re: Rank your interest in the different leagues/sports right now

1. College football: NIL and realignment is a bit overblown. College football still rules. Saturdays in the Fall on an SEC campus are still the best sporting experience around. And my team can't get up and leave because we didn't pay for a billionaire's stadium, like a pro franchise.

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2. Motorsports

3. NFL

4. NBA

5. College basketball

6. MLB, playoffs jump up a couple spots

7. English Premier League

NFL

NCAA Hoops
NCAAF
NCAA baseball
MLB
NHL

1. MLB - such an underrated product. I understand it can be hard to get into if you don’t have a baseball background, but if you’re in to baseball, the MLB still hits.

2. CFB - my interest has definitely waned over the past five years, but it still has a level of gameday excitement and pageantry that can’t be matched.

3. NFL - solid product all-around. however, I don’t like how it’s seeped so much into mainstream culture and become go-to water cooler talk.

4. NHL - also underrated and something i’ve taken more of an interest in lately. Arguably the best playoffs of all the major sports, but have yet to lock in for a full regular season.

5. College Baseball - helps when you’re an LSU fan.

6. College Basketball - overrated if you ask me but I respect the passion.

7. NBA - could not care less.

CFB
NFL
NCAA men's basketball
Golf majors



Thats about it.

NBA/NFL
CFB


College hoops kinda died for me way back when the one and done stuff kicked off. I’ll watch a few LSU games and a couple tournament games here and there but the games are kinda boring so I can’t watch much more than that.

(1) College Baseball

(2) College Football

(3) NFL

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College football - Biggest decline in quality over the past 5 years or so. NIL and the transfer portal hurt football more than basketball to me. Traditional bowl season has been killed. Traditional conference alignments continue to fade away. I could go on. It's still football at least.

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I disagree. Prior to NIL you had 4-5 teams at the top every year. It’s a little more competitive now. Like it or not NIL gives a team the ability to attract players it might once not been able.

1. CFB - my interest in the sport has taken a real hit since covid. I hate NIL, unlimited transfers, and super conferences. Hopefully, they will improve the playoff system and figure out some NIL/transfer guardrails soon to get the sport some more sustainability. It helps that LSU might be good this season.

2. NFL. For all its flaws, it still has the best regular season of any professional sport. The Saints are baaaaaaad, though.

3. NHL. I am really liking how they have developed the league and made it easy to watch on tv. Really fun despite me not having an obvious team to root for. I am hoping NOLA gets an expansion team, though I highly doubt it.

4. college baseball: unwatchable on tv, but LSU is consistently good and I enjoy attending games

5. NBA: live games are fun but the regular season is arse, stars never play, and the Pels are awful. I would care more if they Pels were good.

5. Minor league hockey: lets go Zydeco!

6. MLB: I sorta watch some playoff games sometimes. Regular season is literally unwatchable, both figuratively and literally.

CFB
College Baseball
NFL
NBA (NBA above NFL for my personal team, but league wide I care more about the NFL)
MLB
College Basketball
Golf