After much debate, I did renew my season tickets this year. I am at the point from where I now live, I just can't make the 13 hour gameday experience much longer, not to mention does my 13 hour gameday experience coincide with an 11:00 am kickoff or a 7:30 pm kickoff?
I only watch the NFL when my team is playing and do see what players they drafted. That is about it. Just like 'recruiting' is a big nothing-burger to me now. The NIL and transfer portal will just cement my decision. I still like the game of football and enjoy the atmosphere of a college stadium, but I will pick out a game or two, early in the season while the weather is still good, and after I find out the kickoff time. The rest I will watch on TV, like I do the NFL games I watch.
I really think this season will be it for me (even though we have Penn St coming in in 2026).
You sir are full of shit....I guess you want to overlook the $25k Chip Kelly bought a player with that he was caught on...or the fact that the Black Mamba came home from Oregon and jumped ship from USC as he unloaded his bbaggage of Oregon shet including a contract with Nike....
Saw,, II despise NIL; it has destroyed CFB. Oregon was the tip of that venomous spear; congratulations! If you don't believe in the designated hitter rule, and the other team is using it it's just stupid not to. Your snark is just stupid as well.
NIL is fair—it’s the American way. If someone wants to pay these athletes, so be it. However, it hurts USC since our historic recruiting advantages don’t carry the same weight anymore.
What’s most frustrating, though, are the new transfer rules. The NCAA could rein it in by reinstating the one-year sit-out policy.
NIL in theory is fine, but it's current implementation isn't NIL; It's pay for play, wihich is comething different.
Look, the players are shouldering the labor of a multibillion dollar industry. They deserve their cut and should have been getting their cut going back to at least the 80s when the dollars for the nextworks, coaches and schools started to explode.
I hate NIL as it exists today along with the Portal the way it exists today. I believe every scholarship FB player should receive a small salary which should be the same across every college football program in the Power 4 and Independents and I also think once a player signs an LOI it should be binding for the period the scholarship covers for both the player and the school. As far as the Portal ...I hate it in it's current configuration. Anyone wants to transfer should be forced to sit out a season and it should only be allowed for a kid who no longer has a scholarship at the school he attends or has a change in cosching and such exceptions
Real college football fans despise NIL. Fans haven’t changed, it’s the game that has changed. It still sucks imo. The game is not what it used to be. Several examples given here over the last year.
Did USC have any other choice? Kids want to get paid. You make a competitive offer or move to the mountain west. It’s that simple.
Saw, how do you feel about NIL? If you had a choice to kill or continue on with it, which would you choose?
Not a fan of NIL myself and where it’s gone. It’s certainly not sustainable. That said, it’s better than the way it was Or at least it is for a school like Oregon.
Don’t see how there won’t always be inequality in college football. Oregon was on the shitty side of that that for decades so it’s hard as a fan or Oregon to hate things the way they are.
The mountain west might be a good choice, the current FB world sucks like the pros. The positive is my season tickets will be 50 yard like instead of the end zone. I can see the song girls much better. The real reason for attending, don't tell my wife.
Oregon was never on the shetty side of it. They had looser academics and as proven by hard records were paying for players long beffore NIL or the portal. Chip kelly got caught...simple truths..
It's novel. We won titles in the 1920's, 30's, 60's, 70's and 00's. They were all distinct eras but echoed each other at least. We'll see what we can do with this new style.
It is stupid and needs to go away. If there is that much need and fan support for a developmental NFL league, then let them do it. These players don't want to go to college, but they have to. BUT, this is the way of the world now, so until that D League is a realty, gotta play the hand you are dealt.
After much debate, I did renew my season tickets this year. I am at the point from where I now live, I just can't make the 13 hour gameday experience much longer, not to mention does my 13 hour gameday experience coincide with an 11:00 am kickoff or a 7:30 pm kickoff?
I only watch the NFL when my team is playing and do see what players they drafted. That is about it. Just like 'recruiting' is a big nothing-burger to me now. The NIL and transfer portal will just cement my decision. I still like the game of football and enjoy the atmosphere of a college stadium, but I will pick out a game or two, early in the season while the weather is still good, and after I find out the kickoff time. The rest I will watch on TV, like I do the NFL games I watch.
I really think this season will be it for me (even though we have Penn St coming in in 2026).
College football should be played by real college students.
The nfl can find it’s own minor league.
And nil should actually be name image and likeness .
If I were king. sc
For many of these kids it is he only job they will have before they go to jail. a definite positive for some.
No. It sucks it has to be this way.
But Oregon and Texas A&M set the precedent.
So here we are….
The portal, NFL. and NIL combine to ruin college football
Nil is just what the bluebloods got away with illegally back in the day. Texas, Ala, SC, Oklahoma, Nebraska .
Great question, Saw.
Adapt or die. Trojans are beginning to adapt. Some rather reluctantly, it seems by many of the responses below.
I don't like NIL personally despite how it may benefit our quacks currently, but it's what we have to deal with now, for better or worse.
Definitely the portal needs to be changed, though. That's a given.
Saw,, II despise NIL; it has destroyed CFB. Oregon was the tip of that venomous spear; congratulations! If you don't believe in the designated hitter rule, and the other team is using it it's just stupid not to. Your snark is just stupid as well.
NIL is fair—it’s the American way. If someone wants to pay these athletes, so be it. However, it hurts USC since our historic recruiting advantages don’t carry the same weight anymore.
What’s most frustrating, though, are the new transfer rules. The NCAA could rein it in by reinstating the one-year sit-out policy.
NIL in theory is fine, but it's current implementation isn't NIL; It's pay for play, wihich is comething different.
Look, the players are shouldering the labor of a multibillion dollar industry. They deserve their cut and should have been getting their cut going back to at least the 80s when the dollars for the nextworks, coaches and schools started to explode.
I hate NIL as it exists today along with the Portal the way it exists today. I believe every scholarship FB player should receive a small salary which should be the same across every college football program in the Power 4 and Independents and I also think once a player signs an LOI it should be binding for the period the scholarship covers for both the player and the school. As far as the Portal ...I hate it in it's current configuration. Anyone wants to transfer should be forced to sit out a season and it should only be allowed for a kid who no longer has a scholarship at the school he attends or has a change in cosching and such exceptions
Hate it. It’s no longer amateur athletics.
Who here has changed their tone? Any names?
Real college football fans despise NIL. Fans haven’t changed, it’s the game that has changed. It still sucks imo. The game is not what it used to be. Several examples given here over the last year.
Did USC have any other choice? Kids want to get paid. You make a competitive offer or move to the mountain west. It’s that simple.
Saw, how do you feel about NIL? If you had a choice to kill or continue on with it, which would you choose?
It's novel. We won titles in the 1920's, 30's, 60's, 70's and 00's. They were all distinct eras but echoed each other at least. We'll see what we can do with this new style.
It is stupid and needs to go away. If there is that much need and fan support for a developmental NFL league, then let them do it. These players don't want to go to college, but they have to. BUT, this is the way of the world now, so until that D League is a realty, gotta play the hand you are dealt.