At the conclusion of week two, there are now seven starting quarterbacks who are going to or have been missing time with injuries.
This includes Kyler Murray, Michael Penix, Caleb Williams, and Jayden Daniels.
Roger Goodell decided to continue his social justice stand this year by painting “End Racism” in the back of the end zones again, but he can’t even prevent the systemic racism in the league from wiping out his black quarterbacks.
It sounds preposterous, but it will probably be a topic of discussion on ESPN this week.
I tuned into the Monday Night Football game just long enough to see Jaxson Dart get injured for the Giants, and promptly tuned right back out.
One of the downsides of the league pushing offense and tailoring things to quarterbacks so heavily is that when they get injured, the desire to watch their games absolutely plummets. And the numbers don’t lie.
The major disparity around the league has been between the haves and have-nots when it comes to those rostering a franchise quarterback. There aren’t 32 human beings on earth who can play quarterback at an elite level in the National Football League, and when the ones who can are getting injured en masse at the beginning of the season, it creates a substantially less watchable product.
Thursday Night Football will now feature Michael Penix Jr. starting for the Falcons against the Packers in his first game back after tearing his ACL in week 11 of last season, and Monday Night Football will likely showcase Tyson Bagent under center for the Bears against the Eagles.
Sure, there’s always a chance that somebody steps in and becomes the next Tom Brady. That chance is about one in a billion, but sure, there’s a chance. In the meantime it will produce a lot of lopsided games that end up being stuck in national broadcast and primetime windows.
Sunday Ticket is a huge revenue driver for the league, but it also inhibits them from adapting to these changes on the fly. College Football has every game available on network, cable or ESPN streaming, and will always have the week’s best matchup on national TV.
SATURDAY CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH 🍿
For the first time since Dec. 1, 2023, there will be SIX AP-ranked games on the same day 🤯🔥 pic.twitter.com/Jzk9DaXUSh
This Saturday, there are six AP-ranked games, the first time it’s happened since 2023. Networks being able to adjust which games are on which windows also gives them an advantage over the NFL. The NFL has the “flex” system to replace bad primetime matchups with better ones, but it’s rarely used and creates more headaches for fans who have already made travel arrangements to see games.
Expect Roger Goodell to introduce a few more rule changes to protect his cash-cow-quarterbacks even further.
North Carolina came in at number two on our College Football Crisis Rankings, and that may need to be elevated after a decent showing by number one ranked CU last night, oh, and this absolutely insane report about the Tar Heels that came out before the Buffaloes kicked off.
University of North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi, the highest-paid general manager in college football, resigned Thursday after a tumultuous tenure in Chapel Hill working alongside Bill Belichick, the university said.
But the investigation is still ongoing, and lawyers hired by the university are now focused on behaviors by defensive coordinator Steve Belichick, people familiar with the investigation tell WRAL.
Colorado went into Atlanta and beat Georgia Tech 14-13, Julian Lewis hitting Charlie Williams for the go ahead touchdown in the final minute. Then blocked the Yellow Jackets’ attempt at a game winning field-goal to secure the victory.
Amazingly, both teams began the season 1-0. Another reason that College Football is the absolute best.
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill is one of the most epic party schools in the country. And that’s just the Football staff.
Self-described Football Genius, Michael Lombardi abruptly resigned as UNC’s general manager Thursday, a month after being placed on paid administrative leave, and hours before WRAL published what the investigators have actually been asking about. Lawyers hired by the university have been questioning people about whether defensive coordinator Steve Belichick used drugs on the job, or handed them to at least one player. Steve has been on medical leave since early August.
And that’s only half of it. The same lawyers have been asking whether a female member of the recruiting staff had a sexual relationship with a player, and separately, whether assistant coaches were sleeping with the recruiting staff.
Can we add this to the list of benefits to come from women being shoehorned into coaching and staff positions in this sport?
“The head coach’s tenure has generated far more off-field headlines than on-field success.” — WRAL
Bill being Bill, he appears unfazed. And honestly, that’s part of what I love about the guy. The fact that the media, in particular the Boston sports media that has been trying to claim his scalp for years and continues to do so while he’s down in Chapel Hill, still can’t get him to change, apologize, or bow down to their demands. I loved the surly, poker-face press conferences he gave in New England. But I will not pretend he hasn’t done irreparable damage to his reputation since Brady left Foxborough. And many would argue, it wasn’t too hot back then either. In this case, things appear to be getting uglier than they did in Foxborough, Aaron Hernandez aside. And still, they got pretty ugly.
