I write this because I am beside myself of where we are and how we ended up here. I have been against the CFP from the beginning and everything I said then is coming true now.
I understand the need for the almighty dollar and I get how that steers programs one way or another but I have never been a fan of the CFP and now I feel like its cancer has finally spread so far into a sport that I absolutely love that it will be changed forever and I will never wake up on a Saturday morning or get excited for a bowl game as I did up to 2014 when this CFP fiasco started.
I would like someone to convince me now that this was a great plan. Tell me how this advances the college experience for those of us who attended these schools years ago or for our kids who are coming up now?
Let’s say we played Clemson in the Orange Bowl last year and had the same result as 2012 would it have mattered as much? I doubt it. It would be fun to talk about between our Clemson Friends but national impact? Probably none because everyone really only cares about the 4 teams in the playoff. They would say that the ACC was down, and Clemson was the number 2 team or not good enough to get in the CFP, so what do you expect, or some BS reason like that. Furthermore because of the CFP, if you are honest with yourself, every other bowl game just doesn’t matter. I actually had to google who won the orange bowl last year as I wrote this….Do you remember??
You can google the ratings and its obvious. The only reason for expanding the CFP is bring in viewers for more bowls due to the loss of viewership from the existing bowls around the CFP after its genesis. I bet this has more to do with those Bowls saying hey we are losing money we need to be included so do something. Or there is some sort of guaranteed payout and they are not making what they thought so they have to do something to increase media value. Either way they are not going to admit they were wrong.
Maybe we should all call and write our state houses to force whoever is behind the curtain to have the universities opt out or boycott the CFP and bring college football back to its roots when it was fun, inclusive, and awesome. Maybe I am alone here so I’ll just be the odd man out and just go fishing and check scores on the phone and kinda not care. That is kinda happening now. I have ESPN+ for one reason and that is to watch basketball where at least that is staying somewhat the same. IF it starts to become the NBA then whatever.
This new round of realignment, CFP expansion and NIL is going to create a semi-pro league. With a select group of schools. If they break from the NCAA what’s stopping them from removing the scholarship cap? Then what??? Does WVU become a farm league for whatever the super conference calls themselves? Even if we are in the club do we really have the resources to compete?
The elephant in the room is this has been tried before. XFL, Semi pro football etc. Nobody cares… Maybe the thought is all these other leagues were built on players that were not NFL caliber players. So, it will work if we start at the college level. Because people love their college teams etc.
I think once you take away the Coast to Coast part of college Football and only have that extended to an exclusive nobody is going to watch other than those that are tied to those specific schools. We all love football but are you really going to be moving heaven and earth to see a game that has zero impact on your actual team? The BCS gave every college team that. What one team did in one conference could affect another team in another conference. You could watch a game that had no relevance at any other time but for that one game if they lost/won and this team over here lost/won it was the difference of us going to the orange bowl or liberty bowl. That is what made it great. I MISS those days. That is why we watched games with two teams not named WVU.
This new shakeup or model is similar to a divorce and nobody gets handed divorce papers then tries to live vicariously through their ex to be happy. I for one will not be watching whatever this turns out to be if we are left out. And If we are lucky enough to be invited to stay in the club I probably will watch but still never as avid as I was prior to 2014.
The BCS had its flaws but at least it was fun. It didn’t make every bowl game not the BCS irrelevant.
It didn’t destroy college football programs – which will be a result. It could even happen to us in the end.
It didn’t ruin college football.
Let the Trolling begin……..
I understand the need for the almighty dollar and I get how that steers programs one way or another but I have never been a fan of the CFP and now I feel like its cancer has finally spread so far into a sport that I absolutely love that it will be changed forever and I will never wake up on a Saturday morning or get excited for a bowl game as I did up to 2014 when this CFP fiasco started.
I would like someone to convince me now that this was a great plan. Tell me how this advances the college experience for those of us who attended these schools years ago or for our kids who are coming up now?
Let’s say we played Clemson in the Orange Bowl last year and had the same result as 2012 would it have mattered as much? I doubt it. It would be fun to talk about between our Clemson Friends but national impact? Probably none because everyone really only cares about the 4 teams in the playoff. They would say that the ACC was down, and Clemson was the number 2 team or not good enough to get in the CFP, so what do you expect, or some BS reason like that. Furthermore because of the CFP, if you are honest with yourself, every other bowl game just doesn’t matter. I actually had to google who won the orange bowl last year as I wrote this….Do you remember??
You can google the ratings and its obvious. The only reason for expanding the CFP is bring in viewers for more bowls due to the loss of viewership from the existing bowls around the CFP after its genesis. I bet this has more to do with those Bowls saying hey we are losing money we need to be included so do something. Or there is some sort of guaranteed payout and they are not making what they thought so they have to do something to increase media value. Either way they are not going to admit they were wrong.
Maybe we should all call and write our state houses to force whoever is behind the curtain to have the universities opt out or boycott the CFP and bring college football back to its roots when it was fun, inclusive, and awesome. Maybe I am alone here so I’ll just be the odd man out and just go fishing and check scores on the phone and kinda not care. That is kinda happening now. I have ESPN+ for one reason and that is to watch basketball where at least that is staying somewhat the same. IF it starts to become the NBA then whatever.
This new round of realignment, CFP expansion and NIL is going to create a semi-pro league. With a select group of schools. If they break from the NCAA what’s stopping them from removing the scholarship cap? Then what??? Does WVU become a farm league for whatever the super conference calls themselves? Even if we are in the club do we really have the resources to compete?
The elephant in the room is this has been tried before. XFL, Semi pro football etc. Nobody cares… Maybe the thought is all these other leagues were built on players that were not NFL caliber players. So, it will work if we start at the college level. Because people love their college teams etc.
I think once you take away the Coast to Coast part of college Football and only have that extended to an exclusive nobody is going to watch other than those that are tied to those specific schools. We all love football but are you really going to be moving heaven and earth to see a game that has zero impact on your actual team? The BCS gave every college team that. What one team did in one conference could affect another team in another conference. You could watch a game that had no relevance at any other time but for that one game if they lost/won and this team over here lost/won it was the difference of us going to the orange bowl or liberty bowl. That is what made it great. I MISS those days. That is why we watched games with two teams not named WVU.
This new shakeup or model is similar to a divorce and nobody gets handed divorce papers then tries to live vicariously through their ex to be happy. I for one will not be watching whatever this turns out to be if we are left out. And If we are lucky enough to be invited to stay in the club I probably will watch but still never as avid as I was prior to 2014.
The BCS had its flaws but at least it was fun. It didn’t make every bowl game not the BCS irrelevant.
It didn’t destroy college football programs – which will be a result. It could even happen to us in the end.
It didn’t ruin college football.
Let the Trolling begin……..
