re: How many of you are about to give up on college football?

I clicked this topic and was stunned !
7 pages of everyone pretty much in agreement and I in agreement with them ! There are likely 10’s of 1000’s out there not on a forum thinking the same. I wonder if Fans new outlook could affect positive change in what is undoubtedly a total mess

Yep

Again, I’ve said before I fully support NIL. For years the entire ncaa system has reaped the benefits of these kids likenesses and then come down on schools because they paid the fly his parents down to see him or silly shite like that. If these kids are smart (and my understanding is the schools are giving them plenty of opportunities to engage with advisors), this is life changing money since most of them still will never set foot on a pro field. And let’s not act like schools were already doing this stuff in various forms under the table, and some were able to be much more egregious about it than others.

The problem lies in the transfer portal. Objectively the transfer rules sorely needed to be revisited at least. A kid makes a decision and circumstances change or it doesn’t work out and then they lose a year of eligibility to try to do better. There are always exceptions, but having a real conversation about it was probably the right thing to do.

But with no restrictions on transfers coupled with basically no restrictions on nil you have what amounts to kids having the ability to at any time declare themselves unrestricted free agents and sell out to the highest bidder. Arguably it’s one of the reasons baseball has fallen drastically in popularity when teams can just buy championships.

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The problem lies in the transfer portal.

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Agreed. I wish all NIL money came with a contract that required the athlete to pay back all monies received if they transfer. The portal should be limited to one transfer per college career as well.

Add coaching contracts being tied to results, and their win % (or whatever stat) dropping below a certain point resulting in them being fired for cause to eliminate buyouts of idiots like Coach O.

THANK YOU ! I've been following college football and a Tiger fan since 1957.
IMO amateur college football has left the building and it's Only going to get worse !

you've never been punched in the mouth before and it shows.

I’ve been this way since last year

Over 50 years a Tiger fan over 20 year's Season Ticket Holder, I am getting there.

Everything about Amateur Sports is crazy

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recruits having no loyalty to their commitment , and current/past players having no loyalty to our team has put a sour taste in my mouth.

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Recruits didn’t start this system. The model was established by bama, LSU, USC, and a small handful of other schools at the administrative level. The recruits responded to the offers. LSU became a premier program and others followed. Currently we are realizing that it was a successful approach before the rest of the world caught on, but Louisiana is a poor state without the resources of commercially more advanced areas, and we are hard pressed to keep up with the competition that we helped start.