People thought Bill having a 25 year old girlfriend was the craziest thing about the situation. Chapel Bill, one of the many nicknames that he trademark-rushed the second he took the UNC job, or as I am dubbing him, Boner Pill Bill, is the staff member who appears to have his personal life the most together. But clearly his efficacy as the leader of a Power 4 football program is abysmal.
NEW: Bill Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson interjects & shuts down a question during the middle of an interview on CBS.
This is wild.
Hudson reportedly interrupted multiple times.
Interviewer to Belichick: "How did you guys meet?"
Having first-year Tar Heel Offensive Coordinator Bobby Petrino in the house for this really is the perfect garnish. Arkansas fired Petrino for cause in April 2012 after he laid his Harley down on Highway 16 with 25-year-old Jessica Dorrell on the back. He held a press conference two days later in a neck brace and said he was riding alone.
Dorrell was a former Arkansas volleyball player he had just hired onto the football staff at $55,735 a year, picked out of 159 applicants after an unusually short search, four days before the crash. He had also given her $20,000, which she used to buy a car. The state police report was about to go public, so he finally told his athletic director. He lost an $18 million buyout over it.
The Pro-Am Triple Crown is a stat I have been unofficially tracking in my football observing life for decades. It’s an incredibly rare achievement. The feat requires winning the Heisman Trophy, the National Championship, and then being selected first overall in the spring draft that follows.
To date there have been only five players to achieve this. Three of them within the last 15 years.
Cam Newton went 14-0 at Auburn in 2010, took the Heisman, beat Oregon for the BCS title, and went first overall to Carolina that April. Joe Burrow’s 2019 at LSU is the best season a quarterback has ever put on tape — 5,671 yards, 60 touchdown passes, 15-0, and a Heisman margin so wide it broke O.J. Simpson’s 1968 record. Cincinnati took him first the next spring. The passing game coordinator who built the juggernaut offense around him was Joe Brady, current head coach of the Buffalo Bills. Burrow was also the first LSU player to win the Heisman in sixty years. The third player to complete the trifecta this century is Fernando Mendoza, and we’ll get to him.
Which brings me to the other two, both from my beloved Fighting Irish.
Angelo Bertelli won the Heisman for Notre Dame in 1943 in six games. The Marines called him up after the Navy game in late October and his college career was over. The Irish won the national title anyway and the Boston Yanks took him first overall in 1944. He never played a down in the NFL. He deployed to Iwo Jima instead.
Six years later Leon Hart did it again for Frank Leahy. Undefeated 1949, consensus national champion, Heisman and Maxwell winner, first overall to Detroit in 1950. He’s still the last lineman to win the Heisman. Notre Dame has two of the five and both of the historical ones. Nobody else has more than one.
There have been a few players in recent years that hit all three objectives but did so over the course of multiple seasons. Jameis Winston won the Heisman and the title in the same year at Florida State in 2013 as a redshirt freshman, then played another season before entering the draft in 2015 to go first overall. O.J. Simpson has all three pieces — the 1967 title at USC in his first year on campus, the 1968 Heisman, first overall to Buffalo in 1969. Billy Cannon won LSU’s title in 1958 as a junior, took the 1959 Heisman, and went first overall to the Rams in 1960. And Ernie Davis was a sophomore on Syracuse’s 1959 championship team, led them in rushing and won Cotton Bowl MVP, then took the Heisman in 1961 as the first black player to win it and went first overall in 1962. Like Bertelli, he never played a professional down. Leukemia took him at just twenty-three years old.
Bryce Young has the three honors over multiple years, but my criteria requires being a starter at their position in the national championship season. He threw for 156 yards the entire 2020 season behind Mac Jones. Vinny Testaverde is out by the same rule — he redshirted in 1983 while Bernie Kosar won Miami a championship.
