2025 NCAA Football Thread

[Deleterious]

Watching it live was painful.  Watching him try to justify it was even worse.  You lost over 20 seconds on the first play alone by not using one of your two TO's.

 

[gehringer_2]

10 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

If my two options are, my conference no longer exists, or I get in bed with Dave Portnoy?  Well, last one out, turn off the lights.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

they seem intent on trying to turn college football into another USFL. I know enough to always discount my own taste when it comes what is likely to be successful in the market but I can't help thinking how little I care about Michigan Football today, and in terms of ties to the University, I bleed about as blue as anyone has a right to. 

[buddha]

55 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

they seem intent on trying to turn college football into another USFL. I know enough to always discount my own taste when it comes what is likely to be successful in the market but I can't help thinking how little I care about Michigan Football today, and in terms of ties to the University, I bleed about as blue as anyone has a right to. 

i thought about what you wrote when i read a piece on a new york times' piece about a lady taking her dream trip to disney and spending 1/10th of her annual income to do it.

ruining the thing that made you great so you can squeeze extra profit out of it and at the same time make it only the experience of the wealthy elite.

[buddha]

this is the byproduct of paying the players.  its now professional sports and is treating its customers like pro sports fans.

i'm old enough to remember when michigan-osu tickets were all the same price...and the same price as michigan-northwestern.

sigh.  i'm going to go outside now and shake my fist at this passing cloud.

[gehringer_2]

48 minutes ago, buddha said:

this is the byproduct of paying the players.  its now professional sports and is treating its customers like pro sports fans.

i'm old enough to remember when michigan-osu tickets were all the same price...and the same price as michigan-northwestern.

sigh.  i'm going to go outside now and shake my fist at this passing cloud.

And you probably don't want to be this old: My first student season pass to Michigan football was $21. Seven games. And as seniors we were sitting at the 45yd line because that was when the university still thought that college students should get the best seats at a college football game. 

Edited Thursday at 01:46 AM by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

It's a symptom of a larger culture that no longer understands the value of anything beyond money. It's funny (or maybe not) that in all kinds of international cultural survey work, the US always ranks as the most religious 1st world country, yet as a nation we are completely bereft of any sense of transcendent values. Draw what conclusions you may from that contradiction.

Edited Thursday at 02:04 AM by gehringer_2

[Deleterious]

I realize he probably won't be there that long.  But this is a great way to turn future recruits off to your program.

 

[Deleterious]

No idea WTF Florida was doing.

[Deleterious]