Dude I couldn’t wait for the weekends for college football and NFL, know I could care less. Sports interests me about as much as soaps, or late night shows.
@@runsangry I watched the 1981 AFC championship the other day and seeing the lack of development around Riverfront stadium in Cincinnati and even seeing the sidelines with only team personnel made me nostalgic and depressed
Yep! Ever since they started focusing more on player protection, and then of course, including politics, and finally forcing social change in the commercials….i checked out. I may watch the quarter of a playoff game, but that’s about it these days.
I remember when rich alumni/boosters just bought the kid a car and got him a job at the plant that he never attended but got paid every Friday. Its a new world baby!
Why do people care so much coaches been making millions forever huge contracts why not the athletes….The fans come to see the football players not the coach and the NCAA making Billions !!This is fair play can’t continue to keep these young men down while the other thrive.
@@Smikethemanbecause black people are never supposed to be on equal or greater footing. It literally triggers the F out of people that black kids are getting paid for their services.
Toney Bennett at UVa did the same in college basketball and I expect other long time coaches will do the same thing. It is just too much of a grind trying to baby sit these players and keep them happy.
Yep, all them years of under the table boosters had caught up with him, that's y he bailed. The likes of Bama are sour because these athletes don't give shhit about you being the standard😊 All the decades, Bama has been buying all 5star talents to diminish other colleges' chances to compete.
Nick Saban saw the writing on the wall that him and Alabama no longer had a monopoly on college football and everyone else was catching up so he turned his tail between his legs and went home. No I don't like being a whale and I don't like what it's done because it's football but I don't feel sorry for Alabama
@@cljackson512 I do. The system has been broken for years, and the problem has become an eye for an eye situation that jeopardize the sustainability of the product. College Football can easily turn into the NBA real soon. Enjoy the highs now because if this isn't regulated quickly, they'll be in a heap of trouble that'll takes years to recover from.
@@commonsense3921 how do you figure? If the big schools start paying kids millions then schools like Fresno State, Nevada James Madison won’t be able to compete. That’s where this is going. It’s pretty obvious Every time a small school like Arizona State gets a blue chip kid Texas or Alabama will just pay for him to move It’s coming
College football was the last sport that I cared about and now I’m nearing being done with it. This crap has ruined college football. I’d like to see the smaller schools break away and do something different. They have no shot at this playoff anyway and don’t matter in this system. None of this makes any sense anymore.
And no matter what the shills say nil and the portal isn't making a level playing field. In fact the rich are getting richer. Sec is has as much talent as the other conferences combined in recruiting this year.
Chickens have come home to roost. The TV contract money should have been used to lower tuition costs for everyone not overpay top coaches. For the student athletes they should have gotten an extra year of tuition room and board for every completed year but not more eligibility. I base these ideas on the lie that they were always looking out for the kids.
It's a business. They aren't supposed to look out for players that have been getting paid for like 50 years in reality. They got greedy with nil and it's going to kill college football in 10 years.
This money grab by college and now high school players will take away what makes the game attractive to viewers. Fundamentals, loyalty and team first will diminish as time goes on. It will evevtually lose tv ratings because the product will be unwatchable. Its sad, but the love of money always destroys everything in its path.
Level of play has fallen every year since nil. No matter how hard they shill only 6-8 teams play good defense as a team anymore and wr is the only position that's improved. Everything else is fading.
I played at Appalachian State 20 years ago and i didn't need NIL. We ate for free, sure the stipend wasn't much but just playing the games and being the big men on campus was more than enough for us. I can't stand what the sport has become.
Yup. The fact that college football is even a "thing" is completely disgusting to me. Be a full-time athlete or be a full-time student. Don't be both simultaneously
I don’t care about NIL as much as I do about the transfer portal. The transfer portal is what is ruining college sports. Let them get paid, but stay at one school.
Nah, the transfer portal is a good thing. I played in an era where you had to put in a request, and your coach could deny it. And even if coach approved it, you had to sit out a year. It led to a lot of false promises and lies to get players to sign a commitment, and then they were trapped. The bigger issue is that the NCAA had no control at all over NIL. That's what you're seeing here.
@@spectralnighttravel Portal is bad, it allows coaches to not develop players and easily replace them as well. Teams have no chemistry, everybody is a mercenary, zero connection to schools.
