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I wear a Poncho to church 1 sometimes twice a month. I love those shirts.

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Such as journalists basically determining the national championship?

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And coaches.

Yeah it wasn't perfect but it wasn't wrong often.
Also playoffs didn't stop UCF from co-claiming a championship based on journalists polls so not everything changed.

I think what was lost outweighed what was gained.

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Your decisions are your decisions. Thus, I can't say they are "wrong". I'm just curious as to what has changed? The play on the field has not changed. It's just the frequency of the turnover of the bodies in the uniform have changed. Which is kind of ironic given two of the best players to ever play for LSU, and two of the schools three Heisman trophy winners, came to LSU as transfers.

Perhaps I'm different than most, but college football is just a form of entertainment for me. I don't think the players should be "representatives" of my university, and I don't hold personal grudges if they aren't...or choose to play elsewhere. I cheer for the "uniform". The players wearing it have always changed. Now, it's just a bit more frequently. But as long as they are wearing the colors, playing in Tiger Stadium, and all of the pageantry that existed before NIL/transfer portal is there, I see no reason to stop being a fan.

Is it disappointing as a fan to see a guy play well for you one year, then leave to go elsewhere the next? Sure. But I can't blame the players for doing so. There is a market for their services. I'm not going to advocate for anyone to turn down a significant amount of money SOLELY because it might decrease my entertainment value.

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Pretty much everything with CFB has changed. Play has changed some but that isn't the complaint from me or most people who where diehards that have lost our passion for the game.

To sum it up in one word, money has ruined College Sports as it has been at the heart of most negative changes.

Conference realignments, coaches salaries (buyouts), portal transfers, NIL, playoffs.

Yes I liked the old Bowl system where you may have a double NC winner. It was super rare in modern times but it has happened and gave people even more to debate. I could have lived with the BCS but the second the BCS was started, everyone knew that eventually it would end up with a playoff and of course, that playoff size keeps growing.

Coaches salaries have gotten ridiculous and with them the buyouts. I can't blame anyone for getting that kind of money but with a $10m salary comes win a NC in 2 years or you are out. The goals of a coach should be, recruit a great (hopefully cleanly team), beat your rival(s), win your conference, make a bowl and win it and hopefully get a NC at the end.
Now it is buy a team and win a National championship (see OSU last year).
The regular season is basically meaningless now.

Conference realignment has permanently damaged the sport.
Having USC in the Big10 is sacrilege.
Texas in the SEC is the worst.

Seeing the teams only in playoffs or in special OOC games made them super special (LSU / UT 2019) now the games are routine and the outcome somewhat meaningless as long as you make the 12 team playoff (likely to continue to increase).

These changes along with NIL and transfer portal have decimated mid-major and lower teams. Have a good to great player on a mid-major, not anymore. At least with the old transfer system, players had to sit out so their choice in schools was more important.

Now we have players holding out for bonus money.
No wonder Saban retired.

Now I dont think NIL is all bad as I think the NCAA rules on player benefits was archaic and needed an overhaul but the current system is unsustainable and is on the path to destroy most other non-football / basketllball sports.
NIL will likely get reformed but the genie is out of the bottle and CFB is now the NFL AAA. Likely to happen is player contracts which may be a good thing to keep player movements down but that isnt what CFB is, at least not to me.

Legally residing non-citizens have been able to serve in the US Military since the countries founding.

Niece just got accepted to Iowa and it will end up being $192k for out of state for a Public school.

Unbelievable.

great Line.

P. Skenes (W, 1-0)
IP H R ER BB K HR PC-ST ERA
7.0 3 1 0 0 6 0 102-72 1.46

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Feel airports should top this list. Just getting through security has 4 different priority options. (TSA precheck here)

Then there are the airline clubs (United member here)

Then boarding priorities have gotten way out of control. (Boarding group 1 here, but there’s at least 3 priorities in front of that now.

Forget all that tho. Airports have to be the #1 place for the blue jean, sport coat wearing asshat on his earpiece walking around talking like he’s the Wolf of f’ing Wallstreet. I swear that guy wants to make damn sure everyone knows he’s in the midst of saving the world.

Anyone got somewhere that tops the airport as the top place people try and flex their status?.

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Agreed.

Can't stand these posers with me up here in A1-A15.

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this is great for the American bourbon market. But this sucks for those who like scotch that comes out of England. You’re already paying an arm and a leg for it.

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Scotch prices are ridiculous but Great Britain isn't in the EU so I don't think scotch would be affected.

I bought my wife this one and I have the Alienware version for gaming.

Dell 34 ultrawide

These have been fantastic monitors.

We both replace 2 large monitors with a single ultrawide.