Loyalty

And same with players.

Agreed.

I just went to Calhoun’s X profile where he announced he’s going to the portal, and I was so tempted to respond something like “I wish you nothing, you traitor.”

But I didn’t. I won’t say anything.

But I was tempted. Almost did.

I think many fans have had an attitude of “don’t talk bad to players even if they leave.” I doubt that attitude sticks around much longer. Fans will start turning on players soon, if not already.

As far as Whitt is concerned, I was P**SED when he closed spring scrimmages several years ago. My patience with him was tested to the limits this past season. I paid a TON of money for season tickets, and I am seriously thinking if I want to do it more.

Screw loyalty.

Frankly, it’s a huge turnoff when all this stuff happens and fans are still expected to attend games, buy merchandise, donate to the collective, travel for bowls, etc etc while everyone else is concerned just about the money.

I wish them nothing.

Preach 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻.

I don’t mind some money for college athletes but the way it’s setup is the Wild Wild West, it’s a free for all that’s ruining college football. It really needs to be regulated and structured in some way with guidelines that need to followed

This is similar to what happened for me with MLB.

In the early 90s as a Pirates fan it really turned me off when Bonds, Bonilla, Van slyke, Bell, Drabek, Belinda, Smiley, Carlos Garcia, Rafael Belliard, Jose Lind were broken up due to $$$$. That was the end of MLB for me. I attend maybe one or two Rockies games a year. And Sid Bream, you’re dead to me.

And shortly thereafter the players went on strike in 94-95, that was the end for me. In the early 2000s I did a quick look and for the preceding 8 years only one team, Miami, won the World Series without a top four payroll in baseball. Then right after the Marlins had a fire sale.

CFB is headed in the same direction.

Until somebody, an adult in the room can fix this NIL highest bidding and tampering it’s only going to get worse. And sadly, I don’t think any adults are going to step up.

Preach on!

AMEN!!! Utah fans who want to s*** on other fans for not being loyal need to read your post! NIL is #1 problem in college football these day. As far as Utah football, I say Whittingham right now is the #1 problem in the program. I think many Utah players could have been salvaged and stay at Utah if it wasn’t for Whitt’s poor mismanagement of the QB situation and handling of the locker room situation by putting a complete lock down on the disarray in the program and going to radio silence with no ounce of accountability for his actions. Go UTES!!!

The best way to protest is to not watch the games, buy tickets, merchandise, comment online, etc. If fans stop watching and they start losing money that will cause a change.

That is easier said than done as we are all on fam board commenting about it. We all have an emotional tie to Utah sports and hate the way college sports is going.

It feels like at some ping college football will implode on itself.

I don’t disagree with your whole post, much I do agree with. But take a chill pill, we’ve had one bad year in 20. It shocks me how quickly Ute fans became like Ohio State fans.

Fan comes from Fanatic. Loyalty aka Branding aka Tribalism.

Coke v Pepsi. I’ve seen people pitch a total fit t a restaurant because one was served instead of the other and I know for a fact that the person in question didn’t notice the difference when I passed them the wrong product in a glass in the past.

In other words.. It’s all marketing. We have been convinced as consumers (that is what we are… cheering $$ machines) that our identity is somehow tied to the success of some sports team. We are called the 12th man for a reason…because it makes us FEEL like we matter so we keep participating and paying. If it wasn’t about the money, we would be watching intramurals and sitting on wooden benches still.

I was a season ticket holder for 20+ years…I donated crazy amounts to the CC. And I still enjoy watching my team win so my own lawn needs some mowing here I admit.

Still I find this video puts it back into perspective now and then….worth a watch once a year Sports go sports

Why is the NFL the most successful professional sports league?

Hard salary caps. Revenue sharing. Scheduling by record.

You’d think other sports would at least try to emulate it.