Here’s what should happen. RETURN college athletics to the STUDENTS! Then take the 100 kids who are good enough to try pro- and put them in development camp and have the NFL Pay for that. MILLIONS are going to kids who will never play a DOWN in the NFL. Wasted money and wasted lives. If you’re not a student with a major and real classes you’re not playing football
I wish this system was going on in the late 90s. I would've gone to a JUCO for 2 years, then went to a Division 1 school, and then transferred to a different school every year for 4 straight years😅
You can buy player jerseys or whatever crap they’re selling, then those athletes hit the transfer portal and all loyalty is gone. I no longer care about college football because of the pay-to-play and transfer portal. I was a big Southern Cal fan from the OJ Simpson era and I’m done.
I’ve been seeing boosters say that they don’t want to donate to NIL only to see players move to other schools each year. Schools want donors to be loyal and committed but the student athletes are not being held accountable!!!
I figured NIL would eventually trickle down and impact high school sports. They have truly messed up the notion of "student-athletics" in college. If we are now paying people to play for college teams, why even require them to qualify as students? Why have age limits? Why limit years of eligibility?
It’s weird how since pro sports went fake-woke and leftist I just stopped watching… before that I was obsessed and my wife hated it 😂 the quality overall also declined with wokeness in general
Also white boy, is this like Miami, Ohio State, USC, and Michigan all getting caught and punished for paying players 😂 because if SEC did that they would get in trouble. Still waiting.
The transfer portal and NIL have wrecked college football. As a USC alum, there’s nothing more sacred in sports than feeling connected to your Alma mater and its athletics. With the ridiculous, obscene amount of turnover, I feel like I’m rooting for a shell and not an actual team. How can teams gel and assume an identity - for better or for worse - if players become nothing but vagabonds looking for whatever they can get their hands on, be it NIL money or starting RIGHT NOW? Why on earth would anyone want to be a head coach in this system? Why should any head coach feel an ounce of loyalty to their current employer? Recruiting commitments are a farce - why recruit at all if all your time and energy ultimately benefits another program when your top recruits decide to transfer? Some pretty disappointing teams have come along at USC, but even then, you felt like you were disappointed *with* them not *at* them. Now that there’s the poison of money injected into the system, these are no longer players, just temporary employees with temporary badges. Who wants to financially support that? College athletics is built on tradition and mystique. If it continues evolving into what it’s becoming, teams are going to need to be bankrolled by private equity to survive, because the alumni spigot is going to dry up real quick.
Those old time car dealer handshakes that Alabama used to live on can't compete with the Texas oil billionaires so they're getting a taste of their own medicine. Unless something changes, SMU will be the new Alabama.
I am a born and bread Alabama fan and have been all my life. I anit paying a damn dime for anything extra to pay a bunch of 18 yr old millions of dollars. I would rather seen the team never win another title ran fund this dumbassary. Just put the kids under contract for 4 years rather than these letters of intent and be done with the stupidity we have allowed to happen
I'm a national champion Alabama athlete. I nearly fell over when I read this post from our AD. I knew NIL was a death blow to CFB. I'm absolutely gobsmacked that my alma mater has stooped to panhandling fans for even more money in what already amounts to many thousands a year to support the program. I've said it a million times and I won't stop: Bidding wars to make teenagers millionaires is the worst social contagion college athletics has ever or will ever see.
It’s wild how this era has just said they don’t care about mid majors. These schools and sports programs are a vital part of some of these cities, and to completely shun them has a massive ripple effect
Juco not counting towards the 4 years of college is good because a lot of kids should be in Juco playing instead of riding the bench at a 4 year school. The worst experience in college is riding the bench and then you get your chance and you suck because you haven’t played in years
SEC big mad they compete with schools in the north like Michigan that has way more money! you will see the shift in the coming years because SEC school lost that edge
Where have you gone Pete Rose, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron , Bart Starr , Roger Staubach, Johnny Unitas? A time when sports like society had dignity and class
This is crap! Asking fans for more money? If schools want to retain their lucrative football programs, they need to dig into them endowments they’re sitting on. Even better, get rid of their worthless humanities programs. 3:03
I saw this coming from a mile away. As soon as they allowed this NIL crap to go through I knew College sports were done. Virtually no sports left to watch or follow. What a joke.
Bama mad they cant get the best players. I like the nil, it levels the playing field making other schools more competitive. As well as getting the student athletes paid in case they dont get drafted to the nfl.
Great! 2 years JUCO, 4 years college, a redshirt and medical redshirt year equals a 27 year old "college" athlete! I'm waiting for colleges and universities to break away from super conferences and "reform" student /athlete entities.
