Wait so CBS Sports is putting out their Big Ten overreactions and talking about Indiana thriving without that Mendoza kid and West Coast teams crashing the CFP party. Nobody wants to talk about what this conference actually looks like now. We got USC and UCLA and Oregon and Washington in here and half the old rivalries are dead or dying. I remember when the Big Ten was about cold November games in Iowa City and Madison and State College. Now it is a coast to coast mess held together by TV contracts and NIL money.
You want to know the real story nobody is reporting on? The NIL revenue sharing cap at 20.5 million per school is just gonna create a two tier system where the rich programs buy their rosters every winter and everybody else fights over scraps. That is not college football. That is minor league sports with academic logos stapled on top. Barry Alvarez built this program with Wisconsin kids who wanted to run the ball down your throat and play defense in the snow. Now every freshman spends his first year shopping his NIL value instead of learning how to block. The portal killed development. NIL killed loyalty. And we are supposed to get excited about Indiana being good because they bought the right transfers? Give me a brreak.