2023-24 Portal Thread
- Thread starter Tom McAndrew
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Is this just becoming free agency All Star teams with no salary caps? You have conference sack leaders, team captains from Power 5 programs, and the like entering the portal. Then you have the highest bidders collecting proven talent such that the rich get richer.
This is looking like it is going to end in such an incredibly boring product. You'll have the same teams that are willing to pay in the playoff every year. Eventually, they will have so much talent stolen from other Power 5 teams that they should never lose to a non-playoff team and most of their games will be complete blowouts. How is this good for college football?
This is looking like it is going to end in such an incredibly boring product. You'll have the same teams that are willing to pay in the playoff every year. Eventually, they will have so much talent stolen from other Power 5 teams that they should never lose to a non-playoff team and most of their games will be complete blowouts. How is this good for college football?
I used to say the only difference between the NFL and the sec was the NFL had a salary cap. Never thought that joke was anything more than a joke...
It's going to kill off college football interest in the long term. I already don't watch the "playoff" invitational and haven't for the last few years. I just got tired of watching either Alabama or Georgia winning every year. It's boring. Last year's national championship was a total blowout.
They think the expanded playoff will help and I think it will delay the inevitable for a little while. But even that is rigged to give the top 4 a massive advantage with a bye. So now you'll have teams included in the playoff with no chance to win it to give a few more fanbases a bone. But in the end, you'll be left with the same teams willing to buy their championship near certainties every year. That will be about as exciting as watching paint dry. Eventually, only those same big spenders will care and the rest of the money will dry up.
The NCAA is certainly culpable. However, this latest rush on the portal is a result of a court decision. NIL as well. The NCAA failed to get out in front of NIL and it was imposed on them as a result. Eventually, and hopefully sooner rather than later, even the "haves" will realize they need competitive games to keep the revenue flowing. College football needs a commissioner.
The courts? The NCAA was using athletes' NIL for its own profit and not deigning to share. Similarly, it had myriad opportunities to settle for something far less than the Wild West show of today. Form a cartel to willfully impose rules and expect the courts not to enforce the law of the land? I don't think so. They have only themselves to blame.
