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Official realignment thread - SEC formally invites OU and Texas to join the conference in 2025
Try Ol' Ball Coach. I bet it fits.
Well, that's a rather esoteric initialization
IDK...
..whatever it is, it is surely a BFD.
Old Ball Coach
EDIT: Or, more accurately, the "ol' ball coach"
EDIT EDIT: Missed Lefty's reply above. I suck.
EDIT EDIT EDIT: This is kind of fun.
ok. that you and left both knew it makes me feel deficient, but then I recalled that none of the thousands of people who edit Wikipedia apparently knew it
Duff, Lefty, and NWD are all wrong anyway, don’t feel bad. He’s known as the “Head Ball Coach”
ok, ok. I didn't realize OBC (HBC?) was a label specific to Spurrier. The only nickname I recall for him was "Steve Superior"
Too many teams that would be a drag on per team revs.
Hey all - want to join me at the SEC picnic on August 28th? Should be interesting. And I've already told hubby that I will cease going after the UT & OU yokels start showing up. I can handle the regular ol' SEC folk but I don't want to be near the ol' Big 12 clowns.
Right. The total deal would have to be double what the SEC deal is for each program to get on the same financial level, but that’s not really the point of all this is it
Nah, the SEC sort of moves independent of the NFL since nearly half the states don’t even have professional teams and college football is clearly king in Georgia and Florida anyways.
isnt that pretty communist?
The problems in sports starts from below. NFL is a gleaming ship, but little pinholes are forming below the waterline.
LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.
How?
If anything, a super league helps the NFL. It would be even better for development of young players
I'm a huge fan of lmgtfy, but that was even less helpful than the search I did prior to asking, which led me to the wiki page I linked.LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.lmgtfy.app
Unless these leagues start playing on Sundays (hint: they won't), it has no impact on the NFL. As oneal said, if anything it's a consolidation of talent and elite programs and likely develops players better for the NFL
He means emails. UBL?"Digital Docs have been swapped."
Plus I think that some people could start jumping ship if college football loses what currently sets it apart from the NFL.
The dangers for the NFL lie elsewhere.
The health of the NFL is tied directly to having a pipeline of players and popularity of the sport across all regions. Pee Wee football participation is way, way down. High school participation is down, but more so in some areas than others. The sport has largely been abandoned in the northeast. It’s not faring particularly well out west. Concentrating the college game as a regional sport played in the southeast is not good for the game. Realignment, in my opinion, will likely contribute to further regionalization of the game. And when other regions are not invested, they lose interest. Does anyone really think Colorado and it’s surrounding states are ever going to produce the talent that’s coming into Alabama, Georgia, Florida? It’s laughable. And when all the cash and talent gets concentrated into16 schools (really 10) in the southeast, you have a regional sport. Couple that with issues in how TV and sports are consumed (or rather the highly fractured market), there are problems ahead.
No - there is danger for the NFL here as well.
The talent pool for the NFL is likely to shrink.
The end result of these moves makes it less likely that a merely good football player can pay for college playing football. Which really does mean that fewer kids will play football.
There are many parts of the country where high school leagues are shrinking or disappearing. While the reasons they are shrinking are independent from this, taking a bunch of scholarships to good schools out of the picture just accelerates that trend.
Edit: and what Cree said.
Fair points if you approach it from those angles, although those points largely concern the game as a whole and not just the NFL.