At one time, long ago in the Cornhusker glory days, I truly enjoyed college football. The football team was part of the university. The team would even play for pride, for the team, and yes, even for honor. Why? Well for the inherent good of giving back. Plus, in days of yore, not all the time, but most of the time, character still mattered. To leave early is to admit that the core concern of that football player is money. Give that player a three year contract, and the most effort you’ll get back is in the third year, with the goal of raising his $$$ worth. We’ve all seen how well that works. 😂😂😂. We now pamper and coddle in the NFL and it will spread through college ball like a cancer. Short term, you get some rich kids who think the now what success is. Guaranteed contracts in the NFL and money in college is football sitting on the end of a branch cutting through it on the wrong side. That’s ok. After I saw camera man treat a football on the ground as an unacceptable risk to his career, I’ve been losing interest.
Alabama fans are game! Let’s go! Roll Tide! Saying that the AD is begging for money will not deter Alabama fans. Times are tough, but we will spend the money if we have it.
God, this woulda helped me! Played as a true freshman, got hurt late in season so couldnt redshirt, should have redshirted my sophmore year because that was the last summer you got to go home and i came in outta shape. Sophmore and Junior year broke a bone in my leg late in the season, fubula and tibia respectively. Senior year missed no game but my right knee got fucked up on a crack back block and I wasn't right the rest of the season. So at 21 im done. Still played some arena and semipro but i wasnt mature enough at 21😢
NIL contractors should not receive any scholarship benefits. No free education, room and board. A season, not year contract should be signed because the alumni should not pay for grifters.
The NCAA has been around for over 100 years, and specifically over the past 40 years have had endless opportunities to redefine amateurism and find an answer to student athlete income. Instead, they played hardball until social media grew influential enough to spread information about how athletes were being treated. NIL may be broken, but don't go getting your panties in a bunch over a system that's been in place for a few years when the NCAA had decades to prevent this situation.
The state legislatures passed NIL laws and a couple of judges have made historic rulings that have tied the hands of the NCAA and colleges. Let’s quit blaming the kids. Some grown ups need to fix this but I don’t think that will ever happen.
Fans are going to respond to schools with the #1 signal. Then later I bet they will NIL "tax" non athlete students. Who in turn will avoid big schools to get away from the cost.
People mock the term “slippery slope”, well…you’re about to find out what that means. Providing monetary compensation for college athletes is one thing, but the pendulum has drastically swung too far too soon. Keep watching.
What has Bama been doing with the profits from the last 10 years???? The AD went on to 60 minutes a few years ago and said that Nick Saban was the greatest financial decision they have ever made. Haven't they been investing that money???
Really? It wasn’t when Mr Saban (since LSU) did this tactic of over recruiting talent. Then because of Oregons fast paced offense which compensated for talent everywhere. Then every college started doing that. What did Saban do when he got to Bama? Got two to three levels deep full of 4/5 stars on defense and offense. That’s why the SEC has 12 of its 16 teams in the top 25 recruiting.
So now that Alabama didn't make the playoffs and the nil and transfer portal has evened the playing field so they're no longer at the top and they no longer have a monopoly on college football now they're wanting to cry about it?! To hell with the crimson Tide
The playoff structure is going to change a lot. Just wait until it swells to 24 to 30 teams. It’s going to expose many programs. The bowl system was a large part of the problem. Now that they have to really fight for a championship, it’s gonna make the cream rise to the top. One of my coaches always said that competition will make the cream rise to the top. I think we should make the athletes wait u til they are 18 or 21 to get paid. This crap about high schoolers making a million bucks is ridiculous. Wait until they win to pay them.
Sports fan since 1966. No bleeping more . Sports like the rest of modern society is in the septic tank . Many factors .Rap/ hip hop culture greed , poor weak leadership, I mean transfer portal? What the F.?All sports, basketball, baseball football, boxing tennis, golf , loved em all for over half a century. Athletes today are just tatted up wannabe rappers, we've gone in 50 years from Bart Starr , Roger Staubach, Johnny Unitas, to Deshawn Watson, Lamar Jackson,Dak Prescott etc all DEI Qbs who could never have played back when you had to have a brain to play the position . They are semi successful today because the games (all sports) have been softened and dumbed down. Modern sports like modern society is circling the toilet bowl,
I think all college athletes should get paid to play or at least paid tuition. Football especially. That is a sport that most likely includes multiple physical injuries. It is also linked to brain injuries and sometimes death. Why my sons didn’t play football. I did and suffered bodily injury and multiple concussions in middle and high schools. I have dealt with depression from those injuries my whole life. If these athletes aren’t compensated monetarily when the schools are with TV deals. It is a crime. They’re the ones making the product.
