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The powers that be in CFB are letting shortsighted greed blind them to the fact that they are destroying CFB, and the money they are chasing will ultimately dry up if they stay the current course. The last thing CFB needs is a greater divide between the haves and the have nots, but that is exactly what Texas and OU moving to the SEC is going to create. It will further result in less parity across CFB, which will make the product less interesting for viewers.

If the folks making the decisions were thinking long-term, they would realize that disbanding the existing conference model altogether would be the best move for CFB. Instead of the current structure, they should create 4 conferences of 16 teams based on geographic location and historical rivalries. All of the conferences would then be subject to a uniform set of rules and scheduling would be done at the top of the house rather than conference by conference. TV rights would also be negotiated at the aggregate level, which would result in a significantly more lucrative financial package than the sum of the parts under today's structure. The TV money would be split evenly across the 64 teams and all boats would rise because payouts would increase for every program across the board. The programs would still be differentiated financially based on booster support, ticket sales and merchandise revenues.

This would restore the magic of historical rivalries that have fallen by the wayside because of conference realignment and set CFB on a sustainable and stable path going forward.

Imagine a world where Miami, FSU and UF were in the same conference, playing each other every single year. That's how CFB should be.
 
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As the line between amateur sports and professional sports diminishes, so will my interest. I used to watch college football most of Saturday and any other nights it was on. If I had to go to a bar to watch out games, that's what I did.

I don't know if it's fatherhood, a different set of priorities, or the chasing of the money that's done it, but I pay maybe 10 to 20 percent the attention to it that I used to. This was the first college basketball season I literally didn't even watch a game.

It is what it is and I can't say I'm any worse for it. I just tune in far far less. I don't even keep up with who is in what conference anymore.

I should add I haven't watched an NFL, NBA, or MLB game in two or three years. Sort of went the same trajectory as NCAA sports are.
 
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SayWhat said:
As the line between amateur sports and professional sports diminishes, so will my interest. I used to watch college football most of Saturday and any other nights it was on. If I had to go to a bar to watch out games, that's what I did.

I don't know if it's fatherhood, a different set of priorities, or the chasing of the money that's done it, but I pay maybe 10 to 20 percent the attention to it that I used to. This was the first college basketball season I literally didn't even watch a game.

It is what it is and I can't say I'm any worse for it. I just tune in far far less. I don't even keep up with who is in what conference anymore.

I should add I haven't watched an NFL, NBA, or MLB game in two or three years. Sort of went the same trajectory as NCAA sports are.
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Well, times change, interest change. I watch sports just as much now, as I ever have, with the difference being that I'm a lot more selective about WHO I watch. I'm not a college kid anymore, I can't plunk down on my couch on Saturday afternoon and watch 12 consecutive hours of games, while also stepping away to attend one.

So called "amateur" sports have never been as pure as people want to pretend they were. I'd be a lot happier if most schools just got out of these money pits, because the whole point of an institution of higher learning is to teach, not deal with this nonsense. That said, of course these schools are going to chase money, they want to have a fighting chance to win and as long as money plays a huge role in what you can and can't do, schools are going to try.
 
Canedude08 said:
Well, times change, interest change. I watch sports just as much now, as I ever have, with the difference being that I'm a lot more selective about WHO I watch. I'm not a college kid anymore, I can't plunk down on my couch on Saturday afternoon and watch 12 consecutive hours of games, while also stepping away to attend one.

So called "amateur" sports have never been as pure as people want to pretend they were. I'd be a lot happier if most schools just got out of these money pits, because the whole point of an institution of higher learning is to teach, not deal with this nonsense. That said, of course these schools are going to chase money, they want to have a fighting chance to win and as long as money plays a huge role in what you can and can't do, schools are going to try.
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That's exactly what will happen in time. Football will become a regional sport with less than 40 teams.
 
GojiraCane said:
That's exactly what will happen in time. Football will become a regional sport with less than 40 teams.
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And that's fine, because times change. What will most likely happen is that the NFL will start their own minor league in conjunction with the schools remaining. You think this product right now gives hope to the 90+ teams that know on DAY 1 of the Regular Season that they have ZERO chance of winning anything worth a ****? Once the NCAA stopped giving a **** about talent being bought, once the NCAA made it possible for teams to have more coaching talent in the analyst booth than their opponents have on the field, the divide became wider. Frankly, I wouldn't be shocked if the SEC and B1G found a way to get the scholarship restrictions removed, to where they could go back to straight up hoarding talent.

