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Everyone alive knows this is going to collapse without major reform. Half of Alabamas roster leaving every year is not good for : The coaches, the fans, ESPN, Pat McAfee, etc. It's not. The constant player turnover is a huge issue in basketball and football. If you think CBS or anyone was excited about 90% of the SEC getting into the field of 68 in hoops, you are kidding yourself. Nobody wanted that and fans tuned out and mid major coaches aren't going to stand for it much longer. There are 300 D 1 hoops teams- not 18. Without the rest of the dance, the SEC doesn't make money and nobody watches on CBS. It's going to collapse.
UVA has sucked in football for- ever. Welch had them at 7 wins a year as a pinnacle. Since its UVA though, they found a hall of fame basketball coach and won a national fucking championship. That's the difference.
Which ratings are we speaking of??
Because the CFP semifinal and final were both down. The Semi -17% and Final -12%.
The 2025 Championship Game was the 3rd lowest viewed since 2014 - despite featuring two of the Bluest of the Blue Bloods.
There have been plenty of pre-built excuses for this, but I think if we're going to be realistic, one would have expected the first year of a new format to have had maximal attention, rather than the opposite.
And if we're talking about overall ratings, I would attach a huge grain of salt with whatever ESPN, CBS, and NBC reporting. After paying huge sums of money for broadcasting rights, I don't think anyone rationally thinks they're going to report declining ratings publicly.
And as far as making it a year-round sport, the Transfer Portal has made following recruiting largely pointless. Virtually all of the 247 Top-150 are going to the SEC or B1G and most of them to the same 6-8 teams.
Even if your team signs all it's coveted recruits, there's no guarantee that half of them aren't gone by the next semester.
And trying to follow the disaster that is the Transfer Portal is nearly impossible, even if one wanted to.
When your sport is focused on caterting to "sickos" and Superfans of the 5-6 teams that have most successfully exploited NIL and the Transfer Portal, you don't have a very robust foundation.
People say this, but ratings last season were at all time highs.
College football wasn't really a 'year round sport' until recruiting took off in the mid-aughts. I can see college football going back to something similar where there's a handful of sicko fans involve the sport in great detail year-round, and there's a handful of players who demand off-season coverage but other than that, it's mostly about the season.
And, if you were to position it that way, I bet a lot of people would prefer it.
I don't want to be that guy, but that could just as easily be VT too especially with Whit & Co. still calling the shots
All the more reason to have a subscription to a fine site like TKP to help you keep up with the latest and greatest!
As we so recently know, there's investing in football, and investing in the right way in football. I have a feeling some very mediocre football players are about to get paid. uva will have the most expensive 4 win team in the country!
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Don't wake 'em up.
I want the Lettuce League.
I don't think they'd lettuce be part of it, though.
Decades of football apathy is going to send them to mid-major status.
Sad, they're a sleeping giants in college football
With all that's going on at UVA right now, it's a school in turmoil. Their new coaches have their work cut out for them.
I think a large majority of non Blue Blood fans are somewhere along the spectrum of:
befuddlement-->exhaustion-->total apathy.
I personally have now crossed from exhaustion and inching close towards apathy.
I made some attempt to follow our transfer portal pickups, but Even with some light research it's hard to know if any of these players are really impact players or simply roster fillers. The time commitment to try to get to know the team is barely worth it, because they can all be gone by the next semester.
Ultimately, I think this is where the system will crack and fail. The fans are the people who keep the sport financially viable and other than a few select teams, most of the fans have little reason to think their team can be competitive. And even if they do somehow beat the odds and become competitive despite extensive Financial disadvantages, they are at constant risk of their team being picked to pieces in the Transfer Portal.
Yeah, this is where I am at. Why even bother following recruiting and the off-season? It's all transitory until the season starts and then it's still potentially subject to change. I also can't really be bothered to pay attention to recruiting for the 2026 class because the 2026 staff might be completely different from the 2025 staff. It's exhausting and it's not a good use of my time or money at this point. I love the community. I cheer for the team but this real life fantasy football nonsense... it's not for me. Especially knowing how uneven the financial playing field is now.
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I was just on vacation with family and was talking about college football with my father-in-law. He asked how our team was looking this year and I told him, "I have no idea. I can barely keep track of who is on our team any more. I don't have the mental bandwidth to keep up with all the transfers in and out." He felt the same way about his alma mater. I used to follow the offseason intently, now I have no interest. We'll see who suits up when the whistle blows on August 31.
Lawyers
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Lawyers in House Settlement to initially receive $520M and as much as $250M more during life of the Settlement. Appears those fees come out of the $2.8B so athletes only getting $2.1B roughly.
The colleges would still want student sections for TV.
The difficulty would be that insurance is regulated by states and not nationally.
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Agreed, my heart skipped a beat. Quit it!!!
I mean they are paying their coordinators $975k this year and they owe them next years money too if they fire them. That's good money for a top 120 offense.
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Yeah. Don't do that shit!
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Lbh, UVa has a lot of inherent advantages - location (less than two hours away from DC, Richmond & 757), money, academics, beautiful campus, success in non-rev sports, co-eds etc.
The problems have always been - fan apathy, admin hasn't supported football, they've never found the right coach, recruited the wrong type of players and have one of the most insufferable student bodies in P4 sports. If they cannot fix those, we'll be going to the SEC and they're going to the Big East after the ACC dissolves...the argument for UVa was always the "VIrginia Market" but it doesn't matter how big your market is if nobody cares about the product.