For me NIL and transfer portal have both ruined the feel of college football overall , I think it's fair that they both exist but I think both need to be much more limited than they are .
Players who get big NIL money but decide to skip their team's Bowl Game should have to give part of their NIL money back. That NIL money is for a complete season.
All players should be paid. Players should sign contracts. Conference realignment is what has ruined college football. I no longer watch bowl games, not even the championship games. College football on New Year’s Eve? I have better things to do, and nothing to do on New Years Day. I have no stomach to watch Alabama vs Ohio St. Oregon and their Nike money will be tough to beat. Texas and Texas A&M have boatloads of money. How do you have even competition. I am tired of seeing the same teams. The SEC signed 13 of the top 25 classes. The PAC 12 conference is dead for crying out loud. The Rose Bowl has no connections. Tradition is dead, and my viewership is 5% of what it used to be.
I do like how you pointed out that there are players that we like and will miss. Casey Thompson, Logan Smothers, and now Chubba Purdy are examples. Some earlier ones I can think of are Adrian Martinez, Luke McCaffrey, and JD Spielman. But you get the point, I wish them all well.
Today FSU was playing in the Orange Bowl and 1/3 of their starting lineup had declared for the NFL or the transfer portal. They did not say what the Georgia team was doing. The Missouri-OSU game was a disgrace. OSU lost their QB to the draft and the offensive line looked like a bunch of 150 lb high school kids. While the portal and NIL might be good for the players, it has destroyed the bowl games.
I used to like college football because they played for the love of the game, it was pure. Now its what are you going to do for me? How much money can I make. If you hurt my feelings I'm transferring out. Its hard to get used to.
So schools getting free labor off of kids while simultaneously making millions of dollars off of them was much better?? Also it was the same then as it is now, they played to have there education paid for, as well as an opportunity to try for the NFL. Nobody was selflessly playing football back then and people who play football now still play because they love the game. It needs more regulation and rules to prevent abuse but i think its a great thing
In the Beginning...Alumni funded college teams, and colleges used rivalries to generate money. Today, the media pay for college teams, and alumni have become chump change.
good video, great points. There needs to be more control without allowing corruption, obviously, or mismanagement, AKA the NCAA. But yeah we're in this strange limbo space between college sports and professional sport, where nothing has a contract which protects the players and are desperately needed, imho.
Greed from all sides has ruined college football. I’m just happy I started going to Memorial Stadium in 1970. It seems that an education has been so devalued. I realize the likes of Ferigamo and Hipp were transfers back in the day. I have found myself gravitating to 1AA to watch a more pure game. I think if a player gets paid to play, they should forgo the scholarship. Then they should be able to transfer whenever. But that’s me.
Thanks for the insight and yep I don’t like change. Definitely need transparency and better regulations to help get there and to limit distractions during the season. Arizona lost something like $240 million in athletics department. It’s a different time.
Asking a young adult to put their mind and body on the line for “the love of the game” is a pipe dream. While most do love football let’s be real here- for many of them it’s their best shot at getting an education they may have otherwise not been able to afford- and that’s all without mentioning that the top talent is there to get a shot at *gasp* making money in the NFL. Why to people want to gripe about people getting paid to go to work? You took an unpaid internship? That’s on you. You worked for free back in the day? Also on you. Stack the amount of money being made off of the players by their universities, giving them a piece of the pie is the most obvious way forward.
Yep, you're right. Good luck taking your girlfriend out to dinner and a movie on a wallet full of "love of the game". No one that preaches "for the love of the game" ever turned down a pay raise.
I'm an old guy--a fair bit older than you--and I don't believe anyone hates change. I hate some changes, and as a "get off my lawn!" type I hate a lot of changes that younger people don't hate, but I don't hate change. If my income doubles, that's a change, and I don't hate it. If my health improves, that's a change and I don't hate it. If football ticket prices drop by 50 percent, that's a change and I don't hate it. If you move my rice bowl I might hate that, but I don't hate change. I actually don't care much for football, but my wife follows college football, and I sometimes help her watch a game when there is no good bicycle ride to be had. I've been binge-watching your history videos, though, because they are fascinating. I'm finally learning some of the history of early football that I had wondered about ever since I was maybe 10-12 years old and occasionally read novels from the early 20th century in which college football played a big part. I have no recollection of what novels those were; and nobody else I know of read such things. I am also interested in history and in the ongoing cultural change in many arenas, including sports. Your UA-cam channels are great.