I figured out Jason he a big troll bro funny ,but JB giving me dope head vibes 🤷♂️…NIL here to stay get over it Bama been doing it since 60s money under the table.😂
more hs football players who didnt get enough varsity snaps can go JUCO to gain more knowledge of the game and fully mature. wise ones will benefit. great time to be alive for young ballers
I'm mad as heck & I'm not going to put up with it anymore! ( I'm horrible with quotes but you get what I mean ! ). Besides . For many of us we can't afford anything except peasant TV. So the whole system is on ESPN now all of the playoffs. It's pay-per-view in our eyes. Makes me sad and angry at the same time! I'm 65 and have been a fan for half a century. Now I have no choice but to cut them off! I've I only always had one or two hobbies I loved, now in my golden years it's all gone.
Wait a minute now…y’all told us you wanted America to be ran like a business, what’s the issue? This is business and it’s only a problem now that it’s reaching places you didn’t expect.
This is a good thing. With the transfer rules being what they are the HS players are losing out. Now they have time to develop. Of course the classes/hours will transfer. This guy is a clown. Must be from West Virginia.
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I’ve gone from sports, sports, sports for 40 years to not caring about any of it pretty much overnight. The modern athlete has become a parody
Dude I couldn’t wait for the weekends for college football and NFL, know I could care less. Sports interests me about as much as soaps, or late night shows.
I just watch TH-cam videos of 70’s to early 90’s NFL games.
I miss competitive sports not this sports entertainment shite.
@@runsangry I watched the 1981 AFC championship the other day and seeing the lack of development around Riverfront stadium in Cincinnati and even seeing the sidelines with only team personnel made me nostalgic and depressed
@@alfred6303 earpieces in the refs ear for “expedited review” is pretty much WWE.
SOCIAL MEDIA 💯
Gone from religiously watching sports to not giving a damn in 3 years …no regrets
I'm with ya. It's liberating actually. I get so much more done on the weekends.
Facts
Yep! Ever since they started focusing more on player protection, and then of course, including politics, and finally forcing social change in the commercials….i checked out. I may watch the quarter of a playoff game, but that’s about it these days.
Amen
I remember when rich alumni/boosters just bought the kid a car and got him a job at the plant that he never attended but got paid every Friday. Its a new world baby!
😂😂😂Blue Chips
Why do people care so much coaches been making millions forever huge contracts why not the athletes….The fans come to see the football players not the coach and the NCAA making Billions !!This is fair play can’t continue to keep these young men down while the other thrive.
@@Smikethemanbecause black people are never supposed to be on equal or greater footing. It literally triggers the F out of people that black kids are getting paid for their services.
@@SmikethemanFacts💯
@@SmikethemanBecause kids are kids and the head coach runs the team
Nick Saban saw the writing on the wall & hauled ass 🏎️ 💨
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Toney Bennett at UVa did the same in college basketball and I expect other long time coaches will do the same thing. It is just too much of a grind trying to baby sit these players and keep them happy.
And Belichick couldn't have joined any faster. 😂
Yep, all them years of under the table boosters had caught up with him, that's y he bailed.
The likes of Bama are sour because these athletes don't give shhit about you being the standard😊
All the decades, Bama has been buying all 5star talents to diminish other colleges' chances to compete.
Nick Saban saw the writing on the wall that him and Alabama no longer had a monopoly on college football and everyone else was catching up so he turned his tail between his legs and went home. No I don't like being a whale and I don't like what it's done because it's football but I don't feel sorry for Alabama
Shut college athletics down…make the NFL have farm teams to develop their players like MLB.
Just shut down big money sports. Keep gymnastics, softball, wrestling, golf, etc. etc.
@@PatBrooks-u6w I totally agree!
Can't do it, not the same. The i jury risk is way to high in football to do a farm leauge.
Yall have no clue what you’re talking about You want these schools and coaches/programs to profit off these players and give them what?!
@ Give them an education, pat them on the Popo and say good luck!
College football is done.
Viewership is up and better😎🔥
It is bigger than ever. Funny people bitching about it would be like a salivating dog if someone offered them 500K to play college football.
I went from athlete “football”, to watching athletes “NFL, NCAA” to despising the athletes… Team means nothing anymore
Social media/ internet destroyed it all
Do you despise the coaches that jump from job to job as well?
@@cljackson512 I do. The system has been broken for years, and the problem has become an eye for an eye situation that jeopardize the sustainability of the product. College Football can easily turn into the NBA real soon. Enjoy the highs now because if this isn't regulated quickly, they'll be in a heap of trouble that'll takes years to recover from.
