I would not want that job, but at the same time, as a life-long Oregon State fan AND graduate, I am SO PROUD of how our leadership at Oregon State has handled all the challenges that keep coming their way over the past two years and that continue to come up. Keep up the fantastic work! Go Beavs!
J and J, Thanks for an informative and insightful interview with Scott Barnes. So thankful that Mr. Barnes is in a leadership position at OSU. Everyday, I'm being educated on what the future of college sports my look like...good and bad. Go Beavs!
I really enjoyed this interview. First, here in Louisville, KY, I was pleasantly surprised to watch Oregon State on TV on Saturday. Second, You guys asked Barnes some great questions, and I thought that he gave thoughtful and informative answers. I especially liked Barnes thoughtful answer with regard to the future of college athletics. I agree with Barnes that we are moving to decouple football from the rest of college sports. In addition, we are moving to decouple football from the college and university system. If your players become your employees, then can you really force them to attend school? Colleges typically do NOT require the vast majority of their employees to attend school, so why require this of football players? For a number of years people have alleged that college athletic departments were "business" entities. For many years there has been a kernel of truth to this allegation, but only a "kernel" of truth. As Barnes suggests, a business run like college athletics departments is a business on the road to bankruptcy. Can you run a football team like a business? The professional leagues prove that you can, especially if you form a cartel that has monopoly power. So the NFL can be a monopoly, but no one else can? So, what might the future look like? Well, we could see a college football league where owners could sign players to multi-year contracts, and if another league wanted to purchase a player's contract, the league would have to pay the owner a transfer fee, as is currently done in professional soccer. The reason is simple. The owner is developing this young player, and should be compensated for coaching and developing the player. College football needs to stop being an unpaid minor league for billionaire owners of NFL teams. Hopefully that would end the NFL's silly draft system, giving players freedom to work where and for whom they wish to work. By the way, the new college football league would have no "transfer portal". Instead, colleges would be free to trade players under contract. If we're going to cut the tie between players as students and amateurs, let's cut it completely and thoughtfully.
I would not want that job, but at the same time, as a life-long Oregon State fan AND graduate, I am SO PROUD of how our leadership at Oregon State has handled all the challenges that keep coming their way over the past two years and that continue to come up. Keep up the fantastic work! Go Beavs!
Leadership at Oregon State is fantastic!
J and J,
Thanks for an informative and insightful interview with Scott Barnes. So thankful that Mr. Barnes is in a leadership position at OSU. Everyday, I'm being educated on what the future of college sports my look like...good and bad. Go Beavs!
I really enjoyed this interview. First, here in Louisville, KY, I was pleasantly surprised to watch Oregon State on TV on Saturday.
Second, You guys asked Barnes some great questions, and I thought that he gave thoughtful and informative answers. I especially liked Barnes thoughtful answer with regard to the future of college athletics. I agree with Barnes that we are moving to decouple football from the rest of college sports. In addition, we are moving to decouple football from the college and university system. If your players become your employees, then can you really force them to attend school? Colleges typically do NOT require the vast majority of their employees to attend school, so why require this of football players?
For a number of years people have alleged that college athletic departments were "business" entities. For many years there has been a kernel of truth to this allegation, but only a "kernel" of truth. As Barnes suggests, a business run like college athletics departments is a business on the road to bankruptcy. Can you run a football team like a business? The professional leagues prove that you can, especially if you form a cartel that has monopoly power. So the NFL can be a monopoly, but no one else can?
So, what might the future look like? Well, we could see a college football league where owners could sign players to multi-year contracts, and if another league wanted to purchase a player's contract, the league would have to pay the owner a transfer fee, as is currently done in professional soccer. The reason is simple. The owner is developing this young player, and should be compensated for coaching and developing the player.
College football needs to stop being an unpaid minor league for billionaire owners of NFL teams. Hopefully that would end the NFL's silly draft system, giving players freedom to work where and for whom they wish to work.
By the way, the new college football league would have no "transfer portal". Instead, colleges would be free to trade players under contract.
If we're going to cut the tie between players as students and amateurs, let's cut it completely and thoughtfully.
Go Beavs!
Go Beavs!!
nobody wants the shitty beavers, they can remain in the PAC 2
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they are a small time player in college sports.
The WCC took them in
Hey, don't take that bad start by the Ducks so hard. Be nice to yourself.