Is this the most parity that’s been in college football in a long time?

DesotoCountyDawg

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Or maybe ever? I know we’ve all said “Team X just isn’t that good because they lost to Team Y.” But is that because of the talent being spread out more? NIL and the portal have kept teams from stockpiling depth.

You can go down the top 10 rankings and make a case for each of those teams to win and lose and even make it to the national championship.
 

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Yes. But I also wonder how much Alabama is impacting that. If this were normal Bama would we feel that way. Because we still have a lot of 1 loss teams and a no loss team.
 
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Or maybe ever? I know we’ve all said “Team X just isn’t that good because they lost to Team Y.” But is that because of the talent being spread out more? NIL and the portal have kept teams from stockpiling depth.

You can go down the top 10 rankings and make a case for each of those teams to win and lose and even make it to the national championship.
NIL has 100% helped parity. If they go back to 1 free transfer and then sit out a year after that, it would help things a lot.

Possibly limit scholarships to 80 total and drop the yearly down to like 22 would help a lot more. Give the 3 extra to baseball.
Creating some type of salary cap with NIL.

Teams like bama and USC and Ohio State deserve some type of advantage but they should be able to dish out unlimited funds.
 

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I think there is more parity but I think it's for the wrong reasons. I think some of what we're seeing is proof that 18-20 year old's are not mentally ready to be professional athletes and that manifests itself by way of some inexplicable underachieving on the field by some supposedly superior teams.

I edited to add "mentally"
 

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Yes. But I also wonder how much Alabama is impacting that. If this were normal Bama would we feel that way. Because we still have a lot of 1 loss teams and a no loss team.
Part of Bama being down is parity. Lot of it had to do with Saban retiring but part of his retiring was NIL.
 
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8dog

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NIL has 100% helped parity. If they go back to 1 free transfer and then sit out a year after that, it would help things a lot.

Possibly limit scholarships to 80 total and drop the yearly down to like 22 would help a lot more. Give the 3 extra to baseball.
Creating some type of salary cap with NIL.

Teams like bama and USC and Ohio State deserve some type of advantage but they should be able to dish out unlimited funds.
Has NIL really played a part in the parity? The most expensive team out there is gonna go 9-3 with a home loss to KY. But aside from that the teams that can pay the most NIL other than OM are the teams that traditionally have been powers anyway. I mean how much is Vandys roster? Indiana’s?
 

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Has NIL really played a part in the parity? The most expensive team out there is gonna go 9-3 with a home loss to KY. But aside from that the teams that can pay the most NIL other than OM are the teams that traditionally have been powers anyway. I mean how much is Vandys roster? Indiana’s?
I don’t think Indiana or Vandys rosters are that expensive, the players they added were mostly G5. most importantly they had an experienced coach with a plan building the roster and doing evaluations. We seem to be staggering around with no rhyme or reason to what we are doing.
 
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8dog

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I don’t think Indiana or Vandys rosters are that expensive, the players they added were mostly G5. most importantly they had an experienced coach with a plan building the roster and doing evaluations. We seem to be staggering around with no rhyme or reason to what we are doing.
Yeah. It’s mostly about coaching. Portal helps and it helped Indiana massively bc of all the JMU guys. People just seems to say the answer to every question is “because of NIL” like when that guy said MC was shutting down FB bc of it which was asinine
 

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Part of Bama being down is parity. Lot of it had to do with Saban retiring but part of his retiring was NIL.
Clearly Saban coasted toward the end of his tenure and then voted on NIL with his feet. He couldn’t have signaled any stronger what he thought about pay for play than how he exited.
 
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I think it’s more noticeable because we’re paying attention to teams in that 10-20 range now. In years past those teams would mostly be out of the headlines. No one would care that Florida just beat ole Miss.
 

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I don’t think Indiana or Vandys rosters are that expensive, the players they added were mostly G5. most importantly they had an experienced coach with a plan building the roster and doing evaluations. We seem to be staggering around with no rhyme or reason to what we are doing.
Yeah, I don’t think their rosters are that good either. Vandy is going 6-6. And Indianas best win is 6-5 Michigan.
 

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NIL, portal, and faith in the coaches has leveled the field.
Honestly, I hate that it’s a free-for-all for players to go willy-nilly wherever they want. They need to be locked into contracts like coaches are. You want to poach a player? Be ready to pay a lot of money to snag him from someone else. I’m not sure why this hasn’t been implemented. Otherwise, cut the scholarships and other benefits and give it to other players/sports. Imagine how much better our other sports would be if football and basketball and possibly baseball would be then.
 

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Or maybe ever? I know we’ve all said “Team X just isn’t that good because they lost to Team Y.” But is that because of the talent being spread out more? NIL and the portal have kept teams from stockpiling depth.

You can go down the top 10 rankings and make a case for each of those teams to win and lose and even make it to the national championship.
People bemoan the current system but it benefits the traditional bottom feeders if the right leadership structure is in place.
 

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Has NIL really played a part in the parity? The most expensive team out there is gonna go 9-3 with a home loss to KY. But aside from that the teams that can pay the most NIL other than OM are the teams that traditionally have been powers anyway. I mean how much is Vandys roster? Indiana’s?
OM, Vandy, SMU, Kentucky among many others have pulled some of the best players away from Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, Tenn, USC, Michigan, LSU, etc.

The top teams still have a distinct advantage but they are definitely losing SOME of the top talent.
 

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Clearly Saban coasted toward the end of his tenure and then voted on NIL with his feet. He couldn’t have signaled any stronger what he thought about pay for play than how he exited.
I think you are agreeing with me? But i agree with you.....I think.
 

8dog

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OM, Vandy, SMU, Kentucky among many others have pulled some of the best players away from Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, Tenn, USC, Michigan, LSU, etc.

The top teams still have a distinct advantage but they are definitely losing SOME of the top talent.
Thats a portal thing. They aren’t luring them with NIL away from schools that can outbid them. But those schools you listed outside of OM are primarily portaling in kids from lower tier schools.
 
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