Anybody just lost interest in todays College football

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volswitten1 said:
The whole reason I didn't watch the NFL is now in college athletics. But this 10x worse everyone's a free agent every year it's going to be hard to create team chemistry. I believe if they don't get this figured out. The players development and education is going to suffer.
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I think education is out the window now except for a few that realize the worth of having a diploma with a real degree... not liberal tangerine art degree, etc. "Yeah Jim, he's studying liberal tangerine art." - He'll go far in life with that degree Matt!"
 
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Mid Tenn Vol said:
I feel like with NIL and all the changes i find myself just not having as much interest in it. Depressing honestly. I personally think all college sports are ruined going forward. I’ll still watch the Vols but it’s just meh at this point. There’s no team loyalty, it’s just about money now.
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That is why you cheer for the helmet and not the name on the jersey. If you are gonna buy a jersey, buy one of a senior who has been around a few years.
 
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Mid Tenn Vol said:
I feel like with NIL and all the changes i find myself just not having as much interest in it. Depressing honestly. I personally think all college sports are ruined going forward. I’ll still watch the Vols but it’s just meh at this point. There’s no team loyalty, it’s just about money now.
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I still freak out if my TV buffers and I miss a play.
 
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cherokeeeVOL said:
If you look at the playoff the only surprise is Notre Dame and maybe Penn State but they both are name brands that recruit pretty well. The other two are the usual suspects. NIL hasn’t really changed who the best teams are IMO.
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I don't even think they're a surprise, Cherokee. ND and Penn State are normally top-15ish teams. And with 12 getting in, we're gonna see top-15ish teams getting shots some years.

And because the oblong football bounces funny, and anyone can beat anyone else (reasonably speaking) on any given day, a top-15ish team may make a lucky run deep into the CFP. Maybe even get to the CG.


And to the OP's point, I have lost interest to an extent. Not in the Vols, I'll still be there for every one of our games. But the rest of the landscape, meh, I watched less football this year than any previous, I'm pretty sure.

Go Vols!
 
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Mid Tenn Vol said:
I feel like with NIL and all the changes i find myself just not having as much interest in it. Depressing honestly. I personally think all college sports are ruined going forward. I’ll still watch the Vols but it’s just meh at this point. There’s no team loyalty, it’s just about money now.
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I am losing interest, which is shocking. The rules changes, the free agency, the expensiveness of just going to a game...and on top of it, Neyland just doesn't have any of the same feeling of college football like it used to. Danny White is a fine AD, but he's more of a program/sports club president than a college athletics guy. That's the world today, I get it, but I don't see myself having anywhere near the interest within the next few years.
 
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Mid Tenn Vol said:
I feel like with NIL and all the changes i find myself just not having as much interest in it. Depressing honestly. I personally think all college sports are ruined going forward. I’ll still watch the Vols but it’s just meh at this point. There’s no team loyalty, it’s just about money now.
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Nope, it's more interesting than ever.
 
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volswitten1 said:
Here's a thought do you guys think in a couple more years teams with less talent but with more team chemistry and played together as a team longer will they be able to compete with the these with more talent but rotate players every year? Kinda like college basketball?
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If they can get kids that are willing to stay around and build chemistry. These kids are just looking for any excuse to hit the portal. I’m not sure some of them are aware that it costs money to rent moving trucks and connect electricity.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I don't even think they're a surprise, Cherokee. ND and Penn State are normally top-15ish teams. And with 12 getting in, we're gonna see top-15ish teams getting shots some years.

And because the oblong football bounces funny, and anyone can beat anyone else (reasonably speaking) on any given day, a top-15ish team may make a lucky run deep into the CFP. Maybe even get to the CG.


And to the OP's point, I have lost interest to an extent. Not in the Vols, I'll still be there for every one of our games. But the rest of the landscape, meh, I watched less football this year than any previous, I'm pretty sure.

