More bull**** spewing from you.
Again, you try to obscure by summarizing things in a way that was not expressed. I could simply point out that Miami has had GREAT football recruiting classes for two decades, classes that are not evidenced by actual outcomes.
For the past TWENTY seasons, Miami has AVERAGED a Football class ranking of 13. And for those same 20 seasons, we have finished UNRANKED 13 times and ranked 7 times. And it's even worse if you remove the first 2 or 3 seasons, since the players were guys recruited during national championship game seasons.
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The point is, your "class ranking" is not going to guarantee a particular outcome. We know that UM football has suffered from poor player evaluations and development. Thus, what SEEMS like talent, on paper, is not equating to results. Across MULTIPLE coaching staffs.
Thus making the point that baseball class rankings NOT being the equivelent of a well-constructed and well-developed baseball team that is capable of winning championships. And the reasons may be different. Baseball teams are smaller, and by definition, the impact of any one or two baseball players (scouting miss, bad character, me-first, doesn't develop, etc.) is more profound on team outcome than the impact of one of two football players.
Finally, I'm just going to combine your bullcrap about "private schools that figured it out" and "Miami charging tuition that outpaces inflation" together, because they are perfect illustrations of how dishonest you get in making arguments.
EVERY university charges tuition that outpaces inflation. EVERY **** ONE. There's articles. Just Google. Again, NOT MY POINT. I'm pointing out that the EXPENSES of running a university, and how that gets passed along to the student, are very different between institutions that can push some of the costs to TAXPAYERS, when compared to institutions that cannot. So there is a widening gap, which you are trying to act like is just a "choice" that UM makes on its own, different from every other university.
More importantly, it's utter insanity to act like older private schools with larger endowment funds "figured it out" for baseball. Are you ******* kidding me? Stanford has been raising money for its Endowment Fund for centuries, but it was all just a ploy to benefit a couple of dozen baseball players? The fact that I pointed out the advantages that some of the "figured it out" schools have does not mean what you think it means. And it shouldn't be that way anyhow. The NCAA is the body that should be doing things to benefit STUDENT-ATHLETES. It shouldn't be incumbent upon dozens of private institutions to repurpose a few dozen scholarships out of the Endowment Fund to make up for what the NCAA is unwilling to do.
Again...THE NCAA HAS MADE MILLIONS FOR DECADES. The NCAA is the "organizational" version of multi-millionaire coaches. They are HAPPY to rake in the millions that arise from TV deals and ticket sales and merchandising, while standing around acting like they "can't do nothin'" to help the student-athletes. Oh, but you're going to try to minimize and mock my position by acting like I'm some kind of crazy radical organizing "sit-ins".
Look, while you are being lazy and sitting around spouting empty platitudes about how we should all "overcome" the 11.7 scholarship limitation and "adapt or die", there are actual student-athletes who are filing and winning lawsuits. So, yeah, maybe that's not a "sit-in". Maybe I'm asking for the NCAA to finally get off its comparably lazy *** and GIVE BACK some of the money before they lose it all in a lawsuit.
But keep telling me how it's not "practical". You are the same ridiculous person who likes to tell everyone else how great the status quo is, and then you freak the **** out when you hear about kids getting million-dollar NIL deals.
None of this crap would be happening if the NCAA had just started DOING SOMETHING a couple of decades ago, instead of fighting Ed O'Bannon and every other person who just wanted a bit of pay equity.
