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re: Curt Cignetti: “College football won’t exist the way we’re going right now…”
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:29 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:29 pm to RollTide1987
quote:and for indiana, they can thank modern college football for that if that does happen
For another, it's a Cinderella run until it isn't
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Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:30 pm to WestCoastAg
*Sigh*
You're too easy.
LINK
You're too easy.
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The NCAA settlement is accelerating Olympic sports cuts across college athletic departments, forcing more than 415 programs to shut down or consolidate since May 2024 as universities scramble to fund athlete revenue sharing.
Across the country, athletes are hearing the same quiet message: this season will be the last.
Swimming teams have been eliminated. Tennis programs have disappeared. Track and field rosters have been consolidated. What was once considered the backbone of the American Olympic development system is now under strain from financial pressures that few campuses were prepared to absorb.
At the center of this shift is the $2.8 billion House v. NCAA antitrust settlement. The agreement allows schools to directly share revenue with athletes, fundamentally changing the economics of college sports. While the move is widely viewed as overdue compensation reform for football and men’s basketball players, it has created immediate budget challenges for athletic departments that already operated on thin margins.
To comply with revenue sharing and new roster limits, schools are cutting non-revenue sports. Olympic programs, which rarely generate ticket sales or television revenue, have become the first to go.
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Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:32 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:34 pm to WestCoastAg
I'm glad you think that's funny. Because those collegiate athletes who would normally train on collegiate campuses in the United States for the Olympics will be re-directed overseas. I suppose it's a small price to pay to continue to lose to Texas.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:36 pm to RollTide1987
quote:100%
I suppose it's a small price to pay
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:42 pm to WestCoastAg
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100%
I understand your frustration.
Y’all spent more money than God on NIL, dropped $77 million to buy Jimbo Fisher out of his contract, and still can’t buy a championship in the SEC. What's worse is that you've had the bagman reputation for years without ever getting the results. Now you’re out here defending the Wild West because your school finally gets to do legally what they were already doing under the table…and you’re still mid. That’s gotta sting.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:45 pm to RollTide1987
quote:LINK
Now you’re out here defending the Wild West
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:52 pm to WestCoastAg
Okay. And...?
You're still defending the Wild West because you don't want to do anything about reforming NIL. You can call yourself pro-life while being for the termination of pregnancy in matters of rape and incest. Regardless of what you call yourself, you're still pro-choice if you are for terminating the pregnancy in any form or fashion.
You're still defending the Wild West because you don't want to do anything about reforming NIL. You can call yourself pro-life while being for the termination of pregnancy in matters of rape and incest. Regardless of what you call yourself, you're still pro-choice if you are for terminating the pregnancy in any form or fashion.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 3:53 pm to RollTide1987
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quote:pretty insane analogy to make in a discussion about college football
You can call yourself pro-life while being for the termination of pregnancy in matters of rape and incest. Regardless of what you call yourself, you're still pro-choice if you are for terminating the pregnancy in any form or fashion.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 4:43 pm to RollTide1987
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James Madison was in the CFP last year. Within a week of losing to Oregon their entire starting offensive line-up portaled out.
That’s bad?
Posted on 5/30/26 at 4:51 pm to NIH
It sucks actually
Different rosters every year
3 or 4 schools in 4 years
No heart, no passion - playing for a check
Do they even go to school? Haven’t heard of an academically ineligible kid in years….
No more watching a local kid who was the 25th signee work and hit the field his jr/sr year
Different rosters every year
3 or 4 schools in 4 years
No heart, no passion - playing for a check
Do they even go to school? Haven’t heard of an academically ineligible kid in years….
No more watching a local kid who was the 25th signee work and hit the field his jr/sr year
Posted on 5/30/26 at 4:56 pm to xBirdx
Posted on 5/30/26 at 5:25 pm to danilo
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That’s bad?
If you are a James Madison fan I'm sure it kind of stings, and also highlights how difficult it is becoming for G5 teams to sustain any kind of competitive posture in this new era we find ourselves in.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 5:54 pm to RollTide1987
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Schools 'choose' to pay because if they don't, they lose to the ones that do
Make this statement 10-20-30 years ago and it still holds true. Funny that its posted by a Bama fan who is now blaming the system because now everybody can do what they were doing before.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 7:04 pm to RollTide1987
The actual boogeyman is a lack of emotional indoctrination among younger fans when the illusion of school spirit dies.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 10:08 pm to Hold That Tiger 10
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Make this statement 10-20-30 years ago and it still holds true. Funny that its posted by a Bama fan who is now blaming the system because now everybody can do what they were doing before.
Yeah, Bama benefited in the old bagman days. We know. But this isn't the same. Unlimited legal NIL and total portal chaos created a different beast: massive roster turnover every year and non-revenue sports dying. It's not "fair pay." It's an unregulated arms race. Even big programs should want something more sustainable than annual free agency.
