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re: 5 more years until the Super League?
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:46 pm to mikedatyger
Posted on 12/21/25 at 8:46 pm to mikedatyger
It’s about TV. Has always been about TV. TV Is why the sport has “declined” in to what it is now.
TV and gambling power these things.
As long as a dude will lay down $50 on Arkansas State to cover 7 on Northern Iowa, things won’t change.
My dad used to tell me TV is going to ruin sports
At 52, I now understand.
TV and gambling power these things.
As long as a dude will lay down $50 on Arkansas State to cover 7 on Northern Iowa, things won’t change.
My dad used to tell me TV is going to ruin sports
At 52, I now understand.
This post was edited on 12/22/25 at 2:59 pm
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Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:04 pm to mikedatyger
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also-rands
>Posted on 12/21/25 at 9:23 pm to mikedatyger
This is literally looking to double down on the changes that ruined college football.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 6:05 am to mikedatyger
It will never be right. It’s not right now, it wasn’t with the 4 team playoff to lots of people, it wasn’t in the BCS era, and it wasn’t right pre BCS era. People are going to complain no matter what they throw out there whether it actually is right or wrong. There will never be a system where it pleases everyone.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 6:18 am to mikedatyger
Enough of this nonsense; this is college football. How about restoring it back to normalcy.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 6:24 am to mikedatyger
Every bit of the "Super League" is moronic.
Then again, NIL is not really NIL. For the most part athletes aren't getting paid for their name, image and likeness like signing autographs, promotional appearances and ads. It's just a grab bag of booster payments.
Players change teams like they change their underwear. They don't play for "name of the side of the helmet" as Travis Daniels once famously said.
Without rules on the portal it's all bullshite.
There's nothing Southeast about OU, Missouri, UT and aTm or Sanford and Cal in the Atlantic Coast Conference is laughable.
Most of all, a so called Super League means that football is removed is it's own commodity and soon basketball would be its own commodity, tearing at the fabric of "college" sports.
Then again, NIL is not really NIL. For the most part athletes aren't getting paid for their name, image and likeness like signing autographs, promotional appearances and ads. It's just a grab bag of booster payments.
Players change teams like they change their underwear. They don't play for "name of the side of the helmet" as Travis Daniels once famously said.
Without rules on the portal it's all bullshite.
There's nothing Southeast about OU, Missouri, UT and aTm or Sanford and Cal in the Atlantic Coast Conference is laughable.
Most of all, a so called Super League means that football is removed is it's own commodity and soon basketball would be its own commodity, tearing at the fabric of "college" sports.
This post was edited on 12/22/25 at 9:04 am
Posted on 12/22/25 at 7:24 am to Gnash
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the SEC and Big 10 expansion
Never made sense to have ALL of a university’s sports have to commit to the new alignment.
This is about football. You can justify sending the Oregon football team to New Jersey to play Rutgers. I just have a hard time wanting to send a volleyball team that distance. The Super League should be football only. All other sports stay in their conferences.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 7:25 am to mikedatyger
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I like Pate’s idea of having bowls as kick off games in week 1 or even week 0
That's not Pate's idea.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 7:54 am to mikedatyger
What’s an “also rand”? LOL
Posted on 12/22/25 at 8:24 am to Riverside
Just watched one of those bowl games and they said that would be the last one. Sorry, do not remember which one from last week.
EDIT….. Bucked Up LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium.
EDIT….. Bucked Up LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium.
This post was edited on 12/22/25 at 8:32 am
Posted on 12/22/25 at 8:25 am to White Tiger
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What’s an “also rand”
It’s what happens when I try to type on my phone.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 8:33 am to mikedatyger
No worries. Cheers.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 8:41 am to 777Tiger
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ETA: seems like what’s driving all of this is to create participation awards, the old system of only the strong survive was too much of a monopoly I guess
What are you talking about? Everything in the sports is about money. A shite ton of money. The playoffs. Having too many Bowl Games. Shorting the game with new clock rules to add more commercials. That’s all college football has been about for the last 30 years.
If there is a major shift and some teams get left out, they will probably sue over it because they been getting a piece of that money for a while now. K-State was mentioned. Look at them and Iowa St over the last 20 years. How do you think two of the worst programs in the history of college football managed to play for conference titles and get into the playoff conversation a couple of times? Money has changed things, even for programs that aren’t at the top of the sport. Indiana could have been on this list of teams maybe left on the outside before the last two seasons. But they got serious and started spending their Big10 money. Hell, even Vandy is invested in their football program now. That kind of money applied properly can change the fortunes of any program.
Look at programs like SMU and Texas Tech. They were mostly also-rans, but they’ve always had rich donor bases. Now that they can outright pay for players, they’re both pretty damn relevant.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 8:44 am to Riverside
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Yeah. You should look at them. Ticket sales aren’t what keep bowls going and this has been the case for the past 15-20 years.
ESPN owns a lot of these bowl games. As long as the communities want them to stay and the ratings are there, I doubt they care much about mediocre to poor ticket sales.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 8:50 am to EastWestConnection
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super league sounds awful. What a terrible way to respond to the problems in the sport.
Unfortunately, thanks to Title IX and the bottomless incompetence of the NCAA in addressing sharing revenue and player movement before they were forced on them, a new entity is the only realistic way to bring stability back to the sport.
A collective bargaining agreement between said entity and a players’ union with contracts, salary caps and actual enforcement of rules would solve the worst problems in the sport. It would just create some other ones at the same time.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 8:56 am to mikedatyger
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Just watched one of those bowl games and they said that would be the last one. Sorry, do not remember which one from last week. EDIT….. Bucked Up LA Bowl at SoFi Stadium.
It’s notable that this is a bowl game that ESPN did not own. Most of theirs are smaller games in smaller cities where travel is inexpensive and overhead is low. None of that applies to a game in LA.
Posted on 12/22/25 at 10:30 am to misey94
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Most of theirs are smaller games in smaller cities where travel is inexpensive and overhead is low
Makes sense … Why are you on this board?
Posted on 12/22/25 at 10:33 am to mikedatyger
Not certain of a Super League, but I've been saying for a few years that by 2030, the NCAA will not be around, unless it's just for the lower divisions of CFB.
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