Alabama State Shifts to Division 3 Athletics Focus

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00:00Well, the news comes down today that they are dropping from Division One down to Division

00:07Three athletics after making this tournament.

00:11Now, let's remember one thing.

00:13This was not something that they woke up this morning or woke up after making the NCAA Tournament

00:17and decided, we're not going to play a higher level of athletics anymore.

00:21This is something that has been in the works for months, if not longer.

00:26And it just so happened they made that great run in the NEC and won the tournament and

00:29got in the dance.

00:30So, it's just the way that it goes.

00:32But basically, Scotty, the bottom line is, listening to the president, one of the fathers

00:37there who runs that institution, is that they are not getting into the business of college

00:44athletics becoming professional sports.

00:47They can't play players.

00:48They can't travel.

00:50These conferences are now becoming, even the small ones, like the NEC and MAC, now he says,

00:55I've got to travel my team from Chicago to Boston.

00:59We can't do it.

01:00These kids come here to go to school.

01:02We are not.

01:03We don't have guys going to the NBA.

01:05We need to become an institution of learning again.

01:07It's better for the kids.

01:08They need to be around their friends, their teammates, everything else.

01:11So, he put out this long explanation for it.

01:14Well, obviously, it's a Catholic school and that's neither here nor there for me with

01:22that.

01:23I think it's a powerful statement to what we've been talking about on this show for

01:27months.

01:29Listen, this is ruining college sports.

01:34This is, it's no longer student athletes.

01:38There's no such word.

01:40It's just not feasible to be that small and to matter and to have the ability to recruit,

01:49to pay players, to play at a dinky-ass school.

01:53And so what if they win their conference and go to the NCAA tournament and lose by a Hail

01:57Mary bucket?

01:58The reality is, none of them would go pro.

02:01The reality is, this is a smart move to put athletics on the burner and go get your education.

02:12I said this yesterday at great length, none of these big schools, none of these big players

02:17that think they're hot tamales going pro, they're not going to make it.

02:21They're not going to make it.

02:22I mean, you know, like one guy maybe on these teams makes it and they go to the NBA and

02:28then do they matter in the NBA or are they sitting at the 12th seat and then they still

02:35make money.

02:36There's no denying it, but they don't last.

02:38Then they end up overseas and then they end up in the Far East and then they don't even

02:44know who they are.

02:46They don't even know their families.

02:48And remember, they never got an education at all.

02:51They never went to class ever.

02:54I'm telling you, the best thing I ever saw was this move because these kids will actually

02:59go get their education and amount to something in life.

03:05All of these guys are smoking pipes thinking that they're going pro and going to make $400

03:11million because they think they're so special.

03:14They are tripping.

03:15I mean, they are absolutely losing their minds.

03:20And I hope there are coaches that have the stones to tell them that because they're using

03:25these kids like toilet paper at these big basketball school factories and these little

03:32schools.

03:33The best thing they could have ever done is this move so that these kids do what they're

03:37there and they're intended for to get an education and to matter in life and to do something

03:42in life and to amount to something instead of this pipe dream of being a pro basketball

03:48player.

03:49Good luck.

03:50And look, there's what, 350-ish, 360-ish teams in Division One college basketball.

03:56Let's just talk basketball there for that moment.

03:59I wouldn't be surprised if that, you know, that bottom layer, 50-60 in terms of school

04:04size and what conference they're in and, you know, this continues on.

04:07I wouldn't be surprised if a few more of them find their way to same road that St. Francis

04:11in the NBA mistaken because it just doesn't pay.

04:15Sacramento State, Mike, they, there's no kid playing at Sacramento State going to the NBA.

04:23You're just imagining things.

04:25So and how do they pay them?

04:27They just can't.

04:28Look at Seton Hall.

04:30Seton Hall had a budget of like a million dollars for their basketball team.

04:36I mean, Ohio State had a budget of $30 million for their football team.

04:42They bought a national championship and not one kid ever went to class.

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