2026 College Football Chatter



Wait, what?
 
Must be fake news.

The NCAA doesn't do anything toward compliance anymore.
 
 
Chocolate Lab said:
Must be fake news.

The NCAA doesn't do anything toward compliance anymore.
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The NCAA has a hard on for coming after UNC while other schools break more serious rules all the time.

That being said I have no information about what this violation might be or whether it might be true.

Finally, yes, UNC is gonna win like three games this year and Belichick will be fired.
 
Smitty said:
The NCAA has a hard on for coming after UNC while other schools break more serious rules all the time.

That being said I have no information about what this violation might be or whether it might be true.

Finally, yes, UNC is gonna win like three games this year and Belichick will be fired.
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boozeman said:


I could see that happening.
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I mean yes but they aren't really a minor league. Not in the way you see sports like baseball with guys being drafted out of highschool, paid by their MLB team and then being brought up whenever that team thinks they are ready. I don't think you'll ever see that level of affiliation.

But salary cap and real contracts by college teams? Absolutely. In some ways college football has always been a minor league for the NFL. I mean it's where players went to develop before jumping to the NFL. The only difference is it was a minor league system where you could only stay for 4 or 5 years max and you weren't openly paid. Now that feels like it's going out the window as we see prospects playing for even longer pretty regularly and they are getting paid more than a rookie contract to do it.
 
"One time I got an A and my grandma beat me for cheating." :lol
 
boozeman said:


I could see that happening.
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That's where it's going but it'll take a big hit because nobody wants to watch a shittier NFL. There are about 8-12 teams who have the biggest fan bases who are used to being dominant, if that goes away with a salary cap that interest will wane.
 
Simpleton said:
That's where it's going but it'll take a big hit because nobody wants to watch a shittier NFL. There are about 8-12 teams who have the biggest fan bases who are used to being dominant, if that goes away with a salary cap that interest will wane.
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Eh I disagree slightly. College football has a much larger fan base that are fans because it's their school. You think people in Iowa root for the Hawkeyes because they are dominant? You think their interest will wane? Of course not. IF you live in Iowa, you have no NFL team. Your team is the college team. There is a different type of connection to college sports than you have with professional sports. In college sports it's more about a connection to a location, a school or whatever. And that's really the vast majority of the fan base. A fan base that may actually grow if more teams have legitimate ability to compete.

With that being said, if they change it into a minor league system and that connection fans feel between the team and the school sort of starts to die, it would ruin college football as we know it.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
Eh I disagree slightly. College football has a much larger fan base that are fans because it's their school. You think people in Iowa root for the Hawkeyes because they are dominant? You think their interest will wane? Of course not. IF you live in Iowa, you have no NFL team. Your team is the college team. There is a different type of connection to college sports than you have with professional sports. In college sports it's more about a connection to a location, a school or whatever. And that's really the vast majority of the fan base. A fan base that may actually grow if more teams have legitimate ability to compete.

With that being said, if they change it into a minor league system and that connection fans feel between the team and the school sort of starts to die, it would ruin college football as we know it.
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I think Iowa is a bit of a rare case with a very loyal fan base despite a team that's largely just been above average for 20 years.

It's hard for me to see a fan base like Ohio St. or Alabama being as rabid if they're going 9-3 every other year because the talent is much more evenly dispersed with a hard cap.

Basically I don't think the schools who are always top 10ish want parity, and I'm not sure there's enough interest to sustain college football if you do end up going with a 30 team super conference. I think you'd have interest dying out on both ends, at the top because legacy teams aren't as dominant, and at the bottom because college football would basically only be one big super conference.
 
Simpleton said:
I think Iowa is a bit of a rare case with a very loyal fan base despite a team that's largely just been above average for 20 years.

It's hard for me to see a fan base like Ohio St. or Alabama being as rabid if they're going 9-3 every other year because the talent is much more evenly dispersed with a hard cap.

Basically I don't think the schools who are always top 10ish want parity, and I'm not sure there's enough interest to sustain college football if you do end up going with a 30 team super conference. I think you'd have interest dying out on both ends, at the top because legacy teams aren't as dominant, and at the bottom because college football would basically only be one big super conference.
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I mean you're really talking about 6 teams out of what, 138? You might see a lower fan base for Ohio State or Alabama of fans that don't ever go to a game, didn't go to school there and aren't from the area. But ultimately most of the fans will stick in my opinion. Plus those school would still have the advantage of picking the top coaches, having the top facilities and the best scouts. So they would still likely rise to the top.

Now the logistics of a salary cap will probably never make it possible. School 138 would never have the money to pay what school #1 would without massive revenue sharing that these teams would never do. And you'd have to get the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, ACC and everyone on the same page. Which would also be problematic because you can't have a salary cap in the SEC/Big 10 but then compete against a school in the Big 12 who has no salary cap. So realistically I don't think a cap is going to happen.

I do think changes need to be made. This letting guys play for 6+ years, jump schools every year, back out of deals for money is hurting the sport. Fans want to know their players, they want to root for the guy they were excited to sign on recruiting day. And the fact that a kid can jump around every year for a big payday is ruining it.
 
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