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Look Who's Transferring Now (The Portal)

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buckeyemania11 said:
The super teams really did kill the NBA for me. It's no fun watching something when you already know the outcome pretty much before the season even starts.

You could argue that it's always the same few teams in college football, there is a element of surprise to it still though, and upsets do happen.

There's enough loyalty amongst CFB fanbases/alumni though that I doubt viewership would ever completely hit rock bottom.
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The NBA declined, to me, because it's a garbage game now. No interest in watching a team dribbled around for 15-20 seconds then kick it out for a three attempt. No fundamentals. No strategy. Super teams killed rivalries. It's garbage, IMO.

CFB is starting to walk a fine line. I've been diehard since the early nineties, but I'd be lying if I said I was as invested now as I was 10, or even 5 years ago. One of the things I used to love so much was following a kid from commitment until he became a key contributor...be that as a freshman, or as a redshirt senior. That ain't happening much anymore. If a kid doesn't see the field his first year or two, most of them are gonna bail. As I've said before, I don't blame the kids one iota and it's just natural progression of the game, but it's tainting it for me.
 
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NFBuck said:
CFB is starting to walk a fine line.
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I'm going to say the following with the understanding that recruiting, transfer portal, commitments, conference alignments and the game itself have changed so significantly in the last 15 years.
I'm far from a "puritan", but I also wanted say my piece.


- The (I hesitate to use the word "excess") that can be the transfer portal.
- The RPO
- Super conferences
- Vanishing regional integrity
- NIL "super" deals ( again, I hesitate to use the phrase/word but I can't think of a better substitute at the moment)
- Focus on national recruiting before in-state (really just an off-shoot of regional integrity)


All have and will ultimately contribute to the decline of CFB, IMHO.
 
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Buckeneye said:
I'm going to say the following with the understanding that recruiting, transfer portal, commitments, conference alignments and the game itself have changed so significantly in the last 15 years.
I'm far from a "puritan", but I also wanted say my piece.


- The (I hesitate to use the word "excess") that can be the transfer portal.
- The RPO
- Super conferences
- Vanishing regional integrity
- NIL "super" deals ( again, I hesitate to use the phrase/word but I can't think of a better substitute at the moment)
- Focus on national recruiting before in-state (really just an off-shoot of regional integrity)


All have and will ultimately contribute to the decline of CFB, IMHO.
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I don't know that it will really damage it with younger/newer fans, but I know it has started to rub some older fans, myself included, wrong. I just feel the "charm" that made CFB such a blast is being erased and it's being "corporatized." I know it was always big business, but it used to be more behind the scenes. Other than NBC paying to air Notre Dame games, how many people knew who the power brokers we're 10, 15, 20 years ago? I understand tOSU and USC being in the same conference is great for the business side of the sport, but it just feels wrong to me.

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NFBuck said:
I don't know that it will really damage it with younger/newer fans, but I know it has started to rub some older fans, myself included, wrong. I just feel the "charm" that made CFB such a blast is being erased and it's being "corporatized." I know it was always big business, but it used to be more behind the scenes. Other than NBC paying to air Notre Dame games, how many people knew who the power brokers we're 10, 15, 20 years ago? I understand tOSU and USC being in the same conference is great for the business side of the sport, but it just feels wrong to me.
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I think you touched on it a good bit there with the 'corporatized'. CFB is going the way music and video games have gone - commercialism. Focus on turning out a profitable product en' mass before first letting it be about passion, pride and identity for the bulk of people. Then placing it under the guise of 'improvement' and 'competition'. I.E. money


I'm that weird in-between generation who got to see what life was like without, and now what life is like as-is. Some nice things have come about with the passing of time. Others? Not so much.

edit: To further my point.

The 2006 Buckeye Football roster (my senior year of high school) had 9 starters on offense all from The Great State of Ohio.

The projected 2022 Buckeye football roster? 2....
 
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So this is an interesting discussion.
I will just say that the college football gods knew what they were saying when they stuck so hard to the Bowl system and refused to adapt a playoff system.
If there is a single decision that I think began the unraveling it was the elimination of Bowls. Yes I get it, but Greyshirt they still have the bowl system....and they still have the conference tie ins. It is all still there.....Bull Mark May I say to you.
Once you eliminated the debates on who was best and agreed to a system that crowned a champion it spelled the end of CFB as we know it. Now there was a clear path for the money. Before you never knew what Bowl would actually have some great team. Now you know exactly where and when and now the money can follow. And the greed is now also following.

I may start watching Ivy League if I can find it on the TV. Because pretty soon that may be the only college sports available. The current model for all P5 college sports will crumble overnight if College football fails or separates from Colleges. Which is not going to take too long with the way things are going. The NCAA can easily be replaced with some non college affiliated board and they will just play the games on college campuses renting the stadiums. Because at some point it is just minor league NFL. Literally Football and Basketball are the only 2 major sports left that rely on colleges to develop there players. And Basketball is maybe 15-20 years from ending that relationship completely and looking more like Hockey. In that the best HS players will go to the NBA G-League or overseas.
Football will be the last one left. The NIL is what is going to tip it over. But I also think the NIL is the only thing that will prolong it. Maybe they can make it work. But I have my doubts.

Also MSU needs Mr. Brown.....he can block for his buddy Berger
 
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