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Yukonwreck

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Mass hysteria. One of the historically most enjoyable pastimes, college football, is dying before our eyes. Coaching carousel combined with an unfettered transfer portal has created chaos which will destroy all but the top programs.
 

gtchief

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Yes. Frictionless transferring with no stipulations means we are a local placeholder for top talent now. If the 100-mile radius of home consideration from a couple years ago was still in effect then it would have been a boon for us. But free agency is here now and all of that is in the past.
 

RussianOffense

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College football is becoming a pyramid scheme. All the schools outside the top 20 or so are increasingly dupes who think they can win big one day. Maybe once in a while there's a fluke like Cincinnati just to keep us hoping. Soon we will exist only to feed wins and our best players to the top programs.
 

PressManCoverage

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Yes. Frictionless transferring with no stipulations means we are a local placeholder for top talent now. If the 100-mile radius of home consideration from a couple years ago was still in effect then it would have been a boon for us. But free agency is here now and all of that is in the past.
Questions:

For many years Sports that don't generate Money have been able to transfer and not sit out, did it kill those Sports?

Coaches have been able to change jobs without sitting out, even leave for a hated rival (Benedict Marrone) , did it ever kill any sports?

So why is this such an issue when non Revenue Sports have had similar transfer Rules for years?

Why do Coaches get Free Agency but not the Players?
 

1982Jacket

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Questions:

For many years Sports that don't generate Money have been able to transfer and not sit out, did it kill those Sports?

Coaches have been able to change jobs without sitting out, even leave for a hated rival (Benedict Marrone) , did it ever kill any sports?

So why is this such an issue when non Revenue Sports have had similar transfer Rules for years?

Why do Coaches get Free Agency but not the Players?
See if you can figure it out for yourself, you ööööing Random Capitalization imbecile. It's really ööööing obvious.
 

andrew

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Questions:

For many years Sports that don't generate Money have been able to transfer and not sit out, did it kill those Sports?

Coaches have been able to change jobs without sitting out, even leave for a hated rival (Benedict Marrone) , did it ever kill any sports?

So why is this such an issue when non Revenue Sports have had similar transfer Rules for years?
Because no one watches non-revenue sports and they cannot survive without being almost completely funded by revenue sports, which do have these transfer rules.

Revenue sports such as football have to care about whether transfer rules have an impact on whether fans watch, what they do to overall parity, etc., because they need to generate revenue to survive. Non-revenue sports don't need to worry about that, because they depend solely on people watching football (and basketball, to a lesser extent) to survive.

Why do Coaches get Free Agency but not the Players?
Agreed the business model for CFB is pretty messed up. I guess that's what happens when on the one hand you are saying that it is an amateur sport so you can't treat players like employees and on the other hand USC is paying Lincoln Riley $15 million/year to abandon Oklahoma's players.
 

1982Jacket

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Because no one watches non-revenue sports and they cannot survive without being almost completely funded by revenue sports, which do have these transfer rules.

Revenue sports such as football have to care about whether transfer rules have an impact on whether fans watch, what they do to overall parity, etc., because they need to generate revenue to survive. Non-revenue sports don't need to worry about that, because they depend solely on people watching football (and basketball, to a lesser extent) to survive.



Agreed the business model for CFB is pretty messed up. I guess that's what happens when on the one hand you are saying that it is an amateur sport so you can't treat players like employees and on the other hand USC is paying Lincoln Riley $15 million/year to abandon Oklahoma's players.
Of course. But it's like you're trying to explain concepts that a six year old kid would grasp without any need for explanation, to a rhesus monkey. You're a more patient man than me.
 

gtphd

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Mass hysteria. One of the historically most enjoyable pastimes, college football, is dying before our eyes. Coaching carousel combined with an unfettered transfer portal has created chaos which will destroy all but the top programs.
Throw in NIL which allows above the table bagmen. It's a shame - it used to be an enjoyable sport.
 
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