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I feel like the Halfly NFL think it’s going to be overplayed on the “state of college football and NIL“ thing and underplayed on the “he had a hard job without a ton of prospects for growth” thing. 

The state of college football is headed for disaster. That can't be overplayed. It's not sustainable.

Several here have noted their waning interest.  That can't be good....if the sport can lose us, it feels like it could lose anybody.  

otoh, it does seem like there's a large contingent of fans out there who pay exactly zero attention to anything off the field and will blindly continue rooting for a school team because that's what people in their region have always done.  

Guess we'll see.  

some folks didn't want to lose U of Chicago either

some folks didn't want to lose U of Chicago either

Different story on that one.

Faculty wanted to deemphasize athletics and they won.

As long as Northwestern receives a B1G revenue share, why would they drop down?

I'm assuming that they have/will lose any realistic ability to compete but so what?

What if your school lost the ability to compete? Is it still "so what" for you?

What if your school lost the ability to compete? Is it still "so what" for you?

I think he's saying Northwestern has already lost it's ability to compete, so what's the difference?

What's gonna happen is that the smaller revenue schools are just going to drop out or drop down.

I don't want to lose Northwestern, etc.

I think OAM has made the point that the less successful programs will be incentivized ($) to stick with the big dogs because there has to be doormats.  You can't have Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, etc. all going 6-6 because they got no pastries.  I mean, you can, but fans aren't going to want that, and the programs know it.  

I think it's a solid point.