How ESPN Ruined College Football
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- We discuss college football realignment and how it all traces back to ESPN.
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I remember back in 2007 Michigan playing their hearts out in the Citrus Bowl for Lloyd Care’s last game. A lot of those players were NFL prospects. It was the “Citrus Bowl” players are now sitting out of legendary bowl games such as the sugar, fiesta, rose, and orange. The pageantry and tradition of college football is gone. And that saddens me. The NFL’s Divisions now have more tradition and pageantry now because they try to keep rivals in the same division. USC playing Rutgers for a conference game is beyond stupid.
The only time I ever watch college football, is to watch a Hot shot Nfl prospect like Trevor Lawrence. College football is a bunch of players nobody had heard of, who won't be playing on the team next year. NFL IS MUCH BETTER!!!
@@vicepresidentmikepence889 tbh your right. And the way things are going. Commanders vs Cowboys; Eagles vs Giants will have more of traditional sports rivalry due to all of the conference realignment. Miss the olds days of Oklahoma vs Nebraska; Texas vs Texas A&M
It doesn’t help
Shit like the chick-fila peach bowl.
Get sponsorships out of bowl games
It’s very true. I remember the good old days when players played the game just because they loved the game. That was it. The quality of the sport was so much better then.
@Chase Meë Precisely. It all started with the playoff. That’s what was the beginning of the end for CFB
Guess it's time to start watching MAC football. They seem to be the only conference that have stuck to what a conference should be. An association of schools in a similar region with similar levels of on-field talent. How often does someone win the MAC twice in a row?
You can watch the MAC football…I’ll watch usc vs Ohio state lmao
I love the MAC since I was a kid because most of the D1 kids from my region was going to the MAC schools. Toledo, N.ILL, Western Michigan, Ball St, MIA(OH) and Central Michigan to name a few. And I have played at N.ILL when I was in Pop Warner for championships
I still wish NIU could have ran the table in 2003 and blew up the BCS.
The MAC champion should play the PAC-12 champion every year in the Rose Bowl.
MACTION Baby!
As a life long West Virginia University fan I about died inside when the BACKYARD BRAWL Game against PITT UNIVERSITY was ended. WTF best rivalry we had...
I agree. I'm not a Pitt or WV fan but as a NCAAF fan when the re-alignment started about a decade ago, I thought this is bad for the game. Backyard brawl, Mizzou/Kansas, Texas/Texas A&M were special rivalries for the fans. College football rivalries are unmatched. They are all great. Does not matter the record or national implication. You just wanted to beat your rival. And everyone had an archrival and then maybe a couple other small rivalries. I hate that Michigan and Notre Dame don't play each other every year. Now so many more are going to be broken up because of this Big 10/SEC mega conference crap.
All I know is, even if us and FSU go to different conferences, they better keep our annual game going.
@@pnut3844able Miami was part of the group that started this when they bolted the Big East for the ACC in 2003.
I'm old enough to remember Pitt, Penn State, WV, Syracuse, as independents who played each other. They all went their separate ways.
@@slimphotog And Virginia Tech. Can't forget that game.
College football is really the only sport I watch anymore, and with all the recent changes I find myself rapidly losing interest. What shocks me is how many college football fans are actually leaning so hard into the changes that will ultimately destroy the sport - with some saying they want college football to be *more* like the NFL. That's a hard no from me.
It looks like I'll have a lot more free time on my hands in upcoming autumns.
Ditto.
Losing interest how All big teams will be playing big teams we will have top 10 games every week it is a dream come true
I loved college football and continued to watch specifically because it WASN'T the NFL. The NFL is stale and so corporatized, there's no interest. Free agency and playing for pay make the NFL a business, but college football was still a sport where loyalty and traditions meant something. But... not anymore. It's just NFL-lite with university logos on the helmets. I hate it.
I knew things were going wrong when I heard MSU-Notre Dame wouldn't happen for 9 years. NINE. We've been rivals for 125 years, now we'll only see them once a decade or so, it's ridiculous.
Remember the days of getting up new years day and watching bowl games all day on off air tv? Now there is no reason to do so unless you are into info commercials!
New Year's Day bowl games were a great American tradition. Now up in smoke.
