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College football “Catch 22”
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Aug 23, 2023, 9:43 AM
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I have always been a firm believer that college football is great because of the connection to the Universities not the players. My stance was always to let the top 2-5% who want to make money go do it in some other developmental league because college fans would continue to tune in regardless of who was wearing the jersey.
Recently I realized this is the same reason college football is headed, without resistance, in the wrong direction. Regardless of the extent to which money is shaping the sport (NIL, Transfers, opt-outs, conference realignment, etc.) college football fans will still tune in.
In an entertainment industry the only thing that fans can do to influence change is to stop watching. Unfortunately, college fans are tied to the Universities they support and that isn’t a realistic possibility.
It seems like all we can do is keep pulling for and supporting Clemson so that the product we are watching in 10 years is in just as much fun as the last 10.
Go Tigers!
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That train left the station at least 50 years ago.
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Aug 23, 2023, 9:55 AM
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Universities decided that education was a "necessary evil" to college football. Universities (the NCAA is governed by university administrators) made the decision to weaken academics so that virtually anybody who was a good enough football player could get admission into the school. And, universities decided that "academic eligibility" had little to do with graduating.
Universities decided that college football (and basketball) would be the minor league for the NFL (and NBA).
That has led us down the path we are walking today.
It's nice to dream, but we ain't never going back.
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Re: That train left the station at least 50 years ago. Wait
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Aug 23, 2023, 10:01 AM
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UNC never ever decided education was a necessary evil. Much to the contrary
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The University will eventually be irrelevant
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Aug 23, 2023, 10:15 AM
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The top tier programs will break from the NCAA. The players will be paid "employees", possibly unionized, youll have trades, free agency, so on and so forth. It will be minor league NFL in every possible metric. I envision at that point some of these programs will be so awash in capital that they even build stand alone facilities, away from the the school entirely. At that point, maybe we get back to amateur teams forming once again at the schools and we go back to the way it was, and should have remained.
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Re: The University will eventually be irrelevant
Aug 23, 2023, 10:41 AM
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I was with you up to the last sentence. We will never go back to what we were...
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Re: The University will eventually be irrelevant
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Aug 23, 2023, 10:46 AM
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Their is a potential for "employees" to play!
I heard there us a 5 star janitor put of Mass thats suiting up in 2026! It is ridiculous to say its not pay to play and yes its been play to pay for a while depending on the team and free A's given everytime you make weights that week.
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Re: College football “Catch 22”
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Aug 23, 2023, 11:01 AM
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The sport has changed more in the last three years to an NFL on Saturday model than in the previous 40 combined. I think at some point a fair number of fans are going to start say hold on, these teams have no connection whatsoever to the universities other than that they play at the football stadium on or near campus. And a fair number of them, right or wrong, make more in a single year than fans do in multiple years at their jobs. Finally, many of them will bolt for a different university (more money) at the drop of a hat
I think you may be overestimating, at least slightly, the fans will always tune in component.
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Re: College football “Catch 22”
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Aug 23, 2023, 12:41 PM
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Unfortunately, it will become a legit semi-pro league...where players are employees and do not attend class...basically no affiliation with the school other than the teams paying the university for the use of their facilities and their name. I could even some situations where some universities sponsor a team in exchange for the exposure and advertisement.
The big issue is with football being the cash cow for the Athletic Department, I don't see how the non-revenue sports survive.
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