OK, I just finished the highlights. Not surprisingly, the media is screwing up the reporting on this. (ESPN said the judge ruled that the NCAA can not restrict compensation to college athletes, which is just simply dead wrong)

This was a win for the players, but the NCAA was able to limit the damages. The NCAA must compensate FBS football and D1 men's basketball players for their name, image, and likeness, but she ruled that they can restrict this compensation to $5,000 per year, and that they can hold the money in trust for the player until they leave school, rather than paying the player while in school.

What happened was this: the NCAA was arguing that they didn't have to pay the players at all for their image, name, and likeness, and the players were basically arguing for no restrictions which may have led to the wild, wild west where schools could offer big money to recruits. The judge disagreed with the NCAA and ruled that they were violating the Sherman Act. However, the NCAA had a backup plan. They argued that although they do not believe the players should win, in the event that the court disagreed, the NCAA came up with a possible remedy and asked the judge to limit the remedy to that. The judge looked at the NCAA's proposed remedy, thought it was reasonable, and told the players they had to accept the NCAA's offered remedy.

So basically the NCAA came up with the remedy that the judge is now imposing. In court NCAA witnesses testified that if they were able to limit payments for players likeness to only "a few thousand per year", then their concerns would be mostly mitigated. The judge took "a few thousand" to mean "$5,000".

The only argument that the judge took somewhat seriously was the idea that if rich schools could pay recruits a tremendous amount of money, then that could hurt demand and competitiveness for the sport, which is why she agreed that the NCAA had a very good, legitimate reason to limit it to $5,000/year above the financial aid. I imagine that number will need to go up with inflation and higher TV deals.

That whole nonsense about needing to preserve amateurism was laughed off and quickly dismissed in the ruling.

What are pieces of shit like you and Bambino then?

NBC Sports

Those 2 idiots should stop posting out of sheer embarrassment. Sec and the posters here continue to clown them. 91 million wowzers.

So Mizzou is 9-8 in SEC play and has obv "proved" they can play with the big boys. Except, that's not true in the slightest no matter what their fans or boosters in local media delude themselves into thinking.


9 wins: Their opponents finished SEC play 22-51 (30%).
8 losses: their opponents finished SEC play 52-13 (80%).


In 17 games they have beaten one team with a winning record, Georgia at 5-3. If you strip out the MU games from the above data, it's still 34% & 77% respectively or no difference. Football powerhouse.

Why do you keep posting the same stuff? Honest question.

The SEC doesn't play tough games every week like the Big12(minus Kansas). It's easy to get free wins. Hell the same thing used to happen to Iowa State... We'd get more wins every other year when we didn't have to play Texas or Oklahoma.

SEC and B1G are set up to make teams look better than they are. You see who the true good teams are in the Big12 now as we play everyone every year. And it makes us look worse because it's 9 good teams beating up on each other(last year 8 since ISU was young and hurt, had a down year).

Why do you keep posting the same stuff about the SEC network?

I don't believe I have; I've posted updated stories as new providers sign on. Now, can you answer my question? Why do you post the same thing over and over?

Yeah, it's crazy we didn't storm in and win the SEC in our first year, especially considering the injuries that team had. And we should talk to the schedule makers to make sure we play nobody but top ten teams just to keep the likes of Mizzou haters happy.

Keep flailing, though. It's fun to watch.

When will you address the data Pitt?

Nothing has been proven about Missouri, except that it can have a bad year in the SEC when it has bad luck, and it can't a great year when it has good luck.

Sample size of two doesn't say anything.

The data you just posted? After an injury-riddled season, Mizzou played pretty well, winning the SEC East Title. We held a lead through the 3rd quarter (into the 4th?) and eventually lost (as Auburn went on to play for the National Title).

We didn't prove anything other than we can compete in the best conference in the country (and be less than .500 when injuries wreck our team).

Now, when are you going to stop lying?

Those teams with losing conference records would stomp a mud hole on the Big Whatever.