I hated when espn purchased the majority of the bowl games i remember as a kid watching bowl games on raycom and jp networks and nbc cbs abc games on new years just flicking back and forth
The last great year of cfb: 2019
When the first wave of conference realignment happened it was made geographical sense, Nebraska to the Big 10, Maryland to the Big, Texas A&M and Missouri to the SEC, even Pitt and Syracuse joining the ACC, geographically isn't far.
Now, these realignments aren't even making any sense geographically. Just a bunch of greed is all it is.
I grew up watching the Big 8/Big 12. Truth be told, the Big 12 was once the most prominent conference in America. They had every opportunity to stay up at the top with the SEC and the Big Ten but they failed miserably by letting Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, and Texas A&M get away. Even after that debacle, they sat on their laurels when they should have been proactive. The worst enemy of the Big 12 has been the Big 12. I'm sad about where this is going too, but things have never been quite right since the Big 12 lost those teams and replaced those four teams with only two who were nowhere near the value of the four they lost at the time. The Big 12 deserves what it got sadly. I wish it was not that way but it is.
To me this may be a good thing for the smaller teams. For the past few decades it’s been the same teams winning championships. If they all go and form their own league then the remaining schools that never had a legitimate shot at a title will have their chance. That being said if a team like Norte Dame decided to stay in the old league they might win that championship every year.
And Rutgers and Vanderbilt wouldn’t go 3-9 every year because they would face opponents more suited for their strength
Nah, it will be the same thing as in recent years where an undefeated team like UCF gets forgotten and a team with a big name like alabama gets the playoff spot, despite not having a good enough record to even PLAY in the conference championship, let alone win their conference. TWICE, alabama has gone to playoffs/bcs after not even playing in the conference championship
I have my problems with ESPN however, this isn't really ESPN as it is NCAA's greed. ESPN is just paying for what's offered. The NCAA are the ones who they feel is more important.
NCAA has been made irrelevant. It's all due to greedy University Presidents, the NCAA could have put a stop to this before it ever got started by standing up and showing some balls.
These moves have all but destroyed the ncaa. They are almost powerless in this scenario and will likely be removed from the equation soon.
This is more on ESPN then the NCAA. The NCAA at least provided some kind of structure and rules. What we have now is a joke.
Could not agree with you more! I have claimed ignorance because I love college football... as it USED to be. I love the tradition and rivalries all of it. But now it is getting hard to turn a blind eye anymore.
The PAC-12 forgot they were vulnerable. At one point they could have taken those 4 BIG-12 schools; when UT and Oklahoma left for the SEC just assumed their marquee teams would stay forever-bye to USC & UCLA. Did they try to help those alliance partners? No!
@Simulation algorithm Also, wan't reported that they did not want religious schools too?
I will never watch college football again. I mean, the CFB playoff system is what killed it to keep the fanboys happy. Thankfully this video made me see the light.
This won’t work. I can guarantee you that anyone who isn’t a usc fan will we ten times less interested in watching usc playing at Rutgers or Maryland in a conference game. People will tune out and ESPN will lose money.
As a WVU fan, this has been on my mind a lot lately. I hate that our school never plays games against our rivals anymore. Sure, I want them to win every game they play, but I miss the days of playing meaningful games against Pitt, VPI, etc. every year. Just not the same playing schools 800+ miles away.
Spot on and articulated perfectly.
Wow! He says it so much better than I could, but I agree with every word!
I dunno I feel like Saban and the Crimson tide are a huge blame. Being such a powerhouse of a team and everyone wanting to bring them down
It ironic because nick saban hates conference realignment
As former fan of The Ohio State I realized too late also. What open my eyes was Hugh contact for Mich State coach due to transfer portal & NIL! Made realized college game was becaming like NFL, just chasing 💵!!! Buckeye game almost all have no drama. Their +10 point favorite for every game this season. This last Michigan game was 1st whole game watch in over 3 years!!!
Once the NIL was introduced, I knew College football would be like the MLB payroll. The bigger boosters will get (buy) the best players and the smaller markets will never be able to compete
I think ESPN’s goal is to pipe in crowd noise into empty stadiums so they can capture 100% of the viewing market.
lmao good one
Not even past the opening add and I’m liking and subbing the video cause YES THEY DID . Them & every tv company paying them all that damn money but folks wanna complain about the kids getting paid
Before we say it is all ruined thanks to ESPN, think of the other circumstances around college football: sky high tuition, less football athletes playing the game, much less interest in the game on the West coast, CTE’s long term effects on the players, people moving SE, and money needed to continue some traditions. Even the stadium in Pasadena may not be used for the Rose Bowl yearly(use WiFi stadium) to get more revenue, better seating, concessions, etc. Everything has to change in time.
