I think I’m losing interest in college football at a rapid rate

Wild Turkey said:
My interest is waning but it has more to do with the portal and NIL. I'm not giving up on the sport but when you have players putting themselves on the auction block and 10 players a year going into the portal then recruiting has become a shit show.

I think the portal can be fixed by setting distinct windows and the number of times a player can transfer (there is a former Auburn QB that is about to transfer for the 4th time and that is ridiculous).

NIL is only going to be fixed when we start putting these kids under contract paying them a salary and locking them down more. Once you do that then the NIL money won't be as much of a factor. I hate to say it but the only reason to "stabilize" college football is to make it a semi-pro league at this point.

I'm going to be interested if any of these players get nailed for tax evasion because we all know there are going to be plenty that try not to claim the NIL money and when the 1099s come it is going to be a shocker and the money will be spent.
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Wow. I wonder who’s been saying this for over a decade. Lol.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
The opt outs in bowls will probably be solved with the 12 team playoff (as much as I hate the 12 team playoff). At least they'll be multiple meaningful bowls again; which died once we left the BCS and the "BCS bowls".
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What that is going to do is the 12 teams that make it the opt outs will stop but for the majority of the other bowls anyone that has a shot in the draft is going to sit out.

What happened with Florida is going to become more of the norm.

I will give credit to Young and Anderson of Alabama for playing in the bowl game but I suspect there is some NIL money in play also to get them to do so. In other words, they are getting paid extra not to sit.
 
I had attributed losing interest to getting older, but if the site’s baby is feeling the same, then obviously I’m wrong.
 
And as I’ve said before, I don’t mind the opt outs. I like telling Baylor and Cincy fans that they got whipped by UGA’s second string and having a good excuse with Texas fans
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
That doesn’t bother me. It’s still new and will get worked out, but I’d rather it be the way it is now than back when AJ Green was suspended 4 games for selling his own jersey or Todd Gurley getting suspended for selling his own autograph.

There’s got to be a happy medium in there somewhere
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Not me. I'm a monster fan of all that money going to the schools. The results paying players predictably caused exactly what we are reading in this thread. Zero school allegiance. Pay them to play and they will follow the money.

There was a day when a pro players entire career was on one team. So we had this pay to play model. Believing it will work itself out is the plan of hope.

College football used to be about the schools ability to develop young, athletic kids who had the potential to grow into a decent adult, into grown men and women and that's what made it great. That gave reason for schools to develop kids into adults. It taught children the sacrifices needed to not just win as adults, but to respect the work everyone around them put in to make it possible. And kids need to learn that.

College football is dead. It is a semi-pro league which keeps 90 percent of the schools out of the hunt. Why would a local stud go to Buffalo University and make $7 Grand in stipends and maybe a local auto dealer commercial. Or go to a school with a Nike agreement for national endorsements.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
Game of the week should be prime time
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I don't think it is going to change because the ratings have been fantastic. What will be interesting is if CBS is going to try to go up against the SEC in that time slot. If they do watch for ESPN to put a ton of Oklahoma and Texas games in that slot because that first year those games are going to be off the charts because everyone will want to watch Bama, LSU, Auburn, aTm, UGA, Tenn etc play them for the first time.
 
Wild Turkey said:
What that is going to do is the 12 teams that make it the opt outs will stop but for the majority of the other bowls anyone that has a shot in the draft is going to sit out.

What happened with Florida is going to become more of the norm.

I will give credit to Young and Anderson of Alabama for playing in the bowl game but I suspect there is some NIL money in play also to get them to do so. In other words, they are getting paid extra not to sit.
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We'll have to see. If that were the case you'd expect to see more kids in the current playoff opt out but so far that hasn't really happened much. Mostly kids who are already injured and not rushing back to play are the ones opting out of those. Though what it might do is the teams ranked in the lower part of the rankings might see opt-outs as they're facing teams like Alabama in the first round. No point in risking injury to get blasted by a better team.

CFB might end up being a freshman/sophomore sport, when kids can't declare yet.
 
Wild Turkey said:
If they do watch for ESPN to put a ton of Oklahoma and Texas games in that slot because that first year those games are going to be off the charts because everyone will want to watch Bama, LSU, Auburn, aTm, UGA, Tenn etc play them for the first time.
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Would that be in 2024 or 2025
 
dikowt dowg said:
Not me. I'm a monster fan of all that money going to the schools. The results paying players predictably caused exactly what we are reading in this thread. Zero school allegiance. Pay them to play and they will follow the money.

