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<blockquote data-quote="stylee" data-source="post: 896049" data-attributes="member: 882"><p>This is one of this broader issues I find fascinating - is there some point where the average college football fan will stop caring so much? That's not a rhetorical question. </p><p></p><p>Sure, we always scoffed at the legal fiction that every football player-qua-student-athlete is a "student" like any other. We knew that the goals of athletic departments often diverged from those of the educational institution itself - that the "program" wasn't equivalent to the "school." Etc. But what inspired greater loyalty and enthusiasm amongst college football fans is that these aspects were (a) not universal, and (b) at least tastefully swept under the rug, so we didn't have to think about them very much, and (c) we could still tell ourselves that the school was to<em> some degree</em> the "program." This is <em>us</em>, these are <em>our guys</em>!</p><p></p><p>Even now, we know that not <em>every</em> player is treating college ball as a pro tryout. But we also know that the free agency system - NIL and transfer rules - means the system as a whole is much closer on the spectrum to "NFL-lite" than it is to the opposite. Let's say we start getting rules allowing for midseason transfers, so that Ohio State('s boosters) signs Gibbs in Week 6 or something. Is that still "our guy" for Buckeyes? </p><p></p><p>Another thing that I've noticed is the effect of handheld sports betting. It's everywhere. I was watching some games with school teachers, and there was no enthusiasm for upsets AS upsets - instead, it was how it played out on the bets they placed. The games were less exciting in and of themselves, and more about picking up a few dollars. This seems like an erosion of interest in the sport as the sport.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Is there a breaking point? Is there somewhere between college sports in the purest sense (IDK, college volleyball teams duking it out for the hell of it) and lower-quality-pro-sport where college football ceases to be interesting in the same way for some large segment of fans? I ran some hypos by hardcore LSU fans this weekend: what if you found out none of the players were enrolled in school? What if you had midseason transfers? What if you had contract holdouts, open and public bidding wars for players, etc. About all that stuck was "what if the band didn't play" and "what if they changed the name of the team from 'LSU tigers' to something else entirely?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stylee, post: 896049, member: 882"] This is one of this broader issues I find fascinating - is there some point where the average college football fan will stop caring so much? That's not a rhetorical question. Sure, we always scoffed at the legal fiction that every football player-qua-student-athlete is a "student" like any other. We knew that the goals of athletic departments often diverged from those of the educational institution itself - that the "program" wasn't equivalent to the "school." Etc. But what inspired greater loyalty and enthusiasm amongst college football fans is that these aspects were (a) not universal, and (b) at least tastefully swept under the rug, so we didn't have to think about them very much, and (c) we could still tell ourselves that the school was to[I] some degree[/I] the "program." This is [I]us[/I], these are [I]our guys[/I]! Even now, we know that not [I]every[/I] player is treating college ball as a pro tryout. But we also know that the free agency system - NIL and transfer rules - means the system as a whole is much closer on the spectrum to "NFL-lite" than it is to the opposite. Let's say we start getting rules allowing for midseason transfers, so that Ohio State('s boosters) signs Gibbs in Week 6 or something. Is that still "our guy" for Buckeyes? Another thing that I've noticed is the effect of handheld sports betting. It's everywhere. I was watching some games with school teachers, and there was no enthusiasm for upsets AS upsets - instead, it was how it played out on the bets they placed. The games were less exciting in and of themselves, and more about picking up a few dollars. This seems like an erosion of interest in the sport as the sport. Is there a breaking point? Is there somewhere between college sports in the purest sense (IDK, college volleyball teams duking it out for the hell of it) and lower-quality-pro-sport where college football ceases to be interesting in the same way for some large segment of fans? I ran some hypos by hardcore LSU fans this weekend: what if you found out none of the players were enrolled in school? What if you had midseason transfers? What if you had contract holdouts, open and public bidding wars for players, etc. About all that stuck was "what if the band didn't play" and "what if they changed the name of the team from 'LSU tigers' to something else entirely?" [/QUOTE]
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