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Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...
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Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 28, 2020, 4:50 PM

When are these people going to learn that people don’t care about a physics class (or a school president for that matter)? I’m not saying the priority is right. It probably isn’t. But right or wrong, the market proves that Americans love football and will pay hefty prices to consume it. Forcing the market against its natural direction DOES NOT WORK. Many have tried. Many have failed. Has history taught us nothing at all?

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/proposed-federal-law-seeks-to-limit-skyrocketing-salaries-of-college-coaches/


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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 28, 2020, 5:06 PM

Just what we need. Fed. GUBMINT sticking its nose in college FB. Guess they will pass A law limiting how much college athletes can be paid. What will be the unintended consequences? Because there always is. Coaches will continue to be paid what the mkt. Will bear. Loopholes will be found. I am sure the smart attorneys will figure it out.

Chances of this passing? Slim to none right now. Trump would veto it . And McConnel would probably never let it come up for a vote in senate.

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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 28, 2020, 5:08 PM

I'm not sure the unintended consequences would be all that unintended. Know what I mean?

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might be more beneficial to address...


Jan 28, 2020, 5:10 PM

tuition costs that are a result of the unlimited "free" money people can borrow.

But, I wouldn't worry about it. They've been working on impeachment for the past 3-plus years. They don't have time for these less important things.

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To keep the bubble from bursting they have to find a new


Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 PM

scam every decade.

The education bubble is just the latest.

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After that it will be auto loans.


Jan 29, 2020, 3:48 PM

84 month loans lol

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There's something in these hills.


Some people think a degree in psychology is worth


Jan 29, 2020, 3:41 PM [ in reply to might be more beneficial to address... ]

$80,000.

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There's something in these hills.


Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 28, 2020, 5:20 PM

Our politicians need to spend their time on controlling federal, state, county and local spending before attempting to limit spending by others. Their track record proves they are better at creating problems rather than solving them.

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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 28, 2020, 5:28 PM

If you don’t want to give people everything they ask for, why do you hate them and want them to die??

Everyone should get everything they want. Anything else is racist and oppressive.

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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 29, 2020, 5:32 AM

Free education, free healthcare… What we really should be getting is free lodging and free food as those things are more necessary for life. I should be able to walk in the grocery store and take what I want off of the shelves and stay at any hotel I desire for free. Elizabeth Warren needs to get to work on this!

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^^^ This! There are a couple of vehicles and a boat I've


Jan 29, 2020, 9:19 AM

been looking at. I should be able to just go take them.

It's not fair that they charge more money for the really nice things and they are not available for free.

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Jan 28, 2020, 5:31 PM [ in reply to Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market... ]

Amen.but truth seldom applies in Washington.

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Jan 28, 2020, 7:06 PM [ in reply to Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market... ]

Amen!!! Spending our Tax dollars on labor, tractors, trees and flowers to put in the medium of the interstate highways is a total waste of money and can be deadly. Traveling 65-70 MPH, just how long does the enjoyment of seeing special flowers and trees last, when it only takes a split second for a vehicle to get out of control and killing others bc the driver was fascinated by the pretty flowers growing in the medium of the interstate where the speed limits are higher!!!

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Jan 28, 2020, 7:07 PM [ in reply to Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market... ]

Joe, sorry I couldn’t give you more than 1 TU. Well said.

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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 29, 2020, 7:20 PM [ in reply to Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market... ]

“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

--Ronald Reagan

AKA Ronaldus Magnus

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That will just lead to dirty coaches taking money under


Jan 28, 2020, 5:21 PM

the table in some fashion. People can get very, very creative when money is involved. And who would enforce these new rules? The FBI? I really don't think that's the best use of their manpower.

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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 28, 2020, 5:27 PM

Unpopular opinion...I somewhat agree with potential limits on spending or where spending can occur.
Every year that goes by, college football become more of an arms race and less of the sport we all fondly remember. Football ops centers, stadium expansion/remodels,... then tear it down and to it all over again. More and more schools are being left behind in the construction dust of the larger, wealthier schools which, as we have seen, leads to the same people playing the same games at the end of the season. If you think we are immune, just wait until everyone can pay players. We (Clemson) doesn't possess the income to compete with the $14,000,000,000 Texas A&M endowment.

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Jan 29, 2020, 6:54 AM

Clemson is competing and winning. College fb is as good as ever. It's not the gov.'s job to balance and control the details of society, or even correct 'unfair advantages'. The political quacks doing the 'correcting' gets the Biden bribes for sticking it to whom they see fit. Behind every gov. Reg. is someone who gets an advantage by regulation.

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Jan 29, 2020, 3:41 PM [ in reply to Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market... ]

I will quickly agree w you that college football has become something which is contrary to what college and student-athletes are supposed to be about. and I'll agree w you further that the salaries some of these guys collect are astonishing. But

the market does what it will which includes the salaries of coaches. given what college ball has become I can accept the coaches salary.

and then we have to ask: by what legitimate authority would the feds rely upon to promote/enforce salary caps at college football programs?

if we really care, and I hardly think it's wrong, about the current state of colleges, college football and priorities, vote with you dollars and what you watch on tv. that the feds should be involved would seem to promote a further weakening of federalism.

