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Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:16 pm
I’m not an old like most of you liver spotted senior citizens, so I don’t have a ton of emotional response to the changes that have occurred in College Football recently. Though even I am starting to become a bit concerned about the future of the sport.
This time last year I was giving my Ole Miss grad father in-law a hard time about how hard Lane was hitting the portal. “You can’t win a championship like that”, “You have to recruit well, develop your guys, and maybe cherry pick obvious needs from the portal”. Only a year later that statement is outdated and unrealistic. Development is being outsourced to smaller P4 and G5 schools. It’s likely you can count on one hand the amount of players from a singular recruiting class that will actually play the entirety of their college career at that school.
It’s hard to imagine the product on the field not suffering amidst all the chaos. New Campuses, New Professors, New Coaches, New Teammates, New Friends, New Living Situation, New Workout Regimen, New Diet, etc. How can anyone grow consistently in such a sporadic environment? You have to implement some sort of OTA structure if this is the future. Even then, would enough contact practices even be possible?
These conferences are too big. As a Texas fan being in the SEC has been a good fricking time. Yet, we probably don’t belong here. This monopolized conglomerate of the biggest brands in CFB in one conference is just greedy. Regional rivalries don’t have teeth anymore, the kids don’t care.
I don’t know. The best things about college football seem to be fading away so quickly. I’m a Texas fan, but I’m a college football fan first. I love the sport from coast to coast. It’s becoming hard to find aspects I can invest in.
This time last year I was giving my Ole Miss grad father in-law a hard time about how hard Lane was hitting the portal. “You can’t win a championship like that”, “You have to recruit well, develop your guys, and maybe cherry pick obvious needs from the portal”. Only a year later that statement is outdated and unrealistic. Development is being outsourced to smaller P4 and G5 schools. It’s likely you can count on one hand the amount of players from a singular recruiting class that will actually play the entirety of their college career at that school.
It’s hard to imagine the product on the field not suffering amidst all the chaos. New Campuses, New Professors, New Coaches, New Teammates, New Friends, New Living Situation, New Workout Regimen, New Diet, etc. How can anyone grow consistently in such a sporadic environment? You have to implement some sort of OTA structure if this is the future. Even then, would enough contact practices even be possible?
These conferences are too big. As a Texas fan being in the SEC has been a good fricking time. Yet, we probably don’t belong here. This monopolized conglomerate of the biggest brands in CFB in one conference is just greedy. Regional rivalries don’t have teeth anymore, the kids don’t care.
I don’t know. The best things about college football seem to be fading away so quickly. I’m a Texas fan, but I’m a college football fan first. I love the sport from coast to coast. It’s becoming hard to find aspects I can invest in.
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Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:24 pm to EastTXHorn
if they would put restrictions back on transfers I think that would clear a lot of this mess up
it could go back to more of a development process and more team oriented
right now it's all transactional and that is not good for the sport
I thought the whole point of NIL was going to be to reward the players that earn it, not shop themselves to the highest bidder
a high school player should come in and have to earn their NIL
even the NFL doesn't work like this
it could go back to more of a development process and more team oriented
right now it's all transactional and that is not good for the sport
I thought the whole point of NIL was going to be to reward the players that earn it, not shop themselves to the highest bidder
a high school player should come in and have to earn their NIL
even the NFL doesn't work like this
This post was edited on 1/7/26 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:30 pm to EastTXHorn
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I’m not an old like most of you liver spotted senior citizens
Texas folks....always putting their best foot forward !
Welcome to the board and the conference.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:34 pm to Trumansfangs
Utrans fans
“We got all the money and we’ll buy all the good players bitches!”
Also Utrans fans
“We got all the money and we’ll buy all the good players bitches!”
