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Pride_and_Joy

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Exactly. If I’m going to watch a professional league,


I might as well watch one that:

1. Has the best players/play
2. Is well-regulated to maximize parity and therefore entertainment value.

College football is becoming a professional league with inferior play than the NFL combined with an utter lack of regulation to create any kind of competitive balance. The value of a competitive sports league is to create parity that keeps all fanbases engaged and hopeful.

College football is enjoyable for the fans of Bama, Ohio Stste, UGA, and a handful of other programs. The environment isn’t set up to keep the other fanbases engaged. That’s been okay because the draw was a sense of connection to one’s school — school pride. But hard to feel that sense of pride in a program when coaches turnover often and players are essentially on 1-year contracts and enter free agency every offseason.

I don’t fault the players. Good for them for making money. But the overall product is becoming less and less interesting to a larger portion of college football fanbases, IMO.



[Post edited by Pride_and_Joy at 01/09/2022 1:38PM]

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Posted: 01/09/2022 at 1:37PM



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