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Message: [QUOTE="0.2 YNdeeR, post: 4109575, member: 8125"] Those teams have been dominant but it's not just the 'Bama and Georgia parade that is turning off fans. It's the overall lack of parity in CFB. The playoffs are like groundhog day: nine of the last ten champions and most of the top teams are from the deep south. Once in a while there's a fleeting appearance by Oregon, and the B1G gets a few teams in (OSU, ND or Michigan). But who can compete with Alabama, Georgia and Clemson when they would rather divert hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to football salaries than provide basic government services (like education). Remember the Clemson game in the Dome this October? There were more Tiger assistants than players on the field. Its recruiting staff is almost certainly gigantic, and it has to be to compete with lazy rivers and legions of staff at other SEC schools. If these structural disparities aren't enough, the portal has exploded and the NCAA has tossed the reins on NIL/booster money. Every time it moves away from amateurism the corruption gets more brazen. There are abuses in college hoops as well. But the games are still interesting because it takes far less money to run a basketball program than a football program, so there's more opportunity for parity and diversity. Yes the southern blue bloods have been successful - Duke, Carolina (ACC) and UK (SEC). But non-blue bloods from other regions have been able to compete and win - Nova and UConn twice each. And we've seen a variety of FF teams rise up from different conferences and states - the Pacific NW (Pac12 -Zags), the West Coast (Big12, Baylor), the North (Nova and Uconn, Big East/Amer. Ath.), the South (Atlantic 10 - VCU), and the Mid-West (American Conference - Witch. St., B1G with Michigan and OSU, and Missouri Valley with Loyola-Chi). Enjoy it while it lasts. The crazy new NLI/Portal system is just getting started, and will inevitably exacerbate the power consolidation in college basketball that has destroyed parity on the gridiron. [/QUOTE]

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