Thank you! I have created a new channel focused on college football history. There are more history videos available over there. youtube.com/@hardcorecollegefootballhistory
The ability to transfer is good. Actually using it, particularly more than once, probably is not a positive for most student athletes. Playing a sport at the college level is a job. Why would someone dictate you can't leave your job?
Totally the athletes can have their own lives and do what's best for them. But as a result I don't feel a lot of allegiance for the players or the teams. If the players have no loyalty for their schools, they should expect none from the fans. And as a result, I think the abundant use of the transfer portal is a bad thing. One of the best sports for fan loyalty are the Irish sports (Hurling (kind of lacrosseish) and Gaelic Football). Athletes aren't paid a thing, and can only play for the country where they were born. Unnegotiable. So you cheer on your county and if you want to get better, you start from the younger kids up. All the money made goes to put on the games, then to support youth athletics. And 80,000 people show up in Dublin to see the final. I don't think we could ever get to that level of loyalty and love of the game, but taking the money and hype out of American Sports would be a good thing. The day of the Super Bowl, I'll be watching International Rugby instead.
College football was ruined many years ago. It has become a tool for the television networks to make money and a place where coaches became wealthy at the players expense. Once the NCAA became the 'daddy" of college football the major universities waited for their pay day and allowance. The day when players at universities were students first and participated in sports is long gone. This was the beginning of the end for college football. Now, with that said, there is still good college football programs where student play sports but it isn't the top tier whore universities but the D1 and lower schools where you will still find the students and the Boola-boola event. NIL and the portal evens the money field for the athletes and I personally believe although it ruins the college football scene is fair and essentially allows once athletes in servitude become equals. The NFL is also the culprit, they get a free minor league without spending anything. That brings up another issue, the NFL draft. Who allows any cooperation to claim rights on any human being? One day soon you may see the players and agents fight this next.
College football needs to separate from the rest of college sports. The top level of college football needs a commissioner looking out of the whole sport. The players need to be employees, they need to be collectively bargained with. Then contracts can be made and the transfer portal limited, tampering eliminated and nil becomes an after thought. College football needs to follow the NFL model to save itself.
No, the un-loyal coaches that jet away in search of a bigger money-bag, leaving their teams and fans stunned, they pissed in the soup first. Coach salaries and buyouts had been going through the roof as TV deals, shoe deals, soft drink deals, licensed mech dealt etc etc etc brought in huge piles of money to P5. NIL and the portal merely left those coaches (and schools) feeling how it was to get stabbed in the back, the same way those coaches had been shanking their fans and teams for decades. Loyalty is a two-way street. If you don't give it and earn it, you can't expect to get it. They know where the cry towel is, since they drove many others to it previously. I say this as Husker fan that remembers Devaney fleeing in the night from Laramie to Lincoln for his moneybag decades ago.
College fans don't care about Right & Wrong. They only care about what directly affects THEIR school. If they're getting good transfers they Love it. If they're losing good players they HATE it.
Everyone, including children and owners of animals, who's NILs or voices are used in advertising or marketing must be paid. Why should student athletes do it without compensation? They're automatically part of the branding and marketing of the school. Not just in obvious ways like being on broadcasted games or merchandise, they do things like community service, autograph signings, etc.. People say they shouldn't be paid because they have scholarships. A) Not all of them do. B) Student athletes can't have jobs while their sport is active. They don't have time. C) The amount of money they earn schools is astronomical. I'm surprised it wasn't a legal issue when they weren't getting paid. They were earning the school money for free and were prevented from earning money for themselves while doing it.
I think of the Pereto distribution. NFL has regulation on the way schools draft to prevent a monopoly forming in the sport which would be a very bad thing. College football doesn't have this protection and I think NIL is a step in the right direction. We still need more regulation to prevent abuse but I believe its for the best. Its always the haves vs the have-nots. Now more school will have a chance to compete because the talent pool will be more evenly distributed. Unfortunately I don't think this will work for 133 schools , I'm not even sure half that amount of schools will be able to do that,, I wouldn't be surprised if two super conferences form and everyone else gets demoted to fcs caliber school or something......im not really sure here
Merry Christmas to filthy animals everywhere! I imagine at some point there will be some regulatory structure for NIL so there is consistency nationally rather than the patchwork now. NIL kinda makes the scholarship limit pointless.
I feel like the potential for teams to be composed of mercenaries is elevated without some oversight. We’ll have Dodgers and Yankees type teams, the best that money can buy.
Yeah, the old days were better, when boosters paid the best players under the table and gave them no-show or no -work jobs, got their parents no-show and no-work jobs, yeah way better.
