2025 College Football Chatter

Which ultimately comes back to being competitive. If they arent then you arent going to get ratings going forward.
 
Rev said:
Which ultimately comes back to being competitive. If they arent then you arent going to get ratings going forward.
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Also, even though teams like OU, TENN, Bama, etc. have been blown out in the past, the difference is going into those games people were expecting competitive contests.

Whereas with the games involving JMU and Tulane people immediately expect those games to be four score blowouts. So there's no buzz about those matchups and people make plans to do other things while those games are being played.
 
UNC/Belichick hiring Bobby Petrino as OC.

He was the best of the options I was hearing about (of which Chip Kelly and a bunch of nepotism no-names were on the list as well).

Petrino has a record of success in the ACC and SEC. I'll cross my fingers and hope.
 
Yeah, he's good. Just keep him off the motorcycles.
 
Letter-to-editor in yesterday's WSJ:

Totally lost interest.
College football used to be a sport where a student at the school played for 4 years before graduating. Now, it's just a farm team for the NFL, with many students transferring multiple times in their "career" and often only staying for 1 year at each school.
So, who really cares anymore? It's no longer "my school vs. your school" it's "my paid athletes against yours," for this year, only. This year's star may be playing against his team of last year or his future team next year.
Sounds like the NLF to me (or the NBA).
And, perhaps more accurately, it's really just donors who pay for athletes to pretend they are students and to attend (for a year) a particular school.
So, big deal. Who really cares about "college" sports anyone? Not me. I'm out....Don't care.
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Genghis Khan said:
He's not wrong for the most part, but honestly it's been mostly a farm system for the NFL for many decades. The best players have long left early and have been paid under the table.
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True, but it's way more mercenary today due to the portal. I mean, the Badgers just lost their punter. Their punter! :doh I still laugh when they talk about the big jocks not going to class. Hell, they hardly went in high school.
 
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bbgun said:
True, but it's way more mercenary today due to the portal. I mean, the Badgers just lost their punter. Their punter! :doh I still laugh when they talk about the big jocks not going to class. Hell, they hardly went in high school.
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Was "in" a class with RB Bam Morris at Tech. He showed up the first and last days of the class. That's it.
 
Simpleton said:
Been saying this for a year or two, once people realize that college football is nothing but a shittier version of the NFL I think people will start tuning out a bit.
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And now the non-playoff bowls suck because the better players drop out.
 
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