Fans dont make money off the team's, the schools and conferences do! Fans dont need to fund shit
The ones that do fund them are definitely funding shit.
Half the schools will probably eventually have to drop football because of NIL.
I agree. Great stories like Boise State will never happen again
Ridiculous take
@@commonsense3921 how do you figure? If the big schools start paying kids millions then schools like Fresno State, Nevada James Madison won’t be able to compete. That’s where this is going. It’s pretty obvious
Every time a small school like Arizona State gets a blue chip kid Texas or Alabama will just pay for him to move
It’s coming
They won’t drop football or basketball but they’ll drop the sports that don’t make money for the school
@@1Eashawty Bingo you are correct !
College football was the last sport that I cared about and now I’m nearing being done with it. This crap has ruined college football. I’d like to see the smaller schools break away and do something different. They have no shot at this playoff anyway and don’t matter in this system. None of this makes any sense anymore.
And no matter what the shills say nil and the portal isn't making a level playing field. In fact the rich are getting richer. Sec is has as much talent as the other conferences combined in recruiting this year.
Viewership is up😎🔥
Chickens have come home to roost. The TV contract money should have been used to lower tuition costs for everyone not overpay top coaches. For the student athletes they should have gotten an extra year of tuition room and board for every completed year but not more eligibility. I base these ideas on the lie that they were always looking out for the kids.
It's a business. They aren't supposed to look out for players that have been getting paid for like 50 years in reality. They got greedy with nil and it's going to kill college football in 10 years.
@@givem110it's dying pretty fast now.
The JUCO ruling is dumb as hell.
These schools got 50-100 billion dollar endowments!! They can go fly a kite
This money grab by college and now high school players will take away what makes the game attractive to viewers. Fundamentals, loyalty and team first will diminish as time goes on. It will evevtually lose tv ratings because the product will be unwatchable. Its sad, but the love of money always destroys everything in its path.
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Greedy blaque people always ruins everything.
Level of play has fallen every year since nil. No matter how hard they shill only 6-8 teams play good defense as a team anymore and wr is the only position that's improved. Everything else is fading.
It made it more interesting and the ratings reflect that.
I played at Appalachian State 20 years ago and i didn't need NIL. We ate for free, sure the stipend wasn't much but just playing the games and being the big men on campus was more than enough for us. I can't stand what the sport has become.
There are guys who are 25 years old or older playing college football. Wild.
FANS must fund NIL? WTF, Bama? Y'all don't have BOOSTERS?
This the same thing Ohio State did for the buckeyes put nil on the fans like we don't already spend enough money for Ohio State
Not that they don't have boosters back n the day 10k was a lot now they want million
Will never give a penny to this bs version of college football
It's way past time that college got out of the football business. NIL will get it done.
Yup. The fact that college football is even a "thing" is completely disgusting to me. Be a full-time athlete or be a full-time student. Don't be both simultaneously
Greed will be the downfall of college athletics!
I'M 46 WITH 4YRS OF ELGIBILITY. THEY GOT ME THINKING🤔 💭 ABOUT GETTING THAT NIL 🏈MONEY NOW.💵😂😂😂😂
Jajaja 😅😅
Give a kid a million just to come play sports and he hasn't won a game in college is ridiculous!
No one is forcing these schools to form NIL collective.
Recruit players on your all-important "tradition" and fanbase.
There is little/no 'NIL'. Just overt pay to play. No more or less.
I don’t care about NIL as much as I do about the transfer portal. The transfer portal is what is ruining college sports. Let them get paid, but stay at one school.
Nah, the transfer portal is a good thing. I played in an era where you had to put in a request, and your coach could deny it. And even if coach approved it, you had to sit out a year. It led to a lot of false promises and lies to get players to sign a commitment, and then they were trapped. The bigger issue is that the NCAA had no control at all over NIL. That's what you're seeing here.
The problem is the bidding war. Should be same pay rate for everyone. That will dramatically cut down on the transferring.
@@spectralnighttravel Portal is bad, it allows coaches to not develop players and easily replace them as well. Teams have no chemistry, everybody is a mercenary, zero connection to schools.
Stop the paying entirely.
Here’s what should happen.
RETURN college athletics to the STUDENTS! Then take the 100 kids who are good enough to try pro- and put them in development camp and have the NFL Pay for that. MILLIONS are going to kids who will never play a DOWN in the NFL. Wasted money and wasted lives.
If you’re not a student with a major and real classes you’re not playing football
I wish this system was going on in the late 90s. I would've gone to a JUCO for 2 years, then went to a Division 1 school, and then transferred to a different school every year for 4 straight years😅
Me too. Fuuuuck. Like, you who goes to class now? Anyone, anyone?
