Bowling Green HC Scott Loeffler leaving to be Eagles’ QB coach

Dude said F dem kids.
Everyone is sick of CFB right now.

I'm curious if the prominent decision-makers of CFB are seeing this and taking any accountability.

Thank goodness there are only 32 NFL teams.

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One of my good family friends ran the NIL collective operation for a P5 school.

He just retired and said good luck. He hated everything and anything NIL. Said it has poisoned the sport beyond repair.

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We (traditional college football fans) tried to tell everybody what would happen when you give already entitled kids money. They could have fix this and several other issues if the money could be held in a trust and paid out UPON GRADUATION. The players could be accumulating wealth and still getting their education, they'd have incentive to stay at one school, and would still be free to transfer if they wanted, they'd just forfeit past earnings. Not exactly a free market but THIS ISN'T A FREE MARKET, it's "amateur" athletics.

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He was coaching pop warner football?

I wonder if the BG fans are going to melt as hard as the LSU fans did yesterday

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We (traditional college football fans) tried to tell everybody what would happen when you give already entitled kids money. They could have fix this and several other issues if the money could be held in a trust and paid out UPON GRADUATION. The players could be accumulating wealth and still getting their education, they'd have incentive to stay at one school, and would still be free to transfer if they wanted, they'd just forfeit past earnings. Not exactly a free market but THIS ISN'T A FREE MARKET, it's "amateur" athletics.

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Great post with a common sense suggestion in how to correct the current problems with CFB and college sports in general.

Iknowyouareright

Too bad that it will never be considered by the decision makers since it does make a lot of sense.

Wasn’t he the guy that was supposed to fix Tebow’s throwing motion at UF?

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We (traditional college football fans) tried to tell everybody what would happen

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With all of it. There were going to be so many unintended consequences that were so easy to see with all this change. I watched less college football this year than any other in almost 40 years, when there were way less games to consume. The expanded playoffs and all the transfers make it like college basketball for me. No individual regular season games matter—it’s just the cumulative records.

And it was always gonna produce multiple rematches. Texas and Georgia in early October? I’m good. I’ll catch them when they play again in the SECCG or playoff. Oregon Ohio State in September? No thanks. And all the transfers makes every team completely different every year. I’d watch a Duke North Carolina basketball game in 1991 even if they were probably gonna wind up playing 2 more times because I knew the players. I haven’t watched a non-LSU regular season college basketball game in 25 years. And the less I care about the regular season, the less I care about the tournament.

Speaking of, I watched zero of the CFBP until the NCG. And I only watched that until it was obvious Ohio State was gonna win. And if you’re losing fans like me, that’s not sustainable long-term. It may take a while to manifest, but I think long-term viewership is gonna go way down once the novelty wears off, and they won’t be able to demand these huge tv contracts like they are now. The product will just continue to get watered down and more people will bail except on their favorite teams. And I think even that will eventually go down.

And it’s gonna affect the cottage industry that’s been built up around it. I’ve found myself watching less YouTube clips, listening to less podcasts/radio programs dedicated to LSU. Reading less articles. Hell, I don’t come on here nearly as much as I used to. The long-term health of the sport is in serious danger imo, even though it may not look like it to people who can only see what’s right in front of them. And it may already be too late to course correct, but the ones who could do it don’t care to, because they’ll be gone having made all their money by the time the truly negative effects manifest themselves. Too many people in power care way more about their pocketbooks than their legacy. Looking at you, Sankey.

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they ARE the product

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In college football not so much…people cheer for universities typically because of a personal connection to it….they went there, parents went there so they grew up watching the school, geography, whatever….or that was the case. As cheesy as it may sound, the name on the side of the helmet was the product.

Now in the last 20 or so years as these programs became big business and continuing to not pay players as they raked in millions wasn’t sustainable…but with that I’d say those connections people felt to the players and schools is starting to fade and it’s full on NFL jr only worse because it’s free agency every few months