A big lie that everyone is in on bothers me.
The 5 seed that worked hard and had a successful season, poised for a big, juggernaut challenge in the prestigious national championship playoff gets to face.......Memphis. Or Liberty. Or Tulane.
It sucks. Yeah, it's an easy game, but it's lame. Everyone else gets to play big-boy football and you don't.
Just not a big fan of lying to each other with a wink and some cash. I'm weird.
No, not really. Okay, yeah, you ARE a little bit weird. But not for this
The truth is that we have a system that is the haves and the have-nots. It is what it is. Your talent level is based on recruiting, not some sort of parity like you'd get with a draft. You previously had recruiting that was based on helmet status and "facilities", and now it's based on NIL, but either way it's not conducive to parity. Now we have NIL, but we don't have any sort of salary cap or anything else to enforce parity. Now we have free transfers with no sit-out penalty, so NIL will turn everything into the highest bidders getting the most talent,
even if that talent starts at a smaller school.
Yeah, it's a big effing lie.
So let's scrap all this playoff bullshit and just turn it back into bowls. There's no playoff. There's no "national championship game". There's no semblance of objectivity. 10 schools every year can care about whether voters will crown them at the end of the year, and 120 schools every year can play for the dignity of trying to go to a bowl which is a worthy thing that shouldn't be minimized.
We turned EVERYTHING in college football into being about the NC.
That was the error, not letting some tallest pygmy into the proceedings to get slaughtered by a big boy football team.
