"But in the long term, when you pattern yourself after the NFL in order to get some of their television juice, when you jettison the traditions and orthodoxies

"But in the long term, when you pattern yourself after the NFL in order to get some of their television juice, when you jettison the traditions and orthodoxies that made people fall in love with the sport in the first place, you stop being college football: You simply become Minor League NFL. And no one cares about minor league anything." This pretty much sums-up college football today: it has no future. When you throw out all of the traditions you're left with a bunch of kids playing football. I can watch that on Friday night for a lot less money - and support my local community.