Mark my words history will eventually recall two days where the us president saved college football. Seriously short of an executive order controlling the money in the sport how can we possibly un-fuck this sport?

Watching people struggle to choose between the tesla t and the apple apple would be so satisfying for me.

On the traditionalist side: vandy was a founding member, plus I’m sure they bring up the average gpa of sec football at least a little. If we keep them in then that means we automatically play them every year.

On the modernist side: vandy isn’t competitive and isn’t really close to being competitive in the foreseeable future. We could easily have them as a protected ooc matchup to appease anyone who wants that.

The OU thing I honestly don’t have too strong of a feeling for. If we have a sooner lurker I’d love to hear from them. Josh’s reasoning was that adding OU kept it from being a Texas conference. Which, you already have Arky. But if that’s not enough I would maybe even suggest adding the AZ teams. I think that might be a bit much geographically, but it may make more sense culturally? idk

I could also recommend throwing the service acadamies into the ivy league, which we could also lump NW and vandy into. I feel like the service academies and the more academically inclined universities have the same “grindset” and this could help bring the ivies back into relevance in the sport. Since if we’re keeping Rutgers in the power conferences, we should keep Princeton and Yale in the big leagues. No way in hell they would ever vote for that though.

Sigh, I know, I’m just clinging on to hope…

I personally don’t need this to be the definitive football sim to consider buying it. I just need it to be micro-transaction free to consider buying it

To me the funniest part is that he waited until he was a bulldog to file suit

I was certainly worried when I saw the pantone 151c in this year’s. It’s almost strange being on the giving end of bad plays again.

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Bummed they didn’t show off more of Neyland in the trailer, people over on VN have been talking about how much stuff the athletics department has shared with EA. I’m certainly not preordering, but if it gets half decent reviews I may buy it. I think the main thing I’ll be looking out for is reviews indicating that it’s a Madden reskin, miss me with that loot box create a team bullshit.

P.S. Travis looks aigen in that photo

Honestly idk lol, but the first time I made cookies topped with himalayan salt flakes I became an instant convert from sea salt and haven’t looked back.

Sorry that you haven’t tried himalayan salt brother

What if I told you that 343 didn’t make that decision. Ever wonder why Guilty Spark called Master Chief reclaimer? Though I agree with your point, 4 was the last halo game I bought.

I think fan investment is still part of the equation. It may not be as important to recruits as say money (and we can argue the merits of fiscal vs spiritual/emotional compensation all day long), but it still means something to say that 100,000 people may be chanting your name some day. I think that if fans want to continue to have any sort of impact, even if small compared to the “good ole days” they need to be extra vocal on social media. This of course will bring out the worst of a fan base (cough cough vol twitter) so it’s a double edged sword. As an aside, I find payments made or garunteed upon graduation a tough pill to swallow, though I think there is merit to the idea.

Hell yeah, as if a jersey from a bygone era from a separate league should have any impact on what a college team (that has existed longer than the nfl team did) wears.

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This is some absolute sicko shit and I am so here for it

For me, it’d be implementing limits and controls on advertising. I’m tired of the money of the sport dictating the actual sport (read updating the running clock rules) and while in our society it certainly can’t be eliminated. But I would put limits on how many and how long media timeouts are allowed to be, and revert clock rules to pre 2023 or similar rules. CFB has a captive audience so you could dramatically increase ad prices to counter limited space, so I honestly believe that revenue losses would be minimal. That and smack caps on said media deals, and force the broadcasters to more evenly distribute coverage amongst non super 2 programs. In the age of streaming there’s no reason we can’t have more broadcast crews covering more games. I’d even recommend combining the media’s systems with the college’s own broadcast systems for better coverage (think mlb getting two different broadcasts for each team’s crew).

Not that your point is bad, but with the current model some of those “50k” teams may not even have a conference with a revenue deal at all if things keep going the espn/fox way. So the incentive may just be the stability of a super league. Either way the more transparent the better.

Nothing about regonality with the conferences, but I assume the non pro/rel conferences would be regional. So this model probably meets my criteria of Tennessee play bama and fLorida every year. I do like that teams would be the owners of the league, and that revenue would be distributed based on brand value. As always the pro/rel model for the 8th conference MUST protect rivalries imo, and I still don’t love a playoff model. But honestly as far as cfb models go this one isn’t my least favorite.

I didn’t see this until the 2nd, so my defenses were down.

I don’t think I’ve wanted anything more than I’ve want this and I only just found out about it.