re: Have wealthier whites been abandoning college football for a while now?

I think the biggest impact on college football (sports in general) attendance is the ease of accessing games. It seems like forever ago but there used to be a time where you'd have to go to the game if you wanted to watch it otherwise you were going to the truck or dusting off the radio to listen to the game. You couple that with the dwindling attention span and it seems pointless to go to games for some people. Smart phones have killed crowd participation. It's crazy to me that there are entire departments dedicated to crowd engagement and they have to utilize interactive games on the video boards to get the crowd involved. I'm not sure what the band or cheerleaders are even there for anymore.

Also, it seems like the younger generation finds team pride and school specific cheering lame. You can watch about any game in any sport and most of the student section is preoccupied by whatever is on their phone. The only way you can get their attention is if you play some heavily edited rap music like 'Mo Bamba'.

College kids don't want to cheer for college kids anymore. Why would they? They can be stars themselves on Tik Tok or Twitch. College kids don't have school pride or loyalty. Why would they? It's easier to be front runner or just to split you loyalties based on who you bet to cover the spread. Sure college kids have always been fickle - the last to show and the first to leave - but the lack of pride in the program will manifest itself into less donors and support down the line. When Nick Saban is pissed by the lack of student support at Bama then there is a problem. Sadly, I don't think there is anyway to fix it. Times are changing. The college athletic bubble is about to burst. Good for me is the fact that I really don't care about other fans as long as they aren't impeding my ability to enjoy the game. Sit on your butt, take selfies, don't show up at all. I don't care. Just let me pay my donation, buy my tickets/parking pass, and I'll be happy. I know, I know - "OK Boomer" or whatever you want to say to dismiss an older fan's opinion.

They have been abandoning football for Jerry Epstein and Sandusky activity, remember the Romans..

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Black athletes and the NFL are literally biting the hands that feed them, IMO.

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RTRinTampa

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Agreed and all athletes can protest peacefully outside the sport all they want. Do not infringe my rights to watch at the sporting event.

If so I will exercise my right to not watch and have not watched the NFL since they started kneeling and do not miss at all.

Nothing to do with race and I mean any type of protest.

Protesting peacefully is our constitutional right, get a permit, get on the street, protest all you can but do not use my money to protest at a sporting event.

Very likely college football may not be played this fall, emotions will calm and next year it can restart without drama.

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When that small of a group are generating that much MONEY no one is biting the hand that feeds them, in fact they are literally paying the freight for the entire Athl Dept, so whatever they get, what little they get, those Athletes generate 25X what they get from Bama

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Maybe they should form a team, the Tuscaloosa Black Tide, and play for the money they generate. Think they will afford a nice place to live

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These discussions about a rebellion against college football’s wokeness and wokeness in sports in general has gotten me thinking. Have we not been seeing a withdrawal of upper class and middle upper class whites from college football for some time now? I say this as a graduate of Auburn and a private school in Mobile in the 90’s, just to give perspective. It seems to me that football is kind of looked down upon and seen as a hobby for the proles. I feel this is definitely the case for pro-football. There’s a lot of people that go out of their way to say they look down on football and are not associated with it in any way. However, among lower class whites, the game seems more popular than ever. It seems a decade or two ago, you’d see wealthier types hosting football parties and now I don’t see too much of that anymore. Just was curious if anyone had observed the same thing? I see white people not wanting their kids playing football anymore with the excuse of CTE, but I think the main culprit is that it’s seen as a sport for lower class whites and quite frankly...blacks. I’m just saying this as a neutral observer. I could be totally wrong in my observations and off base

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Wealthier whites are the high ranking decision makers at all these Major Corporations that are fully participating in all this woke-ness that we see from Corp America

If they are abandoning CFB they aren't doing it with their decisions they make while at work

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Wealthier whites are the high ranking decision makers at all these Major Corporations that are fully participating in all this woke-ness that we see from Corp America

If they are abandoning CFB they aren't doing it with their decisions they make while at work

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What you are referring to is the manipulative ruling class who make up the tiniest fraction of white people. I’m really just referring to white people of high moral character and personal integrity. Upper class may have been the wrong term to use. Lots of rich whites are spineless social climbers who’s every decision is fear based and consumed with social dynamics....screw those weaklings....they’d gobble a cock for $5 if they thought their social superiors would approve. I’m not talking about those people. And when I talked about lower class...I really was referring to the low brow people who’s entire identity was forged in this lowest common denominator cesspool of a pop culture that dominates society. These are the kinds of people that can regurgitate every hollow phony platitude that every virtue signaler has memorized. These can be both rich and poor. I guess my question is: Can a grown man respect himself if his only real principle is sniffing the jocks of people who despise him? Because that’s what the college football fan base is starting to resemble more and more each year.

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Maybe they should form a team, the Tuscaloosa Black Tide, and play for the money they generate. Think they will afford a nice place to live

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Amazing that you don't tell Saban to go Coach the Tuscaloosa Black Tide if he wants $9MM per yr, seems you only direct your bullshite one way and towards one group despite the fact that the money is generated by both the players and the coaching staff

You act as if the coaches generate all the money and the players do nothing, hmmm?

Racism much?

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And in the meantime, Lacrosse continues to be one of the fastest growing sports in America, usually played by upper middle class and rich white kids at private, white universities, like Duke

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Lax can grow as fast as it wants to, guess what?

By the time Lax Players get to college, there'll be no huge TV Contracts, there'll be no $9MM per year head coaches, and most importantly there'll few if any full schollies available

The Olympics are played every 4 years, during those 3 in between years Americans don't give a damn about any Olympic Sport or non Revenue College Sport, Lax included

Folks have been foaming at the mouth about the American Soccer Boom for 3 decades, and this has led to a crappy pro League made up of 2nd rate players that would be also rans if they were playing in more competitive Leagues around the Globe, and NO NATIONAL TV DEALS, after 30 years of "look out Soccer is coming" they still can't get a National TV Deal despite every American Household averaging 200 channels via Cable or Streaming or both

So please, save the predictions of this sport or that sport might "replace the big 4 one day"

There were not any feeder leagues. Now there are feeder leagues. It is growing. The MLS contract tv contract runs out in 2022. If we get out of this Coronavirus crap by then the TV deal should be much bigger and broader.