The reason tuition is so high is because student loans are so easy to get. If money wasn’t so easy to get, tuition would be lower.
And all that led to the destruction of 100 year old rivals and conference affiliation how? You can draw a line back to how espn has been shaping this behind the scenes.
@@erose964eh I think it would be the opposite but it’s understandable where you come from
Some of what you say is true, some is a stretch. Some disjoined thoughts - I do think that there will be a purge of the lower producing teams in the SEC and Big10 - swapping them out for "more productive schools". The amount of money in College Football is incredible, as you say - but the NIL and Transfer Portals are the first things that finally allow the real assets of the "more productive schools" - the PLAYERS - to benefit from that money. Loyalty to regional schools, or alma maters will become a thing of the past. That may modify the following of certain schools by some newer fans, as they start following teams for different reasons (like that they win). And, notice that they will be following teams rather than schools. The ties between the colleges and football teams is fading fast. With the NIL and Transfer Portals mentioned above, we are getting very far away from any definition of "student athlete".
So for example would the B1G would drop Purdue, which has been in the league for 100 years, but is superfluous since it is the 2nd team in Indiana? If Notre Dame joins the B1G, Purdue would be number 3 in one state. As far as Rutgers this is the only guy who mentions them. Rutgers brings a market of 25 million people, including tens of thousand of B1G alumni, beyond Rutgers alum and students.
@@bernardwishnia9997 How many of those 25 million people care about Rutgers football? Be honest.
Well with their demands of wanting to get paid, this is what they get. And I'm okay with that.
Rugters never been irrelevant since 2006 3 Rugters coaches has been a joke anyway kyle flood is a joke and made Texas o line a joke
In texas
"How ESPN ruined (insert any sport they have laid hands on here)"
ESPN is a plague for sports
My college didn’t have a football team and wasn’t a sports school in any way shape or form, so I don’t know too much about college sports compared to what I know about pro sports. I think it’s sad to see. There is a ton of tradition that is getting wiped away. My family is a Penn State family since my mom and brother went there, I’m glad they are in a relevant conference. The fall of the PAC 10 is sad to see. I grew up and live in the Bay Area and I know so many people who are die hard Berkeley and Stanford fans. I also know many USC and UCLA fans from when I lived in Southern California. I guess those two schools are safe now.
I'm a Bama fan and I agree with this. I'd go so far as to trade a Natty this next year for a 12 team traditional SEC slate, and putting the genie back in the bottle with the portal/nil. It's going to eventually kill Bama anyway. We dont have the big bucks like OSU, ATM or USC
Texas lit the fuse that blew up College football. This is going to blow up in ESPN's face.
ESPN has ruined sports PERIOD
Let’s take back our sport. Watch the games on TH-cam. And go to them live. Don’t tune in to ESPN/ABC/Fox
ESPN started this and it will crash and burn with ESPN in the front seat
ACC Football as far as watching out duels Big Ten Football
Would you watch the NFL it was 100 teams playing for 30+ meaningless bowl games with no clear playoff system?
ESPN & Fox are in the business to make money. They don’t care about rivalries, culture, and regionalism. All they care about is TV & streaming viewership and Attendance. It’s obvious that their goal is to cater to the casual fans of CFB. The ones that only the Big Brand schools like USC, Texas, Alabama, and Notre Dame just to name a few. Most sport viewers in the U.S. are casual fans. They don’t necessarily have a connection to a university, so they don’t care if schools like Oregon State, Washington State, and Stanford get the boot. They want to watch what is perceived as the best of the best. It’s the same way with the NFL & NBA. Casual fans would rather watch Alabama play against USC at 2:30 on “ESPN on ABC” than watch Texas Tech play TCU at the same time on the same channel. Whatever is left of P5 after the SuperConference is established should merge with the rest of G5 and reorganize the Conferences based on regionalism.
The NFL should create a minor league that can be allowed to draft high school recruits. That would probably screw with CFB a bit.
Listening to this a year later, with pac 12 dead, the whole FSU saga, and the european soccer super league having been formed is quite depressing
If you throw in Notre Dame, the state of Indiana will have more schools in top-tier football as the entire western United States. Talk about alienating fans.
