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

[TGHusker]

At the end of the day I think conference realignment has done more to spoil the game than NIL or the portal. Bring back the old geographic alignments, maintain the logical rivalries, and let the networks bid on college football games rather than conferences. When you hear the SEC and the Big 10 are mulling a merger, then conferences themselves mean nothing. It's just college football.

This is so true. When a conference stretches from coast to coast you water down the rivalries and the fan emotional investment. Who do we play this week - UCLA - we don't have anything in common with UCLA. etc. But to your point maybe the poll question should be -Did ESPN, Fox Sports, Etc ruin college football.

Colleges just handle the logistics for the NFL and charge a fee that supports its other athletic programs. Not saying that sounds better than college football as we knew it, just that it's more honest.

Yes, this is a more realistic approach based on today's reality. There is nothing college or "amateur" athletics about today's college FB.

Good post.

 

[gobiggergoredder]

Go ahead and add Sorsby to the poll. This might be the nail. If the Big 12 teams really do say they won’t play TT, then no one is really in charge. This is a disaster.

I know I’m just about done with college football.

 

[Gorillahawk]

This is so true. When a conference stretches from coast to coast you water down the rivalries and the fan emotional investment. Who do we play this week - UCLA - we don't have anything in common with UCLA. etc. But to your point maybe the poll question should be -Did ESPN, Fox Sports, Etc ruin college football.


Yes, this is a more realistic approach based on today's reality. There is nothing college or "amateur" athletics about today's college FB.

Good post.

This is what worries me the most about the state of CFB right now. I'm afraid we're getting closer to the point where fans are no longer interested because it doesn't feel personal anymore. One of the best parts of CFB is the rivalries. It's so much fun playing the other state schools, or the next state over and getting to see your coworkers who are fans of those schools and getting to give each other a hard time before and after the game. I think that is rapidly going away. We no longer play KU, KSU, Mizzou, and the likes and other than Iowa I don't feel like the fanbase has the same connection with other fan bases that we had in the Big XII. Maybe I feel that way because I am from and live in KS but it sure seems like the only thing that matters is $, and we fans quit caring the money goes away with them.

 

[TGHusker]

This is what worries me the most about the state of CFB right now. I'm afraid we're getting closer to the point where fans are no longer interested because it doesn't feel personal anymore. One of the best parts of CFB is the rivalries. It's so much fun playing the other state schools, or the next state over and getting to see your coworkers who are fans of those schools and getting to give each other a hard time before and after the game. I think that is rapidly going away. We no longer play KU, KSU, Mizzou, and the likes and other than Iowa I don't feel like the fanbase has the same connection with other fan bases that we had in the Big XII. Maybe I feel that way because I am from and live in KS but it sure seems like the only thing that matters is $, and we fans quit caring the money goes away with them.

I'm a S Dakota State grad and I may have to go back to just cheering them on to get that old time college feeling back. Of course I've cheered them on when they won the 2 NC and competed for others but I wasn't following them close like I do the Huskers.

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

I think I liked it better when the mafia handled America's gambling addiction.

 

[TGHusker]

Good OPED on the mess that is today's college football.

Tad Stryker: Gambling Scandal Underscores Need for Federal Legislation

Is an organization that is powerless to enforce its own rules worth hanging onto anymore? If he were still around, John Nance Garner, vice president for Frankli

www.si.com

 

[Toe]

Good OPED on the mess that is today's college football.

Tad Stryker: Gambling Scandal Underscores Need for Federal Legislation

Is an organization that is powerless to enforce its own rules worth hanging onto anymore? If he were still around, John Nance Garner, vice president for Frankli

www.si.com

What that article fails to mention is Cody Campbell's heavy involvement in creating the Protect College Sports Act. He's Texas Tech's bazillionaire booster that's bankrolling Sorsby (and the rest of their roster) and insisting that he should still be able to play.

 

[Toe]

Continuing on with the Protect College Sports Act discussion...

The University of Alabama and Auburn University oppose the Protect College Sports Act and urge the Senate not to advance it in its current form.


The bill is presented as a way to “stabilize” college athletics, but it would do the opposite by perpetuating the very instability it claims to cure through provisions that would:

• Undermine implementation and enforcement of the rules established under the House settlement, including by narrowing the disclosure and enforcement tools needed to hold every program to the same standards;
• Allow for new litigation undercutting efforts to create uniformity and consistency in rulemaking and enforcement on the national level because of inadequate antitrust protection and preemption standards too narrow to displace the current patchwork of conflicting state laws, while simultaneously creating new forms of liability through expanded private rights of action;
• Establish an expansive federal program—reaching into roster decisions, game scheduling, and internal governance—to micromanage college athletics; and
• Advance private-equity interests, who stand to profit from a redistribution of media-rights revenue, by pressuring institutions to involuntarily pool media rights in a way that punishes success rather than rewarding it.

Auburn University and The University of Alabama both appreciate Congress’s attention to these challenges and share the goals of creating opportunities for and protecting student-athletes, sustaining women’s and Olympic sports, and promoting fair competition through a single, clear national set of rules. But this bill does not meet that standard. In its current form, it solves little of what genuinely challenges college athletics and leaves the central questions to the courts, inviting the very litigation it claims to prevent.


Alabama and Auburn stand ready to work with their Congressional delegation and Members of both parties on a durable solution that protects student-athletes and preserves the ability of universities to compete and operate responsibly.

A joint statement from The University of Alabama and Auburn University regarding the Protect College Sports Act

The University of Alabama and Auburn University oppose the Protect College Sports Act and urge the Senate not to advance it in its current form.

wire.auburn.edu