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Transfer portal for fans and boosters.

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To the NFL.

If I’m going to watch paid professionals make millions playing a game with no loyalty to my school, I’m going to watch the elite of the elite do it. Guys who’ve earned it and have to bust arse just to stay on a roster.

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Beck is due for a bad game..

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Can’t let that running back get going. If I were Pete I would dare Beck to beat me. If he does oh well.

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You guys crying about having to learn new player names, etc are just funny. Who the heck cares about their names. We root for our TEAM and the players are lucky to be on those teams. I could care less about any player individually or as a person. They are just 1 of 11 on the field wearing my teams uniform and helmet. They don’t know me and I don’t know them.

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That’s actually a really good point. Then WHY TF are they making MILLLIONS off their “NAME IMAGE AND LIKENESS?”


It’s pay-for-play with no rules. It’s fricking anarchy with hired mercenaries. Fans root for their schools and the players are the beneficiaries of that school fandom.

It’s like this guy was hired to destroy the conference.

And sign off on the death of college football.

He’s been an embarrassment publicly from day 1 and he inherited the SEC at its absolute peak with all the momentum and cache. A blind monkey couldn’t screw it up yet he has.

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NIL isn't what has eroded the SEC's advantage. Unlimited and unrestricted transfers is the culprit. The South is the center mass of talent in high school football. Sure, some kids will leave the region but most will stay reasonably close within the region. The restrictive nature of transferring allowed the SEC plus the handful of Big-12 (now in SEC) and ACC teams serious about football to hoard all that talent. Now these schools are getting their depth picked off and often these transfers do not stay in their region because the decision-making about school choice for someone at 20 is a bit different than when they're 17/18 and never left home.

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This is the correct answer. “They dominated for 20 years cause they were cheating and everyone else was squeaky clean” is about as low IQ lazy take as it gets.

There’s no question. The SEC’s advantage of keeping Southeastern talent stacked on rosters for 4 years has been gutted.

By design.

The SEC flew too close to the Sun.

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NIL and the portal is the death knell for the SEC. How ironic.

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That was the goal.

Just no give a shite at all.

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Southerners looked the other way -- and even ate their own for being a rat, see Phil Fulmer -- in order to gain football success so they could say exact same thing to the north, who they resent for obvious reasons. "It's the SEC. If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'."

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This is a shitty conspiracy theory, and I’m a conspiracy guy.

“I know a way we can get back at them damn Yanks for 1863!”

Or, black kids wanted to stay close to home and play in front of momma. Occam’s Razor.

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SEC fans are shocked that other schools can also be good once paying players became completely legal and above board and the SEC did not have their past advantage.

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This take has staying power because it gives northerners a sense of moral superiority over southerners which is like sustenance to them. It can’t be that Saban or Urban Meyer or Les Miles were just good coaches that were able to stack talent and keep it close to home.

Nah they were all cheating while the rest of the country was squeaky clean.

Low IQ take.