Yup same here. And get my undergrad and grad degree
University of Alabama has a 6 Billion dollar endowment, and they want the fans to help pay players? C'mon man!
Agreed. Tell them to figure it out or shut the program down.
You can buy player jerseys or whatever crap they’re selling, then those athletes hit the transfer portal and all loyalty is gone.
I no longer care about college football because of the pay-to-play and transfer portal.
I was a big Southern Cal fan from the OJ Simpson era and I’m done.
It’s unrecognizable now. The whole thing is a farce.
I’ve been seeing boosters say that they don’t want to donate to NIL only to see players move to other schools each year. Schools want donors to be loyal and committed but the student athletes are not being held accountable!!!
I figured NIL would eventually trickle down and impact high school sports. They have truly messed up the notion of "student-athletics" in college. If we are now paying people to play for college teams, why even require them to qualify as students? Why have age limits? Why limit years of eligibility?
It’s weird how since pro sports went fake-woke and leftist I just stopped watching… before that I was obsessed and my wife hated it 😂 the quality overall also declined with wokeness in general
SEC is pissed they aren’t the only ones paying players and they can’t cheat now that everyone can do it legal.
Also white boy, is this like Miami, Ohio State, USC, and Michigan all getting caught and punished for paying players 😂 because if SEC did that they would get in trouble. Still waiting.
lol Facts
Miami almost got the death penalty for this. The sec is just mad because the playing field is getting even now and some teams will do better with nil
Salvation army style buckets at your local grocery store so you can kick in on your favorite college football team
The transfer portal and NIL have wrecked college football. As a USC alum, there’s nothing more sacred in sports than feeling connected to your Alma mater and its athletics. With the ridiculous, obscene amount of turnover, I feel like I’m rooting for a shell and not an actual team. How can teams gel and assume an identity - for better or for worse - if players become nothing but vagabonds looking for whatever they can get their hands on, be it NIL money or starting RIGHT NOW? Why on earth would anyone want to be a head coach in this system? Why should any head coach feel an ounce of loyalty to their current employer? Recruiting commitments are a farce - why recruit at all if all your time and energy ultimately benefits another program when your top recruits decide to transfer? Some pretty disappointing teams have come along at USC, but even then, you felt like you were disappointed *with* them not *at* them. Now that there’s the poison of money injected into the system, these are no longer players, just temporary employees with temporary badges. Who wants to financially support that? College athletics is built on tradition and mystique. If it continues evolving into what it’s becoming, teams are going to need to be bankrolled by private equity to survive, because the alumni spigot is going to dry up real quick.
Sports are no more. Loyalty does not exist. "I need one more dollar than i have.... gimmie gimmie."
Those old time car dealer handshakes that Alabama used to live on can't compete with the Texas oil billionaires so they're getting a taste of their own medicine. Unless something changes, SMU will be the new Alabama.
NBA went to $hit. NFL went to $hit. Now they have ruined college ball. I wont renew any season tickets or pay one dime more to go see any game.
What's wrong with the NFL? Curious to hear your thoughts.
I am a born and bread Alabama fan and have been all my life. I anit paying a damn dime for anything extra to pay a bunch of 18 yr old millions of dollars. I would rather seen the team never win another title ran fund this dumbassary. Just put the kids under contract for 4 years rather than these letters of intent and be done with the stupidity we have allowed to happen
I'm a national champion Alabama athlete. I nearly fell over when I read this post from our AD. I knew NIL was a death blow to CFB. I'm absolutely gobsmacked that my alma mater has stooped to panhandling fans for even more money in what already amounts to many thousands a year to support the program. I've said it a million times and I won't stop: Bidding wars to make teenagers millionaires is the worst social contagion college athletics has ever or will ever see.
I hope professional sports as a whole collapses. Then we can start from the beginning.
No only The Nba lol
F that. No way will I contribute to NIL. When is enough - enough?
They’ve screwed up everything
We alumni aren’t going to pay
The rich boosters aren’t so impactful 😂😂
It’s wild how this era has just said they don’t care about mid majors. These schools and sports programs are a vital part of some of these cities, and to completely shun them has a massive ripple effect
Fans will reject. College ball is sloppy relative to NFL. its the fans atmosphere that makes the game.
Remember the stories from the 50’s. STUDENTS used to play. It’s been a farm system for three decades
What a joke
Juco not counting towards the 4 years of college is good because a lot of kids should be in Juco playing instead of riding the bench at a 4 year school. The worst experience in college is riding the bench and then you get your chance and you suck because you haven’t played in years
SEC big mad they compete with schools in the north like Michigan that has way more money! you will see the shift in the coming years because SEC school lost that edge
Texas is in the SEC. They have major money!