Bo Jackson is the one worth arguing about. Auburn went 11-1 in 1983 and beat Michigan in the Sugar Bowl playing the hardest schedule in the country. Miami vaulted from fifth to first after the Orange Bowl and took the AP, UPI, FWAA and coaches titles. Auburn got named champion by the New York Times computer poll, Billingsley, the CFRA and a few others, and Auburn now officially claims it. Pat Dye said his team would wear New York Times rings. So Bo has a Heisman, a first overall pick, and a national title that exists entirely at the discretion of whichever selector you feel like trusting. He also never signed with Tampa Bay.
And there’s a much longer list of players who have hit two-out-of-three. Baker Mayfield won the Heisman at Oklahoma in 2017 and went first overall to Cleveland in 2018, but Georgia bounced the Sooners in the Rose Bowl semifinal. Caleb Williams took it at USC in 2022 and went first overall to Chicago in 2024 — no title, and two years between the trophy and the pick. Carson Palmer won the 2002 Heisman and went first to Cincinnati in 2003 while Ohio State won the championship and USC finished fourth. Kyler Murray, Heisman at Oklahoma in 2018, first overall to Arizona in 2019, nothing else. Earl Campbell won the 1977 Heisman at Texas and went first to Houston in 1978, and it was Notre Dame that beat the Longhorns in the Cotton Bowl and took the title. Trevor Lawrence gets there from the other direction — title as a true freshman starter at Clemson in 2018, first overall to Jacksonville in 2021, but no Heisman. He finished second to DeVonta Smith in 2020.
And then there’s the reverse case: Johnny Lujack won the Heisman on Notre Dame’s undefeated 1947 championship team and missed the whole thing by three draft slots, because the Bears had already spent the fourth overall pick on him the year before.
The newest member to this exclusive club is Fernando Mendoza, fresh off one of the most incredible seasons in College Football history. A true Cinderella story, something that would have seemed only possible in a video game just three years ago. I know, because I saw Indiana play in person three years ago and the idea they were less than two years away from a Natty then is mind-blowing.
Mendoza is an interesting case, the jury is out on if he truly possesses what it takes to be a franchise quarterback in the NFL. The truth is, I’m not sure. Both sides make salient points in their arguments. What he becomes at the pro level remains to be seen. What I do know is that because of his personality, I will be rooting for him to succeed. He’s been clowned on for his overly kind and professional disposition in interviews and for his answers getting him the nickname ChatGPT. During his appearance on Monday Night Football in the preseason this year he referred to play-by-play man Joe Buck as Mr. Buck. I love the contrast this gives to Raider Nation. The Raiders have also been making moves that make the team more competitive, and dare I say more watchable.
“He is a bad dude, man. He’s what the Raiders need.” — Jon Gruden
Which leads me to a quick sidebar: I do this insane thing as a sports fan, I hope for teams, that I don’t hate, to become fun to watch. Sports are the ultimate content, and they should be enjoyable to follow. Sure, when it’s your team it’s a whole different vibe, but the rest of the games, I want to actually have the desire to tune in and be entertained. It helps when you’re watching great ensembles that honor the game by playing it with a high-level of execution, situational awareness and discipline. Sloppy football is not good content. I’ll cover which teams I think are going to be the most “fun” to watch this season in a future post. With a few teams to be included that may surprise you.
This offseason the Raiders added Mendoza, Tyler Linderbaum, my favorite center. Yes, I have a favorite center. He’s a monster in the middle from Iowa by way of the Ravens that should be a huge contributor to Mendoza’s odds of sticking around. They gave him three years and $81 million, which makes him the highest-paid interior offensive lineman in football. They tried to trade Maxx Crosby — and by tried I mean the deal was done, two first-round picks from Baltimore, before the Ravens failed him on a physical and walked away from it. They also signed linebackers Quay Walker and Nakobe Dean, edge rusher Kwity Paye, receiver Jalen Nailor, and Kirk Cousins on a one-year deal. They also welcome in a new head coach too, Klint Kubiak from Seattle, taking over a team that went 3-14. It looks like the Tom Brady Era in Las Vegas has officially begun.
My hope for the Raiders is they lose enough games to snag a top-five pick and land Jeremiah Smith, the Ohio State WR that is the best prospect at the position in years, drawing comparisons physically to Calvin Johnson. But with Kirk Cousins at the helm and an improved roster, that may be difficult for them to pull off. A big time receiver and a fortified offensive line would help Mendoza’s chances once he gets put into the fray.
