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Columbus Blue Jackets (Official Thread)

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That’s hockey gents. I suspect the capitals close it out on Monday. Bob has given up at least 3 goals every game this series. Game three to me was very important for the jackets to win obviously. But I think after that game Washington had all the confidence and we seen what happened in game 4. Lets go Jackets fuck man.
 
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Mike80 said:
Without Bob this would have been over in 4.

The Jackets have completely lost their senses on defense. They keep breaking down.
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O yea I definitely agree with you on bob not trying to single him out at all. Me saying bob has given up 3 goals every game is because of the damn defense putting him in terrible positions. Also our power play is shitting the bed big time again while the caps have scored a PP goal every game this series.
 
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Mike80 said:
Its a nut punch you can see coming but can't do anything about...
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I truly don’t know why I bother with these teams. Yeah, the Cavs won one a couple of years ago, but I don’t give a rat’s ass about the nba anymore, it’s unwatchable dreck. You can always count on the disappointment. I guess, in some way, that’s comforting.
 
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NFBuck said:
I truly don’t know why I bother with these teams. Yeah, the Cavs won one a couple of years ago, but I don’t give a rat’s ass about the nba anymore, it’s unwatchable dreck. You can always count on the disappointment. I guess, in some way, that’s comforting.
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Anyone posting here knows that I am a dedicated sports fan (and an academician), but pro sports really is becoming an industry that will require a real rethink. Around the world, in various sports, stadiums are sitting less than a third full. Coach and player salaries are entirely out of proportion to their true contributions to society. It's not just the Jackets, the NHL, or even the US. @RugbyBuck and I attended an international Super Rugby game in South Africa featuring the leading team. Although 40,000 seats had been given away free in a competition, less than 30,000 people were in attendance. Twenty years ago, stadiums were full.

I couldn't care less about pro sports for the same reasons that you express. I do care that this is a growing concern at the college level.

I don't want to hijack the thread and the mods can take this elsewhere, but I think you are highlighting a growing cancer that affects college sports in an age when most sports administration departments run at a loss. We can be happy that Ohio State sports contribute to the University, but usually universities subsidize sports and that includes most of the teams Ohio State schedules every year.

In an age of international parity in education, this represents a real threat to college sports. We see that parity reflected in declines in international student applications to US universities (it's not all Trump!) and the quality of students (when chosen through competitive processes, most PhD students at top US universities have been from overseas for more than two decades).

As an example, consider the University of Alabama (https://www.insidehighered.com/aaup-compensation-survey/school-detail/university-alabama; https://projects.newsday.com/college-football-coaches-salaries-contracts/nick-saban/). How will Alabama respond when the time comes to justify the comparative contributions of Nick Saban to the upliftment of society (what universities do as a central mission). Fluff pieces such as this (link) don't really get to the comparative costs of the academic project and sports project. Given growing student activism, that day is not far away.

Again, I am a sports fan, but even to me things seem highly out of kilter. For those who don't want to click the links, Saban's package alone, not mentioning his assistants, is equivalent to those of 75 full professors. Is his contribution really equivalent to the contributions even 10 professors make to society when measured in the lifetime contributions of graduates versus what they might have contributed without a university education? I am not saying, by the way, that technical education is not valuable or making any similar comparison.

Add in his assistants and Alabama needs to explain how coaching packages are worth 119 professors, not assistant professors or associate professors, full professors. We can see problems across the entire ecosystem, from ESPiN to universities beginning to have conversations internally about exiting sports. I am not saying the day is on us now, but rather that we will soon see questions about the true value of "hey, we're national champions" and the underlying data look pretty much against college or professional sports right now.
 
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