When does the average fan tap out from college football?

The younger fans asked for this shite. Just like every generation the older one hates change. Rinse and repeat, it is what it is.

Already tapped out. This really isn’t college football anymore, it’s a semi pro league. The whole idea that the players need to go to school is stupid and a facade, the schools really need to just break away from it.

Bowl games and conferences will go away in time, replaced by a playoff and single league of the major programs.

The question you ask is valid and I’ll add to it, how long are fans going to spend and invest as much money as they do for a semi pro league when they could use that money to support and go to NFL games instead? At some point fans are going to come to the realization that they are spending a ton of money for shite football.

OM ain’t tapping out. They throwing everything they got in pot. Atlanta or bust.

College is only college in name. It will have to officially break away from school affiliation to get by title 9. Otherwise, all that tv money will have to go to the school and women’s sports instead of the men’s football and basketball players that earn it.

The lawsuit in Washington is going to force this change and women won’t like the result. Take away football and basketball money an a lot of non revenue generating sports and scholarships are going to disappear.

TV networks have worked very hard to make college football into a national entertainment product.

Doing so has cost things like the PAC-12 Conference, traditional rivalries and individual distinctiveness and traditions that made college football worth it.

When it's reduced to just another entertainment product, it's very easy for those who used to be passionate fans to merely choose other products.

If opt outs and transfers continue into the playoffs, I would think that eventually the TV networks will step in to form some sort of regulation to limit them.

I think this has already happened to a large degree. The better question is now moving into High School football where this is just gearing up.

TV ratings have never been better.

Nearly 18 million people watched Alabama vs UGA.

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Bowl games and conferences will go away in time, replaced by a playoff and single league of the major programs.

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MLB has their own farm system. Paid for by each franchise.
NBA has their developmental league. Paid for by each franchise.
NFL has college football. Paid for by others. NFL gets free ride. Why?

I’m old. The days of playing for the Alma mater are over at the upper levels of football.

At some point, a lawsuit will result in allowing the NFL to negate their relationships currently honored toward College Football. There is no contractual relationship between the College game and NFL. It’s a gentleman’s agreement.

When that happens, kids from high school will be drafted and signed and sent to a developmental league setup by the NFl with Saturday games.

This will kill college football. For those players who getting an education is not their reason for attending Alabama, they can by-pass college and go straight to a minor league and get paid well.

The city of Birmingham let’s say might be the Patriots farm club.

College ball my friends is dead as we know it. Get ready.

Yes, there will still be college ball for all the 1,2,3 and even 4 star players who don’t get drafted into the new 32 team development league.

They will get paid but not like today and they must be students etc like in the past.

Thoughts?

I’m on life support. I already have stopped:

- Following recruiting
- Going to games
- Watching Game day
- Watching all the LSU games (I’m not watching them play directional schools and some even less-interesting SEC games)
- I’ve never followed “the portal.”

I used to get our tailgate rolling on Friday, watch Gameday religiously, follow recruiting and go to the recruiting bash at the river city arena … the games and the environment are a shell of its former self. The product is much less interesting, you don’t know who is on your team and if they’ll be there next year, it just isn’t what it used to be. Conferences change like the wind blows, rivalries have been ruined, there’s little regional feel now, bowl games are meaningless, it’s just a ruined, flawed product.