respect for him, doing everything he teaches young men not to do.
They aren't doing it for their own self interest, they don't want the athletes as employees because it would be the end of college sports.
You make it sound like UConn situation is unique. Going forward, it appears that bowls will pick whoever will come.
In a world where conferences and schools are making deals with private equity, paying hundreds of millions of dollars in buyouts, and killing rivalries, you think that the reason they refuse to treat athletes and employees is out of the goodness of their heart? C'mon man. This shouldn't be so difficult for you to understand.
The NCAA has nothing to do with that.
The courts have already decided that they are employees. That was the ruling from the SCOTUS, and what college sports have come to.
I hate to break it to you, but no UConn football games have national championship implications.
Didn't Duke's loss to us probably keep them out of the playoff?
I like to think we knocked Duke out of the playoff. 😎
Hard to see how a four loss team from the ACC would have gotten in. But maybe.
Travis never had to worry about sitting out any bowl games during his time here because it coincided with REstored.