The party has been over for a long time. When you can name at least 50% of the CFP participants every year, without even trying, it's a sport that is broken.
 
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Canedude08 said:
And that's fine, because times change. What will most likely happen is that the NFL will start their own minor league in conjunction with the schools remaining. You think this product right now gives hope to the 90+ teams that know on DAY 1 of the Regular Season that they have ZERO chance of winning anything worth a ****? Once the NCAA stopped giving a **** about talent being bought, once the NCAA made it possible for teams to have more coaching talent in the analyst booth than their opponents have on the field, the divide became wider. Frankly, I wouldn't be shocked if the SEC and B1G found a way to get the scholarship restrictions removed, to where they could go back to straight up hoarding talent.

The party has been over for a long time. When you can name at least 50% of the CFP participants every year, without even trying, it's a sport that is broken.
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Scholarship expansion will come as colleges do away with the sport, and would be sold as giving the same number of athletes a shot. Eventually it will be over 240 for the remaining teams to make up for the 80 or so that depart.

Then in good time the top programs will form a true partnership with the NFL. The affected football programs will no longer be college organizations, but be actual affiliates of NFL teams. The colleges will then pay for the right to host the team and will be responsible for maintaining the stadium, much as cities have to renovate or build new stadiums for the NFL presently. It could even lead to the odd situation when a college refuses to fund a $599M expansion to their football stadium, and thus the minor league team moves to a new college. So in theory, “The Crimson Tide” could find themselves relocating to Houston and represent the University of Houston instead.
 
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Canedude08 said:
And that's fine, because times change. What will most likely happen is that the NFL will start their own minor league in conjunction with the schools remaining. You think this product right now gives hope to the 90+ teams that know on DAY 1 of the Regular Season that they have ZERO chance of winning anything worth a ****? Once the NCAA stopped giving a **** about talent being bought, once the NCAA made it possible for teams to have more coaching talent in the analyst booth than their opponents have on the field, the divide became wider. Frankly, I wouldn't be shocked if the SEC and B1G found a way to get the scholarship restrictions removed, to where they could go back to straight up hoarding talent.

The party has been over for a long time. When you can name at least 50% of the CFP participants every year, without even trying, it's a sport that is broken.
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Oh, I agree the sport is broken. But I question whether enough people realize just how broken it is, and how the collective - potentially decades long dominance by two or three teams in a sport serves to just destroy interest. How it will lead to 2/3rds of the sports members going away. And with that, the high school programs in those areas. And how once that happens, politicization of the actual sport itself in terms of whether it should exist will rapidly intensify. And eventually it is banned, or changed into a hybrid tackle/flag/sensor touch game.
 
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Sixty-four teams. Four conferences of 16 teams each. Two divisions per conference of eight teams each. Eight total division winners play for four conference championships, enter a four-team playoff for the title. Each team plays every team in their division plus two or three. So nine or ten total regular season, plus conference championship, plus playoff, plus national championship means at most 13 games played in a season.

No more Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Iowa State, Wake Forest, Duke, etc etc etc.

This is the way things should have went when the BCS came about.
 
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here OP. If you're all for super conferences, I believe this UT/OU thing will probably be the first step of that. All of the championship contenders would be in the SEC/Big10/ACC (lol pac 12 get ****ed), so your super conferences are practically already there.
 
CashMoneyCane said:
Sixty-four teams. Four conferences of 16 teams each. Two divisions per conference of eight teams each. Eight total division winners play for four conference championships, enter a four-team playoff for the title. Each team plays every team in their division plus two or three. So nine or ten total regular season, plus conference championship, plus playoff, plus national championship means at most 13 games played in a season.

No more Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Iowa State, Wake Forest, Duke, etc etc etc.

This is the way things should have went when the BCS came about.
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Lol...what? How could anybody decide who's "worthy" to be in the whole 64 teams? What about all the rivalries with 80+ games played? UNC in but not Duke? NCST but not Wake Forest? Wisconsin but not Minnesota?
 
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Wait, i'm confused..so is Socialism good or bad? Also, how much CFB stratification will need to occur, before this fanbase finally accepts reality & tempers expectations? Hopefully, it won't take the university having to drop Football for them to come to this realization. Smh
 
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