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Pretty much need to just blow it all up.

Let the NFL start its own minor league.

That's what CFB is - even more so now.

And I don't like it.

Pretty much need to just blow it all up.

Let the NFL start its own minor league.

That's what CFB is - even more so now.

And I don't like it.

CFB has always been an NFL minor league. An unpaid one at that. 

NFL has no interest or need to fund a minor league. Why would they when they have one that costs them zero right now? And even if they did, the SEC/B1G schools would oppose the NFL starting a minor league. They make too much god damn money from TV right now to want to have to compete with the NFL for tv viewership and securing the best talent for their product. 

The simplest answers are usually the correct ones. Keep it simple stupid. B1G & SEC need to just swallow up what's worth taking, break off from the NCAA, and sign the players to employment contracts, start a union for the players & sign a CBA, and put players on wage scale by position and class. it's fking simple. it's not rocket science. do that and you'll have a chance of saving this sport and keep it from continually delving into the wild wild west and becoming the unsustainable clusterfk that it is which is causing any coach with NFL offer to jump at the chance to GTFO. 

After landing two top Illinois players, Mario Cristobal and Bret Bielema have an interesting exchange (msn.com)

Interesting for sure.

BERT is a sad fat sack of sh*t who should just stfu. Miami didn't steal Justin Scott or Marquise Lightfoot away from Illinois. Neither one of those kids was ever in a billion fking years going to play for fatfk BERT and his shitty program. Ever. They were all Ohio State/ND/MICH and SEC (Bama/UGA) from day one. Miami used NIL to snatch those kids away from those programs. Not from fking Illinois.

And say what you want about Miami- YES they have stunk for a couple decades- YES they don't have an on campus stadium- YES they have mediocre fan support- but the school is as top notch as it gets- and it's in Coral Gables, FL (not motherfking Champaign, IL) one of the nicest and wealthiest cities in the US. WAY better city, WAY better weather, WAY better looking women- it's an obvious A-DUH as to why a 17-18 year old kid would rather live in Coral Gables than sh*tty Illinois...oh and they have 5 Natty's and have produced truckloads of 1st rd NFL draft picks and NFL HOF'ers. It might be a down on it's luck program- but it's got a whole bunch of history of winning and producing NFL talent that Illinois and BERT don't have...

I took it as Bert begging for more NIL money from his fanbase.

I took it as BERT talking shit about Miami using NIL to steal recruits from him. Recruits he was never going to land in a million years even if he had NIL money.

yeah it won't, so long as fans/boosters can donate whatever they want to collectives. genie is out of the bottle, there is no way to put it back in.

what needs to happen at this point is B1G & SEC swallow up what's left worth taking, break off from the NCAA and form their own thing- then make the players employees and let them unionize and sign CBA's, and put them all on pay scale by position and by class- and every school pays the same rates- a salary cap of sorts.

this will put a massive dent into NIL and inducements for recruiting- and what will happen is what NIL was intended for- only the very top level star players in the sport will get NIL deals.

I honestly think both conferences are on shaky ground

Its only a matter of time before an 8-10 team blue blood superconference is created by a streamer.

I honestly think both conferences are on shaky ground

???? How do you figure? Those conferences make insane TV money. They are the only conferences in the sport not on shaky ground.

The one good part


https://twitter.com/EASPORTSCollege/status/1758159742109671874?s=20

I'd say there's a high chance EA Sports blows this one...the Madden games have sucked for years from what I understand.