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Posted on 6/20/20 at 1:35 pm to Mithridates6
I mean I know Louisiana folk aint the sharpest tools in the shed but the rules aren't that hard to follow
Posted on 6/20/20 at 1:37 pm to Mithridates6
quote:Same here
I'm just going to quit sports if soccer is all that's left
Posted on 6/20/20 at 1:39 pm to yatesdog38
Derp, Mississippi and MSU have the lowest academic reqs in the SEC. Soccer will always be a sport for figs and foreigners
Posted on 6/20/20 at 1:58 pm to Mithridates6
Soccer is a great Sport in small doses, like once every 4 years with the World Cup
No way could I watch a HS Soccer match on Friday, then wake up Saturday and start watching College Soccer at Noon and keep watching Soccer until an 8pm prime time Match, then go to sleep, wake up on Sundays and go to a Sports bar and watch the 1pm and 4pm Soccer matches
What I described above had been repeated hundreds of times over the years with FOOTBALL on all levels, not 1 person on the planet has ever done the above with Soccer, TV Execs know this, this is why FB isn't going anywhere is the US, football is what separates us from being some crappy Euro Union Country
FB is part of what makes America unique, so no FB ain't going no damn where, we are all addicts and the TV Networks are our dealers
No way could I watch a HS Soccer match on Friday, then wake up Saturday and start watching College Soccer at Noon and keep watching Soccer until an 8pm prime time Match, then go to sleep, wake up on Sundays and go to a Sports bar and watch the 1pm and 4pm Soccer matches
What I described above had been repeated hundreds of times over the years with FOOTBALL on all levels, not 1 person on the planet has ever done the above with Soccer, TV Execs know this, this is why FB isn't going anywhere is the US, football is what separates us from being some crappy Euro Union Country
FB is part of what makes America unique, so no FB ain't going no damn where, we are all addicts and the TV Networks are our dealers
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:47 pm to Mithridates6
Jacob Hester did plenty fine for LSU. Of course he was a work out worrier, coach on the field, (insert all stereotypes here).
Posted on 6/20/20 at 8:51 pm to escatawpabuckeye
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I think as far as participation - yes.
As far as attending and viewing - no.
Plenty of moneyed folk are happy to watch the gladiators compete
Your correct, participation rates are going down across the country, and I would say that is economically upper middle class whites and higher economically where those rates are declining. They are now all at the Soccer fields.
Posted on 6/20/20 at 9:23 pm to OmegaMan
No
Posted on 6/20/20 at 9:36 pm to threedog79
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Jacob Hester did plenty fine for LSU. Of course he was a work out worrier, coach on the field, (insert all stereotypes here).
CBS did some flashback feature on Hester and it was literally all gritty, grinder, lots of heart, etc
Posted on 6/21/20 at 9:20 am to OmegaMan
Pro - Yes
College - No
Rationale:
Pro - players having millions and a social opinion opposite of most of the wealthier fan base causes these fans to direct their dollars elsewhere out of political beliefs, social beliefs, or just jealousy!
College- most of these wealthier folks in the fan base have a direct tie to the school...usually an alumn. So the tie, is a lot stronger.
College - No
Rationale:
Pro - players having millions and a social opinion opposite of most of the wealthier fan base causes these fans to direct their dollars elsewhere out of political beliefs, social beliefs, or just jealousy!
College- most of these wealthier folks in the fan base have a direct tie to the school...usually an alumn. So the tie, is a lot stronger.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:06 am to PeeJayScammedGT
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Soccer is a great Sport in small doses, like once every 4 years with the World Cup
No way could I watch a HS Soccer match on Friday, then wake up Saturday and start watching College Soccer at Noon and keep watching Soccer until an 8pm prime time Match, then go to sleep, wake up on Sundays and go to a Sports bar and watch the 1pm and 4pm Soccer matches
What I described above had been repeated hundreds of times over the years with FOOTBALL on all levels, not 1 person on the planet has ever done the above with Soccer, TV Execs know this, this is why FB isn't going anywhere is the US, football is what separates us from being some crappy Euro Union Country
FB is part of what makes America unique, so no FB ain't going no damn where, we are all addicts and the TV Networks are our dealers
Not saying that it is going anywhere, but it is trending down. Gallup poll for popularity of sports. Soccer was flat line and is on an upward trend but seems to have flattened as well based on the data below. Overall, your participation is down.
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The problem with football is it is the sport where Youth Decline is the greatest. So fewer kids playing, fewer parents involved as those kids get older is football going to be the same as to earlier generations where more young men played the game. Their sisters, Mothers, Grandmothers went to the game to watch and you had more fans organically that way.
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In addition, it is already declining at the High School level. See data below, so the youth decline coinciding with the already fewer High School kids playing suggest a continual decline in HS Football participation.
LINK
All that suggest to me in 20 years, football will not have the viewership it has now. Most people I know follow sports they played as a youth or in HS. I pretty much follow Football, Golf the most (I like the sport because I love playing it) and tangentially Baseball (not like I did in the 70's Big Red Machine, A's, Yankees and Dodgers to the 90's (Great Yankees teams) and haven't followed NBA since the end of the Bird/Magic/Jordan era, but still follow College ball.
So for those of us here, yes, we all love Football, but 20 years from now will there be as many like us here on SEC Rant? Trends to me suggest no.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 11:37 am to JKChesterton
Soccer has concussion problems too; are we all gonna switch to watching esports? That would be better than the former imo
Posted on 6/21/20 at 4:12 pm to OmegaMan
I think they are off burning Auburn hats taken from drunks.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 5:40 pm to Drizzt
quote:The rest of the world spells that medal, but being an LSU fan you would be mental
Give that deer a metal
Posted on 6/21/20 at 7:06 pm to OmegaMan
If you're bothered by CFB players standing up for their rights as citizens, you are anti-American because you don't believe all men are created equal. Period.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 7:42 pm to OmegaMan
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has gotten me thinking.
You should do less of this. The product is not very good.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 9:06 pm to Mithridates6
I agree, I think rates of play for Soccer have flat lined and even declined somewhat as well.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 10:08 pm to JKChesterton
Football will never go away in the Midwest and South.
Posted on 6/21/20 at 10:24 pm to McMillan
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Football will never go away in the Midwest and South.
I don't know. Live in Fairhope, not as prestigious as OM's private school. Working the chains at my son's flag game and was told that Fairhope wanted to be the first school in the state to ban contact football.
Will watch a flag/touch hybrid before I spend a min of time on soccer. Maybe will just old man lawn care.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 11:41 am to McMillan
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Football will never go away in the Midwest and South.
I agree those 2 areas will not have the decline that the Mid-Atlantic/East Coast and West Coast will have, but I think those 2 regions will still see some declines as well. The declines overall are to large for it just to be 1 or 2 regions of the country causing it. I think? Since like everyone else, have lots of time at home, may look at some state by state data in SEC and Big 10 country to see what the data trends look like.
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