Of Note re Future of College Football....

If they can afford tuition and get accepted I guess.

 

Sure, but soccer in Europe is a different beast. As far as I know they don't really have a bunch of professional sports that get many fans. High level professional basketball, baseball and even hockey is a US thing. I know hockey is big in some areas but the goal is to get to the NHL.

Not to mention the US has soccer too. CFB is now just an experiment to see if the NFL can have a developmental league while carrying none of the risk. As an additional benefit the teams have the existing funding and fan base to function without needing growth for decades before negative fallout begins to really come home. By then the people making real money from this thing will be retired and generationally wealthy.

 

LMAO some of you whine a lot.

 

I dunno, but it is complete crap and you know it.

Perhaps they should start by instilling loyalty to the team and university, which seems to be totally lacking. Whatever happened to playing for your team?

And maybe that won't work in the current environment. But if I coached, and had a bowl game coming up and key players just quit, I would be seriously pissed and would make them understand that if the portal wasn't kind to them, or the NFL ignored them, that there would be hell to pay if they tried to come back. And I damn sure wouldn't give the quitters favorable references to NFL scouts.

Maybe if the players thought there might be consequences to quitting on their team, they wouldn't be so willing to do it.

 

Who sat out a bowl game without injury that we allowed to rejoin the team at a later date?

 

First, its extremely rare for players to voluntarily sit out the bowl game to enter the portal and then return to the team. Players sitting out usually already have their destination identified, whether its the draft or more commonly another school. I'm not sure what consequences you think can be held against those players.

Second, if you coached college football, there's a pretty good chance you've quit on your team before a bowl game at some point in your career to move to your next job. Billy Napier "quit" on ULL when he took the Florida job. I'll never understand how some fans insist on holding players to a higher standard than the adult coaches who teach them and they emulate.

 

Not every coach “quits” on their team after accepting a job somewhere else. In fact, I’m pretty sure Napier coached ULL to a bowl win over Marshall after he was announced as the new coach at UF.
I was wrong. CBN coached the Sun Belt championship game: not the bowl game.

 

Lol. It's not their team or university. They're being paid to play, and required to pretend to be students, because the NFL doesn't want to risk the money on less developed kids. They'd rather use yours and deliver an inferior product.

 

Hmmm!
Mike Francesa (on X)
"The other day I mentioned the complete destruction of college athletics was at hand. Today the NLRB cleared the way for Dartmouth basketball
players to unionize. The end is near."

 

We will keep watching the train wreck between spread fingers.

 

Coaches quitting on their team during the postseason is a function of impatient fans demanding results in 1-2 years. Forcing coaches to move on immediately. Looks like the dans are driving changes detrimental to college athletics