Recruiting Impact

This is the death of college football. The teams at the top will be semi pro teams and the rest of the country might as well be doing intramural. I hate this. 

How does this impact use of non-committable offers?

Instead of schools hiring analysts many now are going to hire the best salespeople possible. I don’t like where this could go. 

1 hour ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

I'm a little different ... think it's just headed long term to two 24 team super conferences with revenue sharing. 

The remainder of the current FBS teams ... probably best to have a spring league/season. I actually think it would do very well. 

Head towards a ...

FCS National Champion

Group of 5 (or whatever it will be called) National Champion 

and

the CFB Playoff NC

So the death of college football is accurate lol. Glad to be a fan of one of the most capable programs to tackle these circumstances though. 

Interesting article in Forbes yesterday, apologies if already posted - 

NCAA head warns that 95% of student athletes face extinction if colleges actually have to pay them as employees

“You’re talking about 95 percent of colleges that probably spend somewhere between … $40 million and $5 million on college sports, and they lose money,” Baker said. “They don’t have TV contracts and nobody can look at their income statements or balance sheets and conclude there would be a way for them to make money.”

Even if it's only 50% of schools that might drop scholarship sports, think of what that would do to college athletics.  How do fewer athletic scholarships affect participation in high school sports?  What does it do to the coaching profession, could there suddenly be a glut of jobless coaches? 

The questions and unintended consequences of these decisions are endless.

4 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

This is the death of college football. The teams at the top will be semi pro teams and the rest of the country might as well be doing intramural. I hate this. 

College football died when Saban made an academically irrelevant university's football program into a NFL farm team.

14 hours ago, Nathan Larson said:

Adam,

Now the real question. Has Pandora Box been opened?

If it has this isn't going to be good nor the outcome.

Pandora's Box was opened as soon as you could portal.  Then came NIL.  

And we're just at the beginning of the portal/NIL era.  No telling what ghosts and goblins will be let loose as time goes by.

A guess on my part is that the National Communists Against Athletics (NCAA) will attempt and fail to regain their "power."

But I think TEXAS will benefit from all of this CHAOS.

9 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

I'm a little different ... think it's just headed long term to two 24 team super conferences with revenue sharing. 

The remainder of the current FBS teams ... probably best to have a spring league/season. I actually think it would do very well. 

Head towards a ...

FCS National Champion

Group of 5 (or whatever it will be called) National Champion 

and

the CFB Playoff NC

I’m with you on the 20 to 24 team SEC and B1G, but is anyone else talking about breaking up the schedule for everyone else with a Spring schedule for the other 90 teams?

What kind of schedule does that look like for 90 teams (which probably falls to 60 teams real fast with no $$$).

14 hours ago, Texasborn91 said:

This is the death of college football. The teams at the top will be semi pro teams and the rest of the country might as well be doing intramural. I hate this. 

What you describe here has been the reality of college football for decades now.