Do You Like What College Football Has Become?

We can only take what the high schools are giving us. They all run spread or T-wing offense. plus all of those goofy cards are used to help players with play calling, most kids aren't ready to just step in and call plays. I don't see things changing very soon so whether you like it or not, this is what cfb is now.

The game is always changing. It won't be this way forever.

It's weird to me that LBs QBs WRs and DBs are virtually indistinguishable in body type and athleticism

It is all cyclical. It will revert back in due time. Right now that is the number one way that you give an offense advantage over the defense. Something has to shift back into the defenses favor at some point.

I wish the NCAA would do like NFL and change the rule about linemen blocking downfield and move it back to one yard downfield like the NFL. I think that will tilt the table back in defense's favor and offenses will change.

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Maybe my problem isn't with Hurts. It may just be I am stubborn as frick and hate that Saban bailed on the old school way of playing offense. Hurts is a great fit for the rpo and read option offense. I just hate it.

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This is what I realized as well.

I really don't like other things besides the spread option stuff you talked about.

Stuff I hate:

1) Megaconferences. South Carolina would never have been in the SEC without them coming into existence, but us having Texas A&M as a permanent opponent is nutty.

Most of our students will never go to a game there. We have no history or geography with them. I get get a hate on thinking about Georgia pretty easily, but have no reaction to A&M whatsoever.

2) I've actually come to prefer the old system where we argued about who was the best over this playoff or BCS stuff.

3) Really tired of seeing whatever school build the latest brick sh*thouse for recruiting purposes. Oregon's disco locker room or any of a number of "academic centers" different teams have built. Come on, a tutoring system is one thing. You really think some place with computer terminal and audiovisual equipment is better than the campus library?

4) This recruiting centric new era. Personally I think Saban kicked it off with his plethora of non-coaching assistants devoted to sending birthday cards to 14 year olds four states over that Alabama MIGHT possibly recruit one day.

5) Increasing ticket prices. I miss the old days and game atmosphere more. Hard to define the difference but when they started adding all these fees and upping prices things changed somehow. South Carolina has a pretty good fan base, but I actually think we had more people back in the days of absolute futility.

Really the only positive I can think of now, is the fact that I can watch pretty much any game I want to now over the internet. Otherwise I think the 80's was a better college football era.

Come on, don't you guys remember flipping between games and saying if Nebraska beats so and so in the Orange Bowl, and Pitt beats Alabama in the Sugar, then the winner of the Cotton will be the champion?

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The game is always changing. It won't be this way forever.

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They keep making it harder and harder to cover people because of the rules. NFL is basically a passing league now because of it.

I hate what college football has become, but not as it pertains to on the field stuff. I hate how it has become NFL-lite with $8 million dollar coaches salaries and the increased separation between the players on the team and the university as an institution of learning and as a community, to the point where it is nearly a team in the town that wears the schools logo but is otherwise unassociated with the university. Also, the sensationalized coverage of the sport wears on me.

As far as spread offenses, HUNH, and fast QBs go, that has existed forever. Although, I have noticed that it seems like the average game score through these first two weeks have been lower, but I have no real stats to back up that claim.