This is what a paid for multi million dollar college team looks like

It's clear that unregulated NIL football is as loser with viewers. Worst ratings in over 23 years?! International soccer is now more popular here than college football.
 
In a very brief amount of research, I learned that UGA football expenses are around $48.5M versus Revenues of around $135M... or an $86.5M surplus. Georgia Tech football expenses are around $27M versus Revenues of $28M, or a $1M surplus. That's from the main sport that's supposed to drive an athletics department's cash-flow in order to subsidize the other sports.

Joy... they spend twice as much as we do annually, and their annual surplus is over 3x our entire football budget. Them being a HAVE and us being a HAVE NOT isn't changing anytime soon.
 
GTLiebs said:
The question is will being in a playoff be exciting enough despite 90% of the teams having no chance of winning a title.
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I think that it will add some excitement to the game that has been missing for the last several seasons. Instead of the playoff teams seemingly "anointed" in August, teams will know that winning their conference is a path into the playoff mix.
 
GT7378 said:
strange how TCU can go into Texas and control that game, then look like a bad HS team here. I suppose it's due to the difference in talent, but Texas had Bama beat early in the year too. Or the moment was too big for TCU and got headlights in their eyes
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Or they shot their load in the come back against Michigan and we’re just happy to make it to the championship game.
 
GT98 said:
Really? College football is a regional sport now. Outside of some of the mid-west and southeast, I can't imagine many casual sports fans care when you can name 3 of the 4 teams before the season starts that will be in the playoffs. I would expect TV ratings to continue to go down for college football during this era of buy a title. Having a sport where 90% of the teams have no chance to play for a title isn't good long term. Maybe, the expanded playoffs will help on this front.
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There’s always college baseball. They seem to have managed the player pillaging better than football and basketball have.
 
Vespidie said:
There’s always college baseball. They seem to have managed the player pillaging better than football and basketball have.
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That is because the top prospects go pro out of high school. That is especially true for those that do not value an education.
If they start college they have to stay for at least two years. Also the scholarships and NIL opportunities are limited.
 
BrentwoodJacket said:
That is because the top prospects go pro out of high school. That is especially true for those that do not value an education.
If they start college they have to stay for at least two years. Also the scholarships and NIL opportunities are limited.
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Bingo.
 
I see only two realistic paths to success for Georgia Tech football:
1. Lots of money
2. Get NCAA rules changed

We aren't going to out-football the top schools with superior coaching or something. Money matters too much now.

#1, we need some mega-rich mega-donors that we don't seem to have. We're a smaller school and fanbase so unlikely to compete through grassroots donations.

#2, lobbying with other disadvantaged schools to get the transfer rules changed (no reason they couldn't be) and do something about NIL harms.
 
Vespidie said:
Or they shot their load in the come back against Michigan and we’re just happy to make it to the championship game.
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One of the quotes from the gaggers on TV was Vince helped push the OSU fg from Heaven.. that is why they repeated.. only chance for them to lose was vs. The Ohio State University
 
LongforDodd said:
I heard TCU's HC had admitted that ugag was simply on another level. I suspect that sometime during the game, perhaps at halftime, and the team picked up on it from the coach and they soon collapsed.
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did you notice that db from TCU lolly gagging it trying to cover McConkey on that TD in Q3. No doubt he quit
 
GT7378 said:
did you notice that db from TCU lolly gagging it trying to cover McConkey on that TD in Q3. No doubt he quit
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I didn't watch the second half but if it resembled the 1st half TD where he was wide ass open, I don't doubt it but on the 1st half TD the CB seemed to let conkey go to pick up the RB coming at him from the backfield. Dumb!
 
LongforDodd said:
I didn't watch the second half but if it resembled the 1st half TD where he was wide ass open, I don't doubt it but on the 1st half TD the CB seemed to let conkey go to pick up the RB coming at him from the backfield. Dumb!
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1st half was what you'd expect when one team has an army of analysts to break down the opponent in a week, while the other team had a handful of coaches.
 
gtfan088 said:
And UGA was already knocking on the door before NIL. The power imbalance in college football has been increasing since well before NIL came on the scene.
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Spot on. When the little bastard in the visor took over in Athens, he put the bag man on steroids. He really didn’t even try to hide it. When NIL came about, the bagman basically lost his job.
 
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