College Football is broken...Who will fix it

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At this point, I’m expecting Tech to end playing football within the next 10 years and use grant field for quidditch (or whatever the snowflakes who got pissed at the person who made the stupid öööö up in the first place are calling it now) and have a bunch of idiots running around with broomsticks between their legs.
 
Tech was close to dropping down a division or two in the late 70's. You wonder if we're there again. Could we end up going indy for FB and joining a small regional league for other sports? Doubtful, but one thing I do know is that superconferences are for the birds. People talk about how uninteresting Alliance games will be with Oregon State or whomever, but I'm already there. I could care less about watching Tech v Syracuse in FB, or Tech v BC. All our rivals excepting Clemson are in a league that won't have us, so we're stuck playing folks no one cares to see. At the end of the day we have to figure out what our level of institutional commitment will be, because I don't see us chasing the SEC-NFL model. Tech will never do that.
 
The sport is on its way out. It's already dying off in terms of youth participation in the West/New England and isn't being helped by Hispanics taking an increasing share of the population away from whites/blacks. We're currently in a stasis as the sport increasingly becomes a regional sport in the southeast the way that hockey is in the upper north while we wait for the first domino of a Cal/Stanford-type school dropping the sport due to CTE and general ethical issues and then schools like GT won't be far behind.
 
StraightFresh said:
The sport is on its way out. It's already dying off in terms of youth participation in the West/New England and isn't being helped by Hispanics taking an increasing share of the population away from whites/blacks. We're currently in a stasis as the sport increasingly becomes a regional sport in the southeast the way that hockey is in the upper north while we wait for the first domino of a Cal/Stanford-type school dropping the sport due to CTE and general ethical issues and then schools like GT won't be far behind.
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I think this could very well be. I don't think the leadership at Tech has any issues at all with becoming more of a MIT, Hopkins or Ivy League-type school as it relates to sports. Heck, if it's this or becoming an NFL minor league team I'd prefer the Ivy League model. As a Tech alum I'm no less interested. I just want to see good hard-nosed FB played by actual students who want to be here.
 
TechInNC said:
I think this could very well be. I don't think the leadership at Tech has any issues at all with becoming more of a MIT, Hopkins or Ivy League-type school as it relates to sports. Heck, if it's this or becoming an NFL minor league team I'd prefer the Ivy League model. As a Tech alum I'm no less interested. I just want to see good hard-nosed FB played by actual students who want to be here.
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You are not interested in Tech vs Cuse, but you'd like to watch Tech vs Harvard !? If we drop down, there's no looking back. I agree with you though....StraightFresh may indeed be right, and that's why some of us diehards are so irritable. It's at a point where it may take the SCOTUS to help save cFB, and yes that's really scary.
 
GoldZ said:
You are not interested in Tech vs Cuse, but you'd like to watch Tech vs Harvard !? If we drop down, there's no looking back. I agree with you though....StraightFresh may indeed be right, and that's why some of us diehards are so irritable. It's at a point where it may take the SCOTUS to help save cFB, and yes that's really scary.
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I use Ivy League as an example of what sports generally looks like at a top tier academic school when de-empahsized, and basically played by actual students who are there to get a degree and graduate. I'm not saying I see Tech joining the Ivy League. That said, I do see a time when schools like Tech, Tulane, Duke, etc. band together for some level of college FB along those lines because none of those schools are going to prioritize NFL minor league feeder status over academics. If we were intent on doing that we would have ponied up for a Collins buyout last fall...
 
TechInNC said:
I use Ivy League as an example of what sports generally looks like at a top tier academic school when de-empahsized, and basically played by actual students who are there to get a degree and graduate. I'm not saying I see Tech joining the Ivy League. That said, I do see a time when schools like Tech, Tulane, Duke, etc. band together for some level of college FB along those lines because none of those schools are going to prioritize NFL minor league feeder status over academics. If we were intent on doing that we would have ponied up for a Collins buyout last fall...
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BY the way, I'm not advocating for this I just see it as a possible outcome. My original point really is that 'super leagues' have not generally worked out for anyone but the SEC, and being in a league with virtually all of the old Big East does not move the needle for me. And frankly, I hate having ND use us as a 'spring sports only' league - its demeaning. I'd just as soon have them exit now for the new Big East. Apparently that type of league is what they're looking for.
 
Hard to see a future with "big time" GT football when the fanbase is dying off much faster than gaining new fans. As another poster mentioned (not in this thread), the current admissions rules/policies do not favor bringing in a majority of college football (or football in general) fans that can grow the fanbase. Without some extremely wealthy and generous donors that come from somewhere, I just see us becoming an afterthought in CFB; dang, maybe we already are.

That is why I have been a proponent of doing something extremely different at GT in the CFB landscape, but I realize that a decent percentage of our fanbase wants to do it with 'cruiting. It just won't happen that way, and NIL/Transfer portal will make it even more impossible, in my opinion.

We need to grow a fanbase, yesterday, but it hasn't happened, and I'm not sure how to get there from here.
 
TechInNC said:
I think this could very well be. I don't think the leadership at Tech has any issues at all with becoming more of a MIT, Hopkins or Ivy League-type school as it relates to sports. Heck, if it's this or becoming an NFL minor league team I'd prefer the Ivy League model. As a Tech alum I'm no less interested. I just want to see good hard-nosed FB played by actual students who want to be here.
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Exactly. I'd like to see CFB become something more akin to college baseball, a relaxed, enjoyable, casual, low-budget affair. The time between innings is legitimately used to warm up and not to cram as many commercials down viewers' throats as possible. The players are largely actual students who would go to the school regardless of the sport, with the occasional star player with pro potential scattered around. It's a nice, cheap thing to do with your family while you hang out in Midtown on a weekend.

The öööö UGA is doing where they have an oppressive minor league football team with barely-related university branding is stupid and has a short shelf life. It's on its way out, 100%.
 
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