Memo to those who want to change NCAA College Football - Go immediately to the nearest volcano

And hurl yourself into the steaming magma. Merely dying in a fucking fire is not enough. You need to go Pompeii on your own ass. If you can't get to the Hawaiian Islands or Vesuvius, Mt. St. Helens will have to do. Sit next to a vent hole and inhale volcanic fumes until you pass out and expire.

CFB is one of the greatest sports there is to enjoy. The thrill, the excitement, the passion of watching the team you love the most duke it out on the field with their rivals. The beer and the barbecues, the hard hits and the hot bitches. The current discussion afoot about paying players and/or starting alternative leagues to the NCAA Collegiate System opens up a can a worms that may change what CFB looks like in the future. To keep this poast from becoming TL;DR material, lets contain it to dealing with the idea of alternative leagues that pay their players.

Think about it carefully. Do you want college sports to be turned into a complete dreckfest with inferior athletes on your teams? Think college baseball here. Or imagine watching the Olympics without the NBA dream teams. Instead you're watching a bunch of no names with passable talent who you don't give a fuck about watching, playing against other teams you don't give a fuck about watching. This is what CFB will become if an alternative 'farm' league for the NFL takes root. The college football teams as we know them will cease to exist. They will become as lame and peopled with lackluster talent as the college baseball teams because the NFL farm league has siphoned off the bulk of the talent. Say you were born in raised in Washington and went to WSU. Are you really going to give a fuck about that football team in Spokane that's a farm team for the Carolina Panthers? Or would you rather have a decent coog team in nearby Pullman with some NFL talent to root for? Which program will you be more invested in as a fan? Which is more exciting?


The negatives are many. To summarize:

* CFB will become like college baseball. Boring, mediocre, not worth watching.

* The farm league will also be boring, mediocre and not worth watching. Instead of watching up and coming athletes, you'll be watching a mix of these along with NFL dreck that's been sent back down to the minor leagues to brush up their skills.

* No fanbase loyalty. You won't give a fuck about your hometown team because its just a farm team for some other pro program in another state.

* Colleges would stand to lose a ton money. Fans will lose interest in watching subpar football.

* Players may lose out on an education.

* Fans lose out the most. Say goodbye to great college football games. Say hello to shitty farm league games.


The current system may be imperfect but it works. Everyone wins. The colleges win because they make a massive amount of money from their football programs. The players win because many of them get a free education, free publicity for their talents, a degree of fame and a shot at entering the pros if they're good enough. Communities win because the fans and fans from other schools contribute to the local economy when they buy products. The fans win because they get great games.

Lets keep talking about paying the players until the NFL starts taking notice and creates a wonderful farm league program to satisfy you whiners that think this is a good idea.