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Topic: The Death of College Football - Realignment, NIL, Portal, Etc.

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utee94

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« Reply #2394 on: Today at 10:46:59 AM »
Sounds pretty boring to me.  The diversity of schools, sizes, geographical regions, students, is what makes the sport interesting.  

We already have an NFL and I don't watch it much.  The same would be true of college football if it eventually goes that route.

But honestly I still think consussions/CTE/injury liability, and an ever-diminishing pool of entrants due to parental safety concerns, will kill the sport sooner rather than later.  

I think one of the main reasons that currently we see athletic departments doing seemingly short-sighted things, for immediate financial gain, is because they see the writing on the wall and they want to get while the getting is good.
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« Reply #2395 on: Today at 10:54:00 AM »
Already getting pretty boring to me. 

My school was always one of the have-nots. But in the days before transfer portal / NIL where any talented player is easily poached away, and in the days before the CFP sucking all the air out of the room, there was at least some dignity in trying to fight for a 7- or 8-win season and go to a minor bowl. 

Now... What's the point? 
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« Reply #2396 on: Today at 10:57:06 AM »
I agree about the concussion thing, which might creep up from before HS to HS etc.  Ergo, some states might start banning tackle football before Age X.
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« Reply #2397 on: Today at 10:58:43 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on Today at 10:54:00 AM
Already getting pretty boring to me.

My school was always one of the have-nots. But in the days before transfer portal / NIL where any talented player is easily poached away, and in the days before the CFP sucking all the air out of the room, there was at least some dignity in trying to fight for a 7- or 8-win season and go to a minor bowl.

Now... What's the point?
Yup, I totally get that from fans like you, of the have-not teams.

And at this point we're even seeing on this very message board, many fans of the "haves" that are significantly advantaged in the new landscape, still losing interest.

Not sure what the solution is, but like I said I don't think it's going to matter, because I believe the sport is going to implode on its own, anyway.
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« Reply #2398 on: Today at 10:59:07 AM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on Today at 10:54:00 AM
Now... What's the point?
There is a kind of pageantry in CFB we don't see in the NFL.  The level of enthusiasm is a something, at least for prominent programs, and even for lesser ones that start to upset a Big Boy.  I enjoy seeing enthusiasm for things.  Tail gating.  Student sections.  It's fun.  So far.
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« Reply #2400 on: Today at 04:31:06 PM »
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« Reply #2401 on: Today at 04:47:22 PM »
The fix isn't difficult to identify, it's just this mindset that you have to continue moving forward and always jump for that extra dollar.  It's dimwitted. 

Conferences small enough so everyone plays everyone.
Regionalized.
You can have traditional bowls and/or tie them into a playoff, if you insist.
In nineteen hundred and ninety-one, you had 7 'major' conferences.
There's your 7 conf champions + either 1 at-large OR Mid-major OR ND (let the 37-year drought continue).
8-team playoff yields a dealer's choice of the 4 big, traditional bowls, then the final 4 at one 2-week site OR a rotation of 4 bowls and the biggest 3 traditional bowls rotating as the final 4 sites (cotton/fiesta, sorry) OR homefield games in the first round, OR OR OR...

Not all conferences had 10 teams back then, so there's room to incorporate the schools who have turned into the Jeffersons and moved on up these past 35 years. 

It would be a spectacle and glorious.  I can't fathom it'd make LESS money.  That '95 Northwestern team would earn its way into a NC opportunity.  Same with '20 Baylor or '01 Illinois or '15 Stanford and MSU...

Personally, I'd go old bowl system with a +1 as needed.  After what BYU and Coastal Carolina pulled off during COVID, shut up with your "they couldn't do it" nonsense. 
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« Reply #2402 on: Today at 05:07:26 PM »
Texas went from having all of their teams in the same conference to having one in nearly every conference.
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« Reply #2403 on: Today at 05:17:07 PM »
it would make the same money - it's the same content

it's just that the bluebloods want their fair share and then some.
not sharing with Kansas, Iowa St. and Cal makes it more lucrative

How about this????

both teams get paid per TV rating ----- After the game!!!

it would be fair and it would vastly improve scheduling
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« Reply #2404 on: Today at 05:21:11 PM »
Madness!!!   :57:
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« Reply #2405 on: Today at 05:27:19 PM »
like NIL but really about name, image, and likeness
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