AllDawgs5, we are basically on the same page. With you, don't want the players hurt, having played and coached, understand that there has to be some give and take. Guess my main reason for saying so much is because those that are taking the "lion's share" continue to do so. Like others on this board, and other internet blogs, not happy with the money distribution.
Reminds me a bit of what is going on in Washington at the present. It is the folks outside of the beltway that are getting, to use a word commonly used elsewhere, "screwed".
Both of us, you and I went along with maybe things would get better. At this point can only speak for myself, but especially after Vanderbilt, knew that I was finished eating the pies that are often left in the pasture.
Some say they are tired about discussing the subject. That is exactly what these boards are for, back and forth, and when we have nothing else to add, do as some are doing, stay away from the intended conversation.
One more time, been around too damn long to eat "pasture pies". That falls to the younger folks that choose that route. I did with VD, got very disappointed, I am in that same wagon as I type. In my opinion . . . . after watching UGA Football for many years, it appears to me that we are back in the last stages of the VD era. We know what happened after that, some do many don't.
It will be what it will be. From where I sit, don't really have the time left to go through that process again. Close means nothing to me anymore. Next season, there will be a final four. Do we have the talent to get there . . . . I would say this . . . . if Nick Saban and Kirby Smart were coaching this group of athletes on campus in Athens as I type, would bet a handsome amount of money on the come.
That leaves me with no choice, I can speak out or I can continue to eat "pasture pies".
There is not doubt that I will see every game that the Red and Black play as long as I can, will support the players, will scream at the coaches(?) and read over and over how we will "Get'em next year".
I have not lost my taste for college football, I have lost my taste for the "motor mouths" that are driving the "machine". Seems we have more than one "bad plug wire".