re: Has anybody else lost interest in college football now that teams cost 50 million

It is what it is...

I still root for LSU. Some of my passion is less than it had been, but on gameday I still watch and root, and want them to win.

It's not the same as when I was a kid, but I'm so sure it's due to NIL.

My favorite player as a kid was Dalton Hilliard, but ... I was a kid, and sports was more important to me. And back then, when a player made an impact as a freshman, you knew he'd be there 4 years. And that meant your entire middle school time, or your entire high school time. Which were complete phases of your life.
In that same period, if you were (relatively) lucky, an NFL team might have the same star players the entire course of both middle AND high school. Those guys became synonymous with franchises... I don't remember a Chargers QB before Fouts, or a Steelers QB before Bradshaw. Kinda remember Woodley at the Dolphins, but then Marino was there forever.

Now, my life isn't broken into 3 or 4 yr blocks, and players often don't stay that long anyway. So again, I root for the team, and whoever may be there. But I'm not attached to players anymore.

I used to love college football. Now I just watch highlights, and spend time with the family on Saturdays instead. I hate what the "sport" has become.

No, I still love football and Saturday nights.

I used to love recruiting though, and I couldn't care less about it now.

We need contracts and salary caps.

I don't care if the kids get paid- it's not my money. But I can't emotionally invest into a team that cycles through guys the way we all do now.

Trevor Etienne going from Florida to UGA.

Eli Ricks from LSU to Bama

Aaron Anderson from Bama to LSU

I hate it. I love true rivalries and hatred. This new world is gay af.

I hate the conferences too. Anytime you have conferences and UCLA and Rutgers are in one conference- you've fricked up.

No, but……

Now that the greed and hypocrisy of the athletic departments and coaches has been exposed by NIL, that ugliness is on display for everyone to see,…….and it looks bad. The players (and their families/agents) are showing that they can be just as greedy and self-serving - no reasonable person wants more of that.

I remain hopeful that we will reach an equilibrium soon that allows us to root for that same player for 3 or even 4 years on our favorite SEC teams.

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I do have an interest but the thrill isn’t as strong. It’s got to be reigned in or it’s going to self implode. Multimillion dollar rosters is absolutely insane.

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same here and 100% agree

that number isnt right.......... lets see the receipts

The other side is this though: The best teams on paper don’t always win. No one has higher payrolls than the Yankees or Dodgers but they don’t win it every year. In fact it took the Dodgers years to finally break through despite having the fattest payroll, and the Yankees haven’t won since 2009.

Just saying it’s not automatic. Grit and heart often win the day.

You think LSU wasn't paying Joe Boreaux?

A judge should order all tax payerz funded universities to cancel all sports scholarships, since an university is for academia not sports.
Universities can run their sports clubs as professional organizations.

We have gone from paying players under the table to paying players over the table.