I felt more emotions than I expected to feel watching this, and the reason why is that these moments on a television serve as little time capsules to our lives if you’re from the certain subset of society that cfb diehards live in.
We remember where we were when these games happened because all of them mattered greatly. A 24-team playoff means the regular season is no longer appointment viewing. It is no longer the thing that families and friends build their calendars around. It’s just perfunctory and meaningless.
I know the AD’s want/need the money. I know a lot of coaches want an easier path to the postseason.
The problem is that I am afraid many of them don’t understand why the product is worth money in its present state. There will be one big hit of cash, but within a decade those regular season TV numbers will start to dwindle and there won’t be an easy lever to pull. I really do worry that they are going to kill the golden goose with the expansion they all so desperately want.
Take it from someone who spent time managing national sales teams… Businesses don’t go boom trying to chase casual or hypothetical profits over deepening the engagement of its core customer base.
You should be both concerned and a little disappointed with the Trinidad Chambliss ruling as a college football fan.
After being denied eligibility 3x by the NCAA, he kept crying about the decision and eventually found an judge (who happens to be an Ole Miss grad) to override the ruling.
Instead of heading to the NFL, he’s now set to make $5M+ and return to play football for Ole Miss in 2026 - his sixth year of college football.
This whole saga has nothing to do with college itself and everything to do with money. It’s a total embarrassment to the sport we all love.
I really don’t think people understand their gravity of situations like this so let me walk you through it
The NCAA multiple times denied his request for a 6th year of eligibility. Which was the right thing to do he has had his time in college football now it’s time to move on
The part where this gets really fucked up and sticky is the fact that his council then took this case to some fucking Ole Miss dick sucking judge in Oxford, Mississippi to essentially block a decision that the NCAA handed down
Like wtf 🤬 do you guys see how problematic that is? And why the NCAA essentially has 0️⃣ power. They hand down a ruling and because you don’t like that ruling you get to run to some boot, licking circuit judge in whatever county you want that can block a NCAA ruling.
College football is dead
We’re dangerously close to Pros trying to get back into CFB. The plot got lost long ago. I don’t understand how myself and others are looked at sideways and like debbie downers for speaking up about not wanting the sport to be killed and losing everything that was special about CFB. This isn’t good.
"We only have so much money to go around... We don't talk about NIL, or revenue sharing, or publicity rights until the very end, and that may hurt us on some kids." - Steve Sarkisian
Preds need to clean house. And I mean clean house. Trotz and co, brunette, saros, josi, stamkos, skjei, EVERYONE. Blast it to the moon. They’re embarrassing the franchise
If you think the officiating in SEC football is bad… Buddy, it ain’t even in the same solar system as SEC Basketball. I’ve seen 2A high-school basketball tournaments managed better than this
Kirk Herbstreit: "They (Ohio State) went to hell and back.”
Hell? What hell? Ohio State hasn’t faced any real adversity. The Buckeyes have more 5-star players on their roster right now than my team has had in 136 years of football combined.
Stop it.
Kansas State’s QB throwing a TD to Ole Miss’s RB for Ohio State who is defending against Wake Forest’s QB throwing to FIU’s wideout after beating Texas led by OSU’s QB throwing to Houston’s wideout summarizes why a lot of people care less now.