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2330859 said:

Back to the Transfer Portal; there is a significant difference between the kids using the Transfer Portal to play football, and the money being paid to attract their services. I personally see the underlying problem as the money, and the destruction it is bringing to what started out as amateur sports. If a college education was deemed insufficient for so many student athletes for so many decades; then someone needs to explain to me why so few could be rewarded at the expense of so many. Every fan, every student, every ticket holder at every school are the ones being punished.

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To be fair, the value of a college education nowadays is not nearly what it was a couple of decades ago.

The pendulum is starting to swing back as people choose skilled trades over English 101. Frankly, I don't blame them.

Say what you will

In 2023, only 2 regular season games had 10 million viewers
In 2024, 5 regular season games had 10 million viewers

In 2023,
7 of the top 20 most viewed games featured a SEC team
6 of the top 20 most viewed games featured a Big Ten team
1 of the top 20 most viewed games featured an ACC team (LSU vs. FSU)

In 2024,
15 of the top 20 most viewed games featured a SEC team
6 of the top 20 most viewed games featured a Big Ten team. 4 of those had Ohio State
1 of the top 20 most viewed games featured an ACC team (Clemson vs. Georgia)

The change in the TV deal for the SEC was the in 2023, only 1 SEC game per week could be on a broadcast network on CBS. In 2024, ABC could air as many SEC games as they wanted.

I would imagine if USC & Michigan were better, the Big Ten would've had more top rated matchups. Like for example, had USC been a top 15 level team that final week game against Notre Dame would've drawn massive ratings.

And we can go on about $EC BIASSSS!!!! but ABC/Disney aren't trying to push the SEC over us for bias. ABC/Disney have stockholders. They're in it to make money. The viewers are saying this is what they want. People are tuning in to these games.

The reason it sucks is because we're in a league that's not drawing the big ratings. You can say that we won't take it seriously, but the viewing public is casual fans. Casual fans love to watch football. They're tuning into these big games. It's not the sport I loved years ago, but saying that it's dying and we can't take it serious is false.

Look when most of us were born, the champion was determined by pollsters and there wasn't a champion. Was that a sport that was serious and you could take serious? I mean most every game wasn't even on TV. Then we got a championship game based on an arbitrary computer ranking. It moved up to 4 teams based on a random committee's opinion.

Now we have 12. I think the winner of this will be the best team in the country and it will be undisputed. No matter how many teams you add, someone will cry. In college basketball we still have crying about it when 68 teams are in for crying out loud. The ratings will be huge. The sport as a national event is going to grow. It's bigger than the NBA and MLB and only the NFL is above it.

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We are hopefully getting a committment from the #8 transfer in the country, Purdue TE Max Klare. That may be why Johnson decided to transfer.

There is also the USC TE Duce Robinson who may be linked to the QB. Hes a 5-star recruit and a lot of scouts consider him more of a WR than a TE. He was one of Moss's favorite targets.

If UK's players don't respect our 3 pt shooting and they probably shouldn't, could leave us with some open shots that we can make hopefully. I don't think Pope will coach like that. He's gonna expect that we stay to our game and will take a lot of 3s. That could open us to some drives to the basket if we don't automatically settle for shooting and open kickouts to Reyne. We will need bigger games from Scott and Rooths and more minutes from Anselem-Ibe.

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Louis III said:

1000% wrong on a QB committing until bowl game. We play on 12/31. Portal closes on 12/28 and classes start 1/8. If that happens, we are in deep shit, unless Pierce, Deuce, or Mims is the answer. Staff doesnt seem to think thats the case!

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There is a 2nd post spring portal for football that runs from April 16-25th.

Every team in the country is going through this Arkansas has over 25 players in the portal. All of the teams in the SEC and B1G have players in the portal. If your coach is able to work the portal ( which I think ours is ) we should be able to get some good players.

Back to the Transfer Portal; there is a significant difference between the kids using the Transfer Portal to play football, and the money being paid to attract their services. I personally see the underlying problem as the money, and the destruction it is bringing to what started out as amateur sports. If a college education was deemed insufficient for so many student athletes for so many decades; then someone needs to explain to me why so few could be rewarded at the expense of so many. Every fan, every student, every ticket holder at every school are the ones being punished.