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Playoff teams are playing a different game

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Let’s face facts, the teams in the playoff are playing a very different game from UM and most of college football. Frankly these 4 teams aren’t really playing college football so much as they are a minor league for the NFL.
Their players and coaches are paid the most
Their players have minimal academic responsibility. Both Burrow and Fields don’t even attend classes as they both take “online” classes. These schools are football factories. The p,Ayers are not really part of the overall university. They are at school to provide entertainment, make money for the school, and to audition for the NFL.

UM, and Michigan and Notre Dame and Penn State (I can go on and on) have to decide whether they are interested in also being football factories, or colleges with football teams. And whereas those terms may sound similar, they are very different.

This is really a value judgment. I’m not taking a position on this but I am trying to open people’s eyes that a university can’t be both regardless of how naive we want to be.
 
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My question is whether it is worth being great if it means abandoning the concept of a college football team and replacing it with a semi-pro team. I want kids to be paid for their efforts, but I don’t like double standards between competing institutions which is what we have now.
 
Ash Joshi said:
My question is whether it is worth being great if it means abandoning the concept of a college football team and replacing it with a semi-pro team. I want kids to be paid for their efforts, but I don’t like double standards between competing institutions which is what we have now.
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We were every git as good as these teams, even better(except OU is outclassed - they were better under Barry). When Miami and FSU played in 80s and 90s the field and benches were full of nfl players.
 
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Ash Joshi said:
My question is whether it is worth being great if it means abandoning the concept of a college football team and replacing it with a semi-pro team. I want kids to be paid for their efforts, but I don’t like double standards between competing institutions which is what we have now.
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Ummm how do you think Miami was so good back in the day??
 
One word: Coaching. Each of these teams is led by a HC with an excellent staff. And it’s obvious because the players are playing hard, sound football. Not our sloppy, passionless ****.

it begins and ends with coaching. Something we’ve been completely dog**** at for about 20 years.

Our roster as-is led by Dabo is a Top 20 team.

We’ve GOT to get the coaching right.
 
Miami is so far behind.

It's not just the HC and the staff. It's the whole athletic department and football operation. As someone so aptly pointed out in another thread, it's the infrastructure. The college game has evolved and Miami has not.
 
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