re: NIL was supposed to make the strong stronger. But is it actually creating more parity?

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There may be SLIGHTLY more parity but no, the parity argument because of last night and UGA/Bama is bullshite.

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The same teams may be the best on average, but you can’t convince me there isn’t more week to week volatility/inconsistency in the portal/NIL era.

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Seeing all these upsets and parity across cfb. Now kids who would never have considered going to a tier 2 school will go there if it means there’s a chance to play and make $$. Granted it won’t be as much money as being an elite player at a big school - but the combination of NIL and transfer portal seems like it’s actually creating more opportunities at other schools beyond the blue bloods. With scholarship limits, those kids gotta go somewhere. But not only that…now the kids at the elite schools who are making a ton of $$ without doing anything are also not playing as hard.

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Not a single upset yesterday was a result of smaller teams getting more talent. If you think the reason Vandy beat Alabama was because Alabama dropped in talent while Vandy increased, then I don't know what sport you are following. Because that couldn't be further from the truth.

There is not an increase in parity.

There is a however an increase in players who lose focus. Instead of sitting in their dorm studying film and working to get better, they are out spending all that NIL money, getting their dicks wet and so on.

They'll focus for a big game, like you saw Alabama the week prior with Georgia. But then when it's some team like Vandy, they don't.

Meanwhile, Vandy is not reeling in the NIL. Their players took that time and put in the effort. And it showed.

I think the Alabama staff was probably as guilty as the players in not taking the game serious. It was a complete failure from top to bottom. The staff didn't prep all week, there was no adjustment. They had no plan.

TL;DR: Trap games have become more dangerous due to NIL.

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If you believe Bama, LSU, etc have the same monopoly on talent that they had 10 years ago, cool.

You can't make the blind see.

It's the DEPTH that's being taken away from the elite programs.

It's obvious to anyone who cares to see it.

The blind see nothing.

Carry on.

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You keep moving the goalposts.

Meanwhile, the traditional powers are still the traditional powers.

I'm sure depth has been eroded some, but it isn't some drastic difference.

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Graduating early means the kids are good students,

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My cousin got a scholarship offer to UNA and he could barely read.

NIL will ultimately kill high school recruiting for the upper echelons of the top two conferences.

Just think of it, boosters pay 1.5 miliion for a 5 star high school recruit to come play for Alabama. But there is huge risk. The athlete could underperform in the classroom or on the field or get into trouble and then drop out or portal out. Then the money is lost. High school recruits are too risky to bet on

But take a sophomore in the Big12, AAC or ACC. He has played college ball, you already know his academics and his character. So he becomes a better fit for a 1.5 mil deal at Alabama or LSU.

Another thing, today boosters are driving this. But tomorrow when NIL becomes more expensive, media markets and advertisement incomes might be the source of NIL funding. UT, TAMU and USCw will benefit the most.

Agreed. It’s the pro sports model

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I haven't moved anything.

I've described how the talent is now being spread out to more programs.

You thought it'd make the strong, stronger. I didn't.

I thought it'd allow teams to poach players from teams who had 4stars sitting on the bench.

So now we see Bama losing to Vandy.

Is it because Vandy got more talent? Some fools seem to believe that or some other nonsense.

Or is it because Bama has fallen back to the pack a little talent wise? Maybe Bama hasn't been able to stack a 2nd string head and shoulders above Vandys first string.

Maybe, just maybe, losing depth to the portal so that your elite second string isn't so elite as several of them moved on to be on another teams 1st string will actually knock the elites down....just a little....closer to tue pack.

Of course that wouldn't be happening.

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Again, talent isn't really distributed much different than it was 10 years ago.

Your feelings aren't facts.

Upsets have always happened, the big differences are that teams have less chemistry because of so much player movement and more players are mercenaries now.