I know. I'm becoming so disinterested at this point. Its like if Nascar allowed different teams to have different size gas tanks or engine displacement based on team money. You KNOW who's gonna win.
I think eventually there will be some attempts at regulation, etc, but waiting/watching that occur is not gonna be fun, IMO.
I love the Hokies, players, etc. I'll always root for them. But the short term fix all the fans pony up and we find some BIG money donors willing to write big checks to pay some unproven high school kids scads of money to play a game.
I hate it.
EDIT: and I'm NOT asking that we as fans do that. It'd be like Carrowinds saying "I know you paid for admission, but if you want to ride the REALLY cool rides, you and your friends have to spend a whole lot more....."
EDIT²: kinda like Disney does now....
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What's really run/sad is that in all of this the spring portal will have a bunch of guys in the playoffs that got paid to stay around so the team had enough to practice.
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The guys in the bowls and playoffs have a five day exception and can enter the portal on completion of their season.
Key exceptions to the deadline
Players involved in postseason play have extra time to enter the portal. Any athlete participating in a bowl game or playoff has a five-day window to enter the portal after their season ends. For instance, players in Jan. 1 bowl games have until Jan. 6, while those in the Jan. 20 national championship game have until Jan. 25.
Additionally, players impacted by a head coaching change receive a 30-day window to enter the portal immediately following the coaching change. While most coaching moves occur earlier in the offseason, late-cycle changes -- like Nick Saban's unexpected January retirement last year -- can still trigger a flurry of portal activity.
I agree with all the points made, but i always have to laugh when thinking about Saban whining to Congress that now any school legally can pay players the same sums that Bama had been doing for the past 20 years
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Yeah can't blame the guy for doing that, I'm sure it's insanely frustrating. Luckily for him NIL didn't come around until the end of his career...I feel bad for any coaches who have another 20-30 years of coaching in this NIL crap (although hopefully it gets sorted out before too long).
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He came out of retirement 2 years ago to help bring Boise back. He doesn't have anything to prove, he's just airing out the bullshit that is rampant right now.
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lol CFB being like the NFL with less rules around payments and free agency fucking sucks. Your favorite team is not competitive any longer for example. If that doesn't bother you, you were never a fan of the college model to begin with. The sport sucks right now. Especially for the Boise's. No shit he quit because of the shit show. Just like Tony Bennett did. If he goes back to the pro's he will enjoy actual free agent rules, competitive balance and structure he doesn't have at Boise.
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Honestly I don't think we are closer or farther away from a championship than we were 10 years ago. In the past 20 years Oregon has gained some prominence but still got blown out by a blue blood. UF was the last first time champion in 1996. Since then it's been the big names. Even look at the final four this year, blue bloods.
But also Indiana had 11 wins, boise was a top 4 seed, every team has lost and if PSU wins oit then Oregon gets a national title via the college matrix. There were a lot of great things this year and use being 6-7 really put a damper on one of the best years of football in a decade.
What i hate is not knowing who will be on the team next year. The transfers are out of hand, i saw two guys swap teams the other day. The off-season is terrible. The season was pretty fantastic for all teams not VT.
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Virginia Tech is done as a major football program unless major changes are made to the structure of college football. This is a fact. VT is done as a major competitor even in the ACC. We have been medicore so long, that we will lose scores of the players we do develop to SEC/B1G programs. Clemson can retain some of their guys- they win. We don't. They can sell championships, we can't. Unless there is 1. More TV money for VT from a new deal, 2. Limits on NIL and salary payments (lol that toothpaste is not coming back in the tube) and 3. Some type of restrictions on transfers, you have seen the last of VT being a major football program. Done.
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Since there are apparently unlimited boosters out there with millions of dollars to put into these collectives, like coaches, the school getting the player will simply pay his buyout. And nothing material changes.
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The soon-to-be-owner program would never be able to set a buyout worth a damn. That program, with a decent buyout, would just get outbid by a wealthier, or more desperate, program who will risk the lower buyout.
edit: clarifying that I mean to add to DC's comment, not disagree
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And if you're curious, yes, we took the Belt from Georgia Tech in 2011, and held it for three title defenses, losing it to Clemson in the 2011 ACC Championship.
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I know. I'm becoming so disinterested at this point. Its like if Nascar allowed different teams to have different size gas tanks or engine displacement based on team money. You KNOW who's gonna win.
