Do you know anyone who has quit following LSU football due to NIL and transfer portal?

Hopefully one day there will be a salary cap of some kind and also getting some sort of rules with the transfer portal. They need to bring back the old rules to where they have to sit out a year. I still go to every home game and watch every game. It does get frustrating though.

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In the past in no way would I miss a game my schedule on Saturdays revolved around game time. the last few years i miss games and other things have taken over.

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OK now add your age and other life changes...getting married...having kids...buying a house etc that could have had a major impact on this

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OK now add your age and other life changes...getting married...having kids...buying a house etc that could have had a major impact on this

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Im 49 kids are all growing own my house happily married. Yes life has changed but it hasn't been the cause of my passion for college football decreasing.

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I still follow the Tigers and probably always will but I have changed the passion. In the past in no way would I miss a game my schedule on Saturdays revolved around game time. the last few years i miss games and other things have taken over. I hate the recruiting talk because just like last year the kid will flip and bail as soon as a more lucrative offer comes along. not faulting the kid that is life changing money but it changes how much I care about the game. this reminds me too much of pro ball and free agency but without the rules or contracts

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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. And I share yours with respect to recruiting. But I don't see how the actual games themselves have changed because of NIL. Roster turnover has always been a big part of college football. The top players were, at best, staying 3 years before NIL. Not a ton of solid players were making it 4 years pre-NIL. If they had not played much during the first 2-3 seasons they were often out the door.

Just take a look at LSU's projected starters:

Nuss - 5th year senior (all with LSU)

Duraham (2nd year)/Jackson (3rd year) both LSU signees

Hilton (5th year) LSU signee. Anderson (transfer, but 3rd year at LSU).
Thomas (transfer, but 2nd year at LSU)

Chester (3rd year); Adams (3rd year); Mubenga (3rd year); Davis (2nd year)---all signed by LSU.

T. Green (2nd year) signed by LSU

Defense

Guillory, Breaux, McKinley, Reliford (all LSU signees)
Whit Weeks (3rd year), West Weeks (transfer, but 3rd year at LSU), Perkins (3rd year); Keys (2nd year)

Stamps (3rd year)


Are there transfers to fill in necessary gaps? Sure. But a significant portion of LSU's (expected) key players this year are guys who have been at LSU for multiple seasons...even if they didn't originally sign with LSU.

Maybe it's just me, but I have always cheered for the "UNIFORM", not the individual players. The individuals have always come for just a few years and were gone. The school/program/venue, etc is the constant. I'll support this year's team just as much as I supported the team 6 years ago, even though none of the guys from 6 years ago are on this roster. And I'll support the team the same 6 years from now even though no one from this roster will be on that team.

Overall football, not really.

Recruiting, especially at the HS level, absolutely.

I do think this revenue sharing will have a direct impact on attendance as fans are going to bear the brunt of funding college athletics in ticket costs

Maybe. My tickets for football are actually cheaper this year compared to 2024 - I’m sure 2026 will be expensive assuming we get Clemson, Bama, Ole Miss, etc coming to Baton Rouge

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But I don't see how the actual games themselves have changed because of NIL.

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It's conflicting - I am all for the kids getting paid, but now it's not a kid who just going to class like I went to clas. I don't know in the day it was like hey they are really talented but also a student like I was. I know that has not been the case even when I was there late 90s but at least I could pretend.


May e bitter old man but I refuse to donate to NIL so some 18year old can be a millionaire.


Get off my lawn

Similar to most other posts.
I pay 0 attention to recruiting, I dont care of a kid "commits" because 90% chance he will send out a "respect my decision" tweet at some point. It all means nothing these days the word commitment.
I have no clue who LSU Signed in the portal or HS recruiting last year.

I will watch the games and cheer for whoever runs on the field wearing purple and gold but I will know may 5 of the players like Nuss and Weeks.
I dont get nearly as upset or excited on the outcome. I just casually watch. Yes I want LSU to win but if they lose a shoulder shrug and changing of the channel and moved on. Unlike my youth where it would ruin the entire week.

I live 1 hour from Clemson and I am not attending the game. Why? Because of just the hassle of it and to be honest the Joy of opening days games has been kind of stomped out over the last 5 years since we lose every single one of them. Not up for spending another wad of cash like Vegas last year to get disappointed yet again. I can do that for free on my couch.