Yeah, the inevitability of talent spreading, parity growing, via portal and NIL is starting to really show.
What we're seeing now is why I never understood how so many people were so staunchly against all the changes. Almost religiously. Especially the middle and lower tier programs and fans. Though they may never have the money, resources, facilities, or even NIL capabilities but they were always going to benefit from more freedom of movement talent now has.
Alabama will always have more resources, willingness to spend them on football, history, tradition, pomp and circumstance, etc... which will keep them in play for the first layer of talent. Starters, elite recruits, freshmen, redshirt freshmen.
The difference in this era now will be once those elite recruits realize they're not going to play as much of a role as they wanted after a year or two in program, they're going to bounce.
The crying shame of eras past was not the wealth, facilities, recruiting budgets, etc. It was QB rooms stuffed with 5* kids who could play somewhere else. It was special teams full of linebackers, TEs, WRs who could have gone and made significant contributions at other programs.
Then there's the talent that was playing at lower tier programs who can level up and go somewhere without sitting out a year and going through all that.
All that talent is blossoming all across the college landscape now.
I think it also means something for betting, lines...vegas. I'm sure they're on top of it and will adjust better than anyone with all the resources they have to dig into it all.
Right now though there's been some head scratching, goofy f8cking lines. Again, adjustment period just like everyone else involved.
Going forward though I think we're going to see a change in betting. Things at the P4 level at least will most likely trend more towards NFL.
You can't give programs 10, 15, 20 points anymore.