And I don’t think they should rush it, letting him sit behind Cousins for the vast majority of the season and ending the year with 3-4 starts could be a much better way to bring him along than feeding him to the wolves right out of the gate the way franchises often do with top QB’s now.
The exclusivity of Mendoza’s accomplishment should be applauded, he has entered rarified air. And his attitude and disposition make it easy to do so.
This College Football season has a few potential contenders who could actually pull the Triple Crown off. Arch Manning at Texas, Julian Sayin at Ohio State, Dante Moore at Oregon, and my personal favorite, CJ Carr at Notre Dame — who opened as the betting favorite for the Heisman, for whatever that’s worth in August.
I’m counting down the five biggest crisis situations in College Football. This isn’t the worst overall programs. This factors in failing to meet expectations, mismanagement, financial and conference status, consistent losing, scandals, and falling from grace. These are situations that are faltering in the ever changing landscape of college football. Some have more viable paths back to success than others.
Honorable Mention: Michigan State
Three head coaches in four years. They fired Mel Tucker for cause in 2023 with $79 million left on his deal, a designation he’s still suing to overturn. Then they gave Jonathan Smith seven years and fired him after two, eating $32.5 million. Then they replaced him with Pat Fitzgerald, two years out of the game after Northwestern fired him amid a hazing scandal.
And I still see Fitzgerald as a potentially stabilizing force with upside. He won 110 games in Evanston with none of the resources he’ll have now.
They’ll be fine either way. Big Ten full shares averaged nearly $80 million in 2024-25 and Michigan State collects that annually. Conference status is their saving grace. The Spartans can eat the $32.5 million they owe Smith, but if Tucker settles for as much as that or more, things get a little hairy. It’s not all doom and gloom in East Lansing, but the gap between the Spartans and the Wolverines, Buckeyes, Nittany Lions, and Hoosiers has only grown wider. Not to mention how much further the additions of USC, Washington and Oregon drop them down the conference pecking order.
#5 Florida State
The ACC fell behind. Its schools pull in the mid-forties per year while the Big Ten and SEC each clear $70 million, so Florida State sued its own conference to get out early. They settled in March 2025 — a bigger cut of the ESPN money, exit fee cut to $165 million and dropping to $75 million by 2030-31, media rights included on the way out. They bought themselves a door.
The problem is there may not be a room on the other side. The Big Ten only admits AAU members — Miami got in in 2023, along with North Carolina, Duke, Virginia and Pitt. Florida State isn’t one. The SEC doesn’t need them either, since Florida already owns the state, and Finebaum’s read is they’d rather have UNC and Virginia. And if the SEC does want to expand its footprint into Florida, Miami is the more lucrative option.
The football has matched the finances. No bowl game since 2018. Third head coach in three years after Troy Taylor was fired and Frank Reich filled in for a season. Andrew Luck runs the program as general manager now, and Tavita Pritchard, a first-time head coach, runs the team. CFN projects the worst quarterback situation in the conference.
The alumni network is the counterargument, and it is a real one. Stanford graduates founded the world we live in today: Google, Nike, Netflix and Instagram, and the list goes on. The university sits on an endowment north of $37 billion. There is more capital in that donor base than in any five athletic departments combined.
It hasn’t mattered. Money moves toward things people want to be part of, and right now nobody wants to be part of Stanford football. Admissions standards don’t bend for a $23 million roster market. The travel doesn’t shorten. The media share doesn’t change until the next decade, and by then their best case scenario may be a spot in the Big 12. They are one of the big losers of the Pac-12 collapse, but not as big as the next team.
#3 Oregon State
This is the Pac-12 collapse’s biggest casualty. Ten schools left, Oregon State and Washington State were not invited anywhere, and the two of them kept the conference name and rebuilt it with Mountain West level teams. The 2026 Pac-12 is Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Texas State, Utah State and Gonzaga for basketball.
On the field it has been worse. Oregon State went 2-10 last year. They fired Trent Bray at 0-7, the worst start since 1991, and the school said the roughly $4 million buyout would come out of donor money. That is a program passing the hat to fire its own coach. JaMarcus Shephard, a 42-year-old first-time head coach, takes over. This was a top-ten team in 2023.
On a personal note, I grew up a Pac-10 kid, and I’m glad to see the name live on. The conference may end up being one of the most exciting top to bottom in the FBS. But that doesn’t change the reality of the business side of things.
