K-State's Bill Snyder: College athletics 'in a bad place right now'

[BleedGopher]

Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said college athletics is “in a bad place right now” to the point that his departure from the game might “not [be] too far away.” The remarks were made on a Kansas City-based sports radio station on Wednesday morning.

“College athletics, particularly football, has changed dramatically throughout my career,” Snyder said on 610 Sports Radio KCSP. “I think it's in a bad place right now. It's in a bad place for a variety of reasons. We've allowed it to become money driven. We've allowed it to become TV driven. We've allowed athletic programs or football programs to mean more to a university than what the university is really supposed to be all about.”

“The last I heard, we were educational institutions,” Snyder said. “Certainly there is an education that takes place in football, and I understand all the parameters. But it's not driven by values; it's driven by dollars and cents.”

Asked by a host if the current state of college athletics makes Snyder consider if he wants “to be in it much longer,” the coach replied: “You're not too far away. You're absolutely right.”

“I can only speak personally,” Snyder said. “I'm grossly overpaid for what I do. That's part of what creates the issue.”

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...r-college-athletics-in-a-bad-place-right-now-

Go Gophers!!

 

[NateDawgUM]

Lol, says Bill Snyder who built his entire program on academic risk JUCO transfers.

 

[TrapperDoo]

Don't laugh, I believe more and more people are beginning to see how sports at this level have nothing really to do with the mission of an academic institution. I saw Bobby Knight basically saying the same thing the other day during a Feherty interview on the Golf channel. This level of sports competition is not going away, but it will shift to a professional minor league, where players get paid and the teams have associations with NFL/NBA. It's coming, and surely there are people out there with the resources and vision to make it happen. I heard that the St. Paul Pioneers were sold to a new owner last year for about $30k. Maybe I should buy a football team?

 

[Killjoy]

It will interesting to see how the NCAA and its stakeholders respond to this. If they don't take this serious (and what I am talking about are ALL the issues) and begin to make some real meaningful changes I believe others will.

 

[MRJ]

Can certainly see his point. While we all enjoy having big-time collegiate athletics programs to support, it could reasonably be argued that college basketball and football (and I'm sure other sports) are cesspools of corruption. A lot of that falls on an NCAA that for years stuck its head in the sand. They talk a tough game and preach about reform, then almost never put such words into practice.

As a fan, I still gain some enjoyment from watching collegiate athletics. But I always try to keep in mind that you can never know what kind of shenanigans are going on with players, coaches or administrators behind the scenes, no matter how successful or unsuccessful an individual program is. When considering all of that, it certainly helps me keep things in perspective over the long haul.

 

[wait!what?]

this statement could have been made in 1904. same old same old.

 

[Dr.Don]

this statement could have been made in 1904. same old same old.

Could it really have? I do not have that good of a memory.

 

[wait!what?]

hehehe.

 

[50PoundHead]

I think he NCAA will be dead within a decade. I think TrapperDoo sums up the current situation quite well. I don't know if I agree with his vision of where the future might head, but the challenges facing college sports are myriad.