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Chip Kelly favors ONE big P5 Conference in FOOTBALL
Interesting perspective...all anyone does these days is complain about college football, NIL, ever changing alignment, etc...rarely does anyone speak out with an idea of how to change it.
I agree with his belief IF college football could be organized differently then it would be more attractive to TV and essentially eliminate NIL needs.
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Re: Chip Kelly favors ONE big P5 Conference in FOOTBALL
Kudus to Chip for giving his opinion on the current state of college football and his ideas on how to fix it. Nothing he said is groundbreaking, many have given similar ideas in the past, but coming from a Big Ten coach in a press conference has gotten a lot of attention. Plus, Chip laid out his entire proposal. More coaches need to follow his lead and make these type statements.
Pay the players with collective bargaining contracts. That will basically eliminate players from transferring whenever they feel like it and NIL can revert to what it was designed for, making money from endorsements, not getting paid to come to a school.
The sport has no direction for the future right now, it would be the perfect time to make sweeping changes for the good of the sport going forward.
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Re: Chip Kelly favors ONE big P5 Conference in FOOTBALL
Nothing has changed in college football today that makes it a "better" sport or product. The pendulum swung from scholarshiped athletes being hamstrung (and some would say "indentured") by compliance codes of conduct that were not always fair nor equally enforced to an unrestricted transfer portal and unregulated NIL collectives hiring players and coaching staffs managing rosters by the season instead of building programs. Right now the "old money" fans are holding this thing together, but new money fans won't. New money does not see tradition, blue blood status, etc. They are fairweather for the most part as they build their own brands instead of attaching to a brand.
Chip understands the long game, as many ADs and coaches do. The current model of TV running the conferences and such is beyond shortsighted and will not last even five years. Minor sports will be getting crushed and Title IX challenges against how football dictates minor sports will ramp up.
Out of my control outside of deciding how many dollars I decide to spend on the sport.
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Re: Chip Kelly favors ONE big P5 Conference in FOOTBALL
reports of the The Chipster's demise published in lower-tier incel media seem to have been greatly exaggerated.
this is the path many others have been talking about. some kind of English Premier League super-conference. a single, authoritative governing body (not the TV networks, not the irrelevant NCAA). same rules for everybody on player compensation, whether thru NIL or direct pay (not these shadowy NIL consortiums). sever football from the rest of college sports, and return those sports to more regional competition and traditional rivalries.
I can see pushback from the haves . . . those institutions that are thriving under the current system and don't want to share revenue. that's what has led to conf realignment and extinction in recent years. but like everybody else, I don't see the current system lasting all that much longer.
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Re: Chip Kelly favors ONE big P5 Conference in FOOTBALL
I posted this a while back, but it fits in with this discussion...
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