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HtownHokie HtownHokie OP
Nov 11, 2025 at 01:11 PM ET
NIL has helped poor amateur athletes like JuJu eak out the meagerest living
i feel so sorry for them. such bad juju for college sports and its athletes. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2025/11/09/... as their outrageous compen$ation$ grow, my enjoyment of “amateur” sports inversely wanes. i love our Lady Hokies and all VT athletes, but the integrity of “college amateur” sports has been violated by the “love of money” (yes, I Tim 6:10).

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Hokie98
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** Edited by Hokie98 at 11/11/2025, 3:21:08 PM
HtownHokie HtownHokie OP
8mo
No! (emphasis intended) a rose is a rose, no matter what you call it or
to what degree or % you want to limit it. you don't want to go down this road with me; trust me. it won't be pretty. consider yourself warned. "all kinds of evil" - per Chrome and Siri look up "all evil" - per Chrome and Siri look up: "A series about the battle between science and religion, Evil focuses on a skeptical female forensic psychologist who joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work." "degrees of evil" - "So it has happened. Google has caved in. It has agreed to actively censor a new Chinese-language search service that will be housed on computer servers inside the PRC. Obviously this contradicts its stated desire to make information freely available..." no 💕, and "thank you" ** Edited by HtownHokie at 11/11/2025, 2:28:00 PM
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Hokie98
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** Edited by Hokie98 at 11/11/2025, 3:21:37 PM
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HokieBrazil
8mo
College sports is worse than the pros now,at least the pros have cap rules
and are really pros and there are contracts. Let's stop pretending these are student athletes (especially Men's BB, Football and the higher paid Women's BB), they are mercenaries who will jump to the next school (and heck, I don't blame them, I would do too in my employment, although I do have non-compete clauses). Someone explain to me how someone like Joe Bamisile got a degree by jumping schools every year? Can a regular student transfer credits at will by doing that? I thought there was a limit of transfer credits, no?
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UpperQuad
8mo
The sad thing is that earnings for many will peak by age 22
Their lack of a good degree will eventually come back to haunt many of them when they get cut from the pros.
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N2VT2
8mo
Maybe they become pipe fitters or electricians
And make more than a college graduate
HtownHokie HtownHokie OP
8mo
^^^ ^^ ^ this ^ ^^ ^^^