Interest Decline in College Football?

Sometimes these young men want to get away and start fresh elsewhere. I mean it's cool that so many young men leave the state of TX to go elsewhere to play sports at other schools right?
 
Kburjr said:
Perhaps we don't have the entire value of our lives tied to how the favorite football team does. The north is more pro-centred. We have had pro teams since the late 1800s in baseball the early 20s in football.
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So your entire lives are centered around pro sports, is that it?

Seriously, us hicks in the south actually do other things as well. We are just very passionate about CFB. And we take it seriously financially and invest the money. But, at the end of the day most of the talent simply lies in our region and unless you can convince said talent to go freeze their asses off, this won't change any time soon. I would prefer that it be more national and not regional, but it is what it is at this point in time.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
Should just set up a proper minor league to develop football players. Then they can pay the guys.

Leave the schools for actual schooling.

All those scholarships wasted.
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You can't walk and chew gum at the same time? Lots of schooling going on at SEC colleges, and we play football well.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
So your entire lives are centered around pro sports, is that it?

Seriously, us hicks in the south actually do other things as well. We are just very passionate about CFB. And we take it seriously financially and invest the money. But, at the end of the day most of the talent simply lies in our region and unless you can convince said talent to go freeze their asses off, this won't change any time soon. I would prefer that it be more national and not regional, but it is what it is at this point in time.
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Not so much centered on pro ball, as split between pro and college.
 
Wishbone said:
It's really just college football though. Baylor won the NC in basetball, Stanford in womens. OU won the Softball title. Miss. St. did win the baseball title but NC State got hosed pretty bad. OU runner up in mens golf to Pepperdine. So in reality the SEC isn't winning much outside of football.
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Obviously we kill at football. But we do fine elsewhere. Don't have time to tally it, but we are really good at track and field, tennis, baseball, and womens bowling (Vandy), golf, gymnastics, softball.

If you look at the Directors Cup - all sports award - the most recent year SEC had 4 of the top 10 - UF, Bama, Arkansas and UGA. And that's without having tons of Olympic sports like the teams that win the most.

Once we add Texas and OU, it won't even be close as they are very competitive in all sports.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
Obviously we kill at football. But we do fine elsewhere. Don't have time to tally it, but we are really good at track and field, tennis, baseball, and womens bowling (Vandy), golf, gymnastics, softball.

If you look at the Directors Cup - all sports award - the most recent year SEC had 4 of the top 10 - UF, Bama, Arkansas and UGA. And that's without having tons of Olympic sports like the teams that win the most.

Once we add Texas and OU, it won't even be close as they are very competitive in all sports.
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I thought Stanford owned that sucker. No?
 
Deep Creek said:
I thought Stanford owned that sucker. No?
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They totally own because of the number of Olympic sports they have. My post was about conferences, not single teams. Someone said that SEC was only football. I pointed out that 4 of the top 10 Directors Cup teams were SEC, not counting Texas who is a SECjr member.
 
Deep Creek said:
While some may disagree, results/data clearly reveal the SEC has dominated almost completely dominated college football the last decade. And if you go by recruiting rankings, it is looking like the conference will be even more dominant in the near future.

The State of College Football

"So powerful is the SEC that last year the Universities of Oklahoma and Texas bailed on their longtime home in the Big 12 to join up, even though the path to successful seasons and championship contention will be exponentially harder. If you can't beat them, join them.

This should trigger alarms all over the sport. It should create an all-hands on deck approach to make the game matter everywhere again. The SEC isn’t just the most powerful, it’s growing more powerful. The SEC isn’t just the biggest, it’s getting bigger."

And it ain't the SEC's fault. While they were getting better, the other conferences were sitting around with one thumb up their asses and their minds in Arkansas. I'm probably out of touch since I'm old and live in remote West Texas. Does college football not "matter everywhere" anymore? Or not "matter everywhere" as much as it did in the past. Is it dying on the vine everywhere except the SEC?
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I enjoy it less and less every year - especailly at the uber level. I've been to most of the big places and seen all but one P5 team in person. Iowa State home games are still fun to attend. Drake games are fun, but I have almost no desire to go to the monster stadiums and games any longer. I went to the Cotton Bowl this year and was bored for the most part. Every year, I step back more and more. Just getting old and realize how stupid it all is.
 
78Cyclones said:
I enjoy it less and less every year - especailly at the uber level. I've been to most of the big places and seen all but one P5 team in person. Iowa State home games are still fun to attend. Drake games are fun, but I have almost no desire to go to the monster stadiums and games any longer. I went to the Cotton Bowl this year and was bored for the most part. Every year, I step back more and more. Just getting old and realize how stupid it all is.
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It appears there are a lot of fans that are feeling the same as you are…sans the Southeast part of the country. If interest is truly waning (and continues to wane) it may regress like boxing and some others. What is it going to take to recouo and/or increase the interest of the more casual fan?
 
78Cyclones said:
I enjoy it less and less every year - especailly at the uber level. I've been to most of the big places and seen all but one P5 team in person. Iowa State home games are still fun to attend. Drake games are fun, but I have almost no desire to go to the monster stadiums and games any longer. I went to the Cotton Bowl this year and was bored for the most part. Every year, I step back more and more. Just getting old and realize how stupid it all is.
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I'm still passionate about Alabama football, but less so about the sport in general. As a kid, I can remember dragging a couple of extra TVs into the family room on New Year's Day to catch all the games. Maybe it's just the saturation of games, the opt-outs, or the match-ups, I don't know, but I struggled to get into bowl season this year. I was never an advocate, but maybe an expanded playoff could infuse some much-needed excitement.
 
