re: Once and for all. Declining college football attendance is NOT just an LSU problem

I noticed this last night really heavily for the first time. It seemed like every time the stadium actually got rocking at all, there was a TV timeout. Then, it was the new DJ thing to try to keep people in it. It just gets silly though. It’s not a pump up or keep in the game scenario. It takes away from the energy and flow of the game. Then, it’s all the sudden time to get back into the game. During every one of these timeouts, people inevitably get out their phones and it just really has changed the flow of the game. It’s hard to stay engaged as a fan that long when the energy waxes and wanes so much. The two 9 play scoring drives we had were great, but there were no time outs. This, no TV breaks and the tempo was there. The energy was there. The band was playing and not a DJ.

I think traffic plays a role as well. You also have to take into account younger families who have kids and need a babysitter are probably leaving to accommodate at halftime or mid-3rd.

Baseball, as a sport, was revamped because ut got boring with all the delays. It may be getting time to do the same with football. The TV timeouts, even when watching at home, have gotten out of hand.