Three of the power five conferences are on life support I'd say that's a pretty significant metric
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Can everyone who is saying college football is ruined and won't exist because players can make money and transfer, give a date when you predict this will happen? I want to mark my calendar to come back and remind everyone that you were wrong.
Professional boxing still exists ( I think ) but it will never be as important as it was in the 70's
College football has peaked and has started declining each fan will determine when he has had enough and will stop caring about it.
New fans will not be sufficient to replace those leaving. 9 figure renovations of stadiums will be rare
And major college football will more closely resemble the current bowl system a made for TV product that fills space on the networks but really very few people care Enough about To attend in person & pay high ticket prices to watch
And not major college football will look like double A baseball
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Three of the power five conferences are on life support I'd say that's pretty significant
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really
UCLA, USC , tu & OU leaving their conferences is not a significant change
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The implementation of scholarship limits and the elimination of bowl tie ins and the national champion being Determined on the field made the game better
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Going forward the Rose Bowl will not be as good as it used to be and I think that's bad for college football and marks a decline in college football
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Also, if you'd gone to class yourself, you'd know the right wording was "I wonder how long it will be…"
20ag07 said:Namely Poultry Science or some such. And not one of our football players ever became a poultry scientist.Quote:
I don't know about now, but when I worked in the athletic department in the 90's, we had class checkers. Coach Slocum would get the list of players that had skipped class on a daily basis.
NEWS: The leaders of college sports are involved in “deep discussions” to reach a legal settlement that would likely lay out the framework for sharing revenue with athletes in a future NCAA business model, sources told me and @DanMurphyESPN. Details: https://t.co/bEJosVhFMQ
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) April 30, 2024
I'm sure that a true amateur system that doesn't bring attention to the university or enrich coaches would work like our current club sports. Are you actively following those teams today? Otherwise you're a hypocrite.northeastag said:
It would be interesting to see a poll of fans about how this might impact their interest. I've noticed quite a few posters here and elsewhere saying "they're done" if this happens. I really doubt that. But its easy to believe that interest in college sports (and let's face it, it's ALL college sports and not just CFB) will wane from the current high level.
My sincere hope is that once college athletes are being paid, that Universities will support new club leagues of true amateurs students that are willing to play the games for free (and without even scholarships), and compete against other schools club teams. I think I'd be more enthusiastic about watching/attending those games than the professional ones. I'm already kind of sick of NIL and free agency.
Legally, I think this has become a catch-22. If fan interest is high enough to warrant decent television coverage, the players are probably going to have to be able to get a cut of those television dollars (or have a weird in-between system like we have now).northeastag said:
It would be interesting to see a poll of fans about how this might impact their interest. I've noticed quite a few posters here and elsewhere saying "they're done" if this happens. I really doubt that. But its easy to believe that interest in college sports (and let's face it, it's ALL college sports and not just CFB) will wane from the current high level.
My sincere hope is that once college athletes are being paid, that Universities will support new club leagues of true amateurs students that are willing to play the games for free (and without even scholarships), and compete against other schools club teams. I think I'd be more enthusiastic about watching/attending those games than the professional ones. I'm already kind of sick of NIL and free agency.
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Texas A&M athletic director Trev Alberts, for example, recently told the Bryan-College Station Eagle that schools could be adding $15 million to $20 million to their budgets annually for what he termed a "new expense category" in college athletics.
The College Football Players Association supports a collective bargaining model without employment. CFBPA plans to start lobbying Congress.
— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos_) May 6, 2024
Wrote in today's @On3NIL Newsletter about the role of Congressional assistance in the future of college sports.https://t.co/6lPkrqf1U5 pic.twitter.com/J262jw7JnK