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re: Curt Cignetti: “College football won’t exist the way we’re going right now…”
Posted on 5/29/26 at 8:04 pm to jonboy
Posted on 5/29/26 at 8:04 pm to jonboy
Yep, eventually the big donors at these schools are going to say enough is enough. They aren’t throwing millions of their money to a few 5 stars that may not even be playing for their team the following year anymore. Even if I was a millionaire or a billionaire, I’d eventually get tired and stop throwing millions of my money to these players every year.
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Posted on 5/29/26 at 8:36 pm to RollTide1987
Roll tide, everything you mentioned is controlled by the coach. You guys act like someone is forcing these schools to pay millions. It’s like blaming guns for murders. Indiana just won the Natty and no one would say they are a bluebloods but yet you guys are yelling about “Cuban” when evevery big school has had multiple Cubans over the years. Y’all are simply mad that other schools are now better at buying players and coaching.
I agree that booster fatigue will happen, That’s fine. Schools will then have to adjust if there NIL fund drops. So what. Schools have been having to adjust to new rules and payment systems for decades, I have never nor will I ever give a dime of my money for a young athlete to play a sport because I don’t care about them at all. I root for my schools jersey and that’s it. I don’t care about the person inside the jersey at all because I know they don’t care about me. If a simple business transaction.
I agree that booster fatigue will happen, That’s fine. Schools will then have to adjust if there NIL fund drops. So what. Schools have been having to adjust to new rules and payment systems for decades, I have never nor will I ever give a dime of my money for a young athlete to play a sport because I don’t care about them at all. I root for my schools jersey and that’s it. I don’t care about the person inside the jersey at all because I know they don’t care about me. If a simple business transaction.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 9:02 pm to RollTide1987
Social media was the straw that broke it….. it started a while back with these recruits and all their respek my decizion garbage. It’s a freight train headed for a brick wall - we just don’t know what the brick wall is…. CF will find that wall at some point.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 9:39 pm to NIH
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College football is better than ever. Look at the ratings.
By this logic McDonald's is the highest quality restaurant in the world.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:24 pm to RollTide1987
He’s just now figuring this out? A little late to the party, Curt. SMH.
This post was edited on 5/30/26 at 6:25 am
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:41 pm to jonboy
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Someone I'm close with has regular interaction with high level boosters at one particular SEC school. Booster fatigue at that school is very real.
Yep. Its been noted at many universities Im sure.
Posted on 5/29/26 at 10:46 pm to RunningJacket
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Roll tide, everything you mentioned is controlled by the coach. You guys act like someone is forcing these schools to pay millions. It’s like blaming guns for murders. Indiana just won the Natty and no one would say they are a bluebloods but yet you guys are yelling about “Cuban” when evevery big school has had multiple Cubans over the years. Y’all are simply mad that other schools are now better at buying players and coaching.
I agree that booster fatigue will happen, That’s fine. Schools will then have to adjust if there NIL fund drops. So what. Schools have been having to adjust to new rules and payment systems for decades, I have never nor will I ever give a dime of my money for a young athlete to play a sport because I don’t care about them at all. I root for my schools jersey and that’s it. I don’t care about the person inside the jersey at all because I know they don’t care about me. If a simple business transaction.
Nobody's 'mad' that Indiana won or that a school with a rich donor like Mark Cuban can compete. That's exactly the point.
You say no one forces schools to pay millions, but the system creates massive pressure. If your rival is dropping big NIL money on transfers and you don't keep up, you lose recruits, games, and your job as coach. It's not voluntary in a competitive conference. That's why even coaches at big programs complain about the constant roster churn.
Indiana's success doesn't disprove the problems...it highlights them. They leaned hard on portal + big NIL (Cuban openly funding key guys). Great for them this year. But it turns the sport into bidding wars and annual free agency. Teams lose 40-70% roster turnover in some cases. Development takes a backseat to buying ready-made talent. Mid-majors get raided. Non-revenue sports get squeezed when budgets go to football/basketball payroll.
Coaches "control" it the same way GMs control pro free agency; they still have to play the game or get fired. Fans aren't obligated to love this transactional version where loyalty is gone and players treat it like a business.
It's not a boogeyman. It's observable: more chaos, less continuity, and money talking louder than ever. Some parity? Sure, occasionally. But mostly it rewards the schools with the deepest pockets and best NIL collectives, not necessarily the best culture or coaching over time.
If booster fatigue hits and funds dry up, a lot of programs are going to be in real trouble. That's the adjustment coming.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 1:26 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
There's a long list of teams that lost the National Title in early October like 1992 FSU.
2008 USC lost the National Title in late September.
Now its just seeding for the "real season" in December and January... The one thing, the one thing that truly made,CFB special.... That "every game matters" was the first thing they killed. Unbelievable.
It's not all bad. A 24-team playoff will greatly favor the top 8 seeds. The top 8 will receive a first-round bye AND a second-round home game. It will take a strong regular season to be a top 8 (or even top 16) seed.
Also, USC always got shafted by the BCS. The SEC and/or Oklahoma always got the nod.
2008 USC lost the National Title in late September.
Now its just seeding for the "real season" in December and January... The one thing, the one thing that truly made,CFB special.... That "every game matters" was the first thing they killed. Unbelievable.
It's not all bad. A 24-team playoff will greatly favor the top 8 seeds. The top 8 will receive a first-round bye AND a second-round home game. It will take a strong regular season to be a top 8 (or even top 16) seed.
