State of college football has coaches up in arms: ‘It needs to be fixed’

The state of college football is in disarray. It can’t even get out of its own way of success. It’s more popular than ever, yet coaches are up in arms, the NCAA is scared to death and college football fans want to know what is going on and when it will get fixed.

Players are transferring from school to school like brokers trading stocks. Schools are buying players away from other schools with ridiculous NIL incentives. Players are choosing not to play in bowl games, the supposed reward for a season well done. High school players are trying to get scholarships that are no longer available due to the transfer portal. An undefeated Power-5 football team has been left out of the College Football Playoff.

Meanwhile, amid all of the tumult, coaches are getting hired and fired, and high school seniors are signing National Letters of Intent, sometimes with little foresight into their futures. All of this has taken place in just one month.

Like Buzz Lightyear said in “Toy Story,” “Will somebody please explain what’s going on.”

Most coaches will tell you that change is needed, and it’s needed fast. The problem is no one has any idea what that solution should be. They only know the current direction of the sport has to be curtailed.

NC State coach Dave Doeren said Thursday night after losing to Kansas State in the Pop-Tarts Bowl that he didn’t really have time to go into it, but then he got into it.

“There are so many things wrong right now with college football. … Right now, it is just getting some enforceable rules. Leveling the playing field in the NIL world. I do not know how you do that, but it is the Wild West,” Doeren said. “It has just pushed greed and a lack of character and integrity into the sport. It is disappointing to watch. I cannot sit here after a loss and tell you how to fix it. … But,…

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Author : Orlando Sentinel

Publish date : 2023-12-31 02:32:00

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