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re: Why is it so hard to find joy as a college football fan?
Posted on 10/14/24 at 11:18 pm to EKG
Posted on 10/14/24 at 11:18 pm to EKG
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Why is it so hard to find joy as a college football fan?
quote:Yeah, this is a good point lots of LSU fans need to step back and understand.
Fans have gone mental and reached the point where not being in the hunt for a national championship means your team “sucks;” and coaches are run off after 2-3 years on the job.
Yes, every fan wants his team to be the dynasty. Yes, we love to troll each other.
But for LSU fans to turn on Kelly the way they'd been doing this year- insanity. LSU had become a raging dumpster fire in 2020 and 2021, and shite looked real bad. REAL bad. We've seen Nebraska drop off the face of the earth, Tennessee, Miami, Texas all spend a decade wandering in the desert, Auburn and Florida dropping to the bottom of the SEC...
You take your 10 win coach with the big recruiting class incoming, and the current "disappointing season" (oh by the way ranked every week and currently up to #8, so it ain't that fricking bad), and you keep building.
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Posted on 10/15/24 at 2:37 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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Why is it so hard to find joy
You should stop looking at tranny porn, kid.
Posted on 10/15/24 at 3:35 am to PoundTheRock
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Literally that and Tony V are why LSU fans are so obsessed with all things Tennessee
Lol I’m pretty sure it’s because we sucked arse forever then won the SEC after a long drought. Doesn’t have anything to do with Tenner
Posted on 10/15/24 at 5:59 am to Violent Hip Swivel
I'm just ridin' the Ole piss win till Saturday. No need to stress. Enjoy the wins while you get em
Posted on 10/15/24 at 7:05 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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Tennessee is 5-1 for only the third time in the last 20 years and just beat Florida for only the third time in 20 years. Fans are griping. Worrying about next week and the week after that. Very little joy.
The goal obviously is to win a championship. But I think fans used to enjoy individual wins WAY more than they do now.
You'd go out and get the school newspaper for a huge win over a rival. Everyone buzzing about it. You had a bunch of guys who had learned to hate that rival school over their time at yours... now they might transfer there after the season and everyone is all buddy buddy because of the 7on7 and camp circuits.
Everyone thinks NIL 'ruined' college football, but IMO there are a lot of things that have been 'chipping away' at it for a long time
I think the hyperfocus on championships (and the playoff expansion cranking that focus up to 11) is ultimately a bad thing for the individual fan's enjoyment since only 1 in 130 or so teams wins it in a given year, and realistically only 10 or so teams have a legitimate shot to win it. Making a NY6 bowl was a successful season by any measure in the past, even some of the lesser bowls were.
This post was edited on 10/15/24 at 7:22 am
Posted on 10/15/24 at 7:07 am to Violent Hip Swivel
You had me till soccer 
Posted on 10/15/24 at 7:20 am to Violent Hip Swivel
Growing up means not putting the Gamecocks on TV, because I realize I will become irrationally upset watching them play. Can't tell if that makes me more mature, or less. 
Posted on 10/15/24 at 7:24 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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Fans are griping. Worrying about next week and the week after that. Very little joy.
Not Texas fans. This year Texas fans > Bama fans of old.
Posted on 10/15/24 at 7:24 am to Violent Hip Swivel
“Older fans gripe just as much anybody and just as likely to start worrying about next week after the week after that right after a big win.“
Incorrect
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Posted on 10/15/24 at 8:19 am to AulderMagee
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Why is it so hard to find joy
Kamala promises joy.
Posted on 10/15/24 at 8:24 am to Violent Hip Swivel
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Why is it so hard to find joy as a college football fan?
Seriously?
Posted on 10/15/24 at 8:25 am to genuineLSUtiger
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You grow out of it as you get older.
Yep, not to mention they are all making more money than most of the fans anymore.
Posted on 10/15/24 at 8:28 am to kywildcatfanone
I'm having a blast
Posted on 10/15/24 at 9:22 am to jodyHighroller
Yeah that game was considered a lock for Tennessee to play for a title but Saban said” not so fast”.
Posted on 10/15/24 at 9:29 am to southpawcock
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Growing up means not putting the Gamecocks on TV, because I realize I will become irrationally upset watching them play. Can't tell if that makes me more mature, or less.
Well, deciding to avoid emotional triggers is always more mature, although not getting triggered in the first place is best.
But heck it’s a great time of year, so if the team is shitting the bed, there’s a lot of good things to do on the weekends
Posted on 10/15/24 at 11:16 am to VolSquatch
quote:you nailed it: championship or bust mentality, recruiting process, and transfer ability are the biggest to me.
Everyone thinks NIL 'ruined' college football, but IMO there are a lot of things that have been 'chipping away' at it for a long time
When it was the days of just “beat your rival on Saturday”, it was at its purest. Every game was a battle for bragging rights for fans and team members alike in the community, and there was nothing topping that.
Now, there’s a greater goal, a bigger test “next week”, a larger agenda, etc. (recruiting success, winning conference, making a bowl, making the playoff).
The catalyst that I believe jump-started all of this to reach a now unsustainable place was the explosion of media value (leading to more televised games, therefore more bowls, post-season development) that catalyzed the inevitable break-down of regional isolation and balanced regional pride.
Probably sometime around NCAA v. OU Board of Regents (1984) was the beginning of the end.
This post was edited on 10/15/24 at 11:34 am
Posted on 10/15/24 at 11:25 am to Violent Hip Swivel
People are stupid. Especially on the internet. We beat Florida and Oklahoma. I’m happy our program is so much better than it used to be. I can’t stand how entitled some of our fans are
Posted on 10/15/24 at 11:41 am to Violent Hip Swivel
College is like nfl now
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