How to fix College Football?

[notredomer23]

Saw they got rid of the 25 scholarship limit and just have to be within the 85

 

[zelezo vlk]

Wasn’t that just the case until about 5 years ago?


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[Irish#1]

Saw they got rid of the 25 scholarship limit and just have to be within the 85

Should make recruiting a little easier for teams, but you could see kids with offers suddenly being tossed out the window like a McDonalds sack with empty wrappers and a couple of fries.

 

[phork]

In regards to scholarship limits, does NIL create an effective path around that by paying players and avoiding scholarships?

 

[Polish Leppy 22]

Saban put Jimbo on blast last night saying A&M paid for their entire 2022 recruiting class. He said it in public. And I love it.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Saban's a full-blown hypocrite. Perhaps no one remembers a few years ago when the Alabama scholarship offer featured a picture of the NFL checks of their players. To say that wasn't symbolic of what playing for Saban was all about is naive. That school and the other SEC powers have organized under-the-radar family pay-out methods and have had for years. I've told personal knowledge stories of the Georgia university president about refusing to be involved with unilateral disarmament regarding retaining players, and the infamous recruiter "Black Jesus" with the Bible and the paper sack of money, and all stories go back to SEC, Miami, FSU, as the seed grounds. Doubtless the Oklahomas et al are equally nuclearly armed now, but on those schools the NCAA looks away as far as any meaningful punishments. ... no love for Fisher, but less for Saban. A&M in all this ...

Manziel is such an egotistic loose cannon that I wonder if he'd talk about TA&M (and others) about recruitment incentives like Sua Craven has. Perhaps his family was too well-to-do already.

 

[Rogue219]

I think Saban knows what he's doing. It's typical of his pattern. He pisses and moans, adjusts, then keeps beating everyone. Now he's got Jimbo all fired up and thinking about him. Jimbo hired DJ Durkin as his DC, so he may want to watch what he says too.

Meanwhile, everyone else is out recruiting while these two goofs have their pillow fight. Solid.

 

[Armyirish47]

Oh boy......

 

[Dale]

 

[Dale]

 

[Dale]

 

[NorthDakota]

There is not a bowl season to save. I get that media types are desperate to keep it for programming reasons. But with playoffs as a perfectly reasonable goal for teams to shoot for, idk what meaning bowls have.

If some of the G5 schools want to play some fun exhibitions and stuff, by all means...go ahead.

 

[ACamp1900]

There absolutely are maybe a few non playoff bowls with history that should continue,… unless they get adopted as playoff games moving forward, which is stupid imo but this playoff shit always has been,… but the pop tarts bowl or the gronk bowl or the charmin wipe my ass bowl? Bye

 

[stlnd01]

There absolutely are maybe a few non playoff bowls with history that should continue,… unless they get adopted as playoff games moving forward, which is stupid imo by this playoff always has been,… but the pop tarts bowl or the gronk bowl or the charmin wipe my ass bowl? Bye

Fun fact: The bowl currently known as the Pop-Tarts Bowl has had 10 different names in its existence, which only began in 1990.

The non-CFP bowls are toast. And it's fine. Too bad for ESPN and their holiday sports inventory, but they had a big hand in creating this system.

 

[ACamp1900]

Liberty Bowl
Holiday Bowl
Citrus Bowl
Sun Bowl

There’s some bowls with enough history to rework as nice consolation bowls for top 25 (or just outside) teams that don’t make the playoffs,… maybe I’m forgetting 1 or 2 but yeah,… dump all the rest. Thoughts?

 

[NDRock]

Fun fact: The bowl currently known as the Pop-Tarts Bowl has had 10 different names in its existence, which only began in 1990.

The non-CFP bowls are toast. And it's fine. Too bad for ESPN and their holiday sports inventory, but they had a big hand in creating this system.

They're just going to replace the bowls with a 24 team playoff.

 

[ACamp1900]

They're just going to replace the bowls with a 24 team playoff.

Such a great idea,…………. Anyway if they do then I assume those bowls are included anyway… but this whole thing is beyond stupid imo

 

[ulukinatme]

Fun fact: The bowl currently known as the Pop-Tarts Bowl has had 10 different names in its existence, which only began in 1990.

The non-CFP bowls are toast. And it's fine. Too bad for ESPN and their holiday sports inventory, but they had a big hand in creating this system.

 

[NDRock]

Such a great idea,…………. Anyway if they do then I assume those bowls are included anyway… but this whole thing is beyond stupid imo

I was for a 12 team playoff but should have realized they’d fuck it up and go to 24. You were right. I actually think 12 is really good as it has kept the excitement of the regular (we were invested until the end). 24 seams like it will be like most pro sports where the playoff is basically a separate season.

 

[irishandy]

I am for a 16 team playoff team and make it the same model as the NCAA basketball tournament. No first round buys, no buy-in teams, and only 1 show for the team seeding.

 

[ACamp1900]

It’ll never happen but go back to pre bcs bowls, and regional conferences,… add a game or two to the regular season, have a schedule maker oversee all of it, so there’s no massive schedule discrepancies,… then play the bowls as before. Nine years out of ten there’s a clear champion at the end, if there’s ever a split poll or the polls are within a predefined margin then those two teams meet for a plus one. It saves the bowls(makes them all must see tv again), save college football’s uniqueness, saves regionality and saves intensity of the regular season. It’ll never happen I know but that’s how you ‘save cfb’

 

[NorthDakota]

Playoffs going to a bye week between quarterfinals and semifinals and playing the national championship on Jan 25 is not good. They need to be compressing the schedule, not dragging it out. The season should be done the first week of January.

 

[irishff1014]

Playoffs going to a bye week between quarterfinals and semifinals and playing the national championship on Jan 25 is not good. They need to be compressing the schedule, not dragging it out. The season should be done the first week of January.

They could screw up a wet dream.