re: When does the average fan tap out from college football?

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I know I myself am finding less interest in it. With the portal and NIL, it’s just an NFL-lite league with no loyalty. The pageantry is gone. I’ll still watch, but with much less caring that I would have a decade ago. It is what it is.

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Dont usually agree with many A&M posters on this site but i agree with you on this. Really starting to lose interest in college football.

For various reasons I turned into a casual fan a while ago. It’s great - give it a try.

I still go to a good home game and the best away game, but the objective is to win the tailgate and do something fun around the game like golf.

Where I live October, November and December are great weather so it’s hard to justify college football when golf, hunting and fishing are calling.

Atlanta for SEC championship idiot!!!!!!!!!! Everyone but a ducking idiot knows what I mean.

Big money has killed just about everything that once made American culture great. College football is just the latest victim on the list.

My fandom is quickly waning, between how horrible Arkansas has been and the "new" college football. There needs to be some major fixes, it's not too late to still have a unique, entertaining, and passionate product that keeps the old school fans while still catering to the new world.

- a limit across the board on NIL amount a player can receive in a single season. Maybe $250k total so it's still lucrative but not more lucrative than going pro, while eliminating bidding wars between schools because the max amount is set

- all bowls other than the CFP are at the BEGINNING of the next season. Make them like the invitational tournaments NCAA basketball teams play in the early season that don't count towards their record, but are mostly played to gain your players experience, extra practice time, and work out the kinks in coaching and the starting lineup. This could be made into a new, hyped up, "college football week zero kickoff celebration!" type thing every year and the fans and players would absolutely love it since everyone is starved for live-action football by that time. This would also eliminate the opt-outs and there would still be that 15 days of extra practice for the participating teams. This is really the only way the minor bowls could remain relevant with the 12 team playoff coming.

- go back to the 1 year sit-out transfer rule, with the exception being graduate transfers or players who had coaching changes being immediately eligible.

- allow programs to sign multi-year scholarships instead of single years at a time. The penalty for breaking that multi-year scholarship and transferring out is the player has to repay the university the amount he received in tuition and other benefits (i.e. his scholarship value)

- all NIL money earned is paid at the end of that athlete's tenure at the university instead of year-to-year. This also eliminates a lot of the bidding wars and athletes seeing immediate dollar signs to go here or there via tampering, and also eliminates dropping huge sums of money to recruit high school players before they've ever played a down in college.

- kill off the individual conferences that are each run very differently by very different commissions and leadership groups, and bring all D-1 teams into a single D-1 conference split up by regions. This is the way things are going anyway with the SEC and BIG slowly devouring everything around them, and this will make team and fan travel expenses much easier while also giving the entire sport one single governing body. This will eliminate the state and federal courts having to make determinations about college sports that they shouldn't have any hand in.

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Never. Tennessee is about to be elite again.

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Tennessee is about to be elite again? Never.

Fixed the grammar for you.

Except the bottom end NFL game usually gets ratings on par with the CFP. If they don't fix the postseason ASAP could be looking a lots of untenable TV contracts like Bally Sports.

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This really isn’t college football anymore, it’s a semi pro league

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Agreed. NCAA should lean into the changes and compete as it is.

Why have eligibility rules anymore?
Why not allow players to come back to school if they don't like the NFL team that drafted them or if they get a shitty contract?
The NCAA has never had leverage over the NFL until now. Use it.

Brock Purdy could be making more $$$ in college than at the Niners.
Why not let a guy play in college until he can't physically make the squad?

frick the NFL. The NCAA owes them nothing.

Yep. A whole lot of people will complain, but very, very few have the strength to actually turn off their televisions.