Uh not me. Not to a lot of people around here. Did I know it was going to happen summer of ‘22, no, but was I shocked/caught of guard, absolutely not.
Were not clairvoyant, but I can read signals/tea leaves
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Were not clairvoyant, but I can read signals/tea leaves
Could provide specific examples of “all sorts of guys that transfer up for a reduced role”
Yes, guys in every sport are bigger, faster, more athletic and skilled than they were 20 years ago. Guys are way more advanced going into college than they were 20 years ago. Kids are way more advanced in HS. The idea that the advancement is due primarily to there being more media money is a massive stretch.
Yes, because to add on to this, even if when baseball was “America’s pastime”, did anyone really care about the minor leagues. And as others have said, the UFL doesn’t make money because it doesn’t have national appeal. I strongly believe that the Michigan’s, Ohio State’s, and Alabama’s of the world need the giant network of a passionate national fanbase to make their product appealing. If they end up with 20 or 24 teams competing for a cup no one else cares about…then they no longer matter.
Oh I’m extremely anti super league and always have been
Many people on here also immediately believe Dave wanstedt, Mhiver etc, throw enough things at the wall and one of them will stick.
I was absolutely shocked at the timing especially since the media deal was basically wrapped up at the time.
People assume those who appear to have power and money right now are smart, and that we should hitch our wagons to them or risk ultimate failure. I am not. I want to distance myself from this impending Casey Jones level train wreck.
I think the schools that put the most players in the NFL are going to have prime slots and channels on Saturday even if the NFL keeps creeping in. While splitting off regional NFL games a bit to get a few more nationally covered beats most college games, there are still going to enough prime slots for the biggest name CFB games, and it will be justified by viewership.
I think you are wrong, but who really knows. IMO NFL is coming for everything, there is currently the anti-trust suit dating back to the 60's, but I think they are challenging that now in the courts as it relates to "streaming" being exempt.
When streaming services start comparing showing Rutgers versus Northwestern at 2:30 on Saturday, versus the Bears and the Giants... its over.
Didn't the NFL just come for the NBA?
Coming after the NBA is completely differnet in my mind but yep they went after them hard
Yeah, I’m not as concerned about a super league because college football will still exist and I think the super league will basically turn into rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
I actually think things like this settlement is the greater threat. For me, one of the major appeals to college sports is the idea that it’s students representing their classmates and the alumni against another school. But as you get farther from being students and closer to being professional athletes you lose that appeal.
I might be completely out of touch, but not requiring that the athletes be students is a red line for me and I think that’s the direction this is going.
I don't think the NFL cares about "development" when it's the only meaningful, professional football league on the planet. The good talent is going to wind up there one way or another. There's nowhere else for it to go. Why not just adjust the draft longer and let high schoolers be drafted? They could prop up some of those as their next "dev league" instead. And not wait 3 years to get them drafted.
Would they take opportunities to add billions more to their media deals? Absolutely. I can certainly see it happening, just not today or tomorrow. Couple years down the road, maybe.
Yeah, I guess you likely don’t know until it’s too late. The moment the student body in large numbers stop responding to those “Committed!” photos with “Yes!” and start thinking “Entitled…”, you went too far.
I agree that there is going to be a gulf between the SEC/B10 and the B12/ACC, but I do not see them adding 25 more scholarships for football either. To do so would mean adding quite a few woman's sports to stay in compliance with Title IX, even though they have the money to do so, I just think that will be a step too far.
Or drop a few men's Olympic sports, and use those scholarships for football instead.
That's going to be the big fear at a lot of schools.
Joseph Yesefu
Noah Carter
Jace Carter
Isiah Mosley
Terry Roberts
That's just from the last couple years from one league off the top of my head. Hell, we'll be able to add 5 or 6 guys from The Valley alone after this year (Cade Tyson, Ja'Kobi Gillespie, Connor Hickman, Jayson Kent, Alston Mason)...
Letting high school players be drafted is kinda insane. They just aren’t physically ready to play in the NFL. There is a reason they require 3 years. The NFL doesn’t want to do the development they want ready made players.
They 100% care about development otherwise the product on the field will crater and they don’t want to absorb the cost of a developmental league when they get it for free.
The next really interesting ruling is going to be what the Dept of Ed rules on where Title IX sits in payments to athletes. These athletic departments are going to argue like hell that it doesn't apply.