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Jan 28, 2020, 5:32 PM



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Didn’t realize Saban made $11,000,000 in one year recently!


Jan 28, 2020, 5:36 PM

Geez...

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Re: Didn’t realize Saban made $11,000,000 in one year recently!


Jan 28, 2020, 5:48 PM

Need to get a federal law that calls for term limits. That would solve a lot of our problems.

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Term Limits have been ruled unconstitutional.


Jan 28, 2020, 7:11 PM

You are going to need a Constitutional Amendment.

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Not if Tom Steyer gets elected. He will save the world


Jan 30, 2020, 8:54 AM

that is sarcasm people

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Re: Didn’t realize Saban made $11,000,000 in one year recently!


Jan 28, 2020, 7:21 PM [ in reply to Re: Didn’t realize Saban made $11,000,000 in one year recently! ]

The limiting of terms for all voted officials is the best idea for problem solving in this entire thread!!!

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What the hell makes academics so ######### holy anyway?


Jan 28, 2020, 6:36 PM

I used to think education was a lot more valuable than I do now. Truth is, the institution of education is pretty much worthless. It's a system over 100 years old that is just bloated, bureaucratic, and inefficient. Companies like Google realize this and are recruiting 16 year-olds before they have a chance to go to college and get dumb.

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Re: What the hell makes academics so ######### holy anyway?


Jan 28, 2020, 7:25 PM

The dumbest part of college is the cost, and that is really out of control!!! Go to college for 4 years, and it takes 20 years to pay the loans off!!!

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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 28, 2020, 6:44 PM

Thinking about our school, are the interests of the state at large, we're a public institution, served by astronomical coaching salaries? I can make a case both ways, but ultimately, I fall on the side of no. Clemson has already addressed this by moving the mechanisms that pay all coaches away from direct salary compensation from the state. Other places do this as well, Harbaughs money is tied up in insurance investments, Roy at unc has a very open contract when it comes to third party deals, etc. The real issue is where the money is coming from, who is paying it, and how it is taxed. With the previous attempt to fix it, it allowed for a loophole whereby certain schools could claim to be part of a state government and not be subject to tax.

Ultimately, I think the market can decide how much a coach gets paid, but that market needs to be limited to the school, I. E. Boosters, alums etc. And not the state as a whole.

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Honestly I do not think College coaches make enough


Jan 28, 2020, 6:55 PM

some of these guys work 80-90 weeks during the season and spend a lot of time away from their families. I make around 60-150k a week and all I have to do is open the mail and see how my investments are performing, that takes me about 15 minutes.

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Jan 30, 2020, 8:30 AM

Tigerbalm, you serious, Clark? You make at least 240,000 a month

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I’m not going to argue


Jan 28, 2020, 6:59 PM

The merits of some limitations on pure capitalism, but complaining about the lack of free market economics in an industry that is built on constraining the compensation of it’s workers seems a bit hypocritical.

If you want true free market conditions in college football, then colleges should the be able to pay whatever they want fo players.

FYI as a Clemson fan you don’t want to see that model. Our donation base is significantly less than most of our competition.

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Jan 28, 2020, 7:19 PM

Oh yeah the g-men do such a great job at everything they touch so it's a brilliant idea to get them involved in sports decisions.

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It’s the house of Democrats/representives


Jan 28, 2020, 8:21 PM

It’s what they do now. Debate/ pass legislation they know will die in the Senate so they can pacify the communist wing of their party

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Jan 28, 2020, 8:29 PM

I quit reading at the word "Shalala"...

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Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 29, 2020, 12:24 AM

FWIW, the highest paid federal employee is not an elected official.

It's Ken Noumotolololololo(?), head football coach at the Naval Academy. I think he makes about $2.8M.

I suppose there might be some CIA employees with access to slush funds larger than that, but that's the highest reported salary.

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Betcha they won't pass a law limiting what former...


Jan 29, 2020, 12:44 PM

Betcha they won't pass a law limiting what former Congress members make as Lobbyists.

FYI they make as much as or more than Head Coaches.

$5mil salaries plus bonuses aren't unusual.

They just don't like it when others get gravy too.

FOK them.

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Wow - they need to focus on limiting their own exorbitant...


Jan 29, 2020, 5:44 PM

.... salaries !! -<img border=">

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If people were as good as their obituary - and products were as good as advertised - this would truly be a wonderful world !!


Re: Once again, it’s all out war on the free market...


Jan 29, 2020, 8:11 PM

I was about to get political, but that goes against why I get on TigerNet in the first place.
Time to move on to the next poast.

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"If a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal."


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