Sad. True. I guess it's my youthful nostalgia that keeps waiting for them to figure it out.

Celtics have always been a loser crew.

Who the hell is backing Simmons in this? Simmons was good 5 years ago, but has been tripe-bordering-on-Rick-Reilly status for a while now.

1. Jimmy FUCKING Carson

Fact: the only people that refer to "heritage" are Klan members

Change the name to "Tribe" or just "Washington D.C." or whatever the fuck and be done with it.

So what if people show up? If your program is irrelevant, then you're going to be left behind in the college football arms race. At that point South Carolina becomes Missouri (a leech on the system).

Oh okay, we'll see how much exposure they'll get from having 0-11 teams all the time. I'm aware they get their share of the TV deal but money only goes so far when you lack things like big time players and coaches.

So basically you're saying you can just plug in any player to their vaunted system? If the team doesn't maintain this level of play, you can guarantee their tickets and merchandise revenue will drop. So yes, Clowney is a big part of that.

If he's worried he should definitely sit out.

Doesn't only mean guys with real pro careers ahead of them. Think of a Heisman candidate who brings in all that cash, then doesn't have much of an NFL future. Or the starting five of the basketball team at a school in the top 10. Maybe only 2 go pro, but the other three also certainly deserve a much better deal than…

explain what going pro has to do with any of what I'm saying, please, because I haven't mentioned it once because it's a completely different issue

There aren't that many people good enough to play high level Division 1 football and basketball, so yes they are all rare commodities. 2nd, since tuition is most of the value of the "scholie", they aren't actually getting anywhere near 50k worth of value. Just because you're jealous they get college (mostly) paid for…

no it's not because the figure is artificially inflated, since it really doesn't cost anything for the school to let them go to classes for free, plus none of it goes to their pocket. Also, just because you think 57k is sick doesn't mean it's what they deserve for being a rare commodity in a very large market for…

No, these kids aren't slaves. And most of them will turn out fine. Some won't, and many won't get a fair return on what they put in. There's money there to pay them, and they deserve it, so why are we forcing them to beg coaches for food and take pocket handouts from boosters?

Excuse me, Coach Rhoads...your team did not get cheated.

Well 57k is sick for a kid out of HS.

Second of all, a 57k scholarship is far less than what star athletes are worth to a university.

• Alternative point: They graduate, or ... (especially black athletes) don't, completely unprepared for life after college, because they didn't actually get a quality education; they spent all of their time playing fucking sports and making other people rich.

Why the fuck should Melo's super-overrated-never-cared-about-anything-other-than-Melo all of a sudden care about his terrible GM getting fired?