Huskies vs. the Hookers GT

[Walla Walla Dawg II]

Rutgers now 1-4 in the B10 with their only win vs. us.

Do you mean to say that Rutgers is not good?

[Fungo]

The biggest reasons for our downfall is our HC bolting, having a lot of great players go to the NFL and idiot in game decisions. All of that could have happened 10-15 years ago.

Maybe this new system will implode but I think it will survive. Too many people love watching College football for it to not continue to be successful even in this new world.

It may very well be successful to the vast majority of fans that don't care about the nuts and bolts of how it all works. As long as they have a competitive team out there.. who cares. I guess I fall into that category too but part of me feels cheaper now that I know money is blatantly the driver of college sports. I know, it has always been money but never given openly to get a good player on your team. Please don't ask me if I'd rather the payments were under the table than given openly. Back in the Jim Owens days and prior we really didn't know for sure that was happening and of course it was nothing close to the extent it is happening now. I agree with you that college football will continue to be successful (a big money maker) and hopefully there will some changes making it less top heavy. I still feel sad that it will never be what it was.

[roosevelt]

Huskies are not a very good football team... this year.

[D-train]

Huskies are not a very good football team... this year.

Why didn't you run for POTUS? Did you think 3 Roosevelts would be too much?

[Millikin]

Regarding college football in general... If they're trying so hard to be more like the NFL, they need to learn how to speed games up and get broadcasts dialed in.

Games regularly go over 4 hours (without overtime). That's too effing long.

Why did they add the 2 minute warning? Why do they take full commercial breaks at every opportunity? Why do refs stand around having conferences before every penalty? Why is half time longer than nfl?

Here's what the NFL started doing about 5 or so years ago: A concerted effort to make games last just about 3 hours (rarely much longer).
-They stopped going to commercial at every opportunity. It used to be every change in possession and after every kickoff they'd go to commercial.
-Sometimes they don't even go to commercial for 2 minute warning
-You've probably noticed that they've stopped doing commercials for most timeouts
-The new replay-assist might be helping things move along as well.

Get your shit together college football

According to this article they're working on it in some ways:
https://collegefootballnetwork.com/how- ... ball-game/

[Michael K.]

Rogers is having a terrible game. Is there some reason they haven't pulled him for Williams?

Because they only do that when Rogers is playing well. This staff is brutally bad.

[Donn Beach]

The biggest reasons for our downfall is our HC bolting, having a lot of great players go to the NFL and idiot in game decisions. All of that could have happened 10-15 years ago.

Maybe this new system will implode but I think it will survive. Too many people love watching College football for it to not continue to be successful even in this new world.

It may very well be successful to the vast majority of fans that don't care about the nuts and bolts of how it all works. As long as they have a competitive team out there.. who cares. I guess I fall into that category too but part of me feels cheaper now that I know money is blatantly the driver of college sports. I know, it has always been money but never given openly to get a good player on your team. Please don't ask me if I'd rather the payments were under the table than given openly. Back in the Jim Owens days and prior we really didn't know for sure that was happening and of course it was nothing close to the extent it is happening now. I agree with you that college football will continue to be successful (a big money maker) and hopefully there will some changes making it less top heavy. I still feel sad that it will never be what it was.

I don't see NIL really changing much, those teams are still getting those players, that they have to pay them doesn't change that. There might be an additional level elite teams might fight over now but it's not locking the huskies out of something they previously had access to, players deciding between Michigan or Ohio state. I do see Oregon as an outlier because of their particular benefactor.

The portal on the other hand I believe is a leveler of competition. I don't think NIL is a major factor there, it's playing time. Coaches are not going to be able to just stockpile talent. If a player feels another school offers a better opportunity for advancement he can transfer, just like a coach can advance. You had Washington last season, Indiana this one. It's making for more competition