You all may remember, probably because Dad won’t let you forget, that he (finally) got a preseason prediction right. In the season preview episode, Dad called Duke going 9-3 and that’s exactly what the Blue Devils did. Instead of breaking down what to expect in the Gator Bowl, we talk a lot about the changing face of college football. With the losses of QB1 and QB2 to the portal, Dad and I discuss how the portal is making bowl games entirely irrelevant. While players should be able to transfer, schools can’t tell fans that bowl games matter when the calendar forces key players to transfer out prior to the end of the season.
Dad and I present differing views, to some extent, on these issues. I also make a prediction that players will unionize to protect themselves and the commitments that schools make to players. Given that the NCAA has become completely irrelevant and can’t police its member institutions, courts are going to become the enforcement mechanism for “amateur” rules that apply to the NCAA. When that happens, players will unionize to protect themselves through collective-bargaining. It’s the only thing that players can, and should, do.
I hope you enjoy this episode. It’s an unusual format for Bull City Coordinators. If you don’t like it, I blame our Richlandia correspondent and take no responsibility for it.
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