(10-22-2017 06:31 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(10-22-2017 08:10 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-22-2017 05:53 AM)XLance Wrote:  

(10-21-2017 08:22 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(10-21-2017 06:35 PM)Transic_nyc Wrote:  For Texas and for the Three Musketeers of the ACC any material gain would be balanced out by the possibility of losing their fiefdoms for good, which would be stinging for their egos. So there would have to be some messaging involved.

I agree. It's what kept Texas out in 2010-1 when Dodds was talking about looking East. UNC simply didn't want it

Without some big clout in football the ACCN will be totally reliant upon subscription fees. That model will likely be dead in 5 year. Something is going to have to give.

Football as a "big time' collegiate sport is in big, big trouble. Yesterday during one of the many games I watched a commercial came on several times. It was a MOM, saying that she loved the game and wanted her sons to play the game. She downplayed the chance of injury and was encouraging other moms to let their sons play too.
The ad was sponsored by the NCAA.
As boomers die out, people that have grown up with college football being a part of their life, and are replaced by their children that either don't have the passion for the game, the money, or the tradition to follow their teams like their parents do/did football is losing their core audience. Overprotective parents who aren't letting their kids play outside without being in an organized group aren't letting them participate in violent contact sports in the same numbers they have in the past. The pool of available players is starting to shrink, and as it does, the future of football as a we now know it does too.

Basketball's popularity with those who can donate is flagging faster than football. It seems to me that baseball will have the brighter future and that's not saying a whole lot. With the people who support collegiate sports basketball doesn't provide what their looking for with regard to their kids either.

I fear we are losing our moxy at time in history when we are going to need it the most. As a nation we have now educated an entire generation to be fearful and that generation seems to me to be on a collision course with China and will have to confront more Middle Eastern terrorists. They aren't mentally, emotionally, or physically prepared for a future of conflict.

Posted before:
http://www.foxsports.com/college-footbal...ame-051616

After a limited number of schools still playing at a top level (fox projects less than 30).
The rest of the schools playing at a P level may have to drop back to an Ivy League approach until such time that the public demands the return of college football or advances in technology can assure the reduction of head and neck injuries.

Yes, the nanny state pusillanimous generation. Don't they know that life is hard and then you die anyway? I've enjoyed mine and if I had been afraid of everything I would never have experienced life while living. I pity them, but they are the dweebs that will eventually lose the nation.