College Football is broken...Who will fix it

OptionJacket said:
Wrong. You just don’t appreciate history and believe nothing in the past was as important as the now. Cincinnati just made the Final Four. They aren’t even a P5 school. Here’s the simple formula that worked for GT in 1990, worked for Cincy in 2021, and has worked for many teams in between - hire a good coach who becomes great (even if only for 1 season), have a QB who becomes special during a season, and recruit good players and have more pan out than not. That’s it. This is like a twisted ankle not a compound fracture, but the reaction is definitely one of a soccer player.
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Well damn.
No good coach.
No QB showing signs of being special.
The good recruits end up transferring.

So we're screwed basically.
 
StraightFresh said:
College football is built on a large percentage of the sport's fans being willing to be sacrificial lambs in exchange for a highly-volatile sport where those same sacrificial lambs can crash the party with a pretty high frequency. See: The Georgia Tech 1990 National Championship, the 2007 Missouri-Kansas Game Of The Century, and so forth.

The big money programs are taking the lambs for granted and don't realize that they are the raison d'etre for the big programs having any fans. They think they can hog all of the talent, forever, and UNC will just accept getting skullööööed by Clemson 91-0 every year. It's not happening, and college football is on its way out the ööööing door if they can't figure out some way of sharing talent. A dipshit 'super league' where Michigan and Oklahoma are going 3-13 every year is going to be utterly DoA and will die in a handful of years.
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This is why I don't think the super league model will succeed. How long will Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas A&M going to be satisfied with their teams going .500 in the super league?

You need 4 or 5 top heavy leagues surrounded by minor players for support. Basically similar to what we have now.
 
OptionJacket said:
Wrong. You just don’t appreciate history and believe nothing in the past was as important as the now. Cincinnati just made the Final Four. They aren’t even a P5 school. Here’s the simple formula that worked for GT in 1990, worked for Cincy in 2021, and has worked for many teams in between - hire a good coach who becomes great (even if only for 1 season), have a QB who becomes special during a season, and recruit good players and have more pan out than not. That’s it. This is like a twisted ankle not a compound fracture, but the reaction is definitely one of a soccer player.
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You got it backwards on my view of the past and now. As for the recruiting good players in the now, how long will they be here before a biggie program steals him and sends us one that they misjudged.
 
The truth is, you have to win before anybody else cares about what you think. So, it's going to require some inspirational toughness on the part of the head coach, who can attract tough kids who want to win games, here, not somewhere else. There's nothing easy about any of it, from raising the money, to recruiting the players, to coming up with creative game plans, to out hustling on the field. It's going to take some commitment from the institute that it doesn't like failure in the football program anymore than it does in any other endeavor.
 
getoffthewreck said:
The truth is, you have to win before anybody else cares about what you think. So, it's going to require some inspirational toughness on the part of the head coach, who can attract tough kids who want to win games, here, not somewhere else. There's nothing easy about any of it, from raising the money, to recruiting the players, to coming up with creative game plans, to out hustling on the field. It's going to take some commitment from the institute that it doesn't like failure in the football program anymore than it does in any other endeavor.
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I have seen no evidence that football and basketball are priorities for the institute leadership.
 
getoffthewreck said:
The truth is, you have to win before anybody else cares about what you think. So, it's going to require some inspirational toughness on the part of the head coach, who can attract tough kids who want to win games, here, not somewhere else. There's nothing easy about any of it, from raising the money, to recruiting the players, to coming up with creative game plans, to out hustling on the field. It's going to take some commitment from the institute that it doesn't like failure in the football program anymore than it does in any other endeavor.
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cc: Angel Cabrera
 
TechRush said:
This is why I don't think the super league model will succeed. How long will Texas, Oklahoma, LSU, Texas A&M going to be satisfied with their teams going .500 in the super league?

You need 4 or 5 top heavy leagues surrounded by minor players for support. Basically similar to what we have now.
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That scenario is why they will expand the playoffs way beyond 8 or 12. The only way they keep the money flowing is “HOPE” which is the crux of your post. The future of football will be just like hoops with 60% or more of your league making the tourney. As long as there is hope the money will keep coming from fans. When there is no hope you get what we saw the Saturday after Thanksgiving and what we may be in store for this fall if we come out flat. But even if your team was average and you knew you had a chance to make the tourney by being ranked 32nd I’d be way more willing to attend a late season game than I am now.
 
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