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Poll: Has NIL, The Portal & Kurt Cignetti Helped or Ruined College Football

Overall, Is the game Helped or Hurt by NIL, Portal, & the Kurt Cignetti factor?

  • Helped

    Votes: 5 7.8%

  • Hurt - NIL Hurts the worse

    Votes: 29 45.3%

  • Hurt - Portal Hurts the worse

    Votes: 34 53.1%

  • Hurt: Cignetti Factor Hurts the worse

    Votes: 2 3.1%

  • Neutral - natural evolution of the game

    Votes: 10 15.6%
  • Total voters
    64
I think Cig is on the spectrum. I do not mean this in a bad way at all. He just seems hyper-focused on success, unlike anything I have ever seen. It was the perfect mix of the changing landscape of CFB, the money he had behind him, and the way he can evaluate talent. The Big 10 got to where it is because Urban Meyer came in and got coaches thinking differently. Cig is going to elevate the conference to another level.
 
GSG said:


I only perused the article but some of the numbers are pretty wild.
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Reading this while I eat lunch. Some things that stuck out to me:

Agents are demanding money and certain amenities for official visits now.

Top recruits getting around $2 million in their first year. Some have deals that spread the money over 3 years ($1 million plus per year).

Some crazy stuff being asked for: flights/vehicles for family members, extra money for housing, insurance policies, etc.

Basically all the stuff that used to be in the shadows is still happening but it's "legal" now.
 
If you are bringing your kid up on team sports and the team sport ethos, it's hard watching a system where a quarterback makes $5 million while his hardworking teammates make less or nothing, and unless everything goes just right for the quarterback and the higher priced teammates, they will abandon the team completely.

Likewise, fans are being asked to consider themselves lucky to have these players for maybe a year or two. While they are technically the spectators and viewers that generate the NIL revenue, fans aren't supposed to take it personally when their favorite players bail on their university. Whatever made the college game special is gone, and these guys are jumping teams and allegiances even more than their NFL counterparts.

It's a business not a passtime. No shit. My guess is that as currently configured it's not a sustainable business and both NIL and the Portal will undergo changes soon.

Cignitti engineered a historic turnaround, but there have always been Cignitti's. They're rare, but that's always been the trick.
 
GSG said:
Reading this while I eat lunch. Some things that stuck out to me:

Agents are demanding money and certain amenities for official visits now.

Top recruits getting around $2 million in their first year. Some have deals that spread the money over 3 years ($1 million plus per year).

Some crazy stuff being asked for: flights/vehicles for family members, extra money for housing, insurance policies, etc.

Basically all the stuff that used to be in the shadows is still happening but it's "legal" now.
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who are the highest paid recruits? biggest spenders? and the dumbest waste of money?
 
I think the interesting thing is how kids will have to develop. I am sure I have told this story before. One of the best HS FB programs in the area sends a few kids to B1G schools, and a lot to MAC schools. When the whole transfer portal thing started, they really noticed. Their DC is also a throws coach in track. I talked to him quite a bit at meets. When the portal started, he noticed a huge drop in the level of schools that offered their kids. He had a kids that was (in the old system) borderline B1G. He lost his offers to the MAC schools and was stuck going FCS. Bowling Green told him, we will keep an eye on you. If you have a good freshman year, we can get you in the portal.

Think of it like MLB. Kids will go to the minors and develop.

This is the new way. That is why I am OK not taking an HS QB this year. We can yank a kid next year from the portal if we need to. We have the money to do it.
 
Crusader Husker said:
I think the interesting thing is how kids will have to develop. I am sure I have told this story before. One of the best HS FB programs in the area sends a few kids to B1G schools, and a lot to MAC schools. When the whole transfer portal thing started, they really noticed. Their DC is also a throws coach in track. I talked to him quite a bit at meets. When the portal started, he noticed a huge drop in the level of schools that offered their kids. He had a kids that was (in the old system) borderline B1G. He lost his offers to the MAC schools and was stuck going FCS. Bowling Green told him, we will keep an eye on you. If you have a good freshman year, we can get you in the portal.

Think of it like MLB. Kids will go to the minors and develop.

This is the new way. That is why I am OK not taking an HS QB this year. We can yank a kid next year from the portal if we need to. We have the money to do it.
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We need to identify and build up our minor league team... Iowa Western?
 
Crusader Husker said:
Use the D-2 schools in Nebraska. Yes, I know the level is too low.

If you use an FCS school, there could be exchanges.
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I remember when SDSU, NDSU, USD, UND etc would have been farm league teams for Nebraska. Now SDSU and NDSU are competitors - not on NU's level but they are out of the minor leagues of Div 2 football.
 
There is no way in which College Football isn't better.

Just purely from a competitive balance standpoint, the sport has never been better. I think fans in general forget how bad the sport was in ~2019. For a long time, a small number of teams horded all the talent. In any given year, there were only 2 or 3 teams with a chance to win. The gap between teams was massive.

I do think CFB faces a lot of problems rust, but they're easily fixed as long as schools are actually interested in fixing it.
 
Dr. Strangelove said:
There is no way in which College Football isn't better.

Just purely from a competitive balance standpoint, the sport has never been better. I think fans in general forget how bad the sport was in ~2019. For a long time, a small number of teams horded all the talent. In any given year, there were only 2 or 3 teams with a chance to win. The gap between teams was massive.

I do think CFB faces a lot of problems rust, but they're easily fixed as long as schools are actually interested in fixing it.
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On a competitive stand point, the sport can be improved from where it was.....and still have major problems being caused by what has been developed.
 
BigRedBuster said:
On a competitive stand point, the sport can be improved from where it was.....and still have major problems being caused by what has been developed.
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I absolutely agree.

But the current problems with the sport exist because schools WANT them to exist. That way they can throw their hands up and hope Congress rescues them so they can avoid paying players even more money.

Everybody knows that CBAs solves all of their problems. They just pretend to put forward solutions they know are illegal, can't be enforced, and then act surprised when they lose in court.
 
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