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re: College sports blow now
Posted on 7/7/22 at 12:36 pm to GeauxTigers123
Posted on 7/7/22 at 12:36 pm to GeauxTigers123
But since many jerk off to the power of the SEC why does this make you feel bad? What will happen initially is that there will be a lot of teams frozen out because of this expansion. Then when both the Big 10 and SEC get too big....and it will, you'll have key teams breaking away. Then you'll have CBS and NBC making deals to undercut Fox and ESPN.....NBC could do this and has a platform with Broadcast NBC as well as the USA platform and a CNBC network that shows reruns of American Greed on the weekends.
American Greed followed by the AAC ( Atlantic Athletic Conference) game of the week when teams in the East leverage their money to form something new when they get run roughshod by the SEC and Big10....American Greed, indeed.
American Greed followed by the AAC ( Atlantic Athletic Conference) game of the week when teams in the East leverage their money to form something new when they get run roughshod by the SEC and Big10....American Greed, indeed.
This post was edited on 7/7/22 at 12:38 pm
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Posted on 7/7/22 at 12:38 pm to NIH
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I’ve always wanted to see USC play Rutgers
Just wait until the Rutgers women's volleyball team spends 3 days travelling to/from LA in the middle of the school week to play USC. Makes a ton of sense.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 12:41 pm to WestCoastAg
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which the big ten started in 1990 when it added penn state
Penn State was an Independent before joining the B1G...The B1G didn't poach them from another conference.
This post was edited on 7/7/22 at 12:42 pm
Posted on 7/7/22 at 12:46 pm to jlovel7
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The NFL is profitable but not nearly as fun as college football. College football is on the path to being a shite version of its professional counterpart.
CFB is already there. NIL and buying players and destroying historied rivalries and conferences and the CFB playoff have killed CFB. NFL is a superior product now for fans - long term rivalries are in tact, long term faces of the franchise are there, playoff system is superior, now they’re working on better matchups for prime time and a new wave of young talent to be the face of the league for a long time
Posted on 7/7/22 at 12:56 pm to Upperdecker
TBH the SEC should get broken up....I'm serious.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 12:57 pm to Upperdecker
TBH the SEC should get broken up....I'm serious.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 1:01 pm to WestCoastAg
I, too, found it interesting when OSU beat a #1 USC in the fog in Corvalis during the 2006 season
Posted on 7/7/22 at 1:02 pm to jlovel7
As a WVU fan, the OP nailed it and it sucks.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 1:10 pm to Buckeye Backer
well then its weird you are harping on the SEC for south carolina
Posted on 7/7/22 at 1:24 pm to NIH
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Georgia Tech battle with Minnesota
as exciting as that sounds...we had that a few years ago in the much anticipated Quick Lane Bowl. It did not live up to the hype lol
Posted on 7/7/22 at 1:27 pm to jlovel7
People care about money over all…even more so considering we’re headed to a recession.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 1:40 pm to The Pirate King
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Or how bout those South Carolina/Texas games...or those Oklahoma/Vanderbilt games. The SEC started this long ago.
You are a big ten deadass. I already mourn that my son won't be able to watch the Daves on JPS and watch a Vandy/South Carolina game to start their saturday. Now we will get some bullshite Kansas/Ole Miss game conference game.
This post was edited on 7/7/22 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 7/7/22 at 1:41 pm to jlovel7
I don't disagree at all. But once college starting charging high ticket prices, building luxury suites, paying multi-million coaching salaries, constantly building/rebuilding facilities in a never-ending "arms race" and signing massive media rights deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to a billion dollars, the "scholastic extracurricular" aspect of the sport gave way to what it has been for a few decades now...a multi-million/billion dollar entertainment business masquerading as "amature sports"
Much of the tradition and pageantry that made college sports what it has long been is ending. The question will be how long does it take fans to get past the nostalgia aspect of the sport and accept the new reality? It won't be immediately. It will probably take a few generations of the new reality to do so. But what WE current know and love about college sports is coming to and end.
