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re: If NIL/transfer portal continue, could it affect your passion/love for college football?
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:05 pm to JamalMurry27
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:05 pm to JamalMurry27
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Hockey is only pure sport left.
100%
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Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:16 pm to JamalMurry27
Hate to agree, but I do. I love soccer, but FIFA is the most corrupt sports organization on the planet.
Interestingly, I checked out a Washington Capitols match while I was home during Thanksgiving. Not as fun as soccer, but not terrible.
Interestingly, I checked out a Washington Capitols match while I was home during Thanksgiving. Not as fun as soccer, but not terrible.
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:22 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
A combination of Jalen Mildew and these free agents. Kinda killed it for me.
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:25 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
Yes. I’ll never be so naive to say I won’t watch it, but the system is very flawed right now.
It’s just different now. College used to be players who just loved playing and wanted to win.
If you get Bryce Underwood money and are destined for a long career in the NFL, why would you give a shite about the 0.1% chance you win a championship? I wouldn’t. I”m not saying they won’t play well, but the actual game becomes less important, which is the one biggest thing college always had on the pros.
It’s just different now. College used to be players who just loved playing and wanted to win.
If you get Bryce Underwood money and are destined for a long career in the NFL, why would you give a shite about the 0.1% chance you win a championship? I wouldn’t. I”m not saying they won’t play well, but the actual game becomes less important, which is the one biggest thing college always had on the pros.
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:27 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
Already has and it'll only get worse until they make the necessary changes.
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:27 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
Already there
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:49 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
It’s becoming that way for me. Unfortunately, I think it’s going to get worse as time goes on with the chaos in the transfer portal, the agents/handlers, and the possibility of players being granted their NLI release after signing with a school. That has tampering written all over it. How are coaches supposed to manage their rosters?
Posted on 12/19/24 at 9:55 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
Yes already has. Will not go out of my way to watch any longer if something else comes up to do. NIL means Name image likeness. I don’t see hardly any of them advertising for a company. They are just getting paid. Scholarship and going to school means nothing and no one auditing it.
Posted on 12/19/24 at 10:37 pm to Jasharts77
quote:ironic everyone that bitches about nil and portal but is disgusted with Milroe. Despite him being able to go to 75% + any school he might have wanted via the portal but took sabans advice and stayed and finished it out at the same school he started at like a true warrior. If he sucked so bad liked you all say it’s on the coach to put a better player in. He started at bama finished at bama but yall hate him then bitch about the portal.
A combination of Jalen Mildew and these free agent
Posted on 12/19/24 at 10:48 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
not for me. I just need to re-adjust.
I loved having 3-4 years with players. Seeing a long term vision evolve, grow, and seeing players develop from year to year was a really rewarding feeling to me, personally, as a fan.
The sped up timeline of things is hard for me to grasp all the way but I'm working on it lol
I loved having 3-4 years with players. Seeing a long term vision evolve, grow, and seeing players develop from year to year was a really rewarding feeling to me, personally, as a fan.
The sped up timeline of things is hard for me to grasp all the way but I'm working on it lol
Posted on 12/19/24 at 11:00 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
Not really.
The most common argument on NIL and the transfer portal is "kids are just hired guns now, they don't love and aren't passionate about the schools they commit to now".
The reality is, it was already like that. You think all those 5*'s that went to Bama, OSU, etc the past 15 years did so because they all grew up massive fans of the school? No.
They went to those schools because of recent success (and in Alabama's case the GOAT) and the thoughts that they have the best chance to get to the NFL by going to those schools. Those were business decisions at the end of the day.
If anything, NIL gives kids a chance to go to the school they actually grew up fans of while still making a business decision (not saying they all do obviously).
The most common argument on NIL and the transfer portal is "kids are just hired guns now, they don't love and aren't passionate about the schools they commit to now".
The reality is, it was already like that. You think all those 5*'s that went to Bama, OSU, etc the past 15 years did so because they all grew up massive fans of the school? No.
