Blood doping, the NCAA and the Tour de France...

[MaxBuck]

I really like Le Tour, by the way. Started watching it when Greg LeMond was winning back in the day, and didn't miss a Tour once Armstrong started getting good. Someday I gotta get over there in July.

Was in France in July when the Tour was underway. Imagine my surprise when I discovered no one in Paris seemed to give a [Mark May] about the whole thing. They were more stoked about a two-day triathlon that was going on, and way more excited about Bastille Day.

I was somewhat shocked, actually. Left town a week before the Tour ended, and I'm sure people got more excited about it after we left.

 

[muffler dragon]

Was in France in July when the Tour was underway. Imagine my surprise when I discovered no one in Paris seemed to give a [Mark May] about the whole thing. They were more stoked about a two-day triathlon that was going on, and way more excited about Bastille Day.

I was somewhat shocked, actually. Left town a week before the Tour ended, and I'm sure people got more excited about it after we left.

Since when do the French care about anything that can't/didn't win?

 

[greyscarlet]

Jeebers. I DID NOT suggest turning collegiate athletics into a market wherein survival of a sport would depend upon ticket revenue or whatever. I suggested ONE VERY LIMITED THING: allowing star players to profit from their celebrity. I did not suggest they be paid directly by the universities, either.

It's interesting what kind of extrapolations people do with opinions sometimes - especially opinions they disagree with. They also apparently ignore parts of the writeup, since people are suggesting that I've supported all kinds of stuff that I don't support at all.

When asked:

Are you advocating free market economics for student athletes?

You said:
Quote:
Yes.

I'm not sure how that is extrapolating to paying players since a truly free market would allow just that.

Regardless if you can't see that then I'll just stop this pointless discussion.

 

[MaxBuck]

When asked:

You said:
Quote:
Yes.

I'm not sure how that is extrapolating to paying players since a truly free market would allow just that.

Regardless if you can't see that then I'll just stop this pointless discussion.

Amazing what kind of silly shit you can start pretending when you take stuff out of context.

 

[BB73]

Jeebers. I DID NOT suggest turning collegiate athletics into a market wherein survival of a sport would depend upon ticket revenue or whatever. I suggested ONE VERY LIMITED THING: allowing star players to profit from their celebrity. I did not suggest they be paid directly by the universities, either.

It's interesting what kind of extrapolations people do with opinions sometimes - especially opinions they disagree with. They also apparently ignore parts of the writeup, since people are suggesting that I've supported all kinds of stuff that I don't support at all.

Max, why do you hate America, the Olympics, and all college sports besides football?

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

So to save time can we just move the last 3 (or is it 4) pages of this discussion to the "Paying Players" thread?

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

So to save time can we just move the last 3 (or is it 4) pages of this discussion to the "Paying Players" thread?

What are you asking us for, Mr. Moderator? :p

 

[MaxBuck]

So to save time can we just move the last 3 (or is it 4) pages of this discussion to the "Paying Players" thread?

What are you asking us for, Mr. Moderator? :p

Doesn't all this moderator-talk belong in some Admin thread somewhere?

Yeesh, people just can't stay on topic here.

 

[knapplc]

Was in France in July when the Tour was underway. Imagine my surprise when I discovered no one in Paris seemed to give a [Mark May] about the whole thing. They were more stoked about a two-day triathlon that was going on, and way more excited about Bastille Day.

I was somewhat shocked, actually. Left town a week before the Tour ended, and I'm sure people got more excited about it after we left.

I need to get back over there. The in-laws have a house just south of Paris and it sounds peachy.

I wonder if watching Le Tour itself would be pretty underwhelming, though - you stand in one spot for hours to watch a couple of breakaways go by, then five minutes later the peloton, then a couple of stragglers, and that's it.

There'd be less actual action than my honeymoon.

 

[Folanator]

Elitist pricks...