New League for the Top 40 - 60 Teams in College Football - My Version

I don't know anyone who watches CFB because they want to watch the top athletes in the world. That's what professional sports are for. CFB is about supporting student athletes and the school.

As someone said farther up I think they're going to chase away the remaining student fans (already a trend anyway). When I was in school it was cool to end up in a class with a player and see them around campus, etc... it felt like cheering for the university itself. No different than high school football just bigger. I don't see the Jacksonville jaguars stadium full of students from local colleges and they're associated nearly as much with the university of Florida as the pay for play athletes are. Where will the fans come from in 25 years?

 

Yeah, no. For the analytics, how do you keep up with records? Do we keep track of 2 separate entities in the 200 or so analytics or combine them?

I already gave my insights to what would fix college football and they are stupid simple.

1) Fix the portal. You get 1 free trip in the portal - go anywhere you want, play immediately. Outside of that 1 free ride, you get one extra if your HBC resigns or is canned. Subsequent trips to the portal either uses up a year of eligibility or you ride the pine for a season. No more seeing the Emory Jones hopping schools on an annual basis.
2) Shore up NIL. All money goes into a portfolio managed by a 3rd party like the NFLPA uses. The athlete can't touch the money until they are no longer student-athletes. Once an athlete gets an NIL deal, no more scholarship (the only time that the player can touch their money is to pay for college).
3) When a player hits the portal, they reimburse the school for any scholarship money they used. Either the new school pays for this or the player takes from their NIL money. Think how coaches' buyouts are handled.

You do the above, issues fixed and we return to regularly-scheduled programming.

 

You are right those fixes are stupid because non would be legal.
Transfers are going to be unlimited once the lawsuit works it's way through the courts.

The supreme court already settled NIL it's not changing.

NIL has nothing to do with scholarships. The athletic scholarship is based on abilities not financial situation. Players of wealthy parents get them now so that isn't changing.

Lastly scholarships will never have to be paid back, that is not how they work.
Athletically or academically.
BTW if a player is processed out by the coach, would he have to pay back the scholarship? Or are you only punishing those that decide to portal on their own? Good luck with that lawsuit.

 

Depends what you mean by college team. Was Rusty Wallace the Miller Lite driver or a race car driver sponsored by Miller Lite?

I think the pool of people wanting to support their college team vs the pool of people who want to support a team sponsored by their college has some overlap but not a whole lot.

The pool of people who don't care about anything but points and flashiness however is very large so CFB will be fine over the medium term. I do wonder where fans will come from in 25 years.

Personally I don't consider paying more money to be better than someone else an accomplishment or something worth bragging about. A more expensive house is bigger than a less expensive house by default all other things equal.

 

Would be interesting to have a promotion/relegation model like the European soccer leagues. No chance that'll happen as the "haves" would never risk being relegated...but it would be very interesting and give the lower league teams a chance to move up based on performance.

 

College football has always been an unequal sport. The teams that control the sport and have dominated for 100 years are not going to agree to a parity model like the NFL where they can't run the show anymore. The Michigans, Ohio States, Southern Cals, and Alabamas are never agreeing to a system that does not guarantee them all the best players. That's never changing.

 

Another attempt to murder college football, so the special interest powers and lawyers can own and profit from college athletes.