They went to those schools because of recent success (and in Alabama's case the GOAT) and the thoughts that they have the best chance to get to the NFL by going to those schools. Those were business decisions at the end of the day.
If anything, NIL gives kids a chance to go to the school they actually grew up fans of while still making a business decision (not saying they all do obviously).
Posted on 12/19/24 at 11:05 pm to EatsleepdrinkLSU
Certainly has made it significantly worse.
Posted on 12/19/24 at 11:15 pm to aero1126
quote:obviously but they were committed to being there and probably developed some passion for the school along the way. You think all bamas championship teams (2009, 11,12,15,17,20 just as a reminder how many) just had a bunch of players thinking about the pros? Hell no. Saban had them focused and doing their best to win for bama. Otherwise they wouldn’t have been so dominate. Of course you don’t grow up loving the place but after sweat blood and tears for 2 years or so a love of your school can develop
They went to those schools because of recent success (and in Alabama's case the GOAT) and the thoughts that they have the best chance to get to the NFL by going to those schools. Those were business decisions at the end of the da
Posted on 12/20/24 at 12:23 am to EatsleepdrinkLSU
College football is fine, quit concerning yourself with the negative things,
Posted on 12/20/24 at 1:12 am to EatsleepdrinkLSU
I think for many of us it already has. Hard for some of us Boomers
To get on board with this. For me
It's the disloyalty. I understand they deserve to make money, but the system, to me is set up for failure. At least install a contract agreement so the player will pay restitution if he walks, and limit the damn portal. I think eventually some of this might be put in to play
But it's getting out of hand already.
With players vanishing like a fart in the wind after 1 season, and some
Were STARTERS.
To get on board with this. For me
It's the disloyalty. I understand they deserve to make money, but the system, to me is set up for failure. At least install a contract agreement so the player will pay restitution if he walks, and limit the damn portal. I think eventually some of this might be put in to play
But it's getting out of hand already.
With players vanishing like a fart in the wind after 1 season, and some
Were STARTERS.
This post was edited on 12/20/24 at 1:14 am
Posted on 12/20/24 at 7:04 am to RT58
I have 50 yd line tickets in TS and did not go to a single game thus year. Season ticket holder since 1980. My enthusiasm is curbed. And I hate it. Just hard to pretend the current model produces players who GAF about my school. CFB in name only.
Posted on 12/20/24 at 7:13 am to Lonnie Utah
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People still love Pro football.
Posted on 12/20/24 at 7:29 am to Lonnie Utah
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People still love Pro football.
Even pro football maintains some stability of roster from year to year
Posted on 12/20/24 at 7:35 am to EatsleepdrinkLSU
Already has.
Posted on 12/20/24 at 7:59 am to aero1126
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The reality is, it was already like that.
No kid back then made a million dollars to go to school. Much less tens of millions. And they certainly weren’t all free agents - EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. What’s happened now is unprecedented not just in college football but in pro sports at any level. Never has an athlete at any level had so much leverage as a kid who was pretty good at football in high school.
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They went to those schools because of recent success (and in Alabama's case the GOAT) and the thoughts that they have the best chance to get to the NFL by going to those schools. Those were business decisions at the end of the day.
While true, many of those former player (in LSU’s case, at least) have become great ambassadors for the school. Many of them take pride in their schools and home states. Their schools recognize them with statues and memorials and retired jerseys. The fans adore them after they leave. The networks even acknowledge where they played in college before every game.
Now? That entire dynamic is purely transactional. See that number up there on the banner? See that memorial? Remember that season? That national championship?
It was because we paid for it. We forked up the money to make it happen.
Oregon is about to dominate for the foreseeable future. They can be so proud of the fact that their billionaire donor was willing to pay for the best players in the country over and above everyone else. Good for them I guess.
Bryce Underwood may have truly loved LSU. All indications were he did. But a man can’t turn down $12 million. Same for the kid at Penn State. It was painful for him to leave his childhood school. But he was made an offer elsewhere.
This is not the same sport that made it so popular. And so, it will become less popular.
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