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I don't think NIL or the portal either one is the issue - I think it is the experience of watching college football in person or on TV. Viewership is up because the alternative is some half assed series on Netflix that requires one to actually pay attention to....sports are background noise for the vast majority of people tuned in....they couldn't tell you what down and distance it is....they have it on because there is nothing else to turn on. For actual fans the product is almost untenable. The stoppage for commercials and reviews of calls on the field ruin the flow. Its bad on TV....its like watching paint dry in person. Currently there is heightened interest because Indiana and Vandys are competitive, That is not going to last, that window is going to shut because the powerhouse programs have always been better at managing their programs and over a short period of time will prove to be better at doing it with NIL and the portal. When that happens and its Ohio State and Alabama every year again interest will wane. Live sports do well on TV because they are the only compelling thing on TV that doesn't require much effort to view....when fans are not going to the games in person because the experience is intolerable because of commercial breaks the sport will suffer irrevesibly...and that day is coming and not too far down the road.

Yeah, I watch enough Netflix now when I have enough time, that regular TV with its commercials, even when watching my Longhorns play, is hard to take.

For the same reasons, I listen to Apple Music or Sirius in my truck now, and avoid FM radio with all of its distracting commercials…

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Posted by Old School Tex

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Posted on 1/27/26 at 12:29 pm to giveemhell

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Barring that, it would probably take an act of Congress.

Yeah, and our federal politicians can barely keep the government running… I’m not seeing them coming up with any thoughtful collegiate athletics strategic planning legislation in the near future…

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Posted by Globetrotter747

Member since Sep 2017

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Posted on 1/27/26 at 12:53 pm to AwgustaDawg

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when fans are not going to the games in person because the experience is intolerable because of commercial breaks the sport will suffer irrevesibly

Ironically the less intense interest there is in the sport the closer you would get to what CFB is actually supposed to be: an extracurricular activity at an institution of higher learning played by legitimate students who are there to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, etc.

The money and win-at-all-costs attitude of fans is how you end up with a perverted sport with illiterate freaks of nature on the field who are a better fit for a penitentiary than a college campus and coaches with nine figure contracts on the sidelines who drive Ferraris to practice.

If the big money dried up, the only people who would be hurt by it are players and coaches who shouldn’t be on campus anyway. So who gives a frick? CFB doesn’t have to be a multibillion dollar entertainment leviathan to exist. It is played at many schools no one here has even heard of.

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