• Hi Guest, want to participate in the discussions, keep track of read/unread posts and more? Create your free account and increase the benefits of your WyoNation.com experience today!

Players focus

BeachPoke

BeachPoke

Well-known member
I’ve played in my far share of sports, now that I’m over 60 I was think Saturday why is it so hard for the players to get jacked up in a game like Utah. My coaches use to prep us by saying if you can get emotional about playing a high caliber team you don’t belong on the field. These guys should have their hair on fire and defend the WAR, it is your home turf. I guess I’m just old school. Come with some energy and make a statement. If Kaden does not have the focus to prove he is better than every QB on the field each game he needs to get his head right. Maybe im looking at it from the wrong perspective.
 
BeachPoke said:
I’ve played in my far share of sports, now that I’m over 60 I was think Saturday why is it so hard for the players to get jacked up in a game like Utah. My coaches use to prep us by saying if you can get emotional about playing a high caliber team you don’t belong on the field. These guys should have their hair on fire and defend the WAR, it is your home turf. I guess I’m just old school. Come with some energy and make a statement. If Kaden does not have the focus to prove he is better than every QB on the field each game he needs to get his head right. Maybe im looking at it from the wrong perspective.
Click to expand...
You are not wrong but something that has plagued Wyoming Football over the years is only one side of the ball will come out and play well while the other seems flat or out of sync.

If the OL cannot figure it out then it will be a long season. People are calling on Johnson but I am calling out Tripodi for his OL play that has not been very good outside of Barnett.

Be sure to join us on the WyoNation YouTube at 7pm MT for our podcast
 
BeachPoke said:
I’ve played in my far share of sports, now that I’m over 60 I was think Saturday why is it so hard for the players to get jacked up in a game like Utah. My coaches use to prep us by saying if you can get emotional about playing a high caliber team you don’t belong on the field. These guys should have their hair on fire and defend the WAR, it is your home turf. I guess I’m just old school. Come with some energy and make a statement. If Kaden does not have the focus to prove he is better than every QB on the field each game he needs to get his head right. Maybe im looking at it from the wrong perspective.
Click to expand...
Kids today are nothing like us old timers.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
Said every generation ever
Click to expand...
It is different now. How many players do we have who played somewhere else first? How many are getting NIL? We are a long way past when a player came here as a freshman and knew he would be here for 4 years. Defending the War means absolutely nothing to a lot of these guys.
There is a reason why NIck Saban quit coaching. He has stated that he can't coach players in the era of the portal and NIL. UW and every other school is having to deal with these issues. Players are now for sale to the highest bidder. How many are playing hard to get a bigger check somewhere else is anyone's guess.
 
The simple truth is with NIL major college sports are now just the professional minor leagues. It would not be a shock to see even baseball do away with their minor leagues over time.
 
The simple truth is with NIL major college sports are now just the professional minor leagues.
Click to expand...

It's been that for many decades in football and basketball. When it was just adults keeping all the money, folks didn't have a problem with it. But when the kids started to get the money too, somehow that's upsetting to a lot of people.
 
Bosler said:
It's been that for many decades in football and basketball. When it was just adults keeping all the money, folks didn't have a problem with it. But when the kids started to get the money too, somehow that's upsetting to a lot of people.
Click to expand...
I don't think most people are upset that college athletes are being paid.

It's all the other stuff that came along with it - the poaching of players from small programs to big programs, the unlimited transfers, players sitting out to keep eligibility just to transfer out to other teams, etc. Those things make it a lot harder to be a fan and really get behind the team. It is glaringly evident in men's basketball at UW - we essentially have a new team every single year and the casual fan, which is the majority of fans, just doesn't care about the program anymore.

Could you imagine if the NFL or NBA was a free for all where the teams with the richest owners could just stockpile all the good players and poach away any player that shows any promise for one of the small market/less financially well off teams? There is a reason there are salary caps, player contracts, collective bargaining, etc in professional sports.
 
TheRealUW said:
I don't think most people are upset that college athletes are being paid.
Click to expand...
This is right. Unfortunately most is not all. Those that are upset, are not upset that as a direct result of college athletes being enriched....they are the old school power brokers in college athletics that see their sway being reduced. They have mismanaged something that a lot of people enjoyed and because of that mismanagement, it's being hollowed out for so many.
 
TheRealUW said:
Could you imagine if the NFL or NBA was a free for all where the teams with the richest owners could just stockpile all the good players and poach away any player that shows any promise for one of the small market/less financially well off teams? There is a reason there are salary caps, player contracts, collective bargaining, etc in professional sports.
Click to expand...

And the reason pro sports have the draft to keep things relatively more even and competitive. College sports is still pretending they are "student" athletes and not just paid minor league athletes
 
WyomingAgJ said:
And the reason pro sports have the draft to keep things relatively more even and competitive. College sports is still pretending they are "student" athletes and not just paid minor league athletes
Click to expand...
Yeah, college sports is in a weird place right now. The athletes are being paid as if they are professional employees, but everyone has collectively decided to pretend they fit the mold of amateur independent contractors when they clearly do not. It's basically professional sports without any of the guardrails.

Slowly, but surely, you'll see the guardrails start to show up. I know there are some that don't like to hear it, but we are definitely headed towards a future where college athletes are treated like employees just like they are in all other professional sports. That may spell financial ruin for smaller schools like UW, but it's coming regardless.
 
Bosler said:
It's been that for many decades in football and basketball. When it was just adults keeping all the money, folks didn't have a problem with it. But when the kids started to get the money too, somehow that's upsetting to a lot of people.
Click to expand...
All that football and basketball money funded all the other non revenue sports. Now, schools are cutting olympic sports and keeping just women's teams to comply with Title 9. And all that tv money that used to be spread around is just going to the top 20 or 30 programs. But yeah, I'm glad you're happy with it.
 
ragtimejoe1 said:
Because now everyone else could pay players too?
Click to expand...
That might be part of it. How do you discipline a player who's making 2 million a year? How do you bench a player knowing that he will just hit the portal? And considering Saban won big at a lot of lesser programs before Alabama, I'm going to assume he couldn't just buy all his teams.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Back
Top