Where have you gone Pete Rose, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron , Bart Starr , Roger Staubach, Johnny Unitas? A time when sports like society had dignity and class
This is crap! Asking fans for more money? If schools want to retain their lucrative football programs, they need to dig into them endowments they’re sitting on. Even better, get rid of their worthless humanities programs. 3:03
I saw this coming from a mile away. As soon as they allowed this NIL crap to go through I knew College sports were done. Virtually no sports left to watch or follow. What a joke.
Bama mad they cant get the best players. I like the nil, it levels the playing field making other schools more competitive. As well as getting the student athletes paid in case they dont get drafted to the nfl.
Great! 2 years JUCO, 4 years college, a redshirt and medical redshirt year equals a 27 year old "college" athlete! I'm waiting for colleges and universities to break away from super conferences and "reform" student /athlete entities.
P T Barnum's truth strikes again. There's a sucker born every minute.
At one time, long ago in the Cornhusker glory days, I truly enjoyed college football. The football team was part of the university. The team would even play for pride, for the team, and yes, even for honor. Why? Well for the inherent good of giving back. Plus, in days of yore, not all the time, but most of the time, character still mattered. To leave early is to admit that the core concern of that football player is money. Give that player a three year contract, and the most effort you’ll get back is in the third year, with the goal of raising his $$$ worth. We’ve all seen how well that works. 😂😂😂. We now pamper and coddle in the NFL and it will spread through college ball like a cancer. Short term, you get some rich kids who think the now what success is. Guaranteed contracts in the NFL and money in college is football sitting on the end of a branch cutting through it on the wrong side. That’s ok. After I saw camera man treat a football on the ground as an unacceptable risk to his career, I’ve been losing interest.
Alabama fans are game! Let’s go! Roll Tide! Saying that the AD is begging for money will not deter Alabama fans. Times are tough, but we will spend the money if we have it.
College sports in general is done. NIL is the worst thing to ever happen.
God, this woulda helped me! Played as a true freshman, got hurt late in season so couldnt redshirt, should have redshirted my sophmore year because that was the last summer you got to go home and i came in outta shape.
Sophmore and Junior year broke a bone in my leg late in the season, fubula and tibia respectively. Senior year missed no game but my right knee got fucked up on a crack back block and I wasn't right the rest of the season. So at 21 im done. Still played some arena and semipro but i wasnt mature enough at 21😢
You should get a TV sports job.
NIL contractors should not receive any scholarship benefits. No free education, room and board. A season, not year contract should be signed because the alumni should not pay for grifters.
The NCAA has been around for over 100 years, and specifically over the past 40 years have had endless opportunities to redefine amateurism and find an answer to student athlete income.
Instead, they played hardball until social media grew influential enough to spread information about how athletes were being treated.
NIL may be broken, but don't go getting your panties in a bunch over a system that's been in place for a few years when the NCAA had decades to prevent this situation.
Shit is insane. Asking for more $ while athletes give less and less 🤣🤣.
Wait!! You have to pay the players that you profit from?! 😂😂😂😂😂 It’s called free market you can’t have it both ways
Death and Taxes being replaced by Greed and Clout! 😂😂😂😂
The state legislatures passed NIL laws and a couple of judges have made historic rulings that have tied the hands of the NCAA and colleges. Let’s quit blaming the kids. Some grown ups need to fix this but I don’t think that will ever happen.
Fans won't do it, so ticket prices will go up, parking space proces will go up and it'll be another semi-professional league.
Fans are going to respond to schools with the #1 signal.
Then later I bet they will NIL "tax" non athlete students. Who in turn will avoid big schools to get away from the cost.
Paying players has ruined college sports....
I will never give any money for entitled athletes
But you pay for tickets where the money goes to entitled coaches?
@ I don’t buy tickets to any games no more
People mock the term “slippery slope”, well…you’re about to find out what that means. Providing monetary compensation for college athletes is one thing, but the pendulum has drastically swung too far too soon. Keep watching.
Middle aged man with cap flipped. Cant take anything he says seriously.
Was going to make the same comment.
I like the JUCO idea. I don't like the NIL cost to fans. Thats the colleges problem, not us the fans.
What has Bama been doing with the profits from the last 10 years???? The AD went on to 60 minutes a few years ago and said that Nick Saban was the greatest financial decision they have ever made. Haven't they been investing that money???