Even more than the state of Texas also. It's absurd
@@abelreyna8781 Mississippi will have as much as California.
Money ruins everything .
No. Greed does.
The love of money is the root of all evil.
the rest of the Texas and Louisiana teams that are left over should have their own conf and the smart schools should have their own conf vandy, temp, rice, rug
These "mega conferences" are a dumb idea. Does anyone remember the Southern Conference? Before it was the sec they had over 20 teams before they broke up into several smaller conferences
I do not remember that. Because I wasn’t alive in 1920.
As an Oregon state fan I’m very frustrated
I'm a Georgia Bulldogs fan and are conference is getting bigger and alot of people are getting upset in the SEC!!!
This video was made before the House settlement, so now programs will end up compensating athletes. That will make things even more interesting.
I couldn’t agree more !
The greed has always been there
From my perspective college football jumped the shark when Nebraska stopped playing Oklahoma.
For the South West Conference fans that day came a bit earlier, for many Pac 12 fans that realization has just arrived.
Money now rules - and my interest in college football is very nearly zero.
In my opinion, the NCAA, the old Big East and now the ACC ruined college football. If someone would grow a pair and stand up to ND to force them into a conference, we wouldn't be where we are today. ALL sports or no sport is the stance that should've been takin all along. And...if you don't want to join we'll see if we can work you in our schedule. It's that easy
Notre Dame is not the reason why college football is where it's at today.
Uh, no. If anybody is to blame, it's ESPN and the Big 10.
The Big East was the greatest basketball conference in the 1980s. I loved watching Georgetown, St. John's, Villanova etc., play on yes, ESPN. What ruined the conference? Chasing football $.
I agree with article or rather this video. But what he has to also add in this started with ESPN getting in bed with the SEC which at that time was no more than a third rated conference back in 9596. The uneven opinions and television shows directed towards the SEC allow them to get to the head of the line which is one of the reasons they were able to get to all those BCS games and national championship game when you have ESPN promoting you their controlling the NCAA and this right here is the conclusion of it ESPN has ruined college football
Yes they killed PAC ,12/,with all those late sat night games What a shame !
The hideous self promoting ESPN "Live Sports" commercials that tortured college football fans during the 2023 college football bowl season are reason enough to end ESPN as a host to any college sport. Add to that the destruction caused by the transfer portal and the related impact of NIL based player disloyalty and you have the ruin of college football. Coaches can no longer build teams and develop players and fan disinterest is likely to be the final blow to something that was great in years past.
The problem with fan disinterest is that there will always be more than enough deletants more than willing to simply bend over an take it for ESPN and the home team.
I love college football but it has been screwed up for a LONG time. Name another sport where more than half of the teams in the field have no chance of winning a championship, even by going undefeated. If there is a "super conference" I hope they're at least smart enough to move good teams up and bad teams down through relegation - I could kind of get with that.
Well for years the NCAA been Minor League System For NFL
No institutional justice for every fbs school
I will not watch the big10 or sec going forward
So it sounds like SEC and Big 10 are forming the NFL farm program. The big NIL and coaching contracts will mostly exist in that space. So if you want to watch high-level, super competitive football you will watch those leagues. If you are a college football purist and want your football to be amateurism, then guess what, you will have the lesser leagues to watch where NIL deals and coaching contracts will not be as abundant and the players will be those hungry outliers playing for either the love of the game or putting their whole heart into the hard road of being drafted. Where the fan base is made up of locals, students, and alumni. So I'm really not seeing the problem here.
How many players make it to the NFL? That number isn't going to increase just because two conferences want to be massive in number of schools. College football has always been about playing for love of the game not just the "lesser" teams.
I’m not sure that’s really good for the NFL.
It looks like freshmen NIL deals really only exist for 5 star athletes, but it would be very foolish to believe that the NFL only takes 5 stars.
Over 80% of starting QBs today in the NFL were 3 star or below coming out of High School and that includes Hall of Fame QBs.
This sport is a mess...it always has been and will continue to be.
Whats it supposed to be?
It hasn't always been
Now we'll get just a few conference's with all the teams period it's actually pro ball at this point especially with pay and transfer within one year it's terrible overall.
Disney ruins everything it touches! Starwars, marvel, and now college football! Everything you loved as a kid they can't help destroying.
