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NIL and entitlement has hurt the SEC.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:22 pm
The players aren’t as hungry and are more focused on what they can get by attending Alabama, UGA, Texas, etc…
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Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:25 pm to collegefootballisbroken
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The players aren’t as hungry and are more focused on what they can get by attending Alabama, UGA, Texas, etc…
fan entitlement like yours is ultimately what's ruined everything so stfu boomer.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:26 pm to collegefootballisbroken
Has hurt college athletics. Period.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:27 pm to collegefootballisbroken
Conference affiliation means nothing.
Realignment and NIL deals saw to that.
Realignment and NIL deals saw to that.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:27 pm to collegefootballisbroken
Why just the sec? Everyone is participating.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:27 pm to collegefootballisbroken
Nah. It’s just spread players out more so no team is dominant for years in a row anymore. Best thing that ever happened to college football.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:27 pm to collegefootballisbroken
Yeah, and Henry To’o’o’o’o started it.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:30 pm to J2thaROC
Sure as hell has helped us. I thought it would make things worse for us. I was wrong.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:31 pm to labamafan
quote:Players expect to play earlier now, and plenty of other programs are willing to pay and play them.
Why just the sec? Everyone is participating.
The programs most hurt by NIL/unlimited transfers are the programs who've been able to hoard talent over the past decade. And most of those programs happen to be in the SEC.
More parity = more good teams but fewer elite teams.
This post was edited on 1/2/25 at 5:34 pm
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:32 pm to J2thaROC
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Nah. It’s just spread players out more so no team is dominant for years in a row anymore. Best thing that ever happened to college football.
Yeah, it turns out college football players like to actually play, and the myth that sitting on the bench for three years was better for your NFL prospects went out the window as soon as other schools could pay players over the table.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:35 pm to labamafan
quote:Ultimately, it will hurt any school without a massive and fairly wealthy alumni base that cares about football.
Why just the sec?
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:35 pm to collegefootballisbroken
It'll be nice when people start to understand the difference between talent and elite players.
These teams have talent. You can see talent all the time with flashes here and there. Take a kid like Williams at Alabama, that kids has tons of talent.
Is he elite? I don't think so, not yet anyway. Talent != Elite.
Julio Jone was elite. Because he had the talent AND he had an extreme work ethic to further develop that talent. That is what makes an elite player. Talent + development.
Alabama was not just full of talent, it was full of elite players. Now it's just full of talent.
And that is the stated reason why Saban left. Players no longer cared about development, they only cared about getting paid for their current talent.
It showed over the past 3 years too.
It's not a new concept, Bear preached it. Saban preached it. Every good coach preached it. But now the "front office" is basically a bunch of boosters.
These teams have talent. You can see talent all the time with flashes here and there. Take a kid like Williams at Alabama, that kids has tons of talent.
Is he elite? I don't think so, not yet anyway. Talent != Elite.
Julio Jone was elite. Because he had the talent AND he had an extreme work ethic to further develop that talent. That is what makes an elite player. Talent + development.
Alabama was not just full of talent, it was full of elite players. Now it's just full of talent.
And that is the stated reason why Saban left. Players no longer cared about development, they only cared about getting paid for their current talent.
It showed over the past 3 years too.
It's not a new concept, Bear preached it. Saban preached it. Every good coach preached it. But now the "front office" is basically a bunch of boosters.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:36 pm to AUTubaHerd
tbf I don't like the current system where every player is on the equivalent of a one-year contract and every off-season becomes a new free agency period for every single player in college football.
The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of player agency, but I think it'll even back out eventually. The problem isn't that players are getting paid, though.
The pendulum has swung too far in the direction of player agency, but I think it'll even back out eventually. The problem isn't that players are getting paid, though.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:37 pm to collegefootballisbroken
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he players aren’t as hungry and are more focused on what they can get by attending Alabama, UGA, Texas, etc…
I think what NIL and portal have done is leveled the talent. 10 years ago, the top HS talent from Texas to Florida and Georgia along with Louisiana, Alabama, MS, etc., played in the SEC, teams were 2 deep with legitimate Power 5/4 players. As Nick Saban said, with NIL and portal, you have your 1st team and what is really your 3rd team as your 2nd team all went into the portal and are playing somewhere else.
BIG10 TV deals also, in my view, need to be factored in. $60 Million per team. When Texas and OU came in, I don't think Sankey leveraged those brands and got the SEC per team payout as high as it could be.
With NIL, Portal and money BIG10 schools are getting players today can get NIL deals and use portal, go to BIG10 school and the parents/grandparents of those players now can easily with NIL $ fly out on Friday to the game to see the player play [stay in a very reasonable Hampton Inn type place] , see the game and fly back Sunday.
Look at Junkins from Ohio State, Alabama HS player, went to Ole Miss, now staring for Ohio State. Caleb Downs, Georgia HS player, went to Bama, staring for Ohio State. I heard Saban say on Pat MacFee's show today one of the smartest DB's he ever coached saying Downs would yell at the DC to get play call in on time so he could look at formation and motions and make the calls on the field to adjust on his own.
BIG10 with NIL and portal is going to be a problem, SEC fans all of us need to get use to it.
This post was edited on 1/4/25 at 11:38 am
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:37 pm to collegefootballisbroken
Ohio State looked hungry
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:41 pm to collegefootballisbroken
quote:One of those is not like the others.
The players aren’t as hungry and are more focused on what they can get by attending Alabama, UGA, Texas, etc…
They are not mutually exclusive.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:43 pm to 3down10
quote:Absolutely nailed it. That's true beyond athletics, too. I see it with students saying they are "A" students or claiming that they deserve a grade because they "worked hard."
3down10
On the other hand, if you're 17 or 18 and someone's willing to pay them a million for your "talent" there's a very high likelihood of them believing they have arrived and don't need to do all that stuff coach says. Teenagers know everything, you know.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:43 pm to collegefootballisbroken
What's so hard to understand about the whole SEC just isn't as great as it usually is.
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:44 pm to collegefootballisbroken
Sec was mid this year, but so many refused to believe it.
This Georgia team is one of the worst sec champions I can remember.
This Georgia team is one of the worst sec champions I can remember.
This post was edited on 1/2/25 at 5:46 pm
Posted on 1/2/25 at 5:45 pm to collegefootballisbroken
bullshite take. Pure bullshite. If you take your SEC blinders off you'll see the sport has never been better, talent is spreading around the country, and coaching is improving (everywhere but the SEC it seems).
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