4/23 Friday Tweets – NFL Draft and More!

What’s up Twitter fans, time for your Friday Edition of DA TWEETS!  Today, we spend 140 characters or less on The NFL Draft, NCAA March Madness Expansion, and the beer capital of the sports world!  Lets dive right into it with a trip back in time to 2006:

espn4d

When do Allen Bradford and Robert Rose get picked? Oh, sorry, just looking at top 10 recruits from 2006 graduating class.

Good point. Here is the rivals Top 100 for the 2006 Recruiting Class.  A lot of names you know (Percy Harvin #1 overall) but there are also a few you have not heard from since. Vidal Hazelton? Allen Bradford? Not quite the same miss-rate as in the pros but still interesting to see the guys who couldn’t quite cut it.

Adam_Schefter

A source close to situation says it is “extremely unlikely” the Pittsburgh Steelers will trade quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. #nfldraft

So much for the Steelers being a moral organization…I was really hoping they would trade Rapistberger and suck for a few years without him.  To be fair, it’s hard to see any of these 4 QBs winning 2 Super Bowls before they turn 30.  Bradford because he went to the Rams and the other guys because they won’t be ‘The Man’ for a few years.

jalenrose

NCAA also signed a 14yr deal worth over $10 billion…should college athletes receive any stipend or payments? (beyond scholarship)

Hold on Hold on Hold on…this is hard for me to say.  Deep Sigh.  Okay, Jalen Rose makes a good point here. (Gah, that hurts)  If the NCAA can make all those dollars from TV contracts why can’t kids get stipends to play?  This TV contract, according to this article, provides more than 95% of the NCAA’s total revenue; allowing the NCAA to lose fistfuls of money on it’s other sports for non-revenue events.  So it sounds like the NCAA has already spent a good chunk of the money coming in.  However, each conference/university would have no problem finding money to pay the top tier players a stipend to play ball for them. Would it reduce the under-the-table money already coming to these athletes?  That, to me, would be the best justification for allowing stipends to be given to “student”-athletes.

frankthetank111

Should be awesome RT @ESPN_BigTen ESPN_BigTen Northwestern, Illinois finalize Wrigley game – http://tinyurl.com/264qehr

Um…#WhoCares?

SI_PeterKing

Before we go all football, 1 point about this city’s marvelous baseball park: Safeco’s a gem, as is King Felix. 967,000 beers on tap there.

I NEED TO MOVE!

-Carl

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