Initially I hated it but that’s just because it was different. Now I look at it like everything else, there is good and bad to it but it’s now needed all of a sudden. Funny how life works.
Surely Nebraska can afford to buy some good players. The boosters don't like it but they have more money than they know what to do with most of the time.
If Scott Frost was a good coach, they wouldn't have left. Every team deals with the transfer portal. Good coaches have a high retention rate, bad ones don't. Considering our vast NIL resources, seeing so many players leave despite the money they could make here gave us a clear indication that something was very wrong with the culture and the coaching.
Let the universities take over. Trim the roster to say 110 players. Get rid of traditional scholarships. Use the tv money deals to put all players on N.I.L. Scholarships with a $3000 subsistence per month.
Thinking NIL and the transfer portal have "ruined" college football is simply the latest old man take. College football has been constantly evolving for over 150 years. And it will continue to do so.
NIL has made it better in the sense that a team can now get a star player when before they had no chance. I think they need to cut down on the opportunities to transfer though because guys are just going everywhere, many times to their own detriment....many aren't even getting on a roster.
For me, the transfer portal has little positive effect for college ball as a whole. NIL is pretty much a matter of justice for players vis a vis their own identity.
For me NIL and transfer portal have both ruined the feel of college football overall , I think it's fair that they both exist but I think both need to be much more limited than they are .
Players who get big NIL money but decide to skip their team's Bowl Game should have to give part of their NIL money back. That NIL money is for a complete season.
Yup. They should be signing contracts just like pros. You break the contract you dont get paid.
All players should be paid. Players should sign contracts.
Conference realignment is what has ruined college football. I no longer watch bowl games, not even the championship games. College football on New Year’s Eve? I have better things to do, and nothing to do on New Years Day. I have no stomach to watch Alabama vs Ohio St. Oregon and their Nike money will be tough to beat. Texas and Texas A&M have boatloads of money. How do you have even competition. I am tired of seeing the same teams. The SEC signed 13 of the top 25 classes. The PAC 12 conference is dead for crying out loud. The Rose Bowl has no connections. Tradition is dead, and my viewership is 5% of what it used to be.
I do like how you pointed out that there are players that we like and will miss. Casey Thompson, Logan Smothers, and now Chubba Purdy are examples. Some earlier ones I can think of are Adrian Martinez, Luke McCaffrey, and JD Spielman. But you get the point, I wish them all well.
Today FSU was playing in the Orange Bowl and 1/3 of their starting lineup had declared for the NFL or the transfer portal. They did not say what the Georgia team was doing. The Missouri-OSU game was a disgrace. OSU lost their QB to the draft and the offensive line looked like a bunch of 150 lb high school kids. While the portal and NIL might be good for the players, it has destroyed the bowl games.
I used to like college football because they played for the love of the game, it was pure. Now its what are you going to do for me? How much money can I make. If you hurt my feelings I'm transferring out. Its hard to get used to.
So schools getting free labor off of kids while simultaneously making millions of dollars off of them was much better?? Also it was the same then as it is now, they played to have there education paid for, as well as an opportunity to try for the NFL.
Nobody was selflessly playing football back then and people who play football now still play because they love the game. It needs more regulation and rules to prevent abuse but i think its a great thing
@seanb2995 was it really free labor if they got a free education? Free housing?. Free meals? Free tutors? Exposure to nfl scouts?
In the Beginning...Alumni funded college teams, and colleges used rivalries to generate money. Today, the media pay for college teams, and alumni have become chump change.
good video, great points. There needs to be more control without allowing corruption, obviously, or mismanagement, AKA the NCAA. But yeah we're in this strange limbo space between college sports and professional sport, where nothing has a contract which protects the players and are desperately needed, imho.
It’s still shocking to me that Sims got like 3 NIL deals before he played a single game.
Greed from all sides has ruined college football. I’m just happy I started going to Memorial Stadium in 1970. It seems that an education has been so devalued. I realize the likes of Ferigamo and Hipp were transfers back in the day. I have found myself gravitating to 1AA to watch a more pure game. I think if a player gets paid to play, they should forgo the scholarship. Then they should be able to transfer whenever. But that’s me.
Thanks for the insight and yep I don’t like change. Definitely need transparency and better regulations to help get there and to limit distractions during the season.
Arizona lost something like $240 million in athletics department. It’s a different time.
The problem with college football... is college football fans...
(not transfers or NIL)
Asking a young adult to put their mind and body on the line for “the love of the game” is a pipe dream.
