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Is College football broken?
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:27 pm
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:27 pm
The same handful of schools just continually dominate, eat up every top recruit, rinse & repeat. Expanded playoff won’t do shite either. Look at the current recruiting classes lol. The rich are just getting richer.
Not sure what the fix is or if a fix is needed. Would scholarship reductions even the playing field a bit? Instead of 85 you go down to 65 or something. Can’t stockpile 5 star talent. Just seems like this ain’t really healthy for the long term interest of the sport. But what do I know?
Not sure what the fix is or if a fix is needed. Would scholarship reductions even the playing field a bit? Instead of 85 you go down to 65 or something. Can’t stockpile 5 star talent. Just seems like this ain’t really healthy for the long term interest of the sport. But what do I know?
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Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:28 pm to ChiGator
Eventually a lot of people will stop giving a shite.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:29 pm to ChiGator
It’s starting to get old seeing the same 3-4 teams all the time.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:29 pm to ChiGator
Florida FOMO?
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:29 pm to Wally Sparks
An NFL roster has 53 guys and like 10 practice players. I don’t see why these college programs need 86 dudes with 10+ PWOs.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:30 pm to ChiGator
i hope shitty ratings entice changes, who wants to watch blowouts or the same opponents over and over again?
eta: Just as TCU gave me a sliver of hope for parity in the sport they get obliterated. Outside of the Clemson outlier, if you aren't pulling in top 5 recruiting class talent just count yourself out. So now it turns to how do you bring in that talent? How did Kirby start bringing in top talent after the dog shite that Richt left him? What did he do to convince so much top talent to come play for him without much of a record outside of coordinating the defense at Bama? Saban had a championship at LSU to show for his abilities at HC, and a stint in the NFL.
eta: Just as TCU gave me a sliver of hope for parity in the sport they get obliterated. Outside of the Clemson outlier, if you aren't pulling in top 5 recruiting class talent just count yourself out. So now it turns to how do you bring in that talent? How did Kirby start bringing in top talent after the dog shite that Richt left him? What did he do to convince so much top talent to come play for him without much of a record outside of coordinating the defense at Bama? Saban had a championship at LSU to show for his abilities at HC, and a stint in the NFL.
This post was edited on 1/9/23 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:30 pm to ChiGator
Been broken for years
Salary cap this amateur sport
Salary cap this amateur sport
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:30 pm to ChiGator
The lack of parity is ridiculous. Hopefully, the expanded playoff will help.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:30 pm to ChiGator
The best football players are just in the south. As populations in the south continue to boom, the love of high school football stays at a fever pitch, and money and support continues to develop football programs versus teams at high schools that used to be reserved for the wealthy Midwest and California schools, the gap will only make it worse.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:31 pm to Flynn2Byrd
Lol yeah. But realistically florida could become the same thing. Big program with lots of money and huge advantages over most other programs.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:31 pm to ChiGator
If CFB is about winning a national championship, then yes it is broken.
Did everyone really think the powers that be were just too dumb to invent a playoff until 2014?
There’s a reason CFB was focused on rivalries, winning your conference, etc. for close to 150 years. Brock Bowers, the best player on the field tonight, is from Napa, California. He probably wouldn’t have gone to UGA in the old era.
The truth is the BCS and the playoff to a greater extent have just exposed inconvenient truths about the game.
Did everyone really think the powers that be were just too dumb to invent a playoff until 2014?
There’s a reason CFB was focused on rivalries, winning your conference, etc. for close to 150 years. Brock Bowers, the best player on the field tonight, is from Napa, California. He probably wouldn’t have gone to UGA in the old era.
The truth is the BCS and the playoff to a greater extent have just exposed inconvenient truths about the game.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:32 pm to Oilfieldbiology
It’s still the same 3 or 4 programs in the south that have dominated the last decade
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:33 pm to ChiGator
Teams go on runs. UGA is on one now. But you don’t have to go back very far to find them not contending. Clemson went on one also. The only real constants have been Ohio St and Alabama.
LSU jumps in every four years. Other teams have good years and make it.
It’s no different in the NFL. Chiefs, Packers, Steelers, Seahawks, etc. All have runs that last 4-5 years. Patriots went on a ridiculous run.
LSU jumps in every four years. Other teams have good years and make it.
It’s no different in the NFL. Chiefs, Packers, Steelers, Seahawks, etc. All have runs that last 4-5 years. Patriots went on a ridiculous run.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:33 pm to ChiGator
Yes and there’s no real fix, the big dogs realized they could just out resource 90% of the field and here we are.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:33 pm to Dr Rosenrosen
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Hopefully, the expanded playoff will help.
It won’t. All the “fixes” implemented the past few years have made the problem worse.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:33 pm to ChiGator
It’s been like this forever. It is a sport of dynasties and runs and very few programs possess everything necessary to ascend to championship level, even fewer have what it takes to maintain it for long periods of time.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:35 pm to ChiGator
NFL rosters don’t lose 25 players a year. And don’t only have players for 3-4 years.
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:35 pm to ChiGator
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An NFL roster has 53 guys and like 10 practice players. I don’t see why these college programs need 86 dudes with 10+ PWOs.
Because there is generally a huge physical difference between 18 and 22 year olds and the programs that are good, not great, develop fringe talent and would suffer the worst under majors reductions in scholarships.
This post was edited on 1/9/23 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:35 pm to Dr Rosenrosen
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The lack of parity is ridiculous. Hopefully, the expanded playoff will help
It’ll make some feel more relevant but if anything you’ve given the big dogs more room for a mulligan. It’ll be the same teams there in the end most years
Posted on 1/9/23 at 10:37 pm to Xenophon
Well yeah but College rosters have incoming recruiting classes every year to replenish. Think how much extra talent would be floating around if 20 plus guys from UGA, Bama, LSU etc all had to find a different school
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