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it has the word Politics in it but it has come to stand for a wide variety of things and it could be said that it has seeped over into sports.
I think when people bring up the situation where 'all kids will get a trophy' you can see some folks say it is hurtful if you don't get an award for coming in 8th place in a 8 person race while others say "That is life kid, get use to it"
Where I am going with this is.......I remember when big schools would give out 70-80-90 football scholarships a year and basketball could have at least 15 on scholarship.
The NCAA decided that was not fair so they punished the big schools to help the smaller schools. Many kids that would have signed with a Texas will now go to a SMU or Houston because they could not get one of the 25 Texas offered. This helped the smaller schools and helped a lot of kids get to start instead of sitting on the bench of a big school.
Now the Big schools still win most of the games so it did not stop that and it gave the smaller schools much better teams (and the Big teams like to have smaller teams to beat up on) but was it sort of a PC thing to punish the bigger schools for their success? Did it take away a kids choice if he wanted to take the big school offer even knowing he might have an extra hard time getting much playing time?
Just a strange thought but I would like to hear some of your thoughts on that big change. It has both hurt and helped the Razorbacks
I think when people bring up the situation where 'all kids will get a trophy' you can see some folks say it is hurtful if you don't get an award for coming in 8th place in a 8 person race while others say "That is life kid, get use to it"
Where I am going with this is.......I remember when big schools would give out 70-80-90 football scholarships a year and basketball could have at least 15 on scholarship.
The NCAA decided that was not fair so they punished the big schools to help the smaller schools. Many kids that would have signed with a Texas will now go to a SMU or Houston because they could not get one of the 25 Texas offered. This helped the smaller schools and helped a lot of kids get to start instead of sitting on the bench of a big school.
Now the Big schools still win most of the games so it did not stop that and it gave the smaller schools much better teams (and the Big teams like to have smaller teams to beat up on) but was it sort of a PC thing to punish the bigger schools for their success? Did it take away a kids choice if he wanted to take the big school offer even knowing he might have an extra hard time getting much playing time?
Just a strange thought but I would like to hear some of your thoughts on that big change. It has both hurt and helped the Razorbacks