re: Mbakwe posting TikToks about how thankful we are to have him back. Arrogance on display.

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You continually have the worst takes

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Dude, this is the problem. The shitheads are rewarded with money and attention in 2024 in a way they really weren't in 2015. Combine that with the fact that coaches can't really discipline the way they used to for fear of running off a slew of callow 19 year olds into the transfer portal, and the generalized societal laissez faire attitude toward shitty behavior, and the end result is just a fun house mirror version of college football.

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Social media is one of the biggest mistakes our species has ever made.

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Dude, this is the problem. The shitheads are rewarded with money and attention in 2024 in a way they really weren't in 2015. Combine that with the fact that coaches can't really discipline the way they used to for fear of running off a slew of callow 19 year olds into the transfer portal, and the generalized societal laissez faire attitude toward shitty behavior, and the end result is just a fun house mirror version of college football.

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Yep. And one day, in the not-so-distant future, fans will "opt out." There have already been studies that show that the younger generation does watch college football like we did.

I was expecting something much worse given the thread title. This is a nothing burger. And I'm in my old man yells at clouds stage.

LMAO it’s not weird to talk about what our players are posting on social media. “Kids” getting paid millions are fair game for fans to pay attention to what they’re posting the day after leaving the transfer portal.

It’s ridiculous these “kids” get ANYTHING til they prove themselves.

The way to end it all and bring back sanity is make them sit a year if they transfer.

Sure portal on out. Collect your NIL. Go to your new school. You can even redshirt. But you will sit a year.

Personally, I find this to be way worse. I don’t feel like the University should highlight children who keep them hostage. Not sure this builds the right culture in the program.

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Personally, I find this to be way worse. I don’t feel like the University should highlight children who keep them hostage. Not sure this builds the right culture in the program.

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First of all. I don't know what I just watched. Secondly, none of these players are holding their Universities "hostage". Not one single player is doing this.

Using your leverage in a negotiation isn't holding someone hostage. The University or "Collective" or whatever else can choose to meet the terms set by the player (if they believe he's worth it) or simply make the determination that they can't afford the terms. Alabama did the former.

Fans all over the country, big program or small are struggling with this new dynamic. College football is a multi-billion dollar sport and the players are professionals now. College football is professional football, and what we're watching are the antics of professional athletes. Personally, I'm grounded in this reality.

Under this "new system", players are doing exactly what they're allowed to do by the people who put the system in place. For the time being, lawyers and judges have fricked up this sport. Not the players.

And the "culture" part of it. Every program has to deal with this. The Deboer's, Smart's, Day's and Kelly's of the world are just going to have to adapt.

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The thing is when we get great players like this we celebrate and there is no issue.

Even right now we're hoping to get the Miami WR. If he takes our offer, I'm quite sure Miami fans won't be happy about that and neither will their staff but they do the same thing so how dare they complain?

The issue has always been the universities, ADs and broadcast networks heavily monetizing college football. Once they did that the coaches took their cut, the other sports did, the universities did, ADs got raises, etc.. yet they tried to leave out the players instead of making a structured way to pay them as well.

Well to all the people who said "they are already getting paid with a scholarship!". Thanks you shitheads because YOU were part of the problem.

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That's a very old way of thinking that I used to hold on to as well.

Also, what alot of folks conveniently ignore is that Alabama and all the other big timers politely show the door to mass quantities of players they choose not to "negotiate" with. In fact, Alabama "processes" many more players than they negotiate to keep.

What we all have to get used to is that the players can now "process" Alabama, Georgia, LSU, OSU and whoever else just as easily as they can "process" the players, and that's the part we're really bitching about.