While most do love football let’s be real here- for many of them it’s their best shot at getting an education they may have otherwise not been able to afford- and that’s all without mentioning that the top talent is there to get a shot at *gasp* making money in the NFL. Why to people want to gripe about people getting paid to go to work?
You took an unpaid internship? That’s on you. You worked for free back in the day? Also on you.
Stack the amount of money being made off of the players by their universities, giving them a piece of the pie is the most obvious way forward.
Yep, you're right. Good luck taking your girlfriend out to dinner and a movie on a wallet full of "love of the game". No one that preaches "for the love of the game" ever turned down a pay raise.
Well said (to the both of you)!
Players are selfish today. It's not about team. It's about me,me,me.
Great video and merry x mas
I'm an old guy--a fair bit older than you--and I don't believe anyone hates change. I hate some changes, and as a "get off my lawn!" type I hate a lot of changes that younger people don't hate, but I don't hate change. If my income doubles, that's a change, and I don't hate it. If my health improves, that's a change and I don't hate it. If football ticket prices drop by 50 percent, that's a change and I don't hate it. If you move my rice bowl I might hate that, but I don't hate change.
I actually don't care much for football, but my wife follows college football, and I sometimes help her watch a game when there is no good bicycle ride to be had. I've been binge-watching your history videos, though, because they are fascinating. I'm finally learning some of the history of early football that I had wondered about ever since I was maybe 10-12 years old and occasionally read novels from the early 20th century in which college football played a big part. I have no recollection of what novels those were; and nobody else I know of read such things. I am also interested in history and in the ongoing cultural change in many arenas, including sports. Your UA-cam channels are great.
Thank you!
I have created a new channel focused on college football history. There are more history videos available over there.
youtube.com/@hardcorecollegefootballhistory
The ability to transfer is good. Actually using it, particularly more than once, probably is not a positive for most student athletes. Playing a sport at the college level is a job. Why would someone dictate you can't leave your job?
YES!!!
So what does a scholarship mean or what is its value ?
YES!! Everything that made College football great has been destroyed, NO MORE CLASSIC games! Realignment SUCKS!!
Totally the athletes can have their own lives and do what's best for them. But as a result I don't feel a lot of allegiance for the players or the teams. If the players have no loyalty for their schools, they should expect none from the fans. And as a result, I think the abundant use of the transfer portal is a bad thing.
One of the best sports for fan loyalty are the Irish sports (Hurling (kind of lacrosseish) and Gaelic Football). Athletes aren't paid a thing, and can only play for the country where they were born. Unnegotiable. So you cheer on your county and if you want to get better, you start from the younger kids up. All the money made goes to put on the games, then to support youth athletics. And 80,000 people show up in Dublin to see the final. I don't think we could ever get to that level of loyalty and love of the game, but taking the money and hype out of American Sports would be a good thing. The day of the Super Bowl, I'll be watching International Rugby instead.
Re-alignment has killed college football.
College football was ruined many years ago. It has become a tool for the television networks to make money and a place where coaches became wealthy at the players expense. Once the NCAA became the 'daddy" of college football the major universities waited for their pay day and allowance. The day when players at universities were students first and participated in sports is long gone. This was the beginning of the end for college football. Now, with that said, there is still good college football programs where student play sports but it isn't the top tier whore universities but the D1 and lower schools where you will still find the students and the Boola-boola event. NIL and the portal evens the money field for the athletes and I personally believe although it ruins the college football scene is fair and essentially allows once athletes in servitude become equals. The NFL is also the culprit, they get a free minor league without spending anything. That brings up another issue, the NFL draft. Who allows any cooperation to claim rights on any human being? One day soon you may see the players and agents fight this next.
College football needs to separate from the rest of college sports. The top level of college football needs a commissioner looking out of the whole sport. The players need to be employees, they need to be collectively bargained with. Then contracts can be made and the transfer portal limited, tampering eliminated and nil becomes an after thought.
College football needs to follow the NFL model to save itself.
It ruins the game and the many reasons why playing sports is important for our youth.
No, the un-loyal coaches that jet away in search of a bigger money-bag, leaving their teams and fans stunned, they pissed in the soup first. Coach salaries and buyouts had been going through the roof as TV deals, shoe deals, soft drink deals, licensed mech dealt etc etc etc brought in huge piles of money to P5.
NIL and the portal merely left those coaches (and schools) feeling how it was to get stabbed in the back, the same way those coaches had been shanking their fans and teams for decades. Loyalty is a two-way street. If you don't give it and earn it, you can't expect to get it. They know where the cry towel is, since they drove many others to it previously. I say this as Husker fan that remembers Devaney fleeing in the night from Laramie to Lincoln for his moneybag decades ago.
