re: College Football Is Done

It’s not like ticket prices don’t go up fairly regularly anyway. At least they telling you where the money is going instead of just taking it. Higher ticket prices is NOT a reason college football is becoming a worse product

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College football is making more money than ever.

The fans will never cut off the funding. It reminds of Dallas Cowboy fans. Most express their dislike of Jerry Jones, but they still happily sling money at the Cowboys.

You would have to have empty stadium AND terrible TV ratings to force a change.

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no offense, but that's a TERRIBLE comparison

most CFB fans including myself are upset that the very nature of CFB is being transformed, in multiple ways. whether a team is doing well or not isn't the case here, as you somehow tried to show via the cowboys

for me, the biggest issue is the expanded playoff format. it's basically a modified version of the NFL's way of determining a champion, which i hate. CFB has had a unique, albeit imperfect, way of selecting who gets to play for the national title. the main positive has been that the regular season has been super exciting and unpredictable, but that's gonna change now that a "blue blood" team can lose 2, maybe 3 times and still make the playoff and contend for a championship

yuck

the NIL sucks also. makes it a minor league system

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Inflation is already up goodly. Ten pct is nothing. Especially considering all the money that gets blown on concessions, parking, lodging, etc.

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yeah but inflation plus 10% on top of 10% on top of 10% puts 80% of the attendees of games out of reach to go. '

How much more are we gonna squeeze the middle class? there is nothing left to squeeze.

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Welcome to the new world of Free Agency in college athletics.

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Here's a post I made on the MSB about this topic....
A Supreme Court of the US opinion from 2021

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Colleges offered all manner of compensation to talented athletes. Yale reportedly lured a tackle named James Hogan with free meals and tuition, a trip to Cuba, the exclusive right to sell scorecards from his games—and a job as a cigarette agent for the American Tobacco Company. Ibid.; see also Needham, The College Athlete, McClure’s Magazine, June 1905, p. 124. The absence of academic residency requirements gave rise to “ ‘tramp athletes’ ” who “roamed the country making cameo athletic appearances, moving on whenever and wherever the money was better.” F. Dealy, Win at Any Cost 71 (1990). One famous example was a law student at West Virginia University—Fielding H. Yost— “who, in 1896, transferred to Lafayette as a freshman just in time to lead his new teammates to victory against its arch-rival, Penn.” Ibid. The next week, he “was back at West Virginia’s law school.” Ibid. College sports became such a big business that Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton University, quipped to alumni in 1890 that “ ‘Princeton is noted in this wide world for three things: football, baseball, and collegiate instruction.’ ”

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It's never been pure, from the inception of the NCAA participants have been getting paid to do so. What is considered the first NCAA event was bankrolled by a rail baron which included

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an all-expenses-paid vacation with lavish prizes—along with unlimited alcohol.

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In the 80's my uncle had a chicken joint in BR, there were multiple LSU football players on the payroll each summer who so happened to never clock into work and it was all understood

Given the current environment, it’s a smart move

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You will see coaches salaries drop, athletic departments fire massive amounts of people and non-revenue sports will be discontinued.

Also, few major infrastructure projects will take place.

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Good

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but you have to go to class

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I remember having 1 or 2 football players in my grad school classes. I respected those guys a lot.

If I /We the season tickets holders are paying part of the price of their salaries............you damn better believe I have a right to tell them to bench "said" player when he screws up or acts a fool. I am paying part of his salary...........so I have a say in this now.............right???

Its totally frustrating.

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Tickets are already sky high to pay for all kinds of nonsense. College football is imploding. It’s no longer “college” football. It’s semi professional mercenaries in the big conferences. They know this and expanded the playoffs as a quick fix so fans can be focused more on that and not the BS money grab going on.

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Exactly this. Even with the expanded playoffs, fans of 90% of the teams this year are going to ask themselves, “I paid into that NIL collective and paid more for tickets for what, exactly?” And when asked to pay even more next year, they’ll be more apt to pay less or none at all. And that will quickly compound around the country in just a few short years.

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I mean, it will just be the minor leagues, but you have to go to class, I guess.

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They'll drop the school aspect within the next decade, guaranteed