Well that's exactly correct so not sure why so many get defensive. It's laughable when Jack Harry gets on tv and declares "all the doubters who said MU coildnt compete with the big boys in the SEC? where are you now ". We are still right here Jack.

Don't know about all of them, but Ole Miss did curb stomp Texas last year.

Dude, your Iowa State homerism is always a comic relief on this thread. Worry about Northern Iowa before how "difficult" your Big 12 schedule is.

Beakers crying about schedule is still comedy gold

MU did compete.

I thought competing was losing every conference game for 3 b years?/PB

I love how we occupy more time in your head than your own team does...keep it up. :thumb:

Competing??? Do you want me to break out the point differential in your 8 conf losses? I don't think you do Pitt.

I don't know why we're talking shit we will never recruit again thanks to DGB and Sam.

"Nobody cares about Mizzou."

You are seriously reeruned

http://media3.giphy.com/media/Qy9hRuWrKjY2I/giphy.gif

Jesus christ....you're the like the boy who cried wolf. Unfortunately the empty threat/whining for attention when you "gave up" on the Tigers last month was nothing but an empty promise. Do us ALL a favor, take the Mizzou sign out of your sig and stop being a fan. You're embarrassing, and pretty much the MU version of Bambi.

-17 point avg differential in 8 losses. Jumps to -19 if you take out te 4-pointer vs Vandy (at home no less lol). I know you hate math but math is not reeruned.

Looks like practice over in Columbia is off to a tremendous start.

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Just go root for Kansas already.

The KU fans in this thread sure spend an awful lot of time posting Mizzou videos, visiting Mizzou fanboards, and researching Mizzou schedules and stats . . . . kind of makes you wonder?

The obsession is actually a bit flattering. Of course, they don't care about Mizzou . . . .

He's likely a beaker troll.

What would you do if your team was a "pile of crap"?

LOL Our line is going to be badass. Again.

Everyone knows that Mizzou struggled two years ago with injuries. Most of the line was down. The QB was down. We know it was tough and we lost. Last year, though, things looked much better. Perhaps instead of aggregating the data, you should look at them by year and see if there was improvement.

Pray tell...what is KUs margin of defeat in a shit conference the last 3 years. The SEC East is superior to that turd of a league.

As "not competitive" as Missouri was last year in advancing to the conference championship game in the best conference in college football, one fact really jumps out at a person in this debate with Beaker fans.

Kansas will never have the opportunity to play in the SEC. They will never play the schedule we play. They'll never advance to the conference championship game in a conference of that quality - hell, they never even played in the conference championship game of their conference of lower quality.

Missouri showed last year that while the program has a lot of work to do in its quest to become a national power, they belong in the SEC and can compete with those teams. Kansas will never be able to say that. Missouri has all the time in the world to eclipse everything Kansas football has ever done, which is to win one prestigious bowl game in what, 40 years? We'll often have another realistic opportunity to do that with each new season, but they will never do what we did last season, to be 1 or 2 quarters away from a national championship game appearance.

The gulf between the state of the programs today is wide and will only get wider in the new post-realignment world.

Oh. So you want me to be like you and forget the first year (the "mulligan") and only focus on the second. Like Jack Harry. Seems like a reasonable way to analyze this topic. You just set the ground rules of what we can discuss and I'll follow your directions.


And if Mizzou sucks this year, we'll "mulligan" that one too.

MU's schedule was #24 and Kansas was #28 last year, so I have no idea what you're talking about.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/


"But but but you didn't win those games" - I'm sure that'll be the re-direct here to the schedule question.

Even if we tank this year, we'll still be better than Kansas.

Yup pretty much a final four season last year. Let's raise a banner

I'm talking more about the next few decades, but yeah. I'm sure every schedule looks tough when you are KU football.

LOL at Prison Bitch's desperate attempts to devalue Mizzou football. He's got nothing, and has fallen so far as to play the Jack Harry trump card. Sad, yet amusing.