There was a day when a pro players entire career was on one team. So we had this pay to play model. Believing it will work itself out is the plan of hope.

College football used to be about the schools ability to develop young, athletic kids who had the potential to grow into a decent adult, into grown men and women and that's what made it great. That gave reason for schools to develop kids into adults. It taught children the sacrifices needed to not just win as adults, but to respect the work everyone around them put in to make it possible. And kids need to learn that.

College football is dead. It is a semi-pro league which keeps 90 percent of the schools out of the hunt. Why would a local stud go to Buffalo University and make $7 Grand in stipends and maybe a local auto dealer commercial. Or go to a school with a Nike agreement for national endorsements.
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None of that bothers me. I think it’s a little too much now, but it’s also still new. Players should be able to sell their own shit and not risk any kind of trouble, or be able to accept small gifts like hats at a Braves game without risking trouble
 
Same here. A lot of it is due to some combination of the porta-potty, NIL, opt-outs, and mega confs’.

It’s also partly sports as a whole that’s losing interest, I guess. Plus getting older.
 
Wild Turkey said:
I don't think it is going to change because the ratings have been fantastic. What will be interesting is if CBS is going to try to go up against the SEC in that time slot. If they do watch for ESPN to put a ton of Oklahoma and Texas games in that slot because that first year those games are going to be off the charts because everyone will want to watch Bama, LSU, Auburn, aTm, UGA, Tenn etc play them for the first time.
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I don’t expect it to change, but no night home games all year is a bit ridiculous, especially considering the investment into those LED lights that Bama ripped off UGA.
 
The combination of transfer portal and endorsement deals has ruined it for me as a fan. UVA already had a hard time getting 4 stars in the fold, now getting a low 3 star is a huge success.
 
Gatorchip said:
I had attributed losing interest to getting older, but if the site’s baby is feeling the same, then obviously I’m wrong.
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Knight&Day said:
Same here. A lot of it is due to some combination of the porta-potty, NIL, opt-outs, and mega confs’.

It’s also partly sports as a whole that’s losing interest, I guess. Plus getting older.
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That's my take. Most of us, when we get older, we start to develop different priorities and interests. I still enjoy football but I don't get as emotionally involved as I did when I was in my teens and 20's. It's just entertainment, none of it puts bread on my table.

Besides: all my teams are crap, in every sport. There's no point in hoping for any kind of title in any given year/sport.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
There was a time when Saturdays in the Fall were nothing but football from noon until Pac after dark ended.

This year, not counting mid week MACtion and Funbelt games, you could probably count the number of games I watched that UGA wasn’t playing in on one hand.

And even then, UGA is playoff bound, and me, my gf,, a couple buddies and their wives are all flying into Vegas with the intent of going to LA for the NCG, and I’m excited for Vegas, but I’m having a hard time getting excited for the game. Might just because it’s in LA and I have no interest at all in LA.

I’ll always follow UGA, but the sport as a whole just doesn’t really do it for any more. This is the first year ever that I’ve watched more NFL than college football.

I blame the mega conferences
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lol. You are becoming a boomer with your old ass
 
And transfers don’t really bother me either. The whole having to sit out a season unless you could come up with a good sob story was a little much, and when you had cases like Justin Fields getting a waiver for immediate eligibility while transferring away from home, yet Jacob Eason didn’t get the same treatment for transferring back home, or even Luke Ford legitimately having family health problems getting his waiver denied going back home.

There’s got to be a happy medium somewhere, but I’d rather have it the way it is now than how it used to be.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
None of that bothers me. I think it’s a little too much now, but it’s also still new. Players should be able to sell their own shit and not risk any kind of trouble, or be able to accept small gifts like hats at a Braves game without risking trouble
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Maybe it's because we can travel large distances today much easier than we did in the 1950's and the 1960's so the regional thing is lost forever and that was an added element. Watching the Rose Bowl was a big deal. Now....pfffft. I'll play xbox which is so much more entertaining than a parade. Conferences can have teams from anywhere now, so what is the point of conferences and bowl games.

You wanted to know if others felt the same as you. I do. cfb is dead imo. Why? I have my opinion which is largely money. But what made it fun was the regional relation to conferences and the bantering between the different regions of us fans in different parts of our country about who is the best of the best. And the only way for a UK to keep up in football was to hope some tobacco chewing fool from farmland stays local. He isn't doing that if the Ducks offer him an under armour deal.
 
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