Say goodbye to the last of college football as you know and loved it.
Cupidity and stupidity in equal measure have finally won out. Tone-deafness and short-sighted greed carried the day, as college football will now officially, finally be moving to the much-hated 24-team playoff.
It is impossible to overstate what a disaster this is for the sport we know and loved. Here’s just one example: Do you think in a do or die, loser goes home, Alabama-LSU game, that we get the sort of intensity we saw on Saturday? Of course not. It’s just a game, bro: a three-loss LSU easily makes the 24-team field. Greg Sankey owns this, too. Just like he owns the death of the conference title game, and expanding to a ninth SEC game — the entire way, he has been finessed by Joe Petitti of the Big Ten. And every time, he has come up a loser.
The SEC was the last one holding the line against a ridiculous, despised, 24-team playoff. But in the end, his greed, and a couple of cowards from perennial 8-4 teams, got the better of him.
All this comes at a time when viewership is down, when attendance is down, when fans are even less engaged than they have ever been — None of it mattered. A check from the Mouse did, damn the long-term health of the sport.
They are greedy, stupid, venal cowards to a person. There is no metaphorical hell too hot, too deep, or too dark for them.
Enjoy your money, because we are checking out. For my part, I will not watch a second of a fraudulent 24-team playoff.
#BOG. Join me.
I’m so sad. And just as mad.
Counterpoint: what would be funnier than seeing Georgia choke to a 7-5 Louisville?
But that makes then choking to Auburn less funny
So it goes.
it goes alright, right into the shitter
We’re gonna need a bigger pile of shit
Did you know Roy Scheider actually wanted to say that instead of “boat?”
Okay, he didn’t, but I had you going there for a second.
If we had national college football media members worth a damn they’d have been spitting fire down necks from the moment this was announced.
It’s almost like ESPN having a monopoly on 90% of meaningful. College Football has been terrible for the sport!
We need to crowdfund the return of JP Sports.
I finally figured out how I’m going to handle this
I will boycott all advertisers of which I am aware, and I will pirate a stream. And if possible, I will listen to Alabama radio instead of even doing that.
But I refuse to help fund their destruction of College Football, and I’m not giving them a single valid stream on YouTube, or a single television in my home for the Nielsen ratings
You forgot an option: I hate it from the depths of my soul, but I’ll still watch it. Because it’s still better than not watching CFB.
I have 6 months of college basketball ahead of me. I don’t need them; they need us.
Does the ridiculous agreement with Notre Dame go away with this new format?
I’d imagine that would be the case. If you can’t make the top 23 then you have no business even arguing.
Yes. And I will discuss it tomorrow.
Very sad indeed, ivs encouraged as many as i can to drop any pay to watch games, ua is or has been free on abc this season
this was my first season of really not caring, preparing for what would come to pass today
sad and happy, better time to enjoy my personal life, but death to the water cooler talk and community once celebrated, perhaps thats the psy-op this is meant for, to make more and more engaging singularity
And there’s always hoops. And 40K mini painting. Witcher 4 coming up. Playing guitar. Camping. Shooting at the range. AND there’s the far more fun, far purer FCS to watch 😃
we don’t need Big Time CFB. Big Time CFB needs us.
The sooner we realize that we actually own the sport the better off it’ll be. It’s something EU soccer goons make sure their owners and greedy poachers know when they get their asses out of line. We’ll tear it down before we let you ruin it.
Make no mistake, Stankey didn’t get finessed, he got taken to a filthy gas station bathroom and butt fucked without lube and without a reach around. And all that stupid mother fucker could say is Give it to me Daddy.
Pettiti owns his ass in ways that violate the 13th Amendment.
Did anyone here watch whatever the hell the first week of the playoffs offered last year?
I sure shit DID NOT. NFL Lite is as boring as we all knew it would be. I watched our games and a little of one of Ole Miss’ games and from what I remember, they could have been playing Fiji for all I cared.
Screw this….CFB is a shell of its former self and I’m not going out of my way to watch shit. I didn’t last season either….didnt watch any playoff game outside of Bama and barely watched the IU game. I’ve barely watched this reg season. The actual product is awful. There’s some legit shit football being played across the country. Close games does not mean good football.
Im neck deep in futbol, basketball, my kids playing sports, trying to get my freshman to a kicking camp this summer, date night earning points, eating some good food. I won’t waste a single unnecessary second on these greedy bastards.