This post was edited on 5/30/26 at 10:09 pm
Posted on 5/31/26 at 1:43 am to RollTide1987
College football already doesn’t even exist
Posted on 5/31/26 at 8:10 am to RollTide1987
Roll tide,
You are correct. Except for the guardrails. The minute you put in guard rails teams like yours will cheat it because it’s your schools identity. So while we agree the previous bagman era benefitted teams that cheated you seem to think this new era of an “arms race” is worse. Take it from those of us who didn’t win Nattys after Natty and raise our kids watching our school win - it’s not worse at all. It’s now a free and open market where agents are free to tell a school what the rate is, what Bama offered, and then each school can make a decision on how bad they want that player. That’s a million times better than having a player commit to you at LB so you stop recruiting that position and then on signing day Clemson gives the player a bag so he flips and now you are hosed. My team had flips every year and it was all bags. I’m in south Georgia and know a lot of boosters who are my friends and it was openly talked about every year about how Auburn, Clemson, FSU, Bama, UGA had to pony up to get a kid.
Sorry, but you’ve only walked in our shoes for a few years and you still made the playoffs and listen to how you want to change the system. Try losing for 60 years and you’ll be ready to burn it all down. I’ll take an open market arms race any day to a system with “guard rails” that will be cheated by the usual suspects.
I’m sure you’ll get your wish and a system and some organization will be out in charge and then everyone will simply cheat it. Why shouldn’t they because cheating built dynasties and packed stadiums. And unless the organization investigators are the FBI there is no way they can track the money. They will rely on self reporting by the school which is akin to asking the wolf how many sheep they killed.
And if non revenue sports die away then that’s on them. I love track and field but those athletes have no fundamental right to a scholarship. No different than football players. If the sport can’t stand in its own then let it die away. There are plenty of clubs for personal hobbies that no one wants to pay for. I would hav loved to have had a scholarship to play 6’ and under basketball but no one was willing to pay to watch hence no scholarship. And colleges never should have become the focal point for Olympic athletes.
You are correct. Except for the guardrails. The minute you put in guard rails teams like yours will cheat it because it’s your schools identity. So while we agree the previous bagman era benefitted teams that cheated you seem to think this new era of an “arms race” is worse. Take it from those of us who didn’t win Nattys after Natty and raise our kids watching our school win - it’s not worse at all. It’s now a free and open market where agents are free to tell a school what the rate is, what Bama offered, and then each school can make a decision on how bad they want that player. That’s a million times better than having a player commit to you at LB so you stop recruiting that position and then on signing day Clemson gives the player a bag so he flips and now you are hosed. My team had flips every year and it was all bags. I’m in south Georgia and know a lot of boosters who are my friends and it was openly talked about every year about how Auburn, Clemson, FSU, Bama, UGA had to pony up to get a kid.
Sorry, but you’ve only walked in our shoes for a few years and you still made the playoffs and listen to how you want to change the system. Try losing for 60 years and you’ll be ready to burn it all down. I’ll take an open market arms race any day to a system with “guard rails” that will be cheated by the usual suspects.
I’m sure you’ll get your wish and a system and some organization will be out in charge and then everyone will simply cheat it. Why shouldn’t they because cheating built dynasties and packed stadiums. And unless the organization investigators are the FBI there is no way they can track the money. They will rely on self reporting by the school which is akin to asking the wolf how many sheep they killed.
And if non revenue sports die away then that’s on them. I love track and field but those athletes have no fundamental right to a scholarship. No different than football players. If the sport can’t stand in its own then let it die away. There are plenty of clubs for personal hobbies that no one wants to pay for. I would hav loved to have had a scholarship to play 6’ and under basketball but no one was willing to pay to watch hence no scholarship. And colleges never should have become the focal point for Olympic athletes.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 8:24 am to NIH
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College football is better than ever. Look at the ratings.
Of course that is why I stopped watching in 2019, a man who can tell you Bama scores from the 1920s and 30s, whop see a s[ort he can not stand now. No discipline, no continuity, no team chemis6ry, its all ME, ME., ME, ME, ME BS.
Posted on 5/31/26 at 8:31 am to RunningJacket
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It’s now a free and open market where agents are free to tell a school what the rate is, what Bama offered, and then each school can make a decision on how bad they want that player. That’s a million times better than having a player commit to you at LB so you stop recruiting that position and then on signing day Clemson gives the player a bag so he flips and now you are hosed
It’s funny you use a linebacker in Clemson analogy after what happened just a couple of months ago. You actually had a guy in class at Clemson receiving texts from another school who proceeded to chase the bag elsewhere. It’s the combination of NIL and unlimited transfer portal nonsense that people are griping about.
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