Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

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#34,277
RandomUTfan said:
There will always be money in college football, it is just that the money to buy players is a separate entity from the revenue the sport generates for the school. They wanted it done that way so they can hold onto those obscene profits. And now that you've opened Pandora's Jar as far as allowing boosters to openly bribe players to play for their school, it's created an imbalance. which threatens the health of the entire sport. Experts who have been sounding alarms for years aren't looking at booming TV viewership in the present, they are looking long-term at the effects the current system is going to have on the overall product. CFB is bigger than just the SEC and Big-Ten. I know that's hard to believe for some.
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There undoubtedly have been some programs who will get left behind in this. Teams like Washington St and Oregon St are perfect examples. Did they have a chance to win a national title before NIL though?

And honestly...the sport hasn't been all that much bigger than the SEC and Big Ten for a long time. The Pac 12 was in a state of disrepair for years and the Big 12 was a 2-team league for basically its entire existence (it splintered off for the same reasons the Southwest Conference collapsed).

Hell, the Big Ten itself has been a 2-team league for a lot of its existence. I think in a lot of ways critics of the current system are looking backwards at a dynamic that never actually existed. CFB has never, ever, been a sport that had a lot of parity.
 
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05_never_again said:
There undoubtedly have been some programs who will get left behind in this. Teams like Washington St and Oregon St are perfect examples. Did they have a chance to win a national title before NIL though?

And honestly...the sport hasn't been all that much bigger than the SEC and Big Ten for a long time. The Pac 12 was in a state of disrepair for years and the Big 12 was a 2-team league for basically its entire existence (it splintered off for the same reasons the Southwest Conference collapsed).

Hell, the Big Ten itself has been a 2-team league for a lot of its existence. I think in a lot of ways critics of the current system are looking backwards at a dynamic that never actually existed. CFB has never, ever, been a sport that had a lot of parity.
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I don't want to debate this anymore. I feel like I proved my point, but I'll ask you this and you don't have to answer: Are Washington St and Oregon St better or worse off today under the current system? Are UCLA and USC better or worse off? There are MANY more teams. Too many to mention. The evidence it is broken is how desperately they are searching for a fix. You don't spend millions lobbying for a fix for something that isn't broken.
 
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TN-POSSUM said:
Is Richard G West, Chris Low's source or is Chris Low really RGW??? View attachment 775165*for the record .....RGW posted about it 1st
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volfaninpa said:
ESPN/SEC Network probably a little perturbed at Chris Low.
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gordonr24 said:
Chris Low coming in clutch. What a win for UT!

Danny White also says that UT will have 5 conference home games next year, so Kentucky and Alabama will be two of them. Who will the other 3 be?
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Richard G West brought the news a whole day before Chris Low did.

I guess RGW should be taken seriously.
 
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I think this is a really important point for our scheduling. Balancing our home-and-away non-con schedule with the new SEC slate is critical. You don’t want to have a situation where you play 6 road games in a single year for P4 opponents. Making sure it’s always 5 P4 home/5 P4 away will ensure there aren’t years where playoffs are basically a pipe dream.

 
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Saturday Down South still looks foolish sourcing a parody account. Lots of people guessed what Richard did. He launders his account that way. Whoever runs that account is really clever. And notice he doesn't have a blue check. He isn't being paid to tweet. If he was wrong no one would be concerned. it's a parody account. He's wrong all the time often times on purpose.
 
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Based on permanent opponents and who we played this year/who we last played at home/away, 2026 gonna be

Away games:
Vandy
A&M
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Georgia Tech

Home games:
Bama
UK
Auburn
Missouri
Texas
Furman
Kennesaw State

Missouri may get subbed out with LSU since we haven't played LSU since 2022 but played Mizzou in 2023.

Subject to change, of course, but this makes sense for the Vols at least.
 
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#34,293
Anyone else curious why the media covering Florida went from "they have the buyout money allocated" after they lost to USF to radio silence in terms off Billy's future a couple of weeks later after two more losses? It's almost like they DON'T have 21 million dollars to tell Billy to go golf for a few years. I bet he's a really terrible golfer.
 
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