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Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden made an attention-grabbing analogy in regards to the present state of school soccer, because the Tremendous Bowl winner in contrast the sport to rented golf golf equipment.
Jon Gruden, 61 yers previous, started his teaching profession on the collegiate degree within the mid Eighties on the College of Tennessee. He then labored at Southeast Missouri State in 1988 and Pacific in 1989 earlier than making the bounce to the NFL a 12 months later.
Faculty soccer has modified a ton within the final 5 years, not to mention within the final three a long time, and the previous Tremendous Bowl-winning head coach clearly isn’t a fan of the course the game is headed.
“The repetition is the mom of studying. Proper now you’re simply seeing a bunch of rental golf equipment,” Gruden mentioned throughout an interview on Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich. “You ever play golf and get a set of rental golf equipment? It’s like, ‘I don’t know the right way to hit this membership. I by no means putted with this putter.’ You make loads of excuses. That’s what I’m seeing in faculty sports activities proper now. All people is looking for the switch portal and the way a lot NIL cash we deserve. It’s kinda sickening actually.”
Again in September, Gruden was seen carrying College of South Florida gear on the sidelines at Raymond James Stadium when Bulls hosted the Miami Hurricanes for a Week 4 matchup, speculating that Gruden may very well be eyeing a gig on the collegiate degree. The previous Tremendous Bowl winner has as an alternative gone the content material creation route as he not too long ago joined Barstool Sports activities, the place he blessed us with a current soliloquy on why he roots for the zombies in The Strolling Useless.
Whereas NIL and the switch portal have upended faculty soccer, because it permits gamers to bounce from program to program, faculty basketball has been coping with the phenomenon of rental gamers for 20 years now ever because the NBA determined in 2005 that gamers may solely be drafted after they’ve spent a 12 months out of highschool.
