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Posted on 3/1/25 at 10:41 am to Sl0thstronautEsq
A-Day game is very niche. It's for the hardcore fans.
I've always thought the game is boring as it is not a huge indicator of "good". It's been effective to build team chemistry and a check-in point for the team.
This is not a hill that I would die on, personally.
I've always thought the game is boring as it is not a huge indicator of "good". It's been effective to build team chemistry and a check-in point for the team.
This is not a hill that I would die on, personally.
Posted on 3/1/25 at 11:10 am to UASports23
We could be at peak college football as a commercial product and a decline may be around the corner - maybe not, who knows? - but the end of spring games is hardly the reason for it.
The reason I think we could be at the zenith of college football is that we've taken a sport built around regional rivalries and damaged the capacity to maintain those rivalries to better package the conference memberships for profitability.
I'm not sure the playoff expansion has cheapened the regular season because it has kept more teams in the hunt deeper into the regular season. Usually by November the teams of importance for the national championship is winnowed down to 6-8 teams. This year we had 20 or more teams with direct or back door paths to a championship on Thanksgiving weekend.
The thing really hurting this sport is the incapability to maintain rivalries due to realignment detaching regional rivals from shared conferences or making the conferences too large to feasibly maintain traditional rivalries.
The reason I think we could be at the zenith of college football is that we've taken a sport built around regional rivalries and damaged the capacity to maintain those rivalries to better package the conference memberships for profitability.
I'm not sure the playoff expansion has cheapened the regular season because it has kept more teams in the hunt deeper into the regular season. Usually by November the teams of importance for the national championship is winnowed down to 6-8 teams. This year we had 20 or more teams with direct or back door paths to a championship on Thanksgiving weekend.
The thing really hurting this sport is the incapability to maintain rivalries due to realignment detaching regional rivals from shared conferences or making the conferences too large to feasibly maintain traditional rivalries.
Posted on 3/1/25 at 12:25 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
As long as rampant tampering and immediate transfers are the norm, look for more and more programs to become way less open than they previously were.
Gonna be way less media and fan access and rightfully so.
Gonna be way less media and fan access and rightfully so.
Posted on 3/1/25 at 5:48 pm to UASports23
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A-Day game is very niche. It's for the hardcore fans.
I’ve only been a couple of times, but I wouldn’t say it’s just for hardcore fans. It’s fun to take the kids to, and do a little bit of football weekend stuff in the spring. But I can also remember pre-Saban when it was basically just an open practice with a couple thousand people.
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