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Fans, especially season ticket holders, are the ones who get the shaft. But who cares about them when the almighty dollar is at play?? Good grief, just another black eye for the new world of college football.

that’s the problem…ncaa is toothless. By not enacting some common sense rules for players 25 years ago (get compensated for video games, jersey sales, autograph shows) they let it get to legislation which they were always going to lose. Now the toothpaste is out of the tube and any rule they want to make is just going to get challenged in court.

I think the only option now is for the p4 schools to break away, form their own thing and set their own rules apart from the ncaa.

What an outstanding example of persistence and internal fortitude, and not to mention, one awesome guard. Unfortunately we won't see this type of story much longer with transfers and such, but I'm sure glad he is at Georgia. I know I was borderline depressed when he left the game with an injury. Not only because we have had so many, but because he is the bell cow and with him out, it just seemed like it would all crumble a bit. Awesome to see him come back and play hard. Hoping he gets some rest and healing but nothing but respect and appreciation for Mr. Morris. Go DAWGs!

Part of watching College football is the either homefield advantage and pomp and circumstance or seeing the other teams deal. It's what make up the fabric of it. Take that away and you just kill College fooball IMHO. I already don't watch NFL games fron Germany or Dublin. You've robbed ticket holders of a home game potentially. At some point you can't change everything for a dollar. Stop being ladies of the night.

The slippery slope just gets slicker.

We are watching the corporate money takeover of college football. Communities and tradition can be cast by the wayside for more dollars. Everything has a price right? We can see the dismantling step by step. Essentially free agency and put the players on payroll. After they are developed and collect their NIL money, they can just off to the next higher bidder. Wash, rinse, repeat.

The money driving all of this does not care about your community, the tradition of schools, nor the average fan. It is all about ROI, just as any corporate entity would see it. They are savvy. Once they get the teams to agree to and start playing the game on the terms of those that control the money, the golden handcuffs are on. It is a short trip to completely dismantle the sport as we knew it and and simply focus on maximal revenue generation to exclusion of the things that made college football unique.

First we pay the players, sometimes insanely high amounts. Then we allow relatively unencumbered transfers, then we say having the games on campus is really not important…because more money. Some players only see the short term money, and it impacts their success going forward (see KS previous comments re likely draft pics not reaching their potential). This recipe seems to benefit primarily a relatively small group.

I stopped watching the NFL years ago. The current college football model is morphing into a close facsimile of that NFL model. It becomes less enjoyable with each passing step of the deconstruction. People seem to willing to go along with the deconstruction as long as dollars keep coming. What happens when the "product" is gone, no longer resembling what drove all this change or "progress" in the first place?

This is a slippery slope. The college football we all loved is rapidly deteriorating to pay to play eliminating the essence of non professional sports :(