This day has been coming for a very long time. "College athletics" is a cash cow and it seems as though the athletes have always been omitted from a piece of the pie. That being said I am interested as to how the NCAA proceeds as well as individual institutions. The cash is generated by football and men's basketball at most schools. If I am a businessman(university) then I am cutting all non-revenue generating sports. It is quite a dilemma for the schools and the NCAA.
I would like to point out something else that exists today that didn't in 'yesteryear' and that be youth leagues to perpetuate sports other than baseball. And these kids start playing young.
You missed a couple of guys in the Bench era! LOL
And no. Mauer and Posey are the only guys I can think of myself and they are/were better than Molina.
That is a topic for another thread in a different forum. My original point was that Scott is always speaking of contraction rather than expansion. The NBA product is as strong as it has ever been.
Let's get one thing straight right here and now. Molina couldn't carry Bench's jockstrap. Yadier couldn't carry Carter's or Fisk's either. Nor could he carry Munson's.
Molina is just fortunate that he plays in this era. Pure and simple.
To me that is the difference between the Lakers and the Celtics. Boston had to go through that Eastern gauntlet....Showtime usually had cakewalks to the Finals. For what they did to win that championship that '83 Sixer team is etched in my mind. IMO the greatest team ever that doesn't get talked about enough.