re: What Would It Take For You to Stop Watching CFB?

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Why would players from different places be any different?

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All of the reasons that I mentioned. State pride and bragging rights.

The tribal side of the sport.

I watched Kevin Faulk at Carencro high school when I was in elementary. My first college game is when my dad took me to watch him play Mississippi State Bulldogs… I think 1996.

I watched Domanick Davis at Breaux Bridge high school and we followed his career to LSU.

We followed Jake Delhomme at USL. I have many more examples.

I can watch the Saints if I want to watch guys from all over the country.

What’s fun about beating Ole Miss with Mississippi players?

What’s fun about beating Texas with Texas players?

Do the guys you recruit from Oregon understand the Texas & ATM rivalry like kids that grow up in Texas?

Do kids from Ohio really understand the Bama Auburn rivalry?

CFB has always been about buying rosters. The blue bloods have always done this. The big difference now is the transfer portal.

Probably State leaving the conference, either by choice or force, I’d probably stop following all together.

I only watch UA when they play unless somewhere other games are on as well at the same time. But after that I do not watch CFB unless I have tickets to go in person. Better things now to do.

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Not yet but close.

The portal is primarily killing everything that makes college football great.

Rivalries, tradition, pride in a school, watching kids develop, thinking your school has a really good class of recruits turning into juniors that have experience, is all going away primarily due to the portal.

Hell, no one on this board can say "next year should be pretty good" because no one knows who's playing!

These kids who are portal seniors chasing money don't have the 3-4 past years of history with rivalries may not care as much and it MAY get to the point where it doesn't matter. They certainly won't learn (and appreciate) traditions in a year.

When the fans sense this, I think overall support could fall.

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it certainly makes high school recruiting pretty worthless. You get a great class then a year later every single one who isn't starting or making bank will portal out. It's a waste of time. Just buy a god damn team every year of already developed players like Indiana.

I will follow my team 24/7/365 and 366 on leap years. So will all of you. I will bitch when I don’t like something. I will continue to read tweets of 16-17 year olds into the middle of the night. That’s who I am.
If you don’t your team does not play in the SEC.
And it’s always the coaches fault.

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School pride is becoming non-existent and that was a huge factor in what made college football special.

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Even before NIL and the portal, I don’t understand why fans expect all this school pride from a lot of players recruited out of state.

If Johnny Fivestar from Houston is recruited to play QB at Florida, he probably would have stayed home and gone to Texas or A&M or Houston or SMU if he gave a shite about things like school pride.

If a player will spurn his native state for an opportunity, he will damn sure leave your school for one too.

It’s kind of like the old saying about women: “If she will cheat with you, she will cheat on you.”

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You learn about all of these things after enrollment

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Do you believe that passion runs as deep as the kid that grew up in the rivalry?

Rivalries aside… you think the transfer player’s passion runs as deep as the kid that’s been wearing burnt orange since his parents took him home in his burnt orange onesie?

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You learn about all of these things after enrollment

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The guy you just landed from out of state will only be with you for 1 year unless you up his NIL.

I am hoping that the Brian Kelly effect wears off, but I am no longer as invested I was a decade ago