re: NCAA Lied about NIL. College Sports are More Popular Than Ever

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Well, neither are cellphones, but we’re still using them.”

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Those tough little phones with the flip up lid you could talk to your co-worker like walkie talkies were great. - I miss them, but no longer need one like i did back in the day when i was trying to coordinate with many other contractors.

I dropped mine many times without any damage.

For anyone wondering, the most-watched college football game in US television history was the 2006 Rose Bowl game between Texas and USC, with 35.6 million viewers. Coming in a close second was the 2015 CFP national championship game between Ohio State and Oregon (34.1 million viewers).

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Is that why I’m not real excited about attending new superhero movies?

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Disney has tried their best to destroy them.

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I can remember when it was considered to not be polite if you yelled at DKR. TEXAS fans clapped rather than shouting. Not such a bad atmosphere actually. Of course it would never be allowed today. Any other old farts remember when?

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What year was that, ha??

I can remember when our crowd was pretty well dressed, not necessarily in burnt orange, and there was not much alcohol being sold outside the stadium…

Mack Brown brought the burnt orange back, and CDC has brought in a lot more pre game alcohol and entertainment to get our students and fans drinking early…

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More Popular Than Ever

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Means nothing. Ed Sheeren has the two most streamed songs of all time, you gonna tell me he's a better artist than Zeppelin?

Someone made a fantastic parallel on one of these baords the other day to NASCAR. For years nascar was mostly regional to the southeast and it had a DIEHARD loyal following. Some tweaks were made by the fatcats in charge and it brought in new eyeballs. Suddenly it wasn't just the deep south, but you had a growing interest farther out. More tweaks, more changes, and now you've got a full on coast-to-coast appeal. TV ratings were never higher. Nationwide appeal had never seen such highs. The only problem is that it changed so much that what made it so psasionate and desirable to begin with wasn't even there anymore. The loyal fans there from the beginning left. Now you're left with a viewership that doesn't really care about the history and tradition and only watches for whatever latest thing you've cooked up, but the organization itself is just a hollow shell of what it used to be. And now nascar is in as shitty of a place as it's been in ages!


That likely won't happen to that extreme with CFB becuase it's not nearly as niche as nascar, but you can see the beginnings of that starting to parallel. People that have been diehard CFB fanatics for decades are losing interest FAST. A bunch of eyeballs watching a watered down NFL-lite with no rules is mianly going to appeal to young people with zero attention span considering you get a brand new team every season. How long is that gonna be sustainable?

You have to take any ratings of disney associated properties with a grain of salt. They have been fudging numbers and playing shell games to fight off activist investors for several years. If they can find a way to fake the numbers, they will.

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That likely won't happen to that extreme with CFB becuase it's not nearly as niche as nascar, but you can see the beginnings of that starting to parallel. People that have been diehard CFB fanatics for decades are losing interest FAST. A bunch of eyeballs watching a watered down NFL-lite with no rules is mianly going to appeal to young people with zero attention span considering you get a brand new team every season. How long is that gonna be sustainable?

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So I’m a Led Zeppelin fan, good point there.

Good point about NASCAR as a comparison to college sports too. I have lived in NC now for over 30 years not far from Wilkesboro, with Wilkes County known for its moonshine history and as a birthplace of NASCAR. NASCAR eventually abandoned their oval racetrack there which was the pride of Wilkes county, in pursuit of super speedways and bigger venues. NASCAR then eventually lost a lot of its most passionate small town and rural fans…

Generational changes too. There are not many young people anymore who work on their own cars and trucks, like my many of my high schools friends and I used to do.

They are well on their way to ruining the regular season and NIL is on its way to getting people fed up. Players are making more and more and making recruiting more of a circus everyday. Compound that with the diva mentalities and lack of effort you see from some players and their quickness to transfer and bail for a few more dollars. Recipe for people getting fed up and just watching NFL. It will eventually get to the point you don’t even have to watch the regular season because there will be 24 playoff teams. It’s all stupid and not why people have loved college football for so long.