There are only 30 or 40 teams who are actually trying to win anyway so I’m down with seeing the schedule include only them. I don’t need to see the Vanderbilt game every year.
They're going to have to do something because there are only 40 or so teams who can afford to do this. I don't know what that is, but it isn't going to look anything like college football beyond the colors and logos.
Ever since the free transfer portal went into effect all we've been rooting for now is laundry anyway.
Well it kind of depends upon how well our team sticks together now, and going forward. The spring portal was telling, I hope
So true. Will this fanbase ever have a relationship with a future player the way they did Tebow? IDK, but I highly doubt it. This idea of a guy growing up wanting to be a Gator is probably dead in the water. Purely transactional now.
It will probably be similar to what you see in the pros now. Ever so often, an NFL team will draft a "home town" kid and there might be a neat story about it. But that's about it....
It was always a short term relationship ( 3-4 yrs) now it's a 2-3 yr relationship. Because that's about how long a majority of starters are around.
I just don't see it as all that big a change from what we have had for a while now. SEC on top, with a couple big time programs from the other P5's competing against them. Heck even in the SEC it has really only been a couple teams for a long while now too, Bama, UGA, and LSU.
CF etc G8R has brought up the EPL, and to some extent I think that’s what we are looking at—Man City, Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, a couple of others who dominate, then a bunch of Tottinghams, Newcastles, Crystal Palaces who win enough every so often to keep their fans hopeful, and then a bunch of teams struggling to keep up. Right now I’d put UF with Newcastle and Crystal Palace (I think Prince William and his spawn are big CP fans)
Maybe Chelsea before Russian sanctions. Swap them out with Liverpool and I'm with you. If only UF could get some Saudi backing like Newcastle.
I agree - and maybe one of those EPL fans can explain how the game clock goes to zero and then starts counting back up again until the game randomly ends with time left on the clock. I don’t know how to get interested in a game when you don’t know when or why it ends football >> futbol
Honestly, I think we should go full in. Academies, contracts directly between team and player. Hell, maybe even transfer fees. Beats all the ridiculous contortions they're engaging in now. Just straight-up capitalism.
It's really not that hard and if you actually cared you could easily find the answer given it's 2024. Oh, and we in the English-speaking Anglo world spell it football. So, what you're saying is that our pronunciation of the world is MUCH better than the Spanish one. IDK. That's a you thing I guess.
What's to think about, it is. Contracts are between player and the team. No collective bargaining. No strikes. If your current team accepts a transfer deal from another club, you have to sign (or not) a new contract with the new club. Player doesn't want to sign, he doesn't move and team has to honor the contract. No publicly funded stadiums, no moving teams to leverage said stadiums. It's a purely capitalist system. You want the player? Go buy him. You want a stadium? Finance and build it. Want to make money? Earn it. No freebies.
