🏈 "We're probably the only profession where the experts really have no say." Dabo Swinney shares his biggest frustration with college football

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[SnakeDoc]

I won't listen to his voice. What experts is he referring to?

 

[alabama mike]

Education is where we have no real voice for change. There are politicians that think they know what is best for kids but they really do more harm than good.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I won't listen to his voice. What experts is he referring to?

THe major P5 HCs and ACs.... and ADs.....the experts????
NCAA made up of politicians???????

 

[TideatMileHigh]

Would've loved it if more elaboration was presented.

 

[UAgrad93]

Education is where we have no real voice for change. There are politicians that think they know what is best for kids but they really do more harm than good.

Yep! Nothing like law makers that have NEVER been in a classroom a day in their life, explaining how a classroom and a school should be handled.

 

[ElephantStomp]

Education is where we have no real voice for change. There are politicians that think they know what is best for kids but they really do more harm than good.

We’re going through that here. Our school board is made up of people that have never been teachers of any kind

 

[rammerjammer]

Education is where we have no real voice for change. There are politicians that think they know what is best for kids but they really do more harm than good.

Don't think their dumbassery is limited to education. They do the exact same thing in healthcare. Hell, look no further than the scam-demic of the past 3 years to see the BS and asinine mentality of politicians.

 

[SnakeDoc]

Don't think their dumbassery is limited to education. They do the exact same thing in healthcare. Hell, look no further than the scam-demic of the past 3 years to see the BS and asinine mentality of politicians.

Career politicians are the problem.

 

[TideatMileHigh]

My little business cycle timeline for college football:

A. Late 1800s: Invention of College Football. A niche physical sport that is fun to watch.

B. Early 1900s-1940s: College football is fun, and begins to rise in popularity. College football is simply a game. People love it because it is intense and entertaining. AM radio enables people to listen to their favorite team play
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C. 1950s- Mid 90s: The sport's popularity is now rapidly increasing at an exponential rate. College football hits peak growth somewhere between late 80s- mid 90s. The rise of TV has a massive influence this of this growth.

D. Mid 90s- Present Day: Decline. Everything becomes money driven within the sport. The inflation of meaningless bowl games degrade the post season and conflicts of interest between media outlets and conferences becomes very apparent. The game becomes less of a regional sport due to the rise of national recruiting. Rules are manipulated to benefit offensive scoring.

I envy you older folk who got to witness this sport at its peak. Big money has sucked the soul out of this sport.

 

[mando]

Career politicians are the problem.

I think you can shorten that to politicians are the problem.

 

[Davestwin]

My little business cycle timeline for college football:

A. Late 1800s: Invention of College Football. A niche physical sport that is fun to watch.

B. Early 1900s-1940s: College football is fun, and begins to rise in popularity. College football is simply a game. People love it because it is intense and entertaining. AM radio enables people to listen to their favorite team play
.
C. 1950s- Mid 90s: The sport's popularity is now rapidly increasing at an exponential rate. College football hits peak growth somewhere between late 80s- mid 90s. The rise of TV has a massive influence this of this growth.

D. Mid 90s- Present Day: Decline. Everything becomes money driven within the sport. The inflation of meaningless bowl games degrade the post season and conflicts of interest between media outlets and conferences becomes very apparent. The game becomes less of a regional sport due to the rise of national recruiting. Rules are manipulated to benefit offensive scoring.

I envy you older folk who got to witness this sport at its peak. Big money has sucked the soul out of this sport.

I’m one of the older folks and I absolutely do miss the college football I grew up loving. I too wish you, my kids and that generation could have enjoyed the college game before TV money and rule changes decimated it. Once 1) the transfer portal 2) NIL and 3) lots of regional conferences being replaced by a handful of mega conferences were put into place everyone who played a part in implementing those changes knew or should have known the damage they were unleashing. And since the genie can never be put back in the bottle, the “college game” will at best become little more than NFL lite and at worse XFL lite. The next thing that’s coming is the repeal of the 3 year rule. I don’t know if it will drop to one and done like basketball but I would bet a lot of money it will be changed to two and through.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

I’m one of the older folks and I absolutely do miss the college football I grew up loving. I too wish you, my kids and that generation could have enjoyed the college game before TV money and rule changes decimated it. Once 1) the transfer portal 2) NIL and 3) lots of regional conferences being replaced by a handful of mega conferences were put into place everyone who played a part in implementing those changes knew or should have known the damage they were unleashing. And since the genie can never be put back in the bottle, the “college game” will at best become little more than NFL lite and at worse XFL lite. The next thing that’s coming is the repeal of the 3 year rule. I don’t know if it will drop to one and done like basketball but I would bet a lot of money it will be changed to two and through.

Me with you......
Playing sports is fun....
Watching is fun...

The other stuff...nil...portal... aint fun

 

[TerryP]

Would've loved it if more elaboration was presented.

It's the same kick he's been on for several months. Here, Greg is rehashing old news to a degree.

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Clemson’s head coach also talked about being bothered by people in charge not listening to players’ feedback on playoff expansion.

“I get beat up for this all the time and I don’t really care,” Swinney said. “We want to listen to the player on everything – like, everything – and I’m all for expanding the playoff. Great. I got no problem with it. But I want to do it in a way that’s healthy for the player. And what bothers me about the expansion of the playoff is when all this was coming about a few years ago, we were kind of given a charge by our commissioner to go and talk to our team and ask them, hey, this is what was coming down the pipe, here’s how it’s going to look like – wanted the feedback. I met with my team and I’ll never forget it, and I kind of laid it out for them, here’s where we are, and they all looked at me like I was crazy, like I had three eyeballs.

“You mean to tell me we got to start in July and we’re going to finish later in January? Oh and we just beat Alabama and now we gotta go play Georgia next week? You know, or you beat Ohio State, Alabama and now you gotta go play Georgia? And these are guys that have pro aspirations, and until you’ve been through a season of 15 games at this level, it’s hard to really have that perspective. So, the interesting thing about the whole dynamic to me, when all that was coming about – I gave the feedback but nobody listens.

“We listen to the player on all these things, but when it comes to – like, they don’t want to start earlier in July. They don’t want to go later in January. Oh, finals? Who cares? It just falls on deaf ears, and so I’m like, we can’t just keep expanding college football. And now where we are, you’re going to have to play 17 games. So, that’s a lot for a college player.”

Swinney on 'what bothers me about the expansion of the playoff'

During an interview with Greg McElroy on McElroy’s Always College Football show, Dabo Swinney discussed how the expanded College Football Playoff is bad for the players. Clemson’s head coach also t…

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[TerryP]

To the broader point, Dabo is circling the truth. For years I've complained about the rule structure for NCAA football. Not so much what, it's from whom. A D3 athletic director is out of his expertise when he's making rules governing P5 football programs...like a SBC member telling a 7th day'r what day to go to church.

He's also skirting the truth in the quote above: they're already starting in July. Alabama can start on the 10th of July.