re: Athletic Article on 8 vs 9 games and ESPN not paying

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I am really turned off by the professionalization of CFB that has existed for a while and is now in overdrive. But it has not stopped me from watching, just as background noise if nothing else.

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I used to be a noon to midnight college football guy. Now I don't really watch unless it's a Georgia game, and even those don't interest me like they used to. I never thought I'd ever see the day where I lost interest in college football, but the changes over the last few years have almost totally turned me away.

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Rather, I think they want to add a new audience while retaining the existing one, banking on the idea that the existing audience is so addicted they won’t stop watching.

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I think so too. My point was that this was the exact same mentality NASCAR had in the mid 2000s or so and then their viewership fell off of a cliff and has not come close to recovering.