We’re currently in a CFB transitory period. It’s a surprise to nobody that the transfer portal has been a disaster that everyone saw coming. Honestly, I don’t even GAF who we sign on signing day, because they’re mostly hired guns, and an ungodly amount won’t be here in a year or two. And some will leave because we want them to.
But this had to be done so that it could get out of the way, so long term plans could be formulated and agreed on. It’s been in the works for 30-40 years, because there’s just too much interest, and along with that money, in CFB. I mean we can piss and moan about networks and presidents effin up CFB, but in reality it’s just you and me, because we love the shit. And we talk about it all year, we watch it, even though we say we don’t the ratings show otherwise. So the business people find a way to give us what we want, and in the process make a buttload of money that we shove down their throats and then complain about the world we created.
But we’ve all seen the rumblings about CBA and pay for players and restrictions on NIL. It’s coming, you can bet that. So who knows what the CFB landscape will look like in 5-10 years, but we all know it will be different. Will it be like it was 5+ years ago? No friggin way. But if we can at least restrict unrestricted free-agency, put some kind of a cap on NIL or at least make it somewhat equitable it will be better. And finally, I think we should cap the number of D1 programs to 50ish, redistribute the conferences back to semi-regional.
