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Mike Thot

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...find themselves caring less and less about the players on the team?

The portal is a cancer on college football. I get it I sound like the guy yelling at kids to stay off his lawn.
I was watching the POP TARTS BOWL at a bar and they were simultaneously showing the '88 Miami/ND bowl game.
I remembered caring about those dudes.
Now I just hate on the coaches for not getting enough out of the players they pay to come to Miami.
Now I think in terms of wasted money instead of wasted talent.

Bleak times.

This **** is a disaster.
 
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Mike Thot said:
...find themselves caring less and less about the players on the team?

The portal is a cancer on college football. I get it I sound like the guy yelling at kids to stay off his lawn.
I was watching the POP TARTS BOWL at a bar and they were simultaneously showing the '88 Miami/ND bowl game.
I remembered caring about those dudes.
Now I just hate on the coaches for not getting enough out of the players they pay to come to Miami.
Now I think in terms of wasted money instead of wasted talent.

Bleak times.

This **** is a disaster.
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It's definitely a different era of college football. I think what's changed with me is i don't get excited about recruits anymore. These kids can immediately turn around an transfer the very next season if they aren't happy with playing time, etc. It's getting harder and harder to get attached to players. If they play well enough there will be tons of teams tampering to offer more money, or if they are highly ranked and don't play much at all there will be teams after them with promises to play more.
 
Mike Thot said:
...find themselves caring less and less about the players on the team?

The portal is a cancer on college football. I get it I sound like the guy yelling at kids to stay off his lawn.
I was watching the POP TARTS BOWL at a bar and they were simultaneously showing the '88 Miami/ND bowl game.
I remembered caring about those dudes.
Now I just hate on the coaches for not getting enough out of the players they pay to come to Miami.
Now I think in terms of wasted money instead of wasted talent.

Bleak times.

This **** is a disaster.
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chris2183l said:
It's definitely a different era of college football. I think what's changed with me is i don't get excited about recruits anymore. These kids can immediately turn around an transfer the very next season if they aren't happy with playing time, etc. It's getting harder and harder to get attached to players. If they play well enough there will be tons of teams tampering to offer more money, or if they are highly ranked and don't play much at all there will be teams after them with promises to play more.
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Even the excitement of where that little goof-ball Noel Divine ended up was so exciting back in the day.
 
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chris2183l said:
It's definitely a different era of college football. I think what's changed with me is i don't get excited about recruits anymore. These kids can immediately turn around an transfer the very next season if they aren't happy with playing time, etc. It's getting harder and harder to get attached to players. If they play well enough there will be tons of teams tampering to offer more money, or if they are highly ranked and don't play much at all there will be teams after them with promises to play more.
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This place drives the recruiting love hate relationship - oversell, Miami feels good here, watch the spinach, if the loafer fits they just commit, etc.

Players are what they are, they are paid, student athletes that put on for our school. Only slightly different than the pros -- you want to see your team and the players on your team excel, but if they don't you discuss it and likely assign some level of blame or fault. I think we should give them a bit more benefit of the doubt than full out pros, and they probably should not take the all out blame when the coaches set them up for failure.

Ultimately the blame falls on the head coach, tons of built in excuses for the current one - and maybe he deserved a slice of grace as an ex-player - but he burned that with 5-7 blowouts, never kneel and his Bros being so ridiculously biased they turned many quickly after all their highlights were debunked with a little bit of research.

Players need to look out for their own. NCAA made this mess. Players gained, but are now seeing some of the negatives.
 
Gi0logy said:
Not really. Cam is arguably my favorite player over the last 15 years. X is probably top 5 right too.

But we’ve also sucked the last 15 years so that probably plays a role.
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Definitely exceptions. But X is an outlier in today’s CFB IMO and Cam a one year rental. The way I think of this topic is I don’t feel I can really “follow their career” if that makes sense. Most are gone the next season.
 
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mirvin88 said:
Definitely exceptions. But X is an outlier in today’s CFB IMO and Cam a one year rental. The way I think of this topic is I don’t feel I can really “follow their career” if that makes sense. Most are gone the next season.
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That’s fair. It’s definitely more akin to following NFL than traditional college football as we know it.

Can still have players you love and will follow for the entirety of their NFL career but it is different.
 
OP, all of that. Short and sweet, I care very little these days. It's like something you loved as a kid and while it's kind of cool, it has nowhere near the same value in your life today. I went from going to 3 to 5 aways games a year since I don't live in S FL to not one in 15 years. It is what it is.

The part that sucks most is that this is something that was an amazing part of growing up and my early adult years. I literally loved thinking of taking a son or daughter one day, experiencing the same things I did with my family, etc. I hope to take the kids one day, but I never dreamed they'd be 14 and 11, with not a single game attended.
 
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Gi0logy said:
Not really. Cam is arguably my favorite player over the last 15 years. X is probably top 5 right too.

But we’ve also sucked the last 15 years so that probably plays a role.
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To that end though -- they are and deserve to be because they actually delivered. For 15 years, we all got excited to buy and sell any glimmer of hope. That is how Greentree All Americans ramped up, how we cared about all the hype and kool aid..we are starved for greatness and we saw it, but also heard how every single recruit and player was doing well and staff liked what they were seeing and then the **** defense happened and we all saw it coming.

Coincidently -- Emory hype was at it's pinnacle up until our defense fell apart and then the rhetoric changed -- likely due to oh **** -- he is really good in practice, but ANYONE is good against these guys..
 
SayWhat said:
OP, all of that. Short and sweet, I care very little these days. It's like something you loved as a kid and while it's kind of cool, it has nowhere near the same value in your life today. I went from going to 3 to 5 aways games a year since I don't live in S FL to not one in 15 years. It is what it is.
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I can't imagine it'll help the NFL long term either. Yes it's a juggernaut but I used to care where the Canes ended up.
 
Mike Thot said:
Do you stop loving them when they enter the portal?
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Depends on who and why.If it’s just a kid looking for playing time I’m good with it but if it’s a starter here just looking for another big bag I don’t care where he goes or what he does….
 
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