Much of the tradition and pageantry that made college sports what it has long been is ending. The question will be how long does it take fans to get past the nostalgia aspect of the sport and accept the new reality? It won't be immediately. It will probably take a few generations of the new reality to do so. But what WE current know and love about college sports is coming to and end.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 2:25 pm to jlovel7
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We are blowing up 100 year rivalries for what? Short term gains from more interesting matchups that will go stale after they’ve been played every year for a few years? This sport is built on tradition and great regional rivalries. Am I excited to see fresh matchups, of course. But we are casting aside legitimately interesting blood feuds for big time matchups between schools on opposite ends of the country with basically zero animosity for each other.
The NFL is profitable but not nearly as fun as college football. College football is on the path to being a shite version of its professional counterpart.
Leave it to the boomers to ruin something else which was once great
Posted on 7/7/22 at 3:05 pm to Bumble Bee
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Today's generation doesn't care about traditions. That is why everything has to be changed in society.
I don't disagree with you at all. But this is coming from the conferences and their endless lust for money.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 3:15 pm to jlovel7
I just don’t agree
Texas-AM haven’t played in a decade, Nebraska-OU played last year for the first time in a decade, LSU-Tulane used to play every year and now don’t.
Everything that is supposed to kill CFB seems to always fail. It’ll be fine.
Texas-AM haven’t played in a decade, Nebraska-OU played last year for the first time in a decade, LSU-Tulane used to play every year and now don’t.
Everything that is supposed to kill CFB seems to always fail. It’ll be fine.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 3:22 pm to DBG
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I just don’t agree
Texas-AM haven’t played in a decade, Nebraska-OU played last year for the first time in a decade, LSU-Tulane used to play every year and now don’t.
Everything that is supposed to kill CFB seems to always fail. It’ll be fine.
Yes, college football will be fine. Except now it'll be stale as frick like the NFL. What made CFB great was the regionality of it. What made CFB great was that multiple generations of family could sit in the same seats and watch their teams run out onto the field.
This corporatism will make the sport boatloads of money. But it will happen at the expense of the true fans and the ones that made it better than the NFL to begin with.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 3:29 pm to Bumble Bee
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Today's generation doesn't care about traditions
Today's generation has nothing to do with this. These decisions are being made WAY above their pay grade. Look to Network heads, University Presidents, Athletic Directors and tell me how many of "Today's Generation" you see.
Posted on 7/7/22 at 3:33 pm to grizzlylongcut
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Yes, college football will be fine. Except now it'll be stale as frick like the NFL. What made CFB great was the regionality of it. What made CFB great was that multiple generations of family could sit in the same seats and watch their teams run out onto the field.
This corporatism will make the sport boatloads of money. But it will happen at the expense of the true fans and the ones that made it better than the NFL to begin with.
I think they amount of money and the "corporatism" factor has effectively ruined the game that we once knew.
-The stadiums, overnight, got too big, too majestic, and too grand. As a result, they are rarely filled to capacity, and they now produce a stale, boring, and atmosphere.
-You're lucky if you're able to hear the band play a few songs. It's now piped in shitty rap music.
-The students these days are more into their Tick-Tock and Instagram videos than the actual game.
-The conferences we once loved (SWC, Big 8, Big 12, Pac 10, Pac 12, etc.) are gone.
-We're losing major conference/regional rivalries (Nebraska vs. OU, Nebraska vs. CU, Texas vs. A&M, USC vs. Notre Dame, Missouri vs. Kansas)
-We're paying recruits a substantial amount to entice them to come to whatever school
-Players can transfer freely without any repercussions
Posted on 7/7/22 at 3:38 pm to Atari
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Today's generation has nothing to do with this. These decisions are being made WAY above their pay grade. Look to Network heads, University Presidents, Athletic Directors and tell me how many of "Today's Generation" you see
Exactly. It's all come from the never ending lust for money.
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