It would be better to revert to club sports, get rid of athletic scholarships, pay coaches like ordinary adjunct faculty, and reinstate real academic requirements. The players should carpool to away games, or at best take a team bus, with no more than two overnight games a year as a special treat. That would restore local and regional rivalries and traditional conferences at a stroke. Any tv revenues would go to the general scholarship fund. Alums could still tailgate and party, but they would be watching student athletes, not NFL farm teams.
I would also get rid of playoffs, which I have been vehemently opposed to from the get-go. Instead of being mere playoffs, the bowl games would then be restored to their own traditions. We should go back to having national championships determined by polls of coaches and sports writers, mathematical models, etc.
We should also get rid of weekday games, which have been proliferating in recent years. The University of Southern California now plays at least one weekday game every season. These interfere with the educational mission of the school by bringing noisy fans onto the campus during class time and making it difficult for students to find parking.
I agree with you, and of course there’s zero chance of that’s happening.
One remarkable thing is how few of the top 25 universities in the USNews rankings have good top level football teams. Notre Dame, sometimes Stanford, sometimes Northwestern a little bit. Other than that you have Duke and Vanderbilt and Rice, good schools that can’t figure out how to stop playing football, and then the Ivy league and schools like MIT, UChicago and such that play DIII football in spite of being mid sized universities.
I’m with you on club sports and scholarships. CFB is essentially a competition of ringers.
As a Buckeye alum, I agree with you. Case in point is that Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones once said,'We ain't come here to play SCHOOL,'
As a Buckeye alum, I agree with you. Case in point is that Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones once said,'We ain't come here to play SCHOOL,'