For every other conference, losing two major schools is a major event.
The Big12 just reracks.
For the Pac12, this is a Tuesday.
Hear me out, enough cfb fans start a petition to force what we could call “The Great Reset”, In said reset, football gets put under its own umbrella that way conference don’t have to be the same in football as they do other sports. Conferences are all the same size with teams in them based on general geographic location. All conference champions make cfp with some outliers chosen by a non biased or corrupt committee. This would of course be the case if we keep the coming 12 team playoff format. I say we start the petition now. Anybody on board, Comment I
💯💯💯 Couldn’t agree more. They’re bout to turn it into two conference sport that looks identical to an electoral college map. BS!
Who came up with the west coast offense? Not USC, not Alabama, obviously. It was BYU that was throwing 50 times a game in 1972. But hey, they’re not located in the South, or the East or West coast so I guess they don’t count. 🖕 college football
Haven't fully watched this and I completely agree
No sec on cbs after 2025😔
I know it sucks that's the best chanel to watch football
Where will the florida georgia game be brodcasted
WVU fan and CFB will never be the same, it will always be a revolving door.
Corruption reigns in D1 college sports
Loved all the WSU representation in this video and basically no footage of UDub. I’ll be a fan of WSU football until the day I die regardless of what “league” they’re in.
Nebraska never should have been allowed to bolt from the Big 12 to the Big 10.
Money destroyed college football and every other sport, money destroy's everyone why does not man get that
I'll laugh as they go bankrupt
You can stop watching that shit. That it.
It's actually amazing there making the big power teams have to only play each other because nobody watches the games when bama plays alabama state or when osu plays toledo nobody watches it fails right there they are to powerful if you look the last 60 years one of the power five schools was the champion and there never has been a champion of any of the weaker conference teams it need broke down and I think all teams deserve a chance to play for the championship if they win there conference
This explains why you don't see a dissenting voice on either Fox or ESPN. It's quite jarring to hear anchors who are otherwise very left wing in their opinions sound like Mitt Romney or National Review extolling the virtues of the free market in college football. I am just waiting for one of them to use the rising tide lifts all boats analogy.
This aged better than anyone could have ever anticipated.
Sadly, yes it did.
The one group that made college football so fun has ended up being the ones that ruined it. Not even college gameday is good anymore it’s all corporate now. College gameday used to be about the fans now it’s just for sponsors and I honestly don’t see it lasting much longer. It’s sad the direction college football is headed.
What's not being discussed is how all the non-football sports like volleyball and tennis and baseball going to handle the cross-country intra-week travel from California to Ohio? Is it going to be a true move or just for football because the logistics seem daunting, inefficient and costly.
Thats why usc/ucla made the move …more money for their other sports programs…that additional 100 mil will cover those cost..that money isnt just going to the football program but its mainly coming in because of the football/ basketball programs
@@keepthisonthelow1430 That's what they say, but look at Temple. It was long known for its basketball program, which has a long and proud tradition. Then, it started to fall on hard times, and they decided to pump up the football team. They even got to host a national primetime game and College Gameday came to Philadelphia. What people outside of the Cherry and White _didn't_ see was that Temple canceled _nine_ sports in order to make more room in the budget for football. And the university wanted to get $100MM in city money to build a stadium close to campus instead of staying in Lincoln Financial because there's nowhere in North Philadelphia to put a football stadium. (They didn't get it.) Oh, and they tore down the practice track to make room for a rec center. So, how is this going to work for those other sports in the super conference, really?
Volleyball will take some time to work out. They do play some invitationals around the country but it's not many. B1G plays 20 conference matches. I don't see them increasing it so 10 home and 10 away matches.
Baseball/softball plays a 3 game series and 1/3 of the schedule is non-conference and invitationals some of them around the country. For USC/UCLA and other schools maybe instead of playing in invitationals around the country they stay local for non-conference. At a 24 game conference schedule that's only 4 road game series and 4 home. It's not a lot like some think.
Tennis mostly plays too invitationals for non-conference some around the country. B1G plays in conference 9 times for men and 11 for women's. Increasing each sport by 1 means going on the road 5 and 6 times. That's not terrible. Again, maybe instead of playing national invitationals around the country they stay local.
Basketball will also take some time to figure out a schedule that works for everyone. But again it's only 10 road games maybe an extended break for when teams come to LA and when the LA teams return from a 4-5 game road series.
