At least it's not a shutout. Other than that, yep.
NCAA (US College) Sports
- Thread starter RAFUH
- Start date
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
lolglad i went to bed at end of 1st quarter
Here’s hoping my Gamecocks beat the Tarheels tonight.
Go Cocks!
Go Cocks!
TN Toffee
Player Valuation: £20m
College Football Will Never Look the Same Again
This season marks the long-coming end of the sport’s age-old status quo.
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
Shocker, the one sport we have most like world football is eating itself alive over money and trying to form a super leagueCollege Football Will Never Look the Same Again
This season marks the long-coming end of the sport’s age-old status quo.slate.com
TN Toffee
Player Valuation: £20m
It’s not a perfect analogy, but they’re in danger of going the way of NASCAR in the early part of the 2000’s by losing sight of what made the sport special and appealing in the first place and simply chasing more and more money. Eventually they’re going to end up killing the golden goose.
Tennessee and Alabama have one of the biggest rivalries in CFB, and have played every October (except once during WWII) for almost 100 years. This is the final year of the game being an annual occurrence thanks to Texas and Oklahoma’s addition to the SEC. Now it will just be another game in the rotation that we play every 4-5 years. Same goes for our games with Florida and Georgia. Sure, the Universities pocket a little more cash because the additional TV markets, but the fans lose their regional rivalries. The whole thing sucks.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
Well, they'll kill the golden goose for most of them. The universities at the top of the heap absolutely do not care. If anything, doing so is advantageous for them. It will eliminate rivals as a threat. FSU's president, in all his cynicism, is correct about the structure of the problem. If your rival is pulling down twice what your athletic department does, odds are they'll beat you far more often than not.
The preseason top 20 is full of the teams that stand to gain from a super conference. Sure, Kansas State, TCU, Utah and Oregon State would surely find themselves on the outside looking in, others are questionable, and there are still others not in the top 25 that would likely be included. It will be about eyeballs, just like it has been since Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College jumped ship for the ACC.
The whole mess is terrible for fans, and worse for athletes in non-revenue sports. It shouldn't shock anyone that university presidents and chancellors don't much care about anything other than dollar signs and their biggest donors, though. Whether they're after prestige, athletic glory or both, that's the currency of the realm with which they buy success. The children of those who can pay full freight and the largest donors are overwhelmingly likely to contain the next generation of big donors. Academe in the US has become a full-fledged, customer-oriented facilities war, and this is just a reflection of that reality. Not much point in developing a generation of research superstars when Harvard et al. will just hire them all away. They're short-timers. Donors are not.
Pittsburgh Footy
Player Valuation: £35m
Clemson
LOL
LOL
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
I would love to see Dabo Swinney have a real busted flush of a season and end up going about 8-5. Pipe him right down with his guff about not paying players.
HOOK 'EM!!!!
Looks like the term of contract for Nick Saban's soul has expired before Nick, which is a good thing.
It's been awhile since your Horns looked that good. Enjoy that SEC.
Meanwhile, this was FSU band's halftime show this week. No letup on LSU. None.
I'm trying to figure out where they land. They're tied at the hip with Clemson, and they'll both jump the same place when the time comes.
TN Toffee
Player Valuation: £20m
I might pump the brakes on writing Alabama’s obituary just yet. It’s only early September and they’re still in complete control of their own destiny this season. If the past 15 years have taught me anything, it’s that much like in Jurassic Park, “Alabama finds a way.”Looks like the term of contract for Nick Saban's soul has expired before Nick, which is a good thing.
It's been awhile since your Horns looked that good. Enjoy that SEC.
Meanwhile, this was FSU band's halftime show this week. No letup on LSU. None.
I'm trying to figure out where they land. They're tied at the hip with Clemson, and they'll both jump the same place when the time comes.
With that said, it may turn out that NIL has hurt Alabama (and Clemson) more than most anyone else. Under the old rules, the programs that had the most success were the ones who were good at paying players without anyone finding out. Now that everyone is able to just pay them out in the open, it may have substantially leveled the playing field.