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Pastimes : College Football: Nits, Gators, Bruins, Vols - Whoever! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dylan murphy who wrote (11108)	1/14/2024 4:18:07 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11146

Agree with all that. As it is now, it risks undoing what they've tried with dissolving boundaries between divisions... or, it ends up making smaller schools into "practice teams" and "farm teams". Some seems they used cover of Covid and "fairness" in extending player longevity in eligibility... which really drove viability of the portal in "re-valuing" some older players that were going to be "expired" otherwise. I noted it long before it happened that what we saw coming would advantage "big" schools with passionate fans... and even small schools in urban areas vs. land grant / ag schools in rural states. Miami suddenly becoming relevant again ? Is it Mario Cristobal... or NIL ? Or, are those "the same thing" in the shifting landscape putting $ ahead of other things. The shifting power in the organization of the game... seems it puts the NCAA at growing existential risk... which threatens a lot more than "the" sport. The Pac 12 implosion... occupies news flow re the tit for tat... but mostly ignores the bigger questions re "regional identity" and the value of a commitment... to something "bigger"... or, something more than a bigger paycheck. Maybe, soon... we see the game privatized and owners trading franchises from place to place... Unfortunately, I think "boosters" would be all over that. Seattle still has no basketball team years after the Sonics got killed off in consequence of billionaire's ego's and pissing contests ? And that... along with "rights" to extort and gouge taxpayers to fund construction of sports palaces... that sport the names of corporations that didn't pay for building that ? "It's about the $" has always and will always be true... but, as a business, are they chasing the $ at the expense of losing the value ? How do you balance those things correctly ? The problem is becoming clearer, at least, in answering that as... "not the way we used to" ? Smaller schools... have never been a part of the hunt for big $ and "the" National Championship ? So I'm less pessimistic about "the sport" surviving change than others... The change in college level sports... won't end high school football... or Pop Warner ? Institutional control... is the subject being avoided... as boosters money comes paired with "control"... and will as long as there are no limits imposed on that flow of $. That's not a question to be answered by "the sport" but by the institutions who are surrendering control and failing us in providing principled leadership... including in so many more things, and things that matter more, than just "a game" ? The value of an education... matters less than the franchise revenue ? Maybe... allocate the TV $ and limit boosters contributions... to 50% of what they apply to the endowment ? The public $ invested... for purpose... in publicly funded schools... gives us the right to demand "better". I expect it won't be resolved without Congress "fixing it". And, that effort should get it right <rolls eyes>.