You may be right. I don’t expect the NFL numbers will come back for years to come. I am surprised at the drop on the college side, however. Many schools are building new, larger stadiums to allow for larger attendance figures at the big games. We shall see...
College is much more exciting. I just wish the tue-thu night games were better picked as far as teams. It’s big business now. Players getting ripped off unless you count a free education in ethnic studies as valuable.
I am surprised at the drop on the college side, however.
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Perhaps it’s spillover from disgust over the NFL.
Today’s college players may come to truly resent Colin Kaperneck (sp?) whose “movement” led not only to decline in NFL viewership/revenues, but affected college sports attendance as well. Eventually, they ALL hope to play for the NFL but there may not be the financial incentives ahead for today’s college students.
smaller schools can not compete....
you let schools pay players families and just ignore it basically or hire their daddies to help "coach" and its a wink and an nod...
I'd like to cook their goose by having more schools just drop football completely...
and I LOVE college football but not enough to watch the charade out there..
Academics are the most quintessential of all bureaucrats, using other people's money, subject to very strong group-think and following trends that may have already passed them by. I would take anything they do a as a contrary-indicator.
Where do you think the anti-American pro players come from?
1. Demographic changes among sports fans are working against the NFL and NCAA football.
2. More and more sports fans are coming to the conclusion that American football is a pretty dull sport, and that watching it is an enormous waste of time.
They’re building them... because it doesn’t cost them anything. The state universities are funded by... well you know. The TV rights have poured billions into the mix and greed finally hit the red line.
So on top of all that, they’re charging more and making the game similar to pro-ball and not about the college students and their maniacal support of the team.