Go Vols!
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Yeah. For me Notre Dame was a bit of a surprise just because they usually get creamed in playoff games past. They have a really good young coach now though who has obviously taken them to a next level. I'm still interested and will watch even though that OSU game was brutal and I get on here and vent sometimes.
 
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All of us have probably been told by a coach at some point: concentrate on the play in front of you and your assignment. Nothing else. The play in front of you.

Even when things are lousy, even when you're getting your butt handed to you, even when you're up big, whatever..... one play at a time.

That's how I watch now. I look for good football one play at a time because fixing the "state of the game" isn't in my control. I can only control whether I like and enjoy a good effort and well designed play no matter who it is.

It's like we have all become the guys in the trenches. Just make your assignment count and move to the next play. The bruises and pain are the same whether you win or lose so just do it because you love it.
 
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It's like anything else in our society. Whenever companies find something that people like, they worm their way into it and insert themselves as the middlemen. They buy something, exert pressure on the thing they buy to be more "marketable," and the thing changes to suit the wishes of the companies. Over time, authenticity is traded for spectacle or marketing, and then it just becomes a game of continuing to leverage the existing brand awareness to maintain or grow revenue.

And when the TV networks bought college football - and for 7 billion dollars you best believe ESPN bought the SEC - they bought themselves the right to manipulate and distort the game however they liked, in their pursuit of profit to enrich Disney. That's how it goes. Money doesn't automatically make a thing bad, but any excess of it will draw all kinds of self-serving interests that want to take from it to enrich themselves.

Sort of like how the SciFi channel - which used to show old scifi flicks and MST3K and so on - could become the SyFy network, broadcasting professional wrestling and "Sharknado 5: Global Swarming." It's never good enough to companies, who think purely in terms of profit and loss. You can always squeeze a thing harder. If people are unwilling to say no, you can always squeeze harder. No matter what it does to the thing you're deforming.

At the end of the day, you just have to be willing to let go or ease back on things when they change in ways you don't like.
 
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Meh. Not me. What I've lost interest in is high school recruiting because a percentage of those are going to transfer out. The ones wearing the orange and white on Saturdays? I'll always pull for those guys. We have become too emersed in the process and following 17 year old kids on social media is just creepy anyway. Go Big Orange! No names on the back of the jersey.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I don't even think they're a surprise, Cherokee. ND and Penn State are normally top-15ish teams. And with 12 getting in, we're gonna see top-15ish teams getting shots some years.

And because the oblong football bounces funny, and anyone can beat anyone else (reasonably speaking) on any given day, a top-15ish team may make a lucky run deep into the CFP. Maybe even get to the CG.


And to the OP's point, I have lost interest to an extent. Not in the Vols, I'll still be there for every one of our games. But the rest of the landscape, meh, I watched less football this year than any previous, I'm pretty sure.

Go Vols!
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That is interesting, I watched a lot more to see what the teams ahead of us were doing and how could we make the playoffs.

Let go of the player and cheer for the school.
 
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Golfprovol said:
That is interesting, I watched a lot more to see what the teams ahead of us were doing and how could we make the playoffs.

Let go of the player and cheer for the school.
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Golfpro, that's a snazzy sound bite you got there, but if you knew me well you'd know I have never fixated on specific players, have always been focused on the school.

So your sound bite isn't really valid in the circumstances you seem to believe.

Go Vols!
 
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cherokeeeVOL said:
If you look at the playoff the only surprise is Notre Dame and maybe Penn State but they both are name brands that recruit pretty well. The other two are the usual suspects. NIL hasn’t really changed who the best teams are IMO.
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Last year was Michigan vs Washington in the championship. Neither had won a playoff game prior to that. Notre Dame hadn’t won a NY6 game in over 30 years until last week. Penn State hadn’t won a game of significance in many years, never even sniffed a playoff. Texas only made the playoff for the first time last year.

This is the first time in the history of the playoff that an original SEC team wasn’t alive in the round of 4.
 
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