Deep Creek said:
It appears there are a lot of fans that are feeling the same as you are…sans the Southeast part of the country. If interest is truly waning (and continues to wane) it may regress like boxing and some others. What is it going to take to recouo and/or increase the interest of the more casual fan?
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I don't know what the answer is. For me, I'm trying to conentrate on going to see the less marquee games / teams - which I do enjoy. One thing I really liked was the Spring Football last year! I went to all 3 of Drake's home games, which were on fine Spring days. I wish we had more of that.
 
Rolltide94 said:
I'm still passionate about Alabama football, but less so about the sport in general. As a kid, I can remember dragging a couple of extra TVs into the family room on New Year's Day to catch all the games. Maybe it's just the saturation of games, the opt-outs, or the match-ups, I don't know, but I struggled to get into bowl season this year. I was never an advocate, but maybe an expanded playoff could infuse some much-needed excitement.
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I agree with most of what you say. The type saturation we used to have on New Years Day is now available every weekend during the regular season. By the time Bowl season comes around I have become burned out. Yeah, a Wisconsin bowl game will still attract me but the rest I can pass on. This year, I think I burned out by Week 2.
 
The game has changed a lot, really fast, too. The couple decades of buildup with the tv deals, the NCAA not changing with the game, now we’re here with the transfer portal stuff and NIL.

The NCAA could have evolved, came up with a structured way to pay players, instead they held out until it was decided by lawsuits and states’ legislating it, now they don’t know what the fuck to do, there’s no structure to it, and the rich will continue to get richer. Even pro sports have contracts and players can’t just decide to leave on a whim if they aren’t happy.

Also, all this is happening in the middle of a pandemic that won’t quit. After that caused a weird year in which some major conferences/programs barely played, it feels like it reboots to this whole new unfamiliar thing.

All of that probably has something to do with college football losing its charm and becoming less interesting.
 
Rolltide94 said:
I'm still passionate about Alabama football, but less so about the sport in general. As a kid, I can remember dragging a couple of extra TVs into the family room on New Year's Day to catch all the games. Maybe it's just the saturation of games, the opt-outs, or the match-ups, I don't know, but I struggled to get into bowl season this year. I was never an advocate, but maybe an expanded playoff could infuse some much-needed excitement.
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I think we get hung up on the "We can't find four good teams, why invite more when the top two are obvious?" mindset. And I get that since it has pretty much panned out that way these first 8.

But, wouldn't there be more widespread interest further into the season if there were all sorts of scenarios where a game in one location could impact a team from another location's chances of a playoff spot? We only had 2 1/2 of those that I can think of this year. The B1G and AAC CCGs in case Michigan or Cincy lost. And 1/2 the SEC CCG in case Bama lost. (Pretty sure Georgia was in regardless.) As far as the playoffs go, none of the other CCGs mattered.

And we've already established that I'm an old fuddy duddy, but I'd love to see some first round playoff games at campus locations. If we are ONLY after the funnsy wunnsy bowl experience, let's go back to pre BCS and let 'em have fun and opt out if needed. Right now we seem to have a foot in both sandboxes.
 
Locke888 said:
If you guys thought Texas was dead now just wait.
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I promise you that both Texas and A&M will keep doing this.
Make It Rain Reaction GIF

The rest of us just throw coins.
 
Deep Creek said:
I think we get hung up on the "We can't find four good teams, why invite more when the top two are obvious?" mindset. And I get that since it has pretty much panned out that way these first 8.

But, wouldn't there be more widespread interest further into the season if there were all sorts of scenarios where a game in one location could impact a team from another location's chances of a playoff spot? We only had 2 1/2 of those that I can think of this year. The B1G and AAC CCGs in case Michigan or Cincy lost. And 1/2 the SEC CCG in case Bama lost. (Pretty sure Georgia was in regardless.) As far as the playoffs go, none of the other CCGs mattered.

And we've already established that I'm an old fuddy duddy, but I'd love to see some first round playoff games at campus locations. If we are ONLY after the funnsy wunnsy bowl experience, let's go back to pre BCS and let 'em have fun and opt out if needed. Right now we seem to have a foot in both sandboxes.
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Good take.

I will preface this by saying I am not an NFL fan, haven't been in quite some time...probably don't watch 6 games in a year...and those are mostly because I live in Tampa with a bunch of Bucs fans as friends and I'll watch at a party or whatever.

That being said, I was kind of drawn in by the playoff implications of some of the games last week and got sucked into watching 3 games I had no intention of watching, just because there was some drama.

College football could use some of that...manufactured or not.
 
Schools like Wisconsin with high educational standards will never attract the best recruits. Football factories like Alabama and Georgia will continue to dominate.
 
White Knight said:
Schools like Wisconsin with high educational standards will never attract the best recruits. Football factories like Alabama and Georgia will continue to dominate.
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Georgia and Wisconsin are separated by one spot on the list of top public universities, both in the top 20.

It’s all about location. Georgia is located in a hotbed for talent. Wisconsin and none of the states that border Wisconsin produce a lot of talent.
 
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