For a school that was spurned by the Big 12, their prospects for a better situation in the next round of realignment look meek. A dominant run in the new Pac-12 is their best hope to return to some form of national relevance.
#2 North Carolina
The Tar Heels made a splash last offseason with the hiring of NFL GOAT, eight-time Super Bowl winner, Bill Belichick. BB was given his “mutual” separation with the Patriots after a string of strange decisions, like having a defensive coordinator coach the offense, regressing Mac Jones from year two on, and missing the playoffs two years running, among a host of other issues.
I love Bill Belichick. I know that’s not a common sentiment from most fans, or even the media. I liked his surly press conferences and his casual trolling. I found him to be extremely entertaining, even if that was never his intention. The Boston sports media does not share that sentiment. They haven’t stopped dancing on his NFL head coaching grave since he left town.
After being passed over for the Falcons job, Coach Belichick spent a season in media, making weekly appearances on the Pat McAfee show and hosting his own podcast on YouTube. In each of these appearances there was a real sense that BB was attempting to rehab his image for one more crack at holding the reins for an NFL team. He sits just 15 wins away from Coach Shula’s record of 347.
He shocked the world by agreeing to a five year deal with the Tar Heels, but it conveniently included a reasonable opt out fee if he got an NFL offer after one year. The buyout was $10 million before June 1, 2025, and $1 million after. He brought in self-diagnosed football genius Michael Lombardi, his son Steve as defensive coordinator after a year as Washington’s DC, and perhaps most notoriously his 24 year old girlfriend Jordon Hudson.
After a horrendous first year on the field, and banning the Patriots from scouting players in person, his promise to be the 33rd NFL team that would prepare players for the league better than any other school in the nation looks thin. UNC finished 4-8 and had zero players drafted, ending a streak of at least one Tar Heel selected every year since 2016.
North Carolina may have a bright future if they’re able to exit the ACC for the Big Ten in 2031, but that will be long after the short term pain being induced upon them right now. If UNC fires him without cause after this season, they owe him the balance of the guarantee through December 2027 — one year, $10 million.
The question of whether Chapel Bill still has it in him to produce a winner the Belichick way is one of my favorite storylines going into the season. Game one in Dublin, Ireland on August 29th against a TCU team that dog-walked them last year will have the eyes of the college football world upon it, and it can’t get here soon enough.
#1 Colorado
What can be said about this program that Jason Whitlock hasn’t already called out? Deion came over from Jackson State with a head full of steam. He brought Shedeur and Travis Hunter as his top holdovers from Jackson, and the “Louis” luggage he had jump in the portal. They stormed out to a 3-0 start, including a big season opening win on the road at TCU, and then the wheels fell off and they limped out to a 4-8 record. Reports came out from former players about the standoffish nature of Coach Prime Time, refusing to even speak to a significant portion of them.
In his second year they had their best record of his tenure at 9-4 and an Alamo Bowl loss to BYU. That might not sound great to you, but it was in fact enough to get two-way star Hunter the Heisman trophy. And as far as accomplishments for Deion in his time at CU, that’s the highwatermark, and frankly, nothing to sneeze at.
It appeared the CU move was just an attempt to get Shedeur into the NFL. ESPN did the best they could to assist with that, hyping him as QB 1A of the draft. Shedeur fell to the fifth round where he was selected by the Cleveland Browns, who had already selected Dillon Gabriel in the third round of that same draft. Shedeur’s time in Cleveland is well documented. I felt he held onto the ball for far too long in college to be a viable NFL starter, and some of those bad habits continue to plague his game today. Hunter was taken second overall by the Jags, who let him play both offense and defense his rookie season until he was hurt. He looked undersized in the NFL.
The run by the two athletes was enough to get their jersey numbers retired in Boulder. A move that would have been palatable had it only been Hunter’s. It seemed like Deion would mentally and emotionally check out after Shedeur moved on. He spent the CU offseason dealing with a bladder cancer issue, had a new bladder constructed, and returned in time for the start of the season. A disappointing one as the Buffs ended with a 3-9 record and won a single Big 12 game. Sanders enters year 4 having signed a five-year, $54 million extension in March 2025 that pays him an average of $10.8 million per year, making him the highest paid coach in the Big 12.
Footage has come out of Colorado’s fall camp practices this month, and the players looked extremely undersized.
𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Colorado Football team has gone viral for looking like a Youth Football team during practice.
The Buffaloes' players look concerningly skinny and extremely small.
In response to the negative publicity, CU placed a comprehensive gag order on reporters attending practice. They were not allowed to report on anything, that’s right, anything they saw at the session. The email read that nothing observed may be reported, published, posted, broadcast or otherwise shared in any form, on any platform, at any time, and that if you’re uncertain whether something is reportable, the answer is that it is not. If that wasn’t enough bad publicity, footage was then released of their female strength and conditioning coach giving a folksy, “y’all” laced speech to hype up the team that went over like a description of Linda Blair in The Exorcist at the family dinner table.
Powerful: Colorado’s female strength and conditioning coach Morgen Cote has gone viral for her motivational speech to the team.
"I don’t do this for the love of the game. I do this for the love of y’all."
The Big 12 is underfunded compared to the big two conferences. Their conference wide Monster Energy jersey patch sponsor is $20 million for the entire league, which comes out to about a million a school. Notre Dame’s SoFi patch is worth $18 to $20 million for just them. Yes, the Fighting Irish patch is equal to the entirety of the Big 12.
NIL is part of the issue, but it doesn’t make it any less real. Deion thrived when it was hype and swagger and attitude that sold young men on the program. Now years of missed expectations, excuses, and negative stories have soured prospects on calling Boulder home, and when they can’t match the checks being written by mid to bottom tier Big Ten schools, it’s easy to see why.
I expect this to be Deion’s last season on the sidelines. If he makes it through the year, he can agree to a buyout, step down due to “health reasons,” and sign a lucrative deal with ESPN to be featured on College GameDay where he can be a well-compensated media personality. Which is one of the things I believe he does best. His segments on NFL Network were usually very enjoyable. Back when they had the dream team of Marshall Faulk, Warren Sapp, Michael Irvin, Kurt Warner and Steve Mariucci. The program was actually fun, entertaining and informative. Contrast that with the media slop offered up by ESPN. Suffice to say, Deion, the Buffaloes, and ESPN may all be the better for this being his rocky mountain swan song.
European football’s governing body, UEFA, has made clear their response to FIFA’s stated plans to sell private stakes in the World Cup.
“UEFA and its 55 member associations stand as one. We unanimously and unequivocally reject FIFA’s proposal to transfer ownership interests in the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors.The World Cup cannot be treated as an investment product. It is one of football’s greatest sporting legacies. It has been built over generations by players, national teams and supporters across every continent. No part of it should ever be surrendered to private investors. The World Cup is not for sale.” —UEFA
This evokes memories of the European uprising in response to twelve of the biggest clubs coordinating for their own breakaway league in 2021. The dirty dozen involved were Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Juventus, AC Milan, and Inter Milan.
“Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus all dropped out of the Super League on Wednesday, leaving the new competition essentially extinct before it even started.” —CBC
The interesting thing is that the new league wouldn’t have ended the domestic European leagues the clubs are all aligned with, it would have changed the “Champions League” format by giving these top clubs permanent placements and a larger share of the money from it. The Champions League is their season-long playoff system that is most easily comparable to the College Football Playoff. The plan they had discussed was far less of a fundamental change to their structure than what College Football has and is currently in the process of undergoing.
Which has me thinking, if only Europe was as conservative about its borders and Americans were as resolute about our College Football, what a vastly different world it would be.
Thee Ohio State University just became the newest and largest Power 4 conference team to incorporate a jersey sponsor patch.
“Ohio State Athletics today announced a landmark partnership with JPMorganChase… designat[ing] Chase as the official bank sponsor of Ohio State Athletics and the new jersey patch partner across Ohio State’s 36 men’s and women’s varsity programs.” —Ohio State
I have put together a mock-up of what their jersey’s may look like twenty years from now.
This brings to mind my Rhetoric class in college. When we learned about fallacies, the professor was sure to emphasize the “Slippery Slope” fallacy, yet the private equitization of college athletics continues to argue for the converse:
The Slippery Slope is not a fallacy, it’s an inevitability.
Update: Notre Dame has just gotten into the mix. They have inked a six-year, $18-$20m a year deal with SoFi. While I may not love jersey sponsorship patches, I’m very pleased that Notre Dame’s is more valuable than OSU’s.
