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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'm not sure this happens, but if it does, it will be revenue driven.  There would well be some Vandys and Purdues retained.  Vandy does compete outside football of course.

I don't know what will happen, but I probably won't much like it.  If we end up with some select conference with only teams like UGA and OSU and Texas, my interest will definitley diminish, a lot.  They may as well allow freshman to be drafted and have an "official" NFL minor league.

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

They haven't been bad, they've just struggled to make buying new versions worth it.  They don't really improve the game, they just add pointless features.  Frequently they are bad, and so they remove them.  They just need a reason to buy a new game.  Generally the answer is to just stop supporting the old one.  They could charge $10 to add on another 365 days of updated rosters, and online support, and people would be all over it.  The issue is you have to play on old rosters forever, and not be able to play online, or pay $70 for a new game.  Hell, I bet they could charge $40 to extend the game for a year, with updating rosters (as they do constantly durign the first year of the game) and people would pay it, and you wouldn't pay any overhead on development or hardware.

There are smarter people than me on this, but I would release a new game every ~3 years, and charge like $40 to continue support and updates on the most recent version.  I have to imagine the overhead cost savings would cover that.  Plus you'd get more medium gamers like me.  I bought Madden 24.  That was my first Madden in 4 years.  I would buy the updates though.  So $40 a year vs. $70 every 3-4 years

Well, now that he's reaped the benefit of an uneven playing field for a generation of college football players, but he's left the coaching ranks, Saban wants to reform all this nastiness of paying players and also the portal is bad.  He's suddenly very concerned about 28 and 29 year old dudes who only know how to play football and don't have the education or life skills to handle the real world.

Seems to me his hypocrisy is only eclipsed by his hubris, but I guess I'll let y'all be the judge.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39572219/nick-saban-wants-voice-change-college-football