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To: Colonel Kangaroo

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...


3 posted on 02/15/2018 10:44:22 AM PST by Zarro (Dead Cruz, the Slimy Ooze. Hat tip: DoughtyOne and Pray All Day)
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To: Zarro

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.


8 posted on 02/15/2018 10:48:12 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Zarro

I am surprised at the drop on the college side, however.

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Perhaps it’s spillover from disgust over the NFL.


13 posted on 02/15/2018 10:53:25 AM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Zarro

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.


16 posted on 02/15/2018 10:53:51 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Zarro
the trouble with college football is you have the Phil Nike school on the west coast basically buying players and then you have the SEC schools that have the NCAA and the media wrapped around their little finger...

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..

21 posted on 02/15/2018 10:59:21 AM PST by cherry
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To: Zarro
however. Many schools are building new, larger stadiums to allow for larger attendance figures at the big games. We shall see...

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.

37 posted on 02/15/2018 11:29:11 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Zarro

Where do you think the anti-American pro players come from?


38 posted on 02/15/2018 11:31:09 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Zarro

From 2016:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-attendance-in-2016-crowds-decline-for-sixth-straight-year/


39 posted on 02/15/2018 11:31:41 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Zarro
These numbers might reinforce something I've been saying for several years now:

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.

41 posted on 02/15/2018 11:32:36 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: Zarro

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.


58 posted on 02/15/2018 1:02:20 PM PST by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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