Sports Take

NCAA Football has been a favored pastime of many in the US and Canada for generations, with classic rivalry games, the New Years Six games, and the pageantry of winning a National Championship. For years the BCS ruled the rankings and decided the National Championship game, now it’s a 12 team playoff. Winning any bowl game truly mattered (some more than others), now it’s all about the “New Years Six”. Can we even call them that anymore? Players were developed into respectable young men with the dream of playing professionally, now they are considered professional with the NIL deals, something I understand but can’t get behind. Transfers were once rare, a starter being replaced by a freshman, a slighted redshirt player looking to show their ability to the NFL. Now is a torrential down pour of “how much will I get for playing for you?” questions, instead of “how will you develop me into being a true professional?”.

It’s detrimental to the game of football, and it’s becoming evident with a potential second overall pick in terms of skill in Shedeur Sanders falling to 144th. I have no doubt the reason why he fell so far, attitude.

It’s a growing epidemic that will cause a chain reaction that will make the NFL unwatchable after the current generation of player retire from the league, much like the NBA currently. Ego’s need to be punctured quickly before it gets too far. I fear it already has, the floodgates have been opened, and they will not be closed.