I think eventually there will be some attempts at regulation, etc, but waiting/watching that occur is not gonna be fun, IMO.
I love the Hokies, players, etc. I'll always root for them. But the short term fix all the fans pony up and we find some BIG money donors willing to write big checks to pay some unproven high school kids scads of money to play a game.
I hate it.
EDIT: and I'm NOT asking that we as fans do that. It'd be like Carrowinds saying "I know you paid for admission, but if you want to ride the REALLY cool rides, you and your friends have to spend a whole lot more....."
EDIT²: kinda like Disney does now....
I watched 1 bowl game this season and it made me crave a sandwich dripping in mayonaise
I watched 2.5. The 0.5 game made me not want to ever purchase mayonaise again.
What's really run/sad is that in all of this the spring portal will have a bunch of guys in the playoffs that got paid to stay around so the team had enough to practice.
The guys in the bowls and playoffs have a five day exception and can enter the portal on completion of their season.
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I agree with all the points made, but i always have to laugh when thinking about Saban whining to Congress that now any school legally can pay players the same sums that Bama had been doing for the past 20 years
When the money was under the table i don't think the sums were the same
Yeah can't blame the guy for doing that, I'm sure it's insanely frustrating. Luckily for him NIL didn't come around until the end of his career...I feel bad for any coaches who have another 20-30 years of coaching in this NIL crap (although hopefully it gets sorted out before too long).
I think it's a lazy excuse. He'll take a year of and be OC at a better school, and avoid any backlash from fans.
He came out of retirement 2 years ago to help bring Boise back. He doesn't have anything to prove, he's just airing out the bullshit that is rampant right now.
He'll go back to the NFL where he spent a decade prior to joining Boise
Yup, just like the BC coach before BOB
Half Jeffley or something like that
.5 Geoffrey?
lol CFB being like the NFL with less rules around payments and free agency fucking sucks. Your favorite team is not competitive any longer for example. If that doesn't bother you, you were never a fan of the college model to begin with. The sport sucks right now. Especially for the Boise's. No shit he quit because of the shit show. Just like Tony Bennett did. If he goes back to the pro's he will enjoy actual free agent rules, competitive balance and structure he doesn't have at Boise.
Honestly I don't think we are closer or farther away from a championship than we were 10 years ago. In the past 20 years Oregon has gained some prominence but still got blown out by a blue blood. UF was the last first time champion in 1996. Since then it's been the big names. Even look at the final four this year, blue bloods.
But also Indiana had 11 wins, boise was a top 4 seed, every team has lost and if PSU wins oit then Oregon gets a national title via the college matrix. There were a lot of great things this year and use being 6-7 really put a damper on one of the best years of football in a decade.
What i hate is not knowing who will be on the team next year. The transfers are out of hand, i saw two guys swap teams the other day. The off-season is terrible. The season was pretty fantastic for all teams not VT.
Virginia Tech is done as a major football program unless major changes are made to the structure of college football. This is a fact. VT is done as a major competitor even in the ACC. We have been medicore so long, that we will lose scores of the players we do develop to SEC/B1G programs. Clemson can retain some of their guys- they win. We don't. They can sell championships, we can't. Unless there is 1. More TV money for VT from a new deal, 2. Limits on NIL and salary payments (lol that toothpaste is not coming back in the tube) and 3. Some type of restrictions on transfers, you have seen the last of VT being a major football program. Done.
#3 is most likely IMO. I can see a world where players have buyouts (just like coaches), which is basically the same as a transfer fee.
Since there are apparently unlimited boosters out there with millions of dollars to put into these collectives, like coaches, the school getting the player will simply pay his buyout. And nothing material changes.
The soon-to-be-owner program would never be able to set a buyout worth a damn. That program, with a decent buyout, would just get outbid by a wealthier, or more desperate, program who will risk the lower buyout.
edit: clarifying that I mean to add to DC's comment, not disagree
I don't know what the "college matrix" is, but Florida is the current holder of the College Football Belt (or the "Lineal National Championship").
https://www.hatchrankings.com/lineal.html
And if you're curious, yes, we took the Belt from Georgia Tech in 2011, and held it for three title defenses, losing it to Clemson in the 2011 ACC Championship.
The belt should be a real thing in college football.
damn auto correct, colley matrix
It's going to get worse before it gets better.
And it may never get better.