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The portal should and will remain. That’s what creates parity as players move around for playing time. The old days had coaches flat out lieing to players knowing they were held hostage for 4 years so teams like Bama and UGA could bagman 4 and 5 stars and keep them away from other teams. My teams old coach Bobby Dodd did the same thing in the 50’s when we were a top 10 program. Now, the depth at the power schools is gone and it’s created a great sport where every fanbase has hope. Give it another decade and there will be very few power schools but the sport will be much healthier as everyone can win or lose every week.

I thought iron sharpened iron. Maybe it was charmin wiping charmin all season.

We’ll be at 32 within a decade. Unbalanced schedules makes it impossible to have any real clue as to who are the top teams. College football has been a fraud sport because they used polls to decide who was best. What are polls? Nothing but opinion and this board proves opinions are varied. Ohio St losing to Miami shows that the polls have been WRONG all season. Yet we made a playoff based on them.

Right now we can all list the preseason top 10 next year yet and the entire season starts out biased. It’s a joke. Expansion and auto qualifiers will end the polls which is what needs to happen.

The BIG has won back to back Natties and dominating the bowl season. Just because one team loses doesn’t mean anything. If that’s the case the SEC is trash then which we all know they aren’t.

It’s a cycle of course. Losing begets losing which means fewer fans and worse facilities. Cheating begets winning and more of those. You guys better enjoy the rest of Kirby’s career because when he leaves along with your major advantage being gone you’ll be back to normal. And don’t worry our bagmen were definitely few and far between but the fear of the NCAA is gone. Give it time and the landscape of the sport will change. Who would have ever thought that Indiana would be a power just 3 years ago.

Yes. And we aren’t whining. And we sure haven’t been beating our chest the past 20 years because we were winning games by cheating. That’s the difference. Listen, I have no problem with cheating and I’ve been a long advocate for GT to use the bagman system like Auburn, UGA, Clemson, and FSU was doing. I am friends with several Auburn and UGA bagmen down here in South Georgia and I get it. If you want to win you have to buy the better players. It’s just funny now that everyone can use the bagmen that SEC fans are screaming that the sport need la to be burned down and start over. UGA benefited for years by buying players and beating us. We all knew it wasn’t a fair game. It’s getting fairer though.

Don’t worry- as we expand the playoff we’ll be using more weekends.

It was painful watching Luka hoist the championship trophy last season. This back to back for the Lakers is gonna be tough to watch.

If it wasn’t for the expanded playoffs fans of Ole Miss, Miami, Bama, and Oregon would be sitting at home waiting for a worthless bowl game that half their teams would have opted out of. Instead they are preparing for a meaningful game. The playoffs are keeping fanbases alive.

You guys obviously just started watching college football if you think it’s bad and needs fixing. Where were when guys like me, a GT fan, was pointing out that Dooley was buying players and won a Natty in 1980 by doing it. Where were you guys when guys like me were pointing out that universities were admitting people who could barely speak English let alone legitimately complete a university major.

Those of you who say stupid things like “let’s burn it down and start over now that these players aren’t real students” should have been saying this 50 years ago. But you didn’t because your teams benefitted from allowing moron athletes into your school. Now, that everyone can admit morons who can run and jump you think the world is ending and suddenly we just burn it down. It’s been needed burning for 50 years but now that is impacting your team you want changes, I laugh at you because 90% of teams have been dealing with this crap for decades while your teams paid recruits to flip and you sure didn’t mind it when holding up trophies.