Not a vote against Dabo but Jamey Chadwell.

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Dabos value system in football cannot co-exist with the FBS game

Oct 31, 2023, 7:43 AM

I know that I will be ridiculed for this opinion and post, but frankly, I’m just sick of the present state of “college football”. And, no, it isn’t just because Clemson is presently 4-4.

The FBS game is a professional pay-2-play market with the SOLE INTENT of prepping qualified NFL players. EVERYONE knows this is true.

The academic aspect of the present game is GONE…COMPLETELY.

Oh yeah, they give out scholarships as players jump in and out of the portal transferring their academic credits from university to university to cobble together a possible degree from the final institution where they have finally exhausted their eligibility.

What are the minimum credits that a university requires a student to take for that university to bestow a degree to a student with the university’s name on the top? What? You think that the university won’t make exceptions for that “student-athlete” due to that “student’s” meritorious service to the university through their contributions to the football program? You bet they will.

Dabo’s values, priorities to players, to Clemson University, are simply 180 degrees out of whack with the present FBS system. I don’t see a single way for a coach like Dabo to live in this professional world of FBS football.

All of this seriously leads me to the conclusion that Clemson should LEAVE the FBS for the FCS. WHAAAAATTTT, you say!!!

NO WAY…NO WAY. Really? Why NOT? Because of MONEY? Is that it? Is MONEY the ONLY REASON? “No”, you say. You want Clemson to be competing at the HIGHEST level of COLLEGE FOOTBALL. COLLEGE football? Please, give us all a break. To play in this game, you better have a minimum of $25M PER YEAR to pay for a TOP 5 (maybe Top 10), player roster. Who’s going to pay for that? Dabo?

What the FBS is today is just what I said…a professional NFL minor league system WITH NO RULES. That’s right, I said it, NO RULES.

The rules are not even what the NCAA (hey, I said NCAA, that’s funny) claim are rules. Like their rules about how each NCAA schools concession stands must separate their presentation of soft drinks on the left and hot dogs on the right.

What about the COST of the facilities you say? “Clemson has spent so much money on facilities. They have to find a way to pay it off.”

A move DOWN to the FCS would still leave enough money to service the facilities debt. The final outcome would be that there will be very limited future expansion of facilities costs at the FCS level. And I for one, am quite content with that.

Would the smaller athletic budget limit the other athletic programs? Sure it would, but those other programs are always subsidized by football in the FBS. The FCS teams make it work, so it will be fine.

Plus, the BEAUTIFUL, OPEN, GREEN FIELDS of LEAVING the ACC for ANY OTHER destination is a GLORIOUS GOAL, no matter where that destination would be.

Let Clemson get back to a pure, student-athlete form of the game at the FCS level. Leave this professional league fight to wolves that started it in the first place.