re: College Football has become so fricking stupid.

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You made the claim that fans were unloyal to the players. All those words you just typed and you still havent backed up your claim that fans are unloyal to players. Are you now conceding that your claim isnt true?

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If it’s “unloyal” for a player to transfer, why is it not “unloyal” for a program to bring in a better player through the portal and put an established player who’s been in the program on the bench?

It’s not a difficult point to understand.

So basically what it amounts to is like the AHSAA….The private schools that can recruit playing the public schools that have to use players in their school district. Makes total sense now!

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The fans dont bring in transfers. Coaches do.

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The coaches are an extension of fan expectations - and it’s all about winning (for every major program) with whatever players can win.

No one is loyal.

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Exec 1: “What if… we took the worst aspects of the NFL, enhanced them by making contracts vague and year to year while asking fans to pay more and more while giving them less and less in return?”

Exec 2: “Brilliant! Then when we’ve taken that as far as it can go we’ll invite private equity in to maximize profits while destroying any vestiges of brand loyalty!”

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Enshittification. Look it up. MBAs are a cancer.

They USED TO represent your university and most even had pride in the jersey they wore. But then we let money and big business infiltrate the sport and they have ruined it for their own gain. I have been watching Alabama football for over 50 years. Most of it has been very enjoyable and engrossing. I never missed a Bama game either on TV or the radio. The players cared about giving their all and they cared about winning. Most of them weren’t going pro so they played for the love of the game and their school. You could only transfer one time without a waiver from the NCAA, and you had to sit out a year if you did so you could count transfers on one hand. Players got a degree because most of them were going to need it. The traditions and pageantry and rivalries were embraced as part of the fabric of the sport. Regionalism was strong. You only got to see your team on TV 3 or 4 times a year if you were lucky and rooted for the blue bloods. If you were an Ole Miss or a South Carolina fan, you would only get to watch your team on TV if they were playing a blue blood, usually only once a year. It all worked and the sport was fun. It remained fun when ABC’s monopoly on college football was broken and suddenly the number of televised games exploded. You could watch college football from 11am until past midnight on Saturdays. The bowls were relevant as they decided who won the natty.

Then about the time expansion started was the beginning of the end of the sport and since then it’s been pretty much all downhill until now we are left with this commercialized, bastardized version of professional college football where everyone is just looking for a buck, nobody cares who or what they are playing for. There is no loyalty, no school pride, rivalries are thrown aside and your roster changes by about 50% every year, as new mercenaries are brought in to replace the old ones who have moved on to a bigger paycheck, either in the NFL or in Texas. Championships aren’t won on the field or in recruiting, they are won in the NIL collective. I no longer care to spend my Saturdays glued to the TV as the sport is unwatchable. I’ll never understand why we had to go and kill the game I loved so much.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” should be the epitaph on college football’s headstone. We fixed it to death.

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I'd rather Bama sit on money than participate in this nonsense.

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that's where I'm at. I'd rather not even participate in it. Field a team of guys that love the school. Coach them up to be the best players / men possible and move on with it.

I have no problem with the sentiment, but the cynic in me says that would last about as long as the first time we got a mudhole stomped in us by one of those rich teams.

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that's where I'm at. I'd rather not even participate in it. Field a team of guys that love the school. Coach them up to be the best players / men possible and move on with it.

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Yeah, but at that point you might as well shut down the program. We would just be a punching bag for everyone else and the team would be losing money.

Im not opposed to it. Put money in bball and build up a soccer program then call it a day.

Have we done a comprehensive breakdown on NIL? I'm under the assumption the poorer the student is, etc. plays a factor in nil. Arch Manning gives nil back bc his family is rich, I don't see that happening with Joe Poor.