Let's Enjoy College Sports While We Still Can . . .

Al of those involved - the schools, players, agents, corporations, etc. seem to forget it is the FANS who make college football what it is. The sport is being destroyed with no consideration for us.

 

I said at the time that NIL would end up destroying amateur athletics as we know it. Greed and the many ills it spawns is burning the world down right now, why should sports be any different?

 

How destroyed?

That’s a strong word. Stadiums are still full- 90,000 at UF for a so so product

Princeton Dartmouth played on TV friday night. We watched a little.

College attendance is up!!
College football attendance rose in 2022 with largest year-over-year increase since 1982

It will look different. The ‘sky is falling’ worry isn’t productive.

If NIL is hurting football, explain JMU, Duke, Air Force, Mizzou, Tulane and Kansas. 25% of the Top 25 doing just fine. Year 3 of NIL

 

Maybe this is the kind of thing we need to reset this whole mess. Whatever happened to playing football with students who chose to attend the university? Our favorite sport has been in a flat spin for the past decade plus. Screw all the greedy bastards and let them all deal with the reality that they’ve done this to themselves

 

I think the Power conferences should leave the ncaa and form their own guvernin body and make some iron clad enforceable rules

 

Key words: governing body, ironclad, enforceable.

With no NCAA and billions to be made, why hold anyone accountable to anything?

 

True. Once this mess ruins itself, we will all pine for the glory days of missed extra points, blocked punts, porous defense, 12 men on the field, and procedure penalties galore.

 

Being a Gator pitcher in the 70’s would I be eligible for NIL ? Video games were pretty hot back then ya know

 

I may not do much pining for that

 

Go for it Wing!

 

Send em to Arizona. Him and Rashada can share a tandem bike.

 

2022 was a rebound from the largest drop ever.
College football attendance declines for seventh straight season to lowest average since 1981

• The per-game national decline of 1,629 fans in 2021 is the steepest ever, a 3.93% drop from 2019.

Does College Football Have An Attendance Problem?

• Since reaching an all-time high in 2008 at 46,971 average fans, home FBS attendance has now dipped below the 40-thousand mark.
• FBS average attendance has declined every year since 2013.

 

Yeah!! You could have made major coin as "Long Dong Wingtee"!

 

Using attendance is disingenuous. There are 133 FBS teams with more than half playing bad football in stadiums that sit less than 30,000 and are lucky to get 10,000 to 15,000 to show up.

 

Please. The college attendance percentage increase cited in that article-5%- is a ROFLMAO joke. It ignores the lockdowns during the covid years when NO ONE went to games. In fact, those numbers should instead scare the crap out of Athletic Directors around the country. They would certainly scare me.

 

Well played Clay !!! Lol

 

When the reconstruction of Ben Hill Griffin stadium begins they should eliminate 40,000 seats and bring the seating to 50000 or 52000 to avoid bare seats in the stadium and we would have all seats filled. They announce a sell out for games and there are about 6000 seats available because of no shows. Bring the seating capacity down to these levels and the stadium will be packed! They can put in the exotic seating for all fans not just a few. The ticket prices to date warrant a change some where!