This calendar in college
football in so many ways is broken. So can you imagine for
a moment, just just, you know, maybe
just picture this. The NFL. They finished their 17th
game, so everyone plays and then we've got this
playoff ready to go. The playoffs, they're set. We're excited. And a lot of ways the
sport's never hotter. Everyone's ready to go. And then the NFL
takes a month off and they decide to conduct their
NFL draft and have free agency. But they don't do
that separately. They just do that
all in the same week. Can you imagine that? Of course, you can't
imagine that because that would be absolutely insane. And yet that's the insanity
that we are in college football. Let me show you what
our calendar looks like in the month of December. It's wild. December 2nd this
year, we played conference championship games. Two days later, the
transfer portal opened up and we're going to have early
signing day on the 20th. So we're going to have
the transfer portal open and commits flying around
and try to sign high school recruits all at the same time. That's free agency and the
draft all at the same time. What are we doing? Why do we do that? And by the way, we haven't
even played the semifinals yet. So January 1st we're going
to get the semifinal games. Then the second
the portal closes because we got to get
these kids into school for their spring semester. And then we're going
to play the National championship after this. This is a pretty easy fix. OK the first thing
that we need to do is understand that we no longer
have the historical bull season that we used to, that we're
going to wait for January 1st, take a bunch of
time off for finals, and then play
these games and get ready for the spring semester. The world in so many ways in
college football has changed and we need to change
and evolve with it. One of the things
that we need to do is make sure that our
playoffs starts right after the regular season ends. So see this December 2nd
conference championship games. I want the semifinal
games to move all the way up right
here, which means you can bump down Everything else. Then you would
open up the portal and you would have a portal
section and period where you can get kids, recruit
kids and get them in for the spring semester. Then we would no longer
have early signing day, but we would have
traditional signing day and it would be separate. This would be better
for everybody involved. It would be better for fans, it
would be better for the health of the sport because as the
sport is at its hottest point late in the regular
season, we would just jam right into the playoffs. OK, so you take all
those big ratings and all of that enthusiasm and you
continue it into the playoffs, then you have free
agency transfer portal, then you have high
school signing day, which is the draft, and those players
would be able to make decisions with better information. OK, it wouldn't be this blender
of what we have right now. And it would also allow these
coaches to, I would say, conduct their business in
a more organized manner and build rosters, I think in a
more organized manner as well. So this calendar that
we just experienced, we need to throw it out. We need to do
something a little bit different in college football. This is not 1980 anymore. Let's start acting like
we're in 2023 and beyond. And I think we can do that by
fixing the month of December in college football.