2012 SOS: Mizzou #1, Kansas #3
2013 SOS: Mizzou #24, Kansas #28


Nice faceplant there, Cochise. Oh, but you meant from now on. LMAO

Oh, shit, he's pulling Sagarin out now.

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Of course losing every game makes your opponents record appear tougher too. Free win. ROFL

Ask Texas about Ole Miss.

KU fans don't care about Mizzou.

SEC Network = biggest fail in history

either you're purposefully misunderstanding what I write or are much dumber than I thought.

PB has Mizzou nation in twists tonight. LMAO

PB is getting curb stomped, as usual. Feeling left out?

Missouri doesn't have to play Alabama, LSU, Auburn or Ole Miss.

That's some SEC badass I tell you.

PB is dropping mizzou posters faster than potential recruits are dropping mizzou.

Pinkel should ask for, no, DEMAND a schedule that appeases the haters. Because that's in his control and shit.

The schedule is the schedule. It's what the SEC is.

Even PB has his white knight.

SECN has more subscribers than ESPNU. That tells you a little about what the SEC is.

You had zero complaints about the schedule when the Big XII wasn't actually false advertising. Enjoy those moral victories when you keep the big boys under the 40 point spread (like that's possible).

Missouri will end up going against the LSU's and Alabama's all in good time. No need to worry about us being cheated by some flaw in the scheduling.

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The only people that care about college football are people who watch the SEC. Bambi said so, so it must be true.

The issue at hand could be solved quite easily. If the bitch ass butt hurt KU administrators would schedule MU we can settle it on the field and on the court. MU wants to play, KU doesn't. KU fans should just stfu until that changes.

I would prefer that we move on.

All KU fans agree. Winning half the football games and a vast majority of the bball games was great for us.

Tell your candy assed administrators to get it done if that's the case.

We already play in the weakass SEC, why add another bottom feeder like KU to our already weak schedule?

Mizzou stepped up to the big leagues. And played the identical schedule KU did the past two seasons. Funny shit right there.

I wish it were that easy. You see, Missouri left the conference thus they ended the rivalry. In order to get back on KU's schedule they must apply and negotiate the terms of playing which I don't think there's an opening until around 2018.

In the Big 12 you play all your conference opponents which means the teams only play 3 non-con games. KU's slate is full until then.

KU has a tougher schedule according to Phil Steele this season.

http://www.fbschedules.com/2014/04/2...e-ncaa-method/

We shouldn't schedule them at all. Their program is awful and they will hurt our strength of schedule more often than not.

And I don't see why Kansas would schedule us now either, the last thing they need when their dream season is bowl eligibility is to schedule an SEC team. They need to line up cupcakes... or as close as they can find in D1.

Moreover, since I don't watch basketball much or ever, apart from Chiefsplanet I wouldn't hear about Kansas anymore at all, and so the rivalry has already died for me. It was fun while it lasted, but we've moved on to bigger and better things. I think we are all starting to understand what the Gator and Bulldog fans were telling me from the start, that most every SEC game is a rivalry game.

That's bull. There's this one guy on the internet who said KU will never play a schedule like Mizzou.

PB is a good poster. He loves stirring the pot. He just happens to have a strange Baghdad Bob fetish about a certain bottom feeding football program :doh!: :p

Just a question:

Is it difficult to type while giving PB a reach around?


Never mind, don't answer that . . . .

I agree with him on a multitude of subjects, but in this thread he certainly lives up to the title. It's fun to go round and round with the twins.

This thread always delivers some entertaining back and forth

If all KU fans agreed then where is the pressure on the KU administration to get it done. I call B.S.

KU is into ducking more than Phil Robertson and his family ROFL

They will always be hoe cake with butt hurt Billy Self leading the cry LMAO

This is pretty interesting.

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/sec...llege-players/

Waaaaat? I hate KU football right now ESP the fat tub of goo head coach. I liked the last fat tub of goo head coach.

This is amazing...don't read if you hate the SEC.