re: Curt Cignetti: “College football won’t exist the way we’re going right now…”

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BUT it the fact that coaches who are personally benefiting from the situation are pointing out that it is problematic contradicts your claim that only big name programs who benefitted under the old system are concerned

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Exactly

And he might be a little upset cause his #2;Jackets couldn't even make it out of the regionals with home field advantage.

Get lost nerd!

History will simply prove you guys wrong. No matter how much whining you do and no matter over 50 years of age fAnd threaten to “leave the sport” the sport will continue strong because you are being replaced with fans who love the playoff system and have no problem with the big money. Just because a bunch of old grumpy coaches are whining in the press while also taking calls from agents and stealing players from each other and you guys buy it is just funny.

If DeBoer came out tomorrow and said he was standing in principle and wouldn’t take portal guys and wouldn’t pay anyone over 100K so Bama could field a competitive volleyball team he would be run out of town within a week. It’s not changing because teams aren’t going back to allowing just a few cheaters to win. The public loves a free market.

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False! Bad product

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On the field?

How so?

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Just because a bunch of old grumpy coaches are whining in the press 

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You mean guys like Cignetti?

The vast majority of coaches and AD's are saying the system is unsustainable. You cannot have a team full of mercenaries with little contractual obligations leave after 6 months.

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What is worse is all of you idiots that eat up the outright falsehoods these multi-millionaire coaches throw around

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What falsehoods?

Unlimited transfers? Unlimited NIL deals?Players getting 7 years of eligibility?

How in the world are these new rules helping AU? Or are just happy that Bama isn't dominating like it used to?

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you are being replaced with fans who love the playoff system and have no problem with the big money

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Those new fans are going to get priced out of the market. ADs are already having to find ways to recoup some of the cash being revenue shared directly from the schools. They are also going to have to deal with booster money being eaten up by NIL rather than going to facility upgrades and maintenance. It’s the reason the push for 24 teams in the playoffs is being promoted so hard despite fans saying it’s too many. It’s already affecting the Gameday experience as everything gets monetized and corporatized.

Casual fans also have zero to do with the way the system runs. The old system you complain about where supposedly only some teams were allowed to spend money under the table while other teams suffered losing because they did it the right way has been replaced by a system where teams with the richest boosters who can definitely pay more rise to the top. It’s not a leveling of the field; it’s a more dramatic tilt in a different direction. How is that better?

It’s not like pro sports where all athlete salaries are paid from income and TV revenue. NIL payments are all non-recouped costs, and every year the price to be competitive is going up without some regulation. How long is that sustainable for more than a handful of teams?

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- Something has to be done in 12/24 months or universities can’t handle this

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This is not a falsehood. There are already universities cutting sports. There are power 4 schools running multimillion dollar deficits. It’s not going to hurt the biggest brands for a while, but there are some schools who are already hurting. If $40 million+ in booster cash going straight to players in NIL is what it takes to be competitive every year, its is going to effect how much boosters donate to schools. It’s ludicrous to think otherwise. How are schools going to replace those lost donations?

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They will solve this problem and college football will go on as the big business it has become in the last 30-40 years.

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Yep. They will pass the bill that is currently before Congress and perhaps then we can start seeing a return to sanity after the last four years of anarchy.

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Then you describe the dilemma as more of a business problem of what money is going to go where. Boosters money going directly to players instead of to the hallowed ivory towers

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They will solve this problem and college football will go on

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The second line is kind of the point Cignetti was making. The problem needs solving. You seem to have conceded the point that there is a problem at least.

As to the first, are you under the impression that universities operate without money? This whole notion that sports is a money printing machine is juvenile. The money isn’t unlimited and the costs of operating an athletic department are just going to go up. Look up how many athletic departments are in the red vs in the black. You think cuts won’t hurt the fan experience? Outside of spiraling prices and season ticket surcharges, you are going to get nickeled and dimed out the wazzoo. You think AU would’ve opened that new arena for basketball, which has been awesome for that program, if NIL was in place 5 years earlier?

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I prefer letting the free market work, no government intervention.

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This isn't about the free market. We are talking about government institutions, not private entities. The vast majority of the schools involved in this dilemma are funded almost entirely by federal and state money. In short, our tax dollars. There is no better example of government intervention ever being needed than this situation we find ourselves in right here.