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re: College Football Nerds expresses what most of us are thinking and know to be true...
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:02 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:02 pm to RollTide1987
I agree with you... but the MAIN issue that got us here was coaches salaries... you can't pay someone millions of dollars and want the people responsible for him making millions of dollars to be be ok without getting any financial reward... I know most would counter with "but they get a free education" but is it really free... or does it really matter
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Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:05 pm to RollTide1987
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The illusion of a chance at winning a national championship hardly makes things more exciting
Speak for yourself. I’d rather watch that than a meaningless bowl games featuring 2 teams that really have no interest in being there.
This post was edited on 12/31/23 at 1:06 pm
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:06 pm to CBandits82
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Mandate a 1 year sit when you transfer would be a good start.
we had that
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:07 pm to RollTide1987
12 team playoff will make it worse
Calling it now
Calling it now
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:09 pm to saint tiger225
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You can't choose a real champion that way.
That wasn’t the point of the bowl system, or college football as a whole. The point was competition for competition’s sake, not to crown a single champion.
ETA: This is a classic case of “be careful what you wish for.” In a rush to be more like every other sport, college football has destroyed its soul and alienated a lot of its core fans. The networks’ bet is that they’ll gain enough casual fans to make up for that loss and more, and they might, but the product has been hollowed out either way.
This post was edited on 12/31/23 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:16 pm to Crowknowsbest
This … the reality, and I know this is going to piss people off but it is what it is, is that the people who are running all sports these days don’t care 6.5 cacas about the old school core fans. Unless you are 18 to 49 and in a diverse demographic, they don’t care if you watch their product and it doesn’t matter how much money you have to spend.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:31 pm to POTUS2024
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Expanding the playoff makes all of the current issues worse
Not if they fix the transfer issue and get rid of bowl games no one cares about .
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:32 pm to Scruffy
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Well a 12 team playoff will fix it.
No it won’t.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say he was being sarcastic.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:33 pm to Pikes Peak Tiger
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I’d rather watch that than a meaningless bowl games
Until the usual suspects are competing in the semi-finals. Then everyone will be bitching about how this is a down season, the system favors the blue bloods/media darlings, and all that other shite.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:34 pm to CBandits82
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Mandate a 1 year sit when you transfer would be a good start.
This or you have to wait 3 years before being eligible for the portal, in which case the transfer is immediate.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:35 pm to RollTide1987
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Until the usual suspects are competing in the semi-finals. Then everyone will be bitching about how this is a down season, the system favors the blue bloods/media darlings, and all that other shite.
I can’t wait for this
People are going to be excited about the 12 team playoff until they see their teams get their shite pushed in by Alabama and Georgia every single year.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:38 pm to RollTide1987
quote:This.
That was never the intention of college football. If it had been it would have developed as such. That's why things look so disorganized and out of control right now. From the very beginning the sport of college football was highly regional with a bigger emphasis on winning the conference and defeating your arch-rival.
It was never about the national championship.
It was about regional contests and rivals.
That is all screwed up now.
It is why I would support going back to club sports while having a minor league for the NFL.
Re-localize the sports.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:39 pm to Pikes Peak Tiger
quote:That isn’t the problem with football, honestly.
Not if they fix the transfer issue and get rid of bowl games no one cares about .
The entire atmosphere of football has changed into an overly corporatized mockery of what it used to be.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:41 pm to DallasTiger11
Or until some slapdick 7 win Va Tech team gets in because of CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS SHOULD MATTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:43 pm to DallasTiger11
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People are going to be excited about the 12 team playoff until they see their teams get their shite pushed in by Alabama and Georgia every single year.
I tend to agree. To play devil’s advocate, at least they get to actually see it and not just have it assumed. I think there will be enough upsets in the 12 team playoff to keep it interesting.
With great caution I say that it can’t really get any worse than it is now.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:44 pm to High C
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To play devil’s advocate, at least they get to actually see it and not just have it assumed.
Seeing it isn’t going to help. Ask TCU fans about their title hopes these days.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:46 pm to RollTide1987
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That was never the intention of college football. If it had been it would have developed as such. That's why things look so disorganized and out of control right now. From the very beginning the sport of college football was highly regional with a bigger emphasis on winning the conference and defeating your arch-rival.
The media would then vote for who they thought the best team in college football was for that calendar year but that wasn't a team's ultimate goal. That all changed with the advent of ESPN and 24/7 sports coverage.
This is so true and something that lots of cfb fans don't seem to understand. That's why I chuckle when people say things like schembechler never won a national title. That was never his goal. The goal was to beat Ohio State and win the big 10. That's it
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:46 pm to RollTide1987
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Wasn't the playoff put in place because Oklahoma State (a non-media darling) got left out of the BCS National Championship Game in lieu of Alabama (a media darling)?
Lololol you call me intellectually dishonest, but you state this.
ESPN literally dropped the slogan “Every Game Counts” the day after Bama lost the Game of the Century.
We’ve changed the narrative what, four times now since 2011 to help a media darling get in.
Now we have a playoff and again, the narrative changes after someone had the audacity to go undefeated when a media darling, once again, couldn’t.
Lol but I’m the dishonest one. You inbreds are hilarious.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 1:47 pm to High C
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at least they get to actually see it and not just have it assumed
I'm sure it was fun for TCU fans watching their team get absolutely manhandled by 58 points in the CFP NCG last year.
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I think there will be enough upsets in the 12 team playoff to keep it interesting.
Maybe in the first round or two. However, as these "Cinderella" teams start getting into the deeper rounds they will be facing off against teams who are two and three deep with NFL-level talent. At that point, teams that recruit the best are going to be the best situated to make a run.
Posted on 12/31/23 at 2:11 pm to Crowknowsbest
The people in charge are trying to copy the NASCAR model, and we all see how that worked.
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