re: How emotionally invested are you these days?

I trace my waning interest back to whenever they started the early signing period in recruiting. NSD used to be a cool day, a couple of weeks after football season ended, and right before spring practice.

I really enjoyed following players as they went from HS to college. That, in turn, made me more invested in the team. Now, I really just don't care. I'll look at the recruiting class ranking when it's all said and done, but it is sort of disappointing to know that a good chunk of those players will probably transfer.

Maybe it is a combination of being older, but the game has changed so dramatically over the past 5-10 years, I sometimes wonder if my interest will continue to drop.

Not nearly as much as I used to be when I was in my 20s. I’m married with 3 little ones now and priorities have drastically changed. I still get on here at least once every other day to keep up and talk a little shite. We lose, oh well. Where can we get better? I’ll look for that next week. We win. Sweet. Where can we get better? I’ll look for that next week. That’s about the extent of it. No more screaming at the tv and letting my whole weekend be ruined.

Also, like the other poster said, the game isn’t what it used to be. It’s a minor league now where the players go to who has the most money. They aren’t getting pt? Transfer. Regular fans have been priced out of the games as well. It’s $1k weekend if I want to bring my family to a game.

I think 2019 has played the biggest part though. Growing up as an LSU fan in the 90s, winning a national championship was NEVER going to happen in my lifetime. Then it did. That could never be topped…. until 2019. Getting to witness the greatest college football team/ season of all time did it for me. That was the mountain-top. It can never be taken away. So in a sense, it kind of killed college football for me. I know I’ll never get to experience that again, but I’m 100% ok with it.

I care enough to plan around watching games, and to be invested during the game, but not enough to let it change my mood afterwards.

I gave up my season tickets last year.

Always fully invested, even on down years. My wife knows not to mess with me or talk to me much during a game. She also knows me being pissed off on Sundays after a loss is not her fault, and gives me a little space to vent until I've made peace with it.

I asked my friend on Saturday leaving Jordan Hare why I didn’t care as much about the Auburn loss. He said it was expectations. Probably correct. I witnessed the greatest single season in college history just 11 years ago.

Cam is better than Burrow.

Honestly, after Covid, a lot changed, but I think that's also because of NIL and immediate transfer eligibility in the portal. A lot is changed.

Seeing the NCAA tournament get outright canceled, fan attendance being reduced, are things I thought would never be touched because of the money involved, but it made me realize sports are just sports and not more than life. If LSU would lose to Alabama, it would almost ruin the year. Now, it's whatever.

Not nearly as much...and not just because of Auburn's product on the field but it has more to do with there not really being a "team" concept anymore. Where you see players develop at your school over the years. Now it is more mercenary type players.

I however, still remain very invested in the Braves.

I'm a Mizzou fan so I'm well acquainted with disappointment.

I'd say things that work out along the lines of expectations don't bother me so much. What seems to stay with me is the "coulda beens".

After K-State I had VERY low expectations for the season. Then the next two weeks taunt me with two winnable games that were lost in stupid fashion. That's the stuff that is still hard for me to shake.

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The older I get the less I care

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Same.

Meh.