48% of players drafted this year transferred at least once.

And we have officially arrived in the minor league era.

The new normal

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For fans who followed the game before the portal, this is a sad thing. But as time passes and more fans become fans under the current landscape, it will be their normal and see nothing wrong with it. The rest of us will be just the old guys standing in our lawn screaming at the clouds.

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When I was a teenager I remember my uncle would constantly complain about TV times. He was in the boomer generation and went to UGA in the mid 60s. He would always say that college football was meant to be played at 1pm on Saturday like everyone always used to. As a teenager that made zero sense to me since now games were on TV and everyone could watch, plus games at night (or even 3:30) were just as neat as 1pm.

Often times nowadays I catch myself wondering if my children will one day look at my tales from the old days in teh same way. At present I don't think it's apples to apples though. Whether you play at 1pm in front of only the stands or at 3:30 in front of millions on TV, the actual game itself is still the same. The game time is just superfluous details. All the shite going on now is fundamentally changing the actual game itself which sucks.

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If you have a chance, watch some games in the 70's, 80's and up to the mid 90's, then fast forward to around 2010 and forward and let me know what you notice. There should be a noticeable difference in how the game is played

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um, yes...but that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. The style of play and how the game looks on the field in 1970 compared to 2010 has less than nothing to do with the game being played at 1pm or 3:30.