Swim meets were just weird, some teams only played 3, 4, or 5 conference meets. Some played more national meets. Some had 0 conference meets. They obviously all finally met together in the B1G prelims and finals to determine who would get an NCAA tournament bid. I don't know what to make of that sport.
Golf was another weird one as teams typically spend a lot of time at national invitationals until the B1G championships.
Cross Country was bizarre. The entire schedule consists of invitationals all within the B1G footprint but not every school competed in the same ones. Half the B1G teams competed at the Joe Pianne Invitational held at Notre Dame. Not every school competed in the same number of invitationals it ranged from 3 to 6 before the B1G championships. So I wonder if USC/UCLA will be allowed to just compete in local invitationals before the B1G championships.
Men's & women's Indoor/outdoor track and field all compete together at the same invitationals and just like cross country they all wildly varied in the number of invitationals and rarely all competed in the same ones. Indiana held 4 different invitationals on its campus, Nebraska held 6 on its own campus and travelled to K-State, ISU, Pittsburgh State and Arkansas for the rest of its invitationals. Minnesota had a wild schedule they traveled to Los Angeles 3x, Orlando, Raleigh 2x, Tempe, Knoxville, Baton Rouge and competed in state at home 5x and Iowa 2x (is Minnesota a powerhouse T&F school?).I think USC/UCLA will be fine competing in regional invitationals for this sport until the B1G championships.
With money. That’s how.
@@SuperTripleO Well sure they will have the money to expense the travel, but if you are a volleyball player do you really want to travel from LA to New Jersey on a Tuesday night to play Rutgers because being in the Big 10 earns the conference more money? Also I highly doubt the other Pac 12 members are going to take much sympathy on you and schedule you in the future for OOC games. The entire thing is ridiculous.
great video
as a diehard Michigan fan as well as a diehard CFB fan, it's sad to see all the major changes that the sport has taken in recent years. the playoff and possible expansion of the playoff, NIL, portal, bowl game opt-outs, conference re-alignment and the erosion of rivalries have all devalued and removed the luster of the game I and so many other people loved
the way it's going, I don't even know if I'll be a fan in 10-15 years. it's changing WAAAYYYYY too much, too fast, and not positively either
In 20 years whats starting now will be the new tradition for the next generation and for the current fans who arent really bothered by the move….most ppl want to see the better players more often than not play against the other elite competition
We needed a playoff, and an expanded one. The BCS system SUCKED.
It does, however, need to be based on stats, not opinions.
@@pnut3844able if they picked the top 4 teams in the BCS and put them in a playoff, that'd be a big step up IMO
I'm also a michigan fan, and I couldn't agree more! You said it perfectly.
Absolutely agree with this. I'm an old-time college football fan (literally--I'm 62 and I've been bleeding Razorback red since I was a 9-yo selling Cokes at The Game of the Century in 1969) and it saddens me to watch the destruction of college football happening right in front of my eyes. I quit watching pro football years ago and now it seems like I might just quit college football--even my Razorbacks--within a few short years. Sad.
I feel sorry for you
It's become increasingly rigged and pointless.
I'm in the same boat. I quit watching pro football and all other pro sports years ago. I used to love spending my Saturdays watching college football. Now I am down to just rooting for my alma mater (K-State). Sad to see greed ruining my favorite sport. This was a good video.
@@bryanjones8778 EMAW. F the Sec Big 10 and TV networks
Same as you. I don't watch pro football. I don't watch the same 4 teams play for a national championship . I stopped after they placed Ohio State over Baylor.
The problem everyone involved is ignoring, is what happens when these consistently winning schools in these weaker conferences go to better conferences and struggle and don’t win as much. Will those fans stick around if their programs don’t get a single winning record after 5 years? I don’t think so.
You’ll end up back where you started.
Very good point
Your description is the definition of a bandwagoner, not a "fan"! Which is an abbreviation of fanatic... (definition) "a person with extreme and uncritical enthusiasm". The origin of the word was describing religious people. How likely is it that the hard core religious people you know (if any) will change their religion? Remember... "uncritical enthusiasm". All in all, no real fan would do what you described.
Not just that but 2/3 of schools with their fans will be left out.
Like Nebraska?
Who says the Pac 8/10/12/20 will want them back?
