Posted on 07/18/2018 5:09:20 PM PDT by EdnaMode
It's safe to say that University of North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora is not a fan of the trends in football.
Fedora spoke to the media on Wednesday, saying "our game is under attack" and expressing a number of unpopular opinions, including the idea that football does not cause CTE.
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Fedora believes that rule changes involving the physicality of the game will make football "unrecognizable" within ten years.
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That doesn’t mean they’ve turned their backs on high school or college ball.
College FB is all I’ll watch.
Our family also. We stopped watching NFL.
I prefer high school games in the stands. Inexpensive, often great fans, and running games are more fun to watch.
Right. Who cares if your star player is a thug as long as he wins.
Me too. Until they ruin that too.
College Football....ain’t the NFL.
Ditto.
Will anyone watch a flag football game in a billion dollar stadium?
Will any network cover a flag football game in a stadium paid for by tax payers?
In the fwiw dept, football is a collision sport and it feels good to collide.
5.56mm
IF the Ncaa would grow some cahonnes as well as the nfl, and strictly enforce rules against HGH and steroids and whatever else the connivers can think up to make humans unhumanly strong and aggressive, then perhaps football can be played like it was 50 yrs ago without as many injuries..
Enjoy college while you can. If the NFL goes the way of the dodo and no other league comes along to replace it, good luck finding teams of talented dim wits to risk their necks playing a game that won’t lead to a big payday. It’s not like most of them are there for an education.
It’s survived me not caring about any kind of football since the early 80s.
Same for all the rest of sports.
That says more about the high schools near you than near me.
I have had a theory going for about ten years now:
In high school, lacrosse will replace football as the contact sport of choice for middle and upper clas families.
The reasons are:
1) boys crave contact sports
2) there are comparatively fewer head injuries
3) moms are being brainwashed that every football player will be paralyzed or get a concussion.
It has been playing out before my eyes. It’s happening.
That said, they are pussifying my beloved amateur sport too. If my players from 10-15 years ago played today’s players they would dominate — unless they played by today’s rules.
As it is now, it’s pretty much just kill the white boy.
It's getting there. I'm at the point where I look forward more to the English Premier League than College Football. (Of course the Gators sucking ever since 2010 may have something to do with that)
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