Anybody wanna buy a 2002 SEC championship ring? (long)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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9 University of Georgia football players (five of them startes) have been declared ineligible by the team for seeling their SouthEastern Conference championship rings.

This makes me physically ill. Not that I am UGa. fan or anything… but it took Georgia 20 years to win another SEC title and their players sold their trophys in just a few months… it’s not like this was a championship they won 40 years ago and these are old men selling a momento to stay outta the poorhouse… they apparantly sold 'em on Ebay for ganja money.

Please help me understand how how these players can have this little respect for their school, their conference, and themselves that they would do this. To me it seems that this is a symptom of a greater problem. The young men that play college football no longer choose the school that they play for based upon which school they are a fan of… what school they LOVE. College football is becoming more like pro football. There is no loyalty. The players no longer feel that team spirit. They go to a school based on whether that school will get them on TV on saturdays so that they can play on sundays after college… Not realizing that the lion’s share of them will NEVER play pro ball.

I wanted to believe that there was still a tiny little bit of sportsmanship left in this world… a last bastion of hope for fair play… loyalty… All the good things that a saturday afternoon of college football used to mean to me.

Please restore my faith in mankind… or salve my aching broken heart.

Thank you for your support.

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It all comes down to money.

ALWAYS.

Even when it doesn’t, it does.

Big money has destroyed nearly all major sports right down to the high school level.

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well it’s good to have a goal… :smiley:

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Well, Verb, what can I tell ya except, “What else do you expect out of a no-good Georgia Bulldog?” Just like Clemson, they win a national championship, oh, some 20 years ago, and ever since then anything else is just not good enough to please those boneheaded fans-- most of whom have never even set foot in a college classroom. They are the ones who destroyed big-time college football for me. Why should the players care when all they hear from the “fans” is how they suck because they couldn’t beat Florida?

My advice: find a Division 1-A, or even Division II or III program near you to follow. Game day at these schools is usually a much more pleasant and, dare I say, spiritually satisfying experience.

With few exceptions, Big Time College Football represents way too many things that are wrong with our society. Just my 2 cents.