🏈 What is the biggest root cause of the changes in football?

[Krimson]

What was the reason for the changes that have been made to the game?

I think it's easy to say money and be correct but is it ESPN with broadcasting money, gambling with the obvious money there or, athletes with NIL money?

 

[rick4bama]

What was the reason for the changes that have been made to the game?

I think it's easy to say money and be correct but is it ESPN with broadcasting money, gambling with the obvious money there or, athletes with NIL money?

College player being paid now. Teens being millionaires.

 

[TerryP]

What was the reason for the changes that have been made to the game?

Bureaucrats striving to make college football the minor league version of the NFL.

 

[im4uainva]

MONEY! Period.

ROLL TIDE!

 

[TerryP]

What was the reason for the changes that have been made to the game?

The people in charge have the spine of a paper napkin. Their brainstorms are a mist.

(You'd laugh at how often I think David Carradine when talking to you here.)

How's this? There isn't a single reason. There are a lot of changes. Scholarship changes are one of the biggest ones in college football. I don't see a lot of people talking about that number.

 

[BamaFan334]

Gotta be NIL. Dates back to O'Bannon at UCLA and then the Northwestern quarterback even bringing up the idea of a union. The "grown ups" are to blame as well because they easily could have nipped this in the bud quickly, but the ever changing and toothless NCAA allowed it all. Transfers, lawsuits to transfer, higher stipends, then allowing the creation of the portal, laxing the rules, then not creating a plan for NIL and just letting it turn into the current garbage it is. There is no law and order. A few things on paper, but no one is playing by the "rules".

 

[rick4bama]

Gotta be NIL.

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

Folks complained for years about everyone getting rich but the players. Rules were made to give flexibility and cash to the players. This gives cover to the conferences and the networks to continue to change the game to maximize profit without regards to tradition.

 

[OldPlayer]

Money. Money for the schools. Money for the players. Money for the conferences. Money for the media.

 

[TerryP]

Folks complained for years about everyone getting rich but the players. Rules were made to give flexibility and cash to the players.

20 years ago Ramzee Robinson had to go back home and work at a farm to have money for the fall.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

It's in some ways like a wildfire scenario. In this case, the NCAA didn't best manage their landscape years ago and that single decision to play a hands off game in terms of NIL is what has led to a domino effect that has scorched the CFB footprint forever. They hedged their bets, refused to budge, and ended up getting beaten in the courts and seeing their overall power be significantly eroded. And IMO, the timing of the BLM movement and Covid, in conjunction with the already changing landscape, spun things a bit more out of control (albeit, mostly unintentionally). But at the time, it just felt like a power vacuum had opened up, and the players held all the cards. The NCAA was crippled, and the major conferences were busy fighting each other for survival in their own game of Hungry Hungry Hippo over expansion. While that was going on, the back door was wide open and opportunities were seized on by the athletes. Now, here we are. Slowly, it feels like things are starting to settle, but things will never be like they were. And it all started, IMO, with the NCAA being too prideful and too greedy to give an inch 10 years ago and create some fire breaks. Instead, they were torched and gave up miles.

 

[footballer]

Bleeding hearts. In my opinion. if wondering why the rules of the game has changed so much regarding targeting and treating the QB like your Mother, maybe because of CTE, found out about after Jr. Seau took his life and his brain was studied.

I agree with what being said by others in this thread. NIL and the stupid transfer (portal) rules have ruined all college sports, not just football.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Certainly nil. Portal. Expansion of cfp.
But. Its all.... $$$$$! Driven

I watched the story of smu and death penalty last night. Nothing more than going on now.

I read that at one time. They wouldnt let Michigan state in big 10. Because.... they were paying players.

Some of us. The older ones. See many other changes.

 

[alabama mike]

Money. If the NCAA had done its job years ago and put some guidelines with players getting paid back in the day, maybe, just maybe, we would not be in this shape today.

 

[24and7]

Social media...

 

[mando]

Nobody blamed Trump lol....

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The love of money.

 

[Krimson]

Nobody blamed Trump lol....

Where's @ElephantStomp ?

 

[rammerjammer]

I think the portal is the biggest issue. It is sort of a snow ball effect from there. If you limit the amount of transfers and hold their feet to the fire on their commitment. (like a NFL contract), then you won't have folks jumping ship to chase the dollar.

I think you should get 5 years to play 4. I like the current RS rules. Allow one transfer because you're butt-hurt or home sick or whatever. After that, you have to earn your BS degree in order to transfer. That would be a total of 2 transfers during your college career. If they put a cap on NIL dollars a team could spend, this would bring back some semblance of the CFB we all grew up and loved.

 

[UAgrad93]

They put the cart before the horse on the NIL.