Also Utrans fans
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:37 pm to EastTXHorn
College football is now like college basketball in that it's one and done. Forget building for the future. You build it for the upcoming year and start again the following.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:38 pm to Old Sarge
When has that actually ever been reality outside of message boards? If anything, Tech is the one daring the NCAA to tell them anything. Market changing deals for everyone.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:38 pm to nicholastiger
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if they would put restrictions back on transfers I think
Gonna have to stop calling the amateur/student athletes and go to the NFL model to change it and have contracts signed with the actual universities. I think it'll eventually have to happen.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:39 pm to Trumansfangs
57 years
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:40 pm to EastTXHorn
2 year NIL deals with enforcement power. That way teams arent paying for high school recruits that may take off after the first year and you have stability with the other portal players.If a player is a sure NFL player that will make more his 1st year there you can have exceptions they can leave for the NFL after the 1st year of the NIL deal.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:41 pm to EastTXHorn
quote:That's because this is nothing more than the XFL with college logos.
It’s becoming hard to find aspects I can invest in.
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:47 pm to Old Sarge
quote:Correct. UT has dang near unlimited $.
“We got all the money
quote:Nope. We won't waste it on 19 year olds trying to hold us hostage. Sark has a budget that gives him a level playing field. The rest is on his staff.
and we’ll buy all the good players bitches!”
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:52 pm to nicholastiger
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I thought the whole point of NIL was going to be to reward the players that earn it, not shop themselves to the highest bidder
The only "point" was to abide by a supreme court ruling that said the NCAA did not have the right to prohibit student athletes from selling their name, image, and likeness.
I would love to know how aware the justices were that this would quickly become an exploitable loophole that allows boosters to bid on athletes to come to their school. That's exactly why NIL was banned by the NCAA
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:52 pm to EastTXHorn
You are preaching to the choir man. If the NCAA hadn’t gone after kids selling autographs for chump change, we wouldn’t be here.
If the NCAA had accepted the inevitability of NIL & laid out a framework instead of making a pitiful last stand and fighting it to the death, we wouldn’t be here.
Hopefully something can be salvaged if they apply for antitrust & implement a new compensation structure + SOME sort of eligibility limitation on transferring — but it’s never going back entirely to the way it was.
Everyone knows the current state is not sustainable. Portal is out of control, money is out of control, conferences have gotten ridiculous, and the season is too fricking long.
If the NCAA had accepted the inevitability of NIL & laid out a framework instead of making a pitiful last stand and fighting it to the death, we wouldn’t be here.
Hopefully something can be salvaged if they apply for antitrust & implement a new compensation structure + SOME sort of eligibility limitation on transferring — but it’s never going back entirely to the way it was.
Everyone knows the current state is not sustainable. Portal is out of control, money is out of control, conferences have gotten ridiculous, and the season is too fricking long.
This post was edited on 1/7/26 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 4:57 pm to Audustxx
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57 years
Good for you !
Please forgive me and the rest of the spring chickens here if we play too loudly !
Edit- had too see if "spring chicken" was an old racist term .
This post was edited on 1/7/26 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 1/7/26 at 5:08 pm to BevoBucks
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Nope. We won't waste it on 19 year olds trying to hold us hostage
And yet you spent more than anyone in 2024 and 2025
Posted on 1/7/26 at 5:12 pm to Old Sarge
quote:Where are you getting that? Plenty of NIL deals with companies. But, that was their wallet, not ours. The collective spending was pretty much at top 10ish level.
And yet you spent more than anyone in 2024 and 2025
Posted on 1/7/26 at 5:24 pm to EastTXHorn
as much as my guttural reaction is to reject anything whorn or ATM, I would gladly have EastTxWhorn over to my house to burn his face off with some mildly seasoned gumbo and give him a natty light (from my emergency stash at the bottom of my tool chest) and tell him he is EXACTLY right.
The good folks are all realizing that this is a trainwreck, top to bottom.
it's the instagram/snapchat 'gotsta get mine' culture gone awry...and simultaneously rotting the soul of CFB which has been cultivated for over 100 years.
it ABSOLUTELY will not last. good on these kids for entering the portal and taking advantage of a situation that started....where?
Cali-fukkin-fornia. That's all that needs to be said.
The good folks are all realizing that this is a trainwreck, top to bottom.
it's the instagram/snapchat 'gotsta get mine' culture gone awry...and simultaneously rotting the soul of CFB which has been cultivated for over 100 years.
it ABSOLUTELY will not last. good on these kids for entering the portal and taking advantage of a situation that started....where?
Cali-fukkin-fornia. That's all that needs to be said.
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