I used to be the biggest college football fan around. I even made it my mission to see all 130 FBS teams live and in-person, and after 37 years of trying, I accomplished that in November 2017. But by 2019 it was obvious the sport was changing, and not in a good way, and now I have little interest in college football. It’s feels so corporatey now. The soul of the game is fading away.
What was the soul of the game? Not trolling, seriously asking ?
@@keepthisonthelow1430 watch the video. Regional rivalries.
I feel the same I have quit great jobs because they tried to make work on Saturdays during football season but the last 3 or 4 years I have watched a total of 10 games this makes me so sad I miss the old CFB
@@leftwingersareweak in 15 yrs they wont matter for the new generation watching nor the players playing
@@keepthisonthelow1430 Players staying with a school because they took pride in the school. Players playing for their teammates, their brothers, instead of skipping bowls to prep for the combine. Coaches and assistants having the chance to develop young teens into young men instead of being fired after 3 years because 8-4 became disappointing season. Gameday being affordable enough for average fans to take their families to the games. And the games having a flow to them instead stopping the clock constantly due to 50 passes a game per team, tv timeouts, 60 and 30 second timeouts, and officials' reviews. It's become painful to watch live. I understand why the changes have come about, but I think the game, passion, connection, and fan experience from about 2017 has suffered in comparison to CFB of 50 years that preceded it.
I haven’t watched College football since the Big 10 and SEC pilfered the Big 12 the first time. It flat-out killed the annual Border War game between KU and MU. Even if both schools were having off years you could always look forward to rivalry games. But mean little to the House of Rat. They need more money to cover the cost of the bombs they’ve bee trying to pass off as movies the past few years, your fan traditions be damned.
I have heard that The schools who left the Big 12 over the past decade Nebraska Colorado Tex A+M and Missouri left because Texas L H had too much power money wise.
Agree with almost everything in this video. As a lifelong, diehard college football fan (went to Nebraska way back when), the wholesale changes in the CFB landscape have slowly whittled away at my interest in the game. The closer CFB becomes to NFL-lite, the less appealing it becomes. Ultimately, my opinion doesn’t matter - I realize that - but I can’t believe that I’m alone in my thoughts about the game. I liked the rivalries, the traditions, and the bowl games (despite the controversies, every Jan 1 fans across the country were treated to an orgy of exciting and consequential games culminating in the end of the season). All of those have slowly been eroded. The direction we’re heading is to simply pit one monetary juggernaut against another - which school can hire the best talent with NIL money and spend the most on coaches with bloated TV revenues. I’m not saying this as one that looks at the past through rose colored glasses, but one who sees the future as so distant from the game I grew up loving that I’m about to reach a tipping point where CFB no longer matters. Sad.
You said it. Tradition. Rutgers vs. USC? Who cares? They have no rivalry. Even OSU vs. USC only means something to me if it's in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1. Otherwise I could give a shit.
I agree as Wisconsin fan, the older styles of doing things for them does not seem to work out as well for the team and then the school has to resort to the shady ways other schools basically cheat players through the classes and the system just to have NFL talent at the NCAA level. By this I mean having to do what an Ohio State does or what University of Miami used to do.
good points but being a Nebraska fan probably also whittled away your interest in the game big time as well lol
Absolutely agree. Jan 1st was my favorite holiday growing up because the orgy 😬. Michigan nd usually kicked off the year for me but they don’t play anymore. The more corporate it becomes the worse it gets.
I completely agree with you.
So well stated! If they're wanting something similar to the NFL... just watch the NFL.
It's exactly why I watch the NFL almost exclusively. At least they haven't been lying for the past 40 years about where the money is going, unlike the NCAA.
The fact that there is not a Commissioner to help create conference stability & accountability, allows these schools to go into business for themselves. The deterioration of CFB started in the late 90's with the BCS and Conference "free agency" has lead to the death of rivalries over the last 10-15 years.
This guy gets it. The NCAA’s lack of leadership allowed this to happen.
@@jondukes7025 and it’s for the better. I hope CFB has only a few big conferences so there are more good vs good games, instead of Alabama vs Mercer.
@@austinhowser7838 it sounds like SEC vs SEC to me but hopefully that won’t be the outcome with conferences shifting
100% agree. I appreciate the fact that people like you are calling this out. If CFB turns into a super league I will not continue watching it.
