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The issue is the university is asking the fans to fund the 20.5 million plus the "reasonable" money. State doesn't have a shot in that environment to compete from a financial standpoint. Do we just concentrate on basketball and baseball and try to tread water in football (which pains me to say)? Our old adage of being a developmental program is gone in the free transfer world.
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College football started dying about 3 years ago
Agreed. I meant being completely dead if they do not make changes. What I find crazy is how college football and baseball are growing.
This settlement does nothing but bring good ole fashioned cheating back into play after caps are hit and we are full circle again. Except more expensive cheating now.
I think we will do what everyone else is doing. We can't publicly be behind all the other SEC schools.
Those schools should fund their own league if they want to spend that much $$$ every year. I prefer TRUE college sports, where kids play for the love of the game and/or school. If you want pro sports, form your own league. It's not a level playing field, and the schools will continue to spend more and more until capped. Why can't leadership control this?
Athletes haven't been playing for the "love of the game" since the 80's. $$$ has been there - it just hasn't been this public. Again - none of this is really an issue if the free transfers stop or they allow contracts with buyouts in play.
Hopefully they change up the portal rules and make some contracts. We will always be behind the jones' in football spending just like always. I don't mind the big nil because to me that's stuff has always been there just under the table. The portal is the biggest issue.
No it didn’t. Attendance is still strong. College Gameday had its highest ratings ever in 2024. Two things can be true: the system sucks but the game is still so great.
It seems like there has to be a breaking point, but so far it is going strong.
The fans are being asked to fund a lot, but a good portion of the $20.5MM needs to be found in the athletic department's operating budget, or even the overall university budget.
Seems a bit oxymoronic to call it "revenue sharing" and then ask the fans to fund it through donations.
Correct. CFB doesn’t care if you are having fun at a level 10 or a level 4. As long as people tune in and attend games they are good
I am hopeful that it will matter again one day, but I have sadly never cared less about the sport or an upcoming season than right now. I am legit turning off T&L these days when they get to the team previews because I just don’t care
In that scenario, will State fans be happy with a ceiling of 7 wins and floor of 4? I guess that is what we were from 1980-2000 and 2009-2020.Like before, we'll be in the lower half of the SEC. But if things continue the Big 10 and SEC will be a major step up from the other conferences, and our talent level should be higher than most of the ACC for example. Adding another conference game would be bad for us, to be honest.
One thing we don't discuss here very much is how much the big budget schools are freaking out trying to keep up with their peers. Case in point this Ross Dellenger article about LSU's football budget.
'It's a money game now' — How LSU is using NIL to keep up in ever-evolving college football world
After falling short of expectations for three seasons, LSU drummed up as much as it could in fundraising to get the Tigers back in the national picture. Here's a deep dive into how that all works in this new era of college football.
College Football Attendance Trends
No you don’t. Quit lying. How many Ivy League games have you watched? How many NAIA games?
I've actually probably watched about as much Ivy League football as non-Mississippi State I-A football (not including playoffs). Not much else on on Friday nights and it's really old-school small time football. I probably watch about 3 games a year.
That’s part of a collective bargaining agreement. For this to be comparable, college players would have to unionize.
