NIL, Transfer portal, kneeling for the National Anthem, 30% foreign enrollment in a state land grant university, Title 9. Shall I continue.
Dream onI cannot not root for the team wearing Orange and Blue. Having said that, the current state of college athletics and football in particular makes it hard to care. My hope is that Congress outlaws the whole mess as too dangerous for young men so I don't have to deal with Florida fielding a team. I don't watch pro sports at all; why would I care about mostly ignorant people playing meaningless games for absurd amounts of money? If you aren't in college to learn and do something meaningful for society, you are wasting everyone's time and someone's money.
Not only no, but hell noSlip, slip. slippery slope gets you every time. Progress isn't always positive no matter how forward you lean. Change is rarely for the better, and only by blind luck.
It started with all of you Nancy's begging for playoffs. CFB was unique, every game counted, and sometimes you had to win the beauty contest to be eligible. One-hit wonders didn't get invited. Your body of work was considered.
For us Gators we had our playoff at the end of every season; beat halF aSs U, win the SECCG and we're in like Flynn. Ah the good ole days. We had the Bowl Coalition that turned into an Alliance and now what? Sixty-four team playoff. Give 'em an inch, and they take a mile; NIL, free agency, targeting, pink uniforms, cats sleeping with dogs. Ask yourself, is CFB better now than it was 40 years ago?
B52 misses the days when UF was nothing but slow ass, unathletic white boys.NIL, Transfer portal, kneeling for the National Anthem, 30% foreign enrollment in a state land grant university, Title 9. Shall I continue.
...and slaveryB52 misses the days when UF was nothing but slow ass, unathletic white boys who didnt test particularly well on the SAT either.
His words are a lot more relevant to those times than nowIm not sure he is quite THAT old.
My best friend made the same case. Four NY day bowls and they voted for the best team at the end of the day. But the Rose Bowl was locked into two conferences. Sugar Bowl got SEC. Cotton Bowl got what,......the SWC. Instead of 1 winner and 100 losers you had winners from all the bowls that you were happy to be in. I guess it went to shttt when they had the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl. (Birmingham? )Slip, slip. slippery slope gets you every time. Progress isn't always positive no matter how forward you lean. Change is rarely for the better, and only by blind luck.
It started with all of you Nancy's begging for playoffs. CFB was unique, every game counted, and sometimes you had to win the beauty contest to be eligible. One-hit wonders didn't get invited. Your body of work was considered.
For us Gators we had our playoff at the end of every season; beat halF aSs U, win the SECCG and we're in like Flynn. Ah the good ole days. We had the Bowl Coalition that turned into an Alliance and now what? Sixty-four team playoff. Give 'em an inch, and they take a mile; NIL, free agency, targeting, pink uniforms, cats sleeping with dogs. Ask yourself, is CFB better now than it was 40 years ago?
So, I don't know when Florida sucked academically. When I was admitted, you had to be in the top 7th centile on the Florida 12th Grade Exam. SATs weren't required. The school was for Floridians, mainly men. The Engineering, Medical and Law Colleges were all the best in state and perhaps the southeast. The intercollegiate athletic teams didn't suck, well except basketball, but championships weren't the focus. We still had Steve Spurrier, Larry Smith, Jack Youngblood, Carlos Alvarez, John Reaves, Tommy Durance, etc. And I was in classrooms with several of them. I miss the days when college athletes were students and held to the same academic standards as the rest of the student body.B52 misses the days when UF was nothing but slow ass, unathletic white boys.
It is one thing to pine for the 90s or late 2000s and football glory. It is another thing entirely to pine for the days when our teams sucked and the school was full of mediocre students who didnt score well on the SAT. But at least they were white, I guess.
So, I don't know when Florida sucked academically. When I was admitted, you had to be in the top 7th centile on the Florida 12th Grade Exam. SATs weren't required. The school was for Floridians, mainly men. The Engineering, Medical and Law Colleges were all the best in state and perhaps the southeast. The intercollegiate athletic teams didn't suck, well except basketball, but championships weren't the focus. We still had Steve Spurrier, Larry Smith, Jack Youngblood, Carlos Alvarez, John Reaves, Tommy Durance, etc. And I was in classrooms with several of them. I miss the days when college athletes were students and held to the same academic standards as the rest of the student body.
That’s the NFL, not the NCAA, mandating the timeline for entering the league. They know 18-20 year olds are physically mature enough the play in the league so they use the NCAA as their one and only farm system. I have no idea what the NCAA could possibly do to change that.See, I don’t have any problem with this position. I’ve said since the beginning of this garbage that there needs to be a change in the “three years removed” mindset. If a kid feels like he’s ready, or close to being ready for the NFL, and that’s his only objective, let him go the moment he is done with high school. Who cares? Leave college football for those kids that truly want to play for the love of the game and to represent their school while getting an education. Everyone thinks of Vanderbilt or Northwestern as being boring, no chance of success type football. But that’s because the playing field isn’t level. There wouldn’t be a modern day Alabama or Georgia playing against them. The entertainment value would be just as good because of that, just as lower tier conferences and even FCS teams still have great attendance and support. There’d also be a lot less drama, and these kids who have NFL aspirations only could get paid way earlier. Done.
Nick Saban thinks college football in its current format will eventually hit a breaking point.
The sport we all love has been taken over by NIL and the transfer portal. Players have never had more freedom of movement or ability to earn money than they do right now.
That’s not to say movement and money are bad things. This is America, after all, but it seems like the sports is becoming the wild west and unrecognizable.
Saban, who is on the hunt for his eighth ring, believes there will be a “thunderbolt” event that ultimately changes everything if some guardrails aren’t developed.
I think it’s going to continue in the same direction that it’s going until something happens. I call it a thunderbolt, where maybe people start dropping sports because the finance part of it can’t make sense in terms of what you can reinvest in non-revenue sports. Or, some players out there don’t get what they were promised and there’s lots of lawsuits and stuff, you know. There is going to be some kind of a thunderbolt because this is not a system that we have right now that has any guardrails, and in most competitive venues there are some that control what you can and can’t do…Right now, it’s a game of whoever is willing to invest the most has the best chance of having the best team.