College fans don't care about Right & Wrong. They only care about what directly affects THEIR school. If they're getting good transfers they Love it. If they're losing good players they HATE it.
If they put a cap on it then no if not then yes
Yep
YES!
College Football was ruined LONG BEFORE the transfer portal and NIL.
Everyone, including children and owners of animals, who's NILs or voices are used in advertising or marketing must be paid. Why should student athletes do it without compensation? They're automatically part of the branding and marketing of the school. Not just in obvious ways like being on broadcasted games or merchandise, they do things like community service, autograph signings, etc..
People say they shouldn't be paid because they have scholarships. A) Not all of them do. B) Student athletes can't have jobs while their sport is active. They don't have time. C) The amount of money they earn schools is astronomical. I'm surprised it wasn't a legal issue when they weren't getting paid. They were earning the school money for free and were prevented from earning money for themselves while doing it.
It is a semi-pro league now.
I think of the Pereto distribution. NFL has regulation on the way schools draft to prevent a monopoly forming in the sport which would be a very bad thing. College football doesn't have this protection and I think NIL is a step in the right direction. We still need more regulation to prevent abuse but I believe its for the best. Its always the haves vs the have-nots.
Now more school will have a chance to compete because the talent pool will be more evenly distributed. Unfortunately I don't think this will work for 133 schools , I'm not even sure half that amount of schools will be able to do that,,
I wouldn't be surprised if two super conferences form and everyone else gets demoted to fcs caliber school or something......im not really sure here
Yes
Soon you will have offer sheets like the NBA does .If a team can't match the monetary offer that a free agent player has been given then he leaves .
YES
Merry Christmas to filthy animals everywhere! I imagine at some point there will be some regulatory structure for NIL so there is consistency nationally rather than the patchwork now.
NIL kinda makes the scholarship limit pointless.
I feel like the potential for teams to be composed of mercenaries is elevated without some oversight. We’ll have Dodgers and Yankees type teams, the best that money can buy.
Yeah, the old days were better, when boosters paid the best players under the table and gave them no-show or no -work jobs, got their parents no-show and no-work jobs, yeah way better.
@@dashcammer4322 Those days also consisted of single transfer limits, too.
Quick answer: yes
Absolutely Bad affect on all college sports !
Initially I hated it but that’s just because it was different. Now I look at it like everything else, there is good and bad to it but it’s now needed all of a sudden. Funny how life works.
Joh; you always make me laugh! Gone to the Dark Side!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha
Surely Nebraska can afford to buy some good players. The boosters don't like it but they have more money than they know what to do with most of the time.
What I don't like are paying these players without them even playing.
With all the cheating and this, I am done with college football.
It is evident that the Transfer Portal ruined the Scott Frost Era. He brought in great players and most were gone within the 1st or 2nd year.
If Scott Frost was a good coach, they wouldn't have left. Every team deals with the transfer portal. Good coaches have a high retention rate, bad ones don't. Considering our vast NIL resources, seeing so many players leave despite the money they could make here gave us a clear indication that something was very wrong with the culture and the coaching.
Everyone loves the NIL and transfer portal when your a giant school who benefits from it lol.
Let the universities take over. Trim the roster to say 110 players. Get rid of traditional scholarships. Use the tv money deals to put all players on N.I.L. Scholarships with a $3000 subsistence per month.
Then we'd go back to the stars getting under-the-table money, no-show jobs, etc from boosters just like the old days.
Players sharing in TV revenue wouldn't be NIL. They would be employees or have some other legal standing. I'm all for it.
Thinking NIL and the transfer portal have "ruined" college football is simply the latest old man take. College football has been constantly evolving for over 150 years. And it will continue to do so.
"Get off my lawn!"
Negative ×2
It's much better for the athlete and for the school looking to improve.
Really great analysis. Nebraska will weather the coming storm. Boomer.
Shhh, the adults are talking kiddo 🤫
NIL has made it better in the sense that a team can now get a star player when before they had no chance. I think they need to cut down on the opportunities to transfer though because guys are just going everywhere, many times to their own detriment....many aren't even getting on a roster.
don't agree on either one of them.
For me, the transfer portal has little positive effect for college ball as a whole.
NIL is pretty much a matter of justice for players vis a vis their own identity.
N.I.L. Not NIL
Wow. Those results to your poll are shocking. College football is not the same. Not great.
Yes
YES!