Will CFB go the way of MLB
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Honestly, I'm having a hard time calling this "college football" anymore. It's a sure sign of the times. It truly shows now, more than ever, that it's all about the money.
Has been about the money for decades. Only difference is that the players are sharing in the bounty. Good for them.
I wondered about this too. However it seems there is a bit more parity in CFB this season, at least amongst the top 30 or so teams or more. Maybe I'm off on this, but seems like more top teams in close games and more teams in the top 25 with multiple loses. I'm probably more concerned about the lower tier teams that have little to no NIL capacity falling further behind.
Agreed. I would add that the transfer portal has also been responsible for equalizing some of the talent gap. Look at what Indiana has accomplished this year.
In the end, kids want to play, so the talent is going to continue to be dispersed among the blue bloods in a similar fashion. You still only can have eleven starters on offense and defense, and no sugar daddy is going to be able to produce a monopoly on talent because kids don’t want to ride the bench.
Yes, it is really the Portal that has enabled better parity. That's a good thing.
On the other hand, some of what we believe is "parity" may not at all be due to better team balance. How does Notre Dame lose to Northern Illinois but clobber nearly every other team on its schedule?
I think there is a team dysfunction component that tags right along with "free agency." These are now professional football teams but the players do not have the same financial drivers for performance. Each year is a new team and somewhat of a rebuilding process, but with little time. There isn't even a good history in many cases to drive "what a player is worth," nor do they have the same maturity as players at the next level.
It's a mess that has created chaos: Anything can happen on any given week.
My issue is that there is no longer anything that really binds a player to a school, so the only thing we are rooting for is the uniform.
When I played little league baseball more than half a century ago you could align a MLB player with your team. You collected baseball cards. There were trades of course but you could pretty much recognize your team by who was on your team, year after year. That is disappearing in college football, and with it the personal connection. Soon I won't even care who is on the field. I will just be watching the Penn State uniform against some other school's uniform. Might as well be a computer simulation on the scoreboard.
Of course, I'm not naive and not knocking the players. I just believe it needs to be more regulated, especially regarding the 'free agent' aspect of it. Personally, I think the transfer portal has ruined the sense of true commitment from both the schools and the players. They should just call it semi-pro, not college football.
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