Topic: Is college football broken?

[Big City]

Very curious to hear others perspective.

Is college football broken? If you were commissioner of college football what would you change?

https://twitter.com/herdfansinfo/status/1029366310067679237?s=21

[Scottyo614]

8 team playoff and make less bowls. Ad in screen to shorten game times for people would be my big two. Work with conferences and athletes to bring back the NCAA video game, Increase player stipend, and allow players to sell likeness.


I don’t think college football is broken, however I think the networks have gotten too much power. Specifically ESPN. I firmly believe, and the late Dshoe had mentioned ESPN and advertisers getting too much power in the playoff system. They want to know specifically what they are advertising and selling to advertisers. Because of them, the revenue has also grown astonomically. If you increased stippend, plus allow selling likeness I think both sides would be happy. You could do a college football union where each school has a union rep to help broker those deals. Make it a past athlete who would have the players in mind with deals.

[herd2win]

Yes...it was more fun when you had regional traditional rivalries instead of these conferences spread across the nation...also before the massive TV dollars were given to a small percentage of teams that actually play college football it was better...MU was talked about on the same level during our 90s and early 2000s run as all schools now every conversation is P5 or G5 not Div 1.

[scherd]

A group of five playoff.

[ThunderValley]

If I were commish there would be no P5 or G5. It would be college football with a playoff system that was fair to everyone and may the best team win.

[Garbanjo]

As a Marshall fan, the FBS system blows for us. We have ZERO chance to play for a national championship, and that has begun to wear on me and erode my interest in college football in general

[CoachMaclid]

I don’t think “college football” is broken, but I think the media of college football is broken.  As alluded to above, I thought the national media (ie ESPN) was more fair in covering the wide range of college football with highlights of most games in the past.  Now, unless you’re one of the dozen teams in the NY6 hunt, there is zero ESPN coverage.  Heck, when’s the last time you even heard a good Minnesota or Boston College story, let alone a Marshall or Fresno State story? 

I think because national coverage of the sport has changed to a “national championship is the only thing” mentality, it has caused my interest in national college football to wane.  On the field of play, I actually think college football is probably more competitive today than in the past (I think the best G5’s today have more of a real competitive chance on the playing field against the very top of football than they did 15-25 years ago).  I miss the festival of college football coverage.

[coalherd]

CoachMaclid hit the nail on the head.   Wait and see.  September won't reach mid month and the VAST majority of discussion on ESPN sports center and college football shows will be on the 4 playoff spots and about a hand full of teams:  Bama, Georgia, Auburn, OSU, Michigan, OU, Texas, Clemson and a PAC 12 team.

It will be constant "blah, blah, blah" from Rece Davis and the other ESPN talking head "shills" for the Upper Power 5 (realistically about 85 per cent of the Power 5 schools are not in the discussion or really in the running for the national championship under the farce of a playoff system now in place).  No G5 program has ANY legitimate shot at a playoff slot; FUC proved that last year.

[herdorbust]

YES!!!!

[gochneaur645]

I would love to completely abolish conferences and divide the country into geographical regions.

Then have a Tier system for each region with soccer-style promotion and relegation between the tiers based solely on performance on the field.

If you really wanna get into the details of how this would work: https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/6/6/15724156/college-football-relegation-promotion-simulation

[whf]

I think that digital broadcasts is keeping college football from being shattered; it is certainly cracked, but the ability to see almost anyone in D1 FBS on a weekly basis is keeping so many involved with their colleges, teams, etc.  IF we had to depend on the broadcast system of 20 years ago, it would be a monomply for the very wealthy and a series of other alignments for the rest. Then I'd say that true college football is broken.