Also, USC always got shafted by the BCS. The SEC and/or Oklahoma always got the nod.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 2:36 am to NIH
quote:I know you’re being sarcastic.
College football is better than ever. Look at the ratings.
But plenty people say this with their chest.
I REALLY think it’s a disastrous way to think and only serves the assholes ruining things.
The ratings being good are a direct result of people floundering and giving up and sports being turned to as a cope. A real cope.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 4:53 am to RollTide1987
I wonder if Cuban is less willing to give as much money now that he's seen Indiana win a championship. Been there, done that type of thing.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 6:31 am to NIH
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College football is better than ever. Look at the ratings.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 7:11 am to RunningJacket
You are not very observant. In the words of Uncle Iroh:
“Wisdom chases you, but you are always faster.”
“Wisdom chases you, but you are always faster.”
Posted on 5/30/26 at 7:30 am to NIH
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College football is better than ever. Look at the ratings.
The sports car may look shiny and polished and draw all kinds of gawks but that doesn’t necessarily mean things are in great working order under the hood.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 7:47 am to NIH
Increase in ratings is directly related to the proliferation of online gambling, not more causal viewers. And the number of people that stay at stadiums for the full four hours of an average game is decreasing due to the ridiculous number of and length of ad breaks
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:52 am to RollTide1987
Roll tide,
What you’re saying then is that coaches have no back bone. They whine to the media and complain about the system then instead of fixing the system they go out and use the system.
There are a lot of schools over the decades that did stood on principal and were willing take losses for what they believed in. My team left the SEC because of principal to the misuse of scholarships and players. A lot of teams didn’t take part in the bagman system and a lot of losses stacked up and a lot of coaches were fired - but they stood on principal.
The coaches could stop the portal nonsense immediately if they simply stopped taking in transfers. But they whine about it while doing it.
All I’m saying is the system is working so hearing these multi millionaires complain just makes me laugh. Every team will field 11 players and fans will pack the stands. I totally understand certain fanbases hate that their team is no longer as strong but for every fan who hates it there is a fan of a school that loves it. Did you not see Indiana fans take over Mercedes Benz stadium when 3 years ago they could barely get 25K to their own stadium.
That is an awesome sports story. Just because it didn’t involve a blueblood doesn’t make it any less real. This coming season is going to be awesome because none of us have any clue who the top teams truly are, Sure, we can look at rosters and rank teams but the reality is no one said a word about Miami until they ran thru SEC teams with ease. I expect another “MiamiL tyoe this year but I have no clue who it will be and that is fun.
What you’re saying then is that coaches have no back bone. They whine to the media and complain about the system then instead of fixing the system they go out and use the system.
There are a lot of schools over the decades that did stood on principal and were willing take losses for what they believed in. My team left the SEC because of principal to the misuse of scholarships and players. A lot of teams didn’t take part in the bagman system and a lot of losses stacked up and a lot of coaches were fired - but they stood on principal.
The coaches could stop the portal nonsense immediately if they simply stopped taking in transfers. But they whine about it while doing it.
All I’m saying is the system is working so hearing these multi millionaires complain just makes me laugh. Every team will field 11 players and fans will pack the stands. I totally understand certain fanbases hate that their team is no longer as strong but for every fan who hates it there is a fan of a school that loves it. Did you not see Indiana fans take over Mercedes Benz stadium when 3 years ago they could barely get 25K to their own stadium.
That is an awesome sports story. Just because it didn’t involve a blueblood doesn’t make it any less real. This coming season is going to be awesome because none of us have any clue who the top teams truly are, Sure, we can look at rosters and rank teams but the reality is no one said a word about Miami until they ran thru SEC teams with ease. I expect another “MiamiL tyoe this year but I have no clue who it will be and that is fun.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 8:56 am to RollTide1987
What happened to the bravado of "I win. Google Me"?
Posted on 5/30/26 at 11:20 am to bcoop199
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I wonder if Cuban is less willing to give as much money now that he's seen Indiana win a championship. Been there, done that type of thing.
I was just about to post something similar. People have mentioned “booster fatigue,” but not really in this context. And it may not happen immediately for Cuban and Indiana, but other boosters and schools who are still so hungry to win, might not be so willing to annually write those checks after they’ve scratched that itch.
Miami, A&M, Texas Tech, etc….schools that have never won or haven’t won in a while—once that itch is scratched—either once or a couple of times, does that particular type of “been there, done that” type of booster fatigue set in?
There are just so many reasons why the current model is not sustainable, so many that should already be obvious to everybody, so many unintended consequences that some of us can see coming, but even more that we can’t.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 12:19 pm to NIH
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College football is better than ever. Look at the ratings.
I see you collected a lot of downvotes but you’re not wrong about the ratings.
The proliferation of online gambling is a big part of that.
CFB is adding more games and expanding the playoffs because it’s making money hand over fist. While we wish things would go back to the 90s, money always wins.
Posted on 5/30/26 at 12:26 pm to RollTide1987
Curt is the biggest beneficiary of this new college football era 
that’s rich coming from him. Prior to 2021, he would’ve had ZERO shot of ever winning a title at Indiana.
that’s rich coming from him. Prior to 2021, he would’ve had ZERO shot of ever winning a title at Indiana. Posted on 5/30/26 at 12:28 pm to NIH
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College football is better than ever. Look at the ratings.
“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
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