And it's really only gotten worse since the pre-alliance bowl era to now. The BCS was bad, but the CFP era is even worse. I've been saying this for years, but with the last 24 hours, it feels like more BYU fans are realizing this, or at least more are vocalizing it.

Honestly, the only solution I see in keeping the amateur framework in place (and not implementing a salary cap or other non-viable minor-league NFL solution, which I don't think would work in programs like BYU or Utah's favor) would be to lower the number of scholarships to 53 (or something SIGNIFICANTLY less than 85, which is where it stands). If you take 30+ scholarship players from the top 15 programs and disperse them across the landscape of college football, you would see mid-major programs signing a TON of 3 star players and the occasional 4 star player. Any one of the top-40 or so programs could win any given year depending on how their recruiting classes have developed and gelled for a given season.

You wouldn't see Alabama, OSU, USC, etc. signing 25+ 4-star guys every single off-season and then cutting the 15 of them that don't make the cut over the next two years as they transfer to mid-major programs and then fade into non-relevance. The power programs would have to actually rely on good player development (rather than just signing an overwhelming amount of raw talent and cutting the fat every year), good coaching, and get lucky with those recruits to win every single year. And those programs would still be more successful on average, but they wouldn't have the same overwhelming edge of talent over everyone else. The difference between the #1 recruiting class and the #15 recruiting class is currently MASSIVE.

Right now, if compared to the NFL, college football's recruiting system would be like giving 4 teams EVERY SINGLE first and second round draft picks, the next 10 teams every single 3rd-6th round draft picks, and the remaining 16 teams get the 7th round and UFA leftovers. It's broken. I don't really know what else to say about it. Right now you have dynasties not because of how great these coaches are or even their facilities, but because they have somehow created a system in which 90% of the top recruits are consolidated at the top-10 schools. That's, IMO, the core cause that needs to be addressed.