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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 981754" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>We don’t normally agree a lot, but this statement sums it all up. It’s really a strange sport given the lack of rules and enforcement of the rules. A champion gets crowned based on either computer simulations or random people voting for who they think is the best. </p><p></p><p>The reality is that intercollegiate sports were never supposed to become this serious or this large of a business (or a business at all). The original idea was to create more well-rounded students and build the school and its alumni a community to keep everyone connected. The intention was never to crown a champion, especially not on a national scale. But then the snowball started rolling down the hill and we ended up with bowl games, and media polls, and coaches polls, and computer polls, and a bonafide “national championship game”, and then a playoff, and now an expansion on that playoff. </p><p></p><p>They’ve built up an empire on a foundation made of a couple of popsicle sticks. None of it is just or fair because it wasn’t intended to be played on this scale. Every step of the way the powers that be have tried to innovate while keeping the original traditions instead of rebuilding from the ground up and doing it right. The whole thing has turned into a Jenga game. Taking pieces out of the foundation and putting them in new places, trying not to topple the whole thing over. It’s easy to start: bowl games & polls. Then it gets harder, and the tower starts rocking more: conference realignment, computer polls, the need to crown a definitive champion. Now we’re at the point where every single piece that gets moved could be the one that ends it all: transfer portal, NIL, mega-conferences, the playoffs, etc. The tower is about to come crashing down in a hurry. How they pick up the pieces will be very interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 981754, member: 4572"] We don’t normally agree a lot, but this statement sums it all up. It’s really a strange sport given the lack of rules and enforcement of the rules. A champion gets crowned based on either computer simulations or random people voting for who they think is the best. The reality is that intercollegiate sports were never supposed to become this serious or this large of a business (or a business at all). The original idea was to create more well-rounded students and build the school and its alumni a community to keep everyone connected. The intention was never to crown a champion, especially not on a national scale. But then the snowball started rolling down the hill and we ended up with bowl games, and media polls, and coaches polls, and computer polls, and a bonafide “national championship game”, and then a playoff, and now an expansion on that playoff. They’ve built up an empire on a foundation made of a couple of popsicle sticks. None of it is just or fair because it wasn’t intended to be played on this scale. Every step of the way the powers that be have tried to innovate while keeping the original traditions instead of rebuilding from the ground up and doing it right. The whole thing has turned into a Jenga game. Taking pieces out of the foundation and putting them in new places, trying not to topple the whole thing over. It’s easy to start: bowl games & polls. Then it gets harder, and the tower starts rocking more: conference realignment, computer polls, the need to crown a definitive champion. Now we’re at the point where every single piece that gets moved could be the one that ends it all: transfer portal, NIL, mega-conferences, the playoffs, etc. The tower is about to come crashing down in a hurry. How they pick up the pieces will be very interesting. [/QUOTE]
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