Your one tv will not hurt football in America. Why would I want to watch schools like Washington State or Wake Forest? The have nots will always be no names
@@kingengine5852 This mega conference BS is NOT good for the game as the narrator said. The point of conferences is to divide teams up best you can and PLAY everyone. How can you play everyone when the conferences are this big? You cannot, so now they are going to be even bigger? Stop it!
@@kingengine5852 But it won't be one TV set. It will be millions of them, eventually, as more and more folks tune out and there's less interest from the young people coming up, who would be future fans.
@@bryanjones8778 young ppl will keep watching because young ppl will still be the ones playing the game….they wont go to watching the less popular sports…ppl said the same thing before the bcs was implemented and then before the cfp was implemented yet the tv revenue kept going up somehow because thats what the majority of ppl want…they want the better schools more often than not to play each other
@@kingengine5852 it won't be just one TV, it'll be MILLIONS. Leaving out 2/3 of the teams along with their fans will severly backfire. Also, many people who are fans of teams that will make it have also said they won't watch it anymore. 2 super conferences will cause the sport to die, I'll bet anything on it.
Amazing video. It captured the exact feelings I’ve been experiencing throughout this process.
What happened to the game that I used to play in the backyard.
Killing what is special about the sport doesn’t seem like a great long term strategy.
cityassembled647 in the past year witnessed the destruction of the PAC 12 conference
ESPN has done a lot of damage. To the NBA and NFL also. It's why I canceled ESPN 2 years now and haven't looked back. B.S. storylines instead of the actual games is what they're selling. The good news is they are starting to lose money because fans are rejecting them.
It sounds crazy but it feels like the bcs system worked better
Love the BCS
Disney ruins everything!!!
College football now is like an episode of storage wars. The schools are the main characters and the players are the units. It’s about which person can get the highest money value out of a unit. Not about true value of what you would find.
As far as I am concerned, college football started down this road with the BCS because they refused to consider a real playoff scenario since that would kill 75% or more of the already useless bowl games. Its all about money and ratings. For me, the regular season is the only thing worth watching with "The Game", win or lose, being the last game of value to me. If a 6 and 6 team can get a "eame your bowl here" Bowl game, what is the freaking point. This is the epitome of everyone getting a trophy scenario, but ESPN hands them out like candy even when they have a mediocre season.
I have been a passionate college football fan for over 50 years. I really dislike what the sport is evolving into. I think there are literally millions of fans who feel the same way. As the saying goes, beware of what you wish for.
As a Washington State fan, it's been really telling watching the reactions of the different PAC fandoms to this. I think besides conference administrative failures over the past decade-plus and general anger at the things you mentioned here, a lot of my animosity in this particular situation is reserved for UCLA. USC we all hate and knew they would do this. I'm surprised they didn't earlier. They and their fans have always acted like they're too good for us, so fine, go play with the big boys. But UCLA? Who hasn't been to a Rose Bowl since 1998? Who's 18-25 under Chip Kelly? Who's seen diminishing attendance for years now? At least USC you could call a blueblood, UCLA is just a failson using Daddy's money to throw its weight around. And everyone, *everyone,* is going to suffer for it, *especially* the players.
WSU fan here too. 100% agree with you. UCLA is a public school that is supposed to promote the image of its state, and it leaving for the B1G is indirectly harming Cal. It’s taking advantage of the simple fact that it has the LA tv market. What’s even more sad is seeing UofW and Oregon now trying to follow their footsteps in ditching the pac12. The centuries long history of west coast rivalry now is falling apart…
Glad people are finally beginning to realize this. Noy only college football but many other sports as well. I don't watch any pro sports including auto racing. Hope disney and espn are gone from existence soon.
They won't be, They only generate a gazillion dollars!!! But I wish they would go under.
As ESPN loses viewers by the thousands...a house of cards shakes
It's actually millions over the past decade.
@@bryanjones8778 no it's not. That's the NFL
Yeah you just have to watch on their apps or just listen to it on the radio, oops they and fox control most of the stations . You can just go to the bar, or get TH-cam tv that is viewership that counts in their pockets to sell. The point is unless you truly stop CONSUMING the product altogether they still win .
@@HEAVYTIGER11 NBC has nearly the rest after that.
They hitched their wagon to the SEC and it shows. Less population, less education, and way less money then fans from real schools in the B10. What did they think was going to happen?