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I do believe we will have changes before we drop to D2. But if we do drop to D2 I will look for you at the games. Best chance we have of winning a basketball championship. 
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Actually, DII might be the best option for us and lots of other schools who are in the same boat as we are in!!! Previous Message
Sorry to disappoint you Spark but actually I am done with all College sports. NIL and the Portal has ruined it all for me and I have too much going on in my personal life to waste my time on a sinking ship. Long Beach has ZERO chance to survive in the current climate. Very little NIL money to give out and an administration that just doesn't give a damn anymore. Sorry my friend but life is too short to care about things that aren't going to change in the future. Look me up when you go D2. Previous Message
So true about being hooked! I know that I am, even though I get frustrated from time to time!!! But for right now I will continue to support and continue to hope that things will get better!!!! Previous Message
Dennis,
Jr isn't going anywhere, he has been threatening to be done with LBSU for years, but every month he is back and commenting and part of the community. So have no fear, Jr will continue to follow enough that he will be able to weigh in on all of the problems we have. He is more hooked than he is willing to admit (aren't all of us?) Previous Message
Hello Jr,
I certainly feel your pain!!! I have been a fan for over 60 years now, and I am going to hang in there a little longer. I still enjoy going to the games and matches, BUT hate the losing! I do enjoy seeing and talking to so many of my fellow fans, that I have shared the LONG BEACN STATE experience with for these many years. I hope that you will stop by and catch a game from time to time and to check in on this board to share your thought snd insights! You are a great fan and I hate to see you go!!! Best wishes in everything that you do in the future!!! Previous Message
Long Beach State is all done. Most of our teams already stink and it will not get any better. Like I posted previously I am done with Long Beach State as it is a waste of my time to continue to be a fan. Previous Message
College sports as we knew them will disappear at the majority of schools. It speaks to the value of a degree that basically any athlete today doesn't care about transferring 3/4 times.
The NCAA was gutless in it's handling of the actual scandals of UNC/Arizona,etc , it caved to the FBS schools and already had granted them their own regulatory structure, and now almost every FBS school is going to hemorrhage money.
The $10mil a year football coaches, the destruction of regional rivalries and affiliations, the absentee degrees, and now NIL which became pay to play. It's not college sports, and it's not for profit either.
Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of fringe sports across the country. You're going to have schools basically gut their whole program and be something resembling non-scholarship in all things but football/basketball and a few women's sports to balance it out.
Before, you could recruit and develop a program. That's gone. If I ran our athletic department, I'd recruit only high school players, and after that I would only sign transfers to 2 year deals.
The NCAA needed an administration to set separate rules for university sports to reflect it's uniqueness. The NCAA recently was quoted along the lines as saying something along the lines of "we denied 400 medical hardships for 6th years, and half sued for damages." That's untenable.
This idea that athletes are employees only holds weight if they are profitable or at least cost neutral.
Athletics was viewed as a universities front door, but not by all. If we had a campus that pushed achievement above all else, I would be less sad to see athletics fade. But we had a decade of destroying our history, systematically by leftist groups, all along some socialist ideal. The reality is we provided one of the greatest lower socio economic education opportunities in the country, for decades. Athletics mimics the spirit of accomplishment, but in a much more visible way. The pride in a jersey was exemplified by athletes who became Rhodes scholars. The commitment to the self in academics, athletics, and societal cause is the perfect embodiment of human achievement.
Is that a little rose colored glasses, sure. But I'd rather strive for that than what it has become. Previous Message
Salary cap? Wild to think that we need something like that in college sports. Schools getting state and federal money should have to give back money if it’s going to pay for players. I don’t know how NIL is funded tho. Previous Message
The state of Division 1 basketball is now totally controlled by money. The rich will continue to get richer with the transfer portal and NIL totally favoring the power 4 conferences. This year again we have lost most of our quality players. Long Beach will never be able to hold on to a player like Gavin Sykes for more than a year. I'm not sure how much money we have to give NIL with but I'm sure it's no more than $500,000 and that's probably high. Every major conference program gets 20 million annually to spend on NIL plus whatever contributions come from rich alumni, businesses, etc. For example Indiana football this year had 20 million to spend plus a major contribution from alum Mark Cuban of about 20-30 million more. In my opinion there will probably be a new division established fairly soon for the Long Beach's, UCI's, Wichita State's, etc. It will be like a Division 1-A in football. At present I would assume a player like Sykes will probably go to a major school, get paid about 1 million and be a rotation player in the top 8. It's so sad to see players changing schools only for a big pay day. I would hope rather than get a whole new team every year, win 10-15 games and have no chance to ever compete for ANY kind of championship that we go Division 2 fairly soon. At least we have the facilities and location to be a viable player in that division. Of course we would have the option of remaining Division 1 in men's volleyball where there is little NIL money and only about 50 teams competing. It would save a lot of money and angst on the part of the fans and alumni!
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