Let's quit screwing around and do what's necessary to fix things. It's time you old farts in control.
It should be obvious to everybody that the bowl system is done
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The non-SEC commish's + ND would have to be too goophy to not be looking to change up the playoff- maybe being the 1 non-SEC conference not fugged by the current 4 team ESPN mikcey mouse selption committee- low pressure but Hi-leverage Alliamce Pressure situation mai gai...
Go back to the pre-BCS bowl system. Then have a 4 team playoff after the bowls. All is fixed.
Expanding the number of playoff teams will help tremendously.
So...
None of the draftable, decent players now play in their bowl games. Every single college player is an unrestricted free agent 24/7/365 from the minute they leave high school, with no contracts. And they can be paid anything the colleges and their boosters can afford to pay them, with absolutely no salary cap.
It's getting harder to give a crap about college football. ⚽️ anyone?
None of the draftable, decent players now play in their bowl games. Every single college player is an unrestricted free agent 24/7/365 from the minute they leave high school, with no contracts. And they can be paid anything the colleges and their boosters can afford to pay them, with absolutely no salary cap.
It's getting harder to give a crap about college football. ⚽️ anyone?
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Only way we see top upper class men playing in bowl games ever again is if they get paid and insurance polices for injuries. Bowl games are now preseason games for next year.
Already happens…yet they still do not want to play…College Football is in trouble…need to expand to 16 team playoff in order to salvage.
I was reading the ridiculous money the Outback Bowls gives the universities. They need to divert that money to a big payout for players.
Anyone know if NIL money can be tied to playing time?
Anyone know if NIL money can be tied to playing time?
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I was with you…. until the very end. You just lost all credibility with the soccer reference.
I remember the good old days when a free education was considered fair compensation for their services. Why would these mercenaries need an education?
Not really. It's only a matter of time until players start to opt out of playoff games.
Why not ? Quinn Ewers had to play x number of games as a requirement to get some of his monies.
my understanding is that his NIL was not...but he just got a better offer in TX.
The problem is that there is no player's union. There is no coordination of a union so there are no agreements. Kids can do whatever they want on an individual basis. A kid, literally, can start for PSU against Michigan on Saturday, transfer on Monday, and play for Michigan state against Michigan on Saturday again. If I was in the NCAA, I'd be promoting some kind of player's union that then could negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with the NCAA. The NCAA could, then, dictate the terms of that agreement to the schools or lock them out of NCAA events. But I fear it is too late for that. Until there is damage to the kids they won't want a union.
College football has ruined college football, money, transfer portal, 10 million a year to coach 8 team playoff and that’s it f!ck the bowls
That would still make all but 4-5 of the Bowls completely meaningless.
And the top 4 teams would be disincentivized to have a tough opponent in the Bowls, lest they lose and be knocked out of the playoff.
College athletics were originally started as something thats provides physical activity and competition for students. Which was very important then because college studies were and are generally sedentary and our society lacked lazy asses like today. So the reasoning was if we are going to expect young men to sit through classes and sit at their desks for homework, we must make it up to them by providing serious athletic opportunities as well.
I think it would actually be pretty cool if intercollegiate sports were replaced by a much more serious version of intramurals, but I doubt that ever happens.
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If you dont play in the bowl game and your cleared medically, put them on the hook for that years tuition. That might solve it.
you're right, too much money to ever go back, it is a shame....or a sham....or both
I agree with your last comment. Let the superstar athletes play "minor leagues" in the sport and have the colleges field truly student athletes that try-out each year to make the teams. It would be refreshing and actually interesting from one season to the next much like high school sports are today. BUT... as the idea caught on money would begin to flow, schools would want to enroll the better student athletes, TV would then get interested then before you know it you have what we do today.
I watched some of the Division II and Division III playoffs this season - really entertaining as the players put everything into playing the game they love.
It’s the next step. The bowl games are irrelevant and having something to play for is usually a good incentive. BCS was a band hand aid and the NCAA lost its juice over the players.
That exists already in schools that don’t field as many varsity sports as PSU and Stanford. Club Sports….and club sports are both serious and cool.
But really, we aren’t talking about most collegiate sports. Only a handful have meaningful opportunities after college. Small handful. The rest this is their last athletic hurrah as a student athlete….and in these sports they are student athletes with post grad plans that are similar to ours. No need to regress those teams away from varsity status.
Trying to recruit kids for pro football that young will have a lot more challenges though, especially with lineman. I’m sure there’s a lot of NFL lineman who were still 5-9 170 lbs at age 15.This is one reason I enjoy watching soccer more these days, and don’t see the point in modern college sports. Soccer does not use college as a pipeline to the pros. They mostly identify pro prospects by 15-16 years old. Therefore, the collegiate players are actually there playing for the school. The identified prospects are developed at pro team academies. This will probably be the future model for football. Basketball is already starting this.
A look at college soccer alumni in the 2020 MLS season
271 former college soccer players were part of an MLS roster for 2020. Here is a look at these players in the 2020 season.mlsmultiplex.com
