2025 scUM Shenanigans, Arguments - NCAA: no wins taken away, no postseason ban

[colobuck79]

Let me apologize that I may be dealing with today by drinking good, but cheap, bourbon (Evan Williams 1793). But let me say this. I forgot what I was going to say.

 

[colobuck79]

I apologized in that previous post, but I’m really not sorry at all.

 

[NFBuck]

5. And really, when you think about it, what does it matter if games are fixed? Or if not outright fixed, at least played on a uneven field. As long the viewer is entertained and the gambler is ignorant and the conferences and coaches and players are adequately compensated, who really loses? Sure, a few hardcore fans will walk away, disgusted at seeing their favorite sport compromised to such an extent that it is no longer recognizable or enjoyable. But who cares about guys like us? We'll be replaced by legions of gamblers who root for point spreads and over-unders and moneylines, not for the scarlet and gray (or whatever colors your favorite jersey happens to be).

Perfectly stated and exactly where I've arrived. CFB (and more importantly my beloved Buckeyes) was my absolute favorite form of entertainment and escape. My Saturdays from a pre-teen into my 40s revolved around CFB. It was more of an obsession than an interest. There was no "off-season." I loved everything about it. The passion, the pageantry, the traditions, the rivalries...all of it. That's all gone. What's left is a sad husk of what provided me so much joy (and, yes, sometimes misery). Now it's a glorified pro league without any form of regulation. Players play for 3,4, hell I've seen a few at 5 schools. There's no pride, no loyalty; it's all $$$ now.

College football is now entirely the 1980s SWC; corrupt to its very core and the best cheaters rise to the top. It's a bunch of mercs wearing your school's laundry for a year or two, then on to the next bag. Then there's the realignment. We're in a conference now with Oregon, UW , and the LA schools? Cal and Stanford are in a conference with Clempson and FSU? Huh?

I have zero interest in it. It's like the NBA to me; a once great entity that has been ruined. 2024 was my swan song. Ain't watching, don't care anymore. I should be Uber hyped for a #1 vs. #2 matchup with Texas in a couple weeks; don't care. It's all a sham.

At least I went out seeing the Bucks on top one last time. Thanks for the memories but I can't anymore. It's sad, very sad but the game has been so thoroughly compromised that I can't waste my time on it.

Those of you who can still stomach it, I hope the Bucks make it worth your while. I've had some truly memorable times posting here with you fine folks and I thank you for those memories. I hope you make many more.

 

[BUCKYLE]

I think LJB nailed it and thats what really pisses me off. Im the sucker. The rube. The dipshit that cares about The Game. The Shoe. Helmet stickers and marching bands. I thought they wouldn't fuck it up so badly for fear of losing the people that made the sport worth strangling and skull fucking for profit. But gambling and TV have slain the golden goose and we are now just seeing how long they can keep the marionetted corpse dancing without its face skin sloughing off and horrifying the other rubes enough to turn away. All hail capitalism.

 

[knuckifyoubuck]

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

 

[TDunk]

See y'all at the high school games. Like IMG and other prep schools. Just designate different divisions for NFL regulation and be over with it. The main thing that has been lost in the last few decades is: Purity. That's the one thing we could gather around. Not a paycheck, NIL, or hookers. That's my team. The only reason I will watch OSU FB is the brotherhood. Once that wains, I'm out.

Purity.