TV to me has damaged the in-person fan experience. TV is a good problem to have, but I think there are some real problems it creates.

1. College football should be played on Saturdays for the most part for the student body and for fans that travel to the game. Sometimes I look at our schedule and our most attractive Saturday home game is Duke. I am cool with a national game on Thursday night's too. Obviously VT benefited from this. But now they have to go to Friday night games? Friday nights are for high school, but the greed was too much I guess.

2. Also, bowls and TV. They spread these major bowl games throughout the week after New Years. Most people want to travel between Christmas and New Years if they have school age kids. It sucks for them. And doing this ruined one of the greatest sports viewing days of the year--NYD. Now they have meaningless games on all day.

3. I always joked that in the future, they would play games in a TV studio. Well, we were close to having that during Covid. LOL. The video quality of TV today is outstanding. A good thing, even though it might keep some fans home in front of an awesome TV experience. Can't fault them for that to be honest.

4. VT is actually LESS visible now than it was several years ago since so many games are put on the ACC Network, which Comcast doesn't even carry. What a joke.

5. And the games that often aren't on TV (or put on to the ACCN), are games that you don't want to even bother going to see in person anyway--like games against FBS opponents. BTW, soft scheduling in order to get max home games is also a major problem.

6. Look, I love the increased TV exposure on one hand (BYU vs. Coastal Carolina was the best game of the year--that wouldn't have been on TV 30 years ago). But college football in many respects has put short term profits ahead of tradition and what's best in the long term. And I think this is the biggest area that college football is screwing up--the loss of tradition.

And tradition brings me to my last point. Much tradition has been lost over the last 20 years: the devaluing of the Rose Bowl, the loss of GREAT rivalries, the loss of a REAL New Years Day experience, teams pimping this week's uniform out to sneaker companies (thank you Oregon and Nike), the transfer portal (be true to your school--NOT), and I could go on and on. But I look at Notre Dame and the flack they have taken and the pressure they have endured to join a conference and give up their tradition of independence--and they've stuck to their guns. As much as I would LOVE to have them as a member of our ACC, I gotta respect holding the line when the mob demands otherwise.
[Post edited by Maroon Baboon at 06/15/2021 12:53PM]