@HFNY...I think the answer is no. In retrospect I felt it as soon as Deboer announced. It wasn't even disappointment over him, though I felt plenty of it. It's something that was building without me realizing it. Deboer was just what finally tipped the scale.
This isn't the same college football I used to love. I don't blame anyone for sticking with it or even liking the new version better. It just doesn't appeal to me the same way.
It is what it is. Maybe it will turn around but it won't be this season and probably not next.
That's fair. I'm hoping the NIL changes next year will help and ideally the players agree not to jump around every year. That should be part of the negotiation.
What NIL changes are coming? Are you talking about the $22 million revenue sharing?
That still doesn’t prevent an NIL collective from paying a player above what the revenue sharing pays.
These little changes won't help anything. The portal is the bigger problem to me anyway. Buying a recruiting class of high school players, which supposedly happened all the time anyway, really was much different. You still had to develop them and guys didn't pan out, had injuries, etc, and it created some cycles, unless you were fucking Saban. Now buying proven players has changed everything.
If we're basically going to make it minor leagues, why not have a draft at this point? One thing of some of the bs narratives that never gets brought up is that unlike pros and minor leagues, you at least get a say in where you played once in college.
