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College football’s original sin?
Posted on 10/17/26 at 10:50 am
Posted on 10/17/26 at 10:50 am
Graham Coffey of Dawgs Central had an interesting series of tweets yesterday laying out in his view how the Big 10 took Greg Sankey and the SEC to the cleaners in getting them to squander all the advantages they had on the college football landscape by agreeing to a 24-team playoff.
Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports responded with this which I found interesting and made me think.
“This is interesting but speaks to the original sin of college sports. I’ve said it countless times and will say it again.
“In the NFL and NBA, the franchises are business partners first and competitors second.
“In college they are competitors first. All the problems start there.
“ When everything is about a never-ending scoreboard - who makes the most TV money, who gets the most playoff spots, who gets the upper hand in NIL, etc - it leads you into a web of reactionary, bad decisions.”
Thoughts?
Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports responded with this which I found interesting and made me think.
“This is interesting but speaks to the original sin of college sports. I’ve said it countless times and will say it again.
“In the NFL and NBA, the franchises are business partners first and competitors second.
“In college they are competitors first. All the problems start there.
“ When everything is about a never-ending scoreboard - who makes the most TV money, who gets the most playoff spots, who gets the upper hand in NIL, etc - it leads you into a web of reactionary, bad decisions.”
Thoughts?
Posted on 10/17/26 at 10:54 am to InkStainedWretch
Seems like a take that acknowledges a result, but ignores context. So on one hand, the problem with college football is that there’s not some sort of centralized corporate synergy, but on the other hand, the problem is ever-growing, centralized corporate synergies, albeit at a more regionally specific scale?
Posted on 10/17/26 at 10:55 am to Hester Carries
Fair observation.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 2:03 pm to InkStainedWretch
The original sin was creating the BCS to have a championship game. It’s gone to shite since then. It was great to, you know, have good bowls and debates about who was the best team and have good teams play each other to prove who was better, not have so much money flying around and all the crap we have now.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 2:52 pm to Suntiger
Correct take
Posted on 10/17/26 at 5:00 pm to InkStainedWretch
If you want to get philosophical, the original sin was selling tickets to the games.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 5:05 pm to InkStainedWretch
Sankey has been working for Petitti
Posted on 10/17/26 at 5:13 pm to Suntiger
Don’t disagree with you.
Let me add this. Dennis Dodd of CBS did this long tweet on why the expanded playoffs will be a good thing. I’m not going to elaborate, it’s there if anyone wants to look it up.
But someone responded to him this way: “You sound like someone who covers college football as opposed to someone who loves college football.”
Let me add this. Dennis Dodd of CBS did this long tweet on why the expanded playoffs will be a good thing. I’m not going to elaborate, it’s there if anyone wants to look it up.
But someone responded to him this way: “You sound like someone who covers college football as opposed to someone who loves college football.”
Posted on 10/17/26 at 7:57 pm to Suntiger
Yes, that is correct. In the 90s when the Big Ten and Pac Ten held to the Rose Bowl and did not want to be part of the BCS and the other conferences made the deal with ABC it was the end. There was nothing wrong with the bowl games and the writers and coaches voting for a national champion.
Posted on 10/17/26 at 8:28 pm to InkStainedWretch
Selling their souls to the Bowls, thus never allowing a regional to national playoff system to organically develop. And so 100 years later we're letting even bigger money bailing wire and duct tape a solution.
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