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re: In 10 years when football is on life support, what will the SEC do?
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:42 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:42 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Too many influences trying to change the sport.
It will be a very different game ten years from now.
Hope we are both wrong.
It will be a very different game ten years from now.
Hope we are both wrong.
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Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:43 pm to volfan30
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VOLS are ahead of the curve. We have already pivoted away from the archaic sport of football.
If that’s the case, I’m surprised y’all aren’t ranked higher in the current Director’s Cup standings.
11. Texas A&M
12. Georgia
13. Florida
21. Kentucky
22. Alabama
23. Missouri
27. Auburn
30. Arkansas
32. South Carolina
34. Tennessee
41. LSU
64. Mississippi State
75. Ole Miss
170. Vanderbilt
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:46 pm to EKG
Once football is finalized as a sport (likely in the next 10 years as the OP mentioned) basketball will be the only sport that matters in the collegiate world.
The directors cup is a fun little competition for the rowing and cross country fans though.
The directors cup is a fun little competition for the rowing and cross country fans though.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:46 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:48 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I believe this too, we will see a fall in college football as we know it. I do not know the time frame but you could be right.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:49 pm to TideFaninFl
I just want to know what will happen to these Taj Mahal football facilities. Maybe they'll let the honors students take over.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:50 pm to TideFaninFl
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been there, done that... Football will adapt and continue
Meh, people were willing to compromise, listen and make changes back then. That's not the case today.
I have serious doubts that they can change the game to prevent the modern day issues without making football into a game nobody recognizes. And besides all that, the real issue is that parents continue to prevent their kids from playing. I don't think the sport gets "outlawed", I just think over time it will organically shrink.
Who knows, maybe not.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:51 pm to starsandstripes
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I just want to know what will happen to these Taj Mahal football facilities. Maybe they'll let the honors students take over.
Football will continue, changes will be made, but if anybody thinks it is going anywhere, they are being naive.....
edit to add- the rich kids already gravitate to "upper crust" sports.....
it is the middle to lower group that will continue to see it as a way out.... and there are a whole lot more of them......
This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:52 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Lacrosse
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:53 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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An intercollegiate conference, which would become the forerunner of the NCAA, approved radical rule changes for the 1906 season. They legalized the forward pass, abolished the dangerous mass formations, created a neutral zone between offense and defense and doubled the first-down distance to 10 yards, to be gained in three downs. The rule changes didn’t eliminate football’s dangers, but fatalities declined—to 11 per year in both 1906 and 1907—while injuries fell sharply. A spike in fatalities in 1909 led to another round of reforms that further eased restrictions on the forward pass and formed the foundation of the modern sport.
They basically created a new game when Teddy Roosevelt made them change.
If they tried to make those level of changes today in the name of safety "football people" would hang them by a noose. It would NEVER be allowed and the game would fragment.
This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 1:54 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:54 pm to SummerOfGeorge
In my opinion you’d have to be an absolute dullard to allow your son to pick up the sport in today’s climate. Too much evidence out there that it’s a horrible idea.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:54 pm to SummerOfGeorge
All the whores and football fans will look up to Vanderbilt and shout "Save us!"... and we'll whisper "no.
Sorry, just re-watched the movie yesterday.
Sorry, just re-watched the movie yesterday.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:55 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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They basically created a new game when Teddy Roosevelt made them change.
If they tried to make those level of changes today in the name of safety "football people" would hang them by a noose. It would NEVER be allowed and the game would fragment.
Mostly the players need to be taught how to tackle correctly..... that alone will reduce the head injuries so many people are concerned about....
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:57 pm to Sweet Pickles
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Lacrosse
My 12-year-old nephew broke his hand pretty nicely (“impact fracture”) two days ago playing LAX.
(that ball is like a bloody pool cue ball)
But he flippin’ loves the sport—as do his buddies.
This post was edited on 4/9/18 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:57 pm to volfan30
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In my opinion you’d have to be an absolute dullard to allow your son to pick up the sport in today’s climate. Too much evidence out there that it’s a horrible idea.
Everything has risks..... it is part of life....
Now if somebody told you that you would make 10 of millions of dollars, but shorten your life by 10-20 years, would you do it?
Many would........
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:58 pm to TideFaninFl
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Mostly the players need to be taught how to tackle correctly..... that alone will reduce the head injuries so many people are concerned about....
That won't even make a dent in things, even if it's true (which it is, but only partly).
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:59 pm to EKG
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My 12-year-old nephew broke his hand pretty nicely (“impact fracture”) two days ago playing LAX.
(that ball is like a bloody pool cue ball)
But he flippin’ loves the sport—as does he buddies.
Anybody who has seen (or played) a lacrosse game, or a hockey game, realizes that those games too carry as much risk as football.... it is just more people play football
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:59 pm to TideFaninFl
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Now if somebody told you that you would make 10 of millions of dollars, but shorten your life by 10-20 years, would you do it?
Come on - the odds of being one of the handful of guys who make 10s of millions of dollars is about like winning the lottery.
Posted on 4/9/18 at 1:59 pm to volfan30
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VOLS are ahead of the curve. We have already pivoted away from the archaic sport of football.
Basketball is the obvious answer.
I am a huge baseball guy but can’t see it ever taking hold in college with it being such a poor product compared to the professional product. There are gaps in football and basketball as well but football doesn’t compete with the NFL H2H and basketball has March Madness. Nothing to sell at all for college baseball outside of rural towns in the south who don’t have an MLB option.
VF30 with his thumb on the pulse of the Big Orange, per uze
Posted on 4/9/18 at 2:01 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Come on - the odds of being one of the handful of guys who make 10s of millions of dollars is about like winning the lottery.
1) The odds are better
2) Have you ever met a football player that does not have that dream, most in college have that potential
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