As free agency ruined pro football, NIL and the portal are doing the same to CFB.
NIL+ portal = free agency.
NIL+ portal = free agency.
Ruination of Football.
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I'll still watch both and I don't mind the players looking out for themselves as they risk injuries....not Emmert, Delaney, or any of these other greedy suits making millions off of the young players. Things evolve and if people just want to root for the purity of it....D2 and D3 football as well as high school are available. Had the NCAA and schools not been so greedy all along they probably could have gone a different route paying the players years back.
Ruination of the NFL? That's not what the cash register says.
And who is filling that register? The fans, many of whom are little more than poorly educated drunks. And stupid people with more money than sense.
Bro, nfl, specifically my birds, is a FANTASTIC product. And I was educated at Penn state, so now what?
So nothing. A needle in a haystack? Amongst a passel of over weight drunks who look like Haystack Calhoun.
Agree. The NFL is a very polished product.
Yeah. Every Steelers Game, it’s on unless we are going ( one or two per season ) . Watch other games as well and the best double headers for Tgar have the Eagles playing, The Ravens, Cincinnati, etc. before or after and everybody loves Thursday, Sunday and Monday night games.
Wear Steelers Gear all week, every week during the season. Love the NFL. Plan sunday meals around the schedule.
If you think the NFL is dying off, so be it, but that is your own made up reality.
We bought 3 laSaquan jerseys at Walmart for $40 ea. moms was questioning the wisdom of white but im wearing that jersey every game day in the Philly bars til I die. It’s gonna have scars. 2 said he’s wearing his all usc weekend lol
Where did I say that? Point it out. I said it's being ruined by greedy free agents. That cost is passed on to dummies. The owners aren't eating that cost.
Greed is the new loyalty.
Show of hands, who thinks players weren't getting paid before NIL?
Sure they were but they weren’t getting 6 figures or more for certain players. The game has indeed changed. It’s not exactly apples to apples.
Fortunately for the NFL, there’s no shortage of drunks and stupid people, and there never will be.
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Kind of like how message boards have no shortage of idiotic generalizations from insecure folks.
Pro football is as popular as ever.
College football might be different. Fans attend college football games because they are loyal to their universities and fellow students. Once you put college athletes on the payroll that bond starts to fade. Add unrestricted transfers and opt outs and there's no loyalty to players. It also makes the idea of obtaining a meaningful college degree less achievable.
Just think if your favorite baseball player decided to skip the playoffs and play for somebody else next year. The current college system is really effed up.
Hurts is committed to the Eagles for 4 more years. How would you feel if he opted out of the playoffs and decided he wanted to play for somebody else next year?
But that isn’t happening yet. College playoff teams aren’t facing that mass exodus or opt outs and pros are under contract. There aren’t exhibition games at the end of the year in pro ball.
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Bad example I think hurts ‘22 is an outlier and I want the birds to draft his future replacement next April. I believe a good path to the Super Bowl is a rookie contract QB and a kick asss GM
To each his own. I realize I am likely part of a very small minority but I have never worn a player jersey of any kind, not even as a kid. On the other hand, I might be tempted to rock this...
On this board there will be plenty of people claiming PSU players weren't. They're probably wrong, but there was a massive holier than thou attitude amongst our fanbase for decades.
Ask anyone of a certain age how did freshman Bruce Clark end up driving a new Trans Am in college?
I don't care who the player is or which sport it is. Would you be OK if you were a Yankee fan and Aaron Judge decided to opt out of the playoffs then say he wanted to play for the Red Sox next year?
No professional sport is set up to be a complete circus like college sports.
Your argument is that players of 4 teams haven't been opting out?
Regardless, lots of kids are jumping ship to go to other teams with the open portal.
You aren’t wrong, but statistically, a very large majority of those players entering the portal aren’t landing somewhere else or it’s a lateral/step down move. Sure, a few stars like Caleb Williams hit the portal and star somewhere else, but that isn’t the fate for most.
Yes some are for sure, that is how the rules are currently written and it's legal for them to do so. If they don't like the depth chart, coach, or school they don't have to stay any longer. I have zero issues with freedom when it comes to sports and what or where someone wants to go.
Joe got fired, the new coach made 4x more than Joe, and now NIL.
Courts ruling college athletes should have employee status ends the concept of student-athlete. Sport leagues can be formed which abolish the concept of college scholarship. Students in these leagues will pay tuitions and fees. The money for such will from employment contacts .Many college teams will become clubs
From an agent. Slightly different situation. He was also rumored to be driving a brand new Camaro when he was on campus.
Things are likely evolving as they should. It always happens. The bigger issue for football is the rise of the lacrosse moms. It seems to be more attractive than soccer to would be soccer moms and they are making a dent in football participation. This is also a logical development