NIL and transfer portal WILL destroy college football watch and see folks.
People are going to donate and then the players that take that money leave after a semester. And then the donations dry up from that one contributor
Really? It wasn’t when Mr Saban (since LSU) did this tactic of over recruiting talent. Then because of Oregons fast paced offense which compensated for talent everywhere. Then every college started doing that. What did Saban do when he got to Bama? Got two to three levels deep full of 4/5 stars on defense and offense. That’s why the SEC has 12 of its 16 teams in the top 25 recruiting.
Anyone paying for Alabama access money grab is an idiot. Let them fund their own program. NIL and portal have destroyed college football.
Isn’t it curious that once the bag man was allowed Alabama stopped being so dominant
So now that Alabama didn't make the playoffs and the nil and transfer portal has evened the playing field so they're no longer at the top and they no longer have a monopoly on college football now they're wanting to cry about it?!
To hell with the crimson Tide
The playoff structure is going to change a lot. Just wait until it swells to 24 to 30 teams. It’s going to expose many programs. The bowl system was a large part of the problem. Now that they have to really fight for a championship, it’s gonna make the cream rise to the top.
One of my coaches always said that competition will make the cream rise to the top.
I think we should make the athletes wait u til they are 18 or 21 to get paid. This crap about high schoolers making a million bucks is ridiculous. Wait until they win to pay them.
Sports fan since 1966. No bleeping more . Sports like the rest of modern society is in the septic tank . Many factors .Rap/ hip hop culture greed , poor weak leadership, I mean transfer portal? What the F.?All sports, basketball, baseball football, boxing tennis, golf , loved em all for over half a century. Athletes today are just tatted up wannabe rappers, we've gone in 50 years from Bart Starr , Roger Staubach, Johnny Unitas, to Deshawn Watson, Lamar Jackson,Dak Prescott etc all DEI Qbs who could never have played back when you had to have a brain to play the position . They are semi successful today because the games (all sports) have been softened and dumbed down. Modern sports like modern society is circling the toilet bowl,
I think all college athletes should get paid to play or at least paid tuition. Football especially. That is a sport that most likely includes multiple physical injuries. It is also linked to brain injuries and sometimes death. Why my sons didn’t play football. I did and suffered bodily injury and multiple concussions in middle and high schools. I have dealt with depression from those injuries my whole life. If these athletes aren’t compensated monetarily when the schools are with TV deals. It is a crime. They’re the ones making the product.
Less scholarships for highschool players.
Begging for money. How about you put a great product on the field, then make money from the fan’s interest.
Nobody cared when the buckeyes did it last year in Columbus ohio
I figured out Jason he a big troll bro funny ,but JB giving me dope head vibes 🤷♂️…NIL here to stay get over it Bama been doing it since 60s money under the table.😂
The hired gun paradigm ruined pro basketball and is now ruining football.
more hs football players who didnt get enough varsity snaps can go JUCO to gain more knowledge of the game and fully mature. wise ones will benefit. great time to be alive for young ballers
I'm mad as heck & I'm not going to put up with it anymore! ( I'm horrible with quotes but you get what I mean ! ). Besides . For many of us we can't afford anything except peasant TV. So the whole system is on ESPN now all of the playoffs. It's pay-per-view in our eyes. Makes me sad and angry at the same time! I'm 65 and have been a fan for half a century. Now I have no choice but to cut them off! I've I only always had one or two hobbies I loved, now in my golden years it's all gone.
The hypotheticals are hilarious.
Old guy need to wear his hat properly or take it off. Quit trying to relive your childhood.
"J DUB & JB 4REAL" WILL BE A DOPE AZZ SHOW. NOT JUST SPORTS. EVERYTHING.😎☝🏾💯💯⚖️💵💵💵🏈🏀🥊⚾️🏆🏅
Another high tier guest . LMAO
Wait a minute now…y’all told us you wanted America to be ran like a business, what’s the issue? This is business and it’s only a problem now that it’s reaching places you didn’t expect.
Sad day in sports
They should’ve been cut in the players on the revenue and y’all wouldn’t be crying now
Tax funded schools. Back in the day, Buckeye fans could watch a replay on the local college PBS station a day or two after the live game. Free!
I just figured it out. Is that Coach Brown from Kansas?
ice berg has been hit. The band is still playing. People don't know it yet. Fatal damage to the waterline.
Don't worry, eventually we taxpayers will split the bill.
This is a good thing. With the transfer rules being what they are the HS players are losing out. Now they have time to develop. Of course the classes/hours will transfer. This guy is a clown. Must be from West Virginia.