It's pretty obvious they will break away at some point and all they care about is TV ratings/money. Eventually they will cut the fat within their conferences so they get their marquee matchups all the time instead of having to play Northwestern, Vandy, Minnesota etc.
I hope it happens. I'm bitter.
I agree. Just look at the nfl. A p2 will work just fine and interest will remain as big as ever.
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I don't know if I agree on the interest part. Sure those two conferences are the strongest but at some point soon, people that haven't grown up as fans or alumni of those schools just won't care much because Sundays are for NFL football. Cut out 3/4 of the teams and you lose a large part of your audience that cares. I might be in the minority but I didn't watch a second of that Bama game and I didn't care to either. I'm done with the arrogance and belief that no one else belongs but the select few.
I'm with ya. At the same time though, we are UConn fans, our team has no conference championship to play for and no shot at the CFP. We're just hoping for a bowl game for now. Yet many UConn fans were very interested in watching that Georgia-Alabama game. I think most football fans will be football fans regardless of what they say, and they will watch. We don't know what will happen but my bet is, fans will still watch the P2. Sure, if all non-P2 fans boycott the P2 it would make a difference, but boycotts never work.
This is why the P2 will still throw a bone to the other conferences. They need to keep 100 other FBS fanbases engaged and interested to prop up ratings for their games. 8 autobids for them and 4 for everyone else. The P2 will eventually control march madness and create another rule set that is very favorable to them, but still allows the other 300 D1 basketball teams a shot at making the tournament so that those fanbases keep engaged with college basketball generally. But the BIG 12 might be able to get more autobids for basketball if they are the clear best basketball conference and this would be huge because once the schools control march madness, then the money that the schools get will be far greater with the NCAA cut out.
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I hear ya but I used to watch college football all afternoon long and flip between multiple games regularly. Kinda wish I had multi view back then. Now, I watch UConn and barely even put a game on at night as background noise. Once again, I'm not likely the majority, but I would imagine there are more and more people becoming less engaged in CFB. Cut out a good chunk of your schools and you just lost a huge audience who might start feeling and doing what I do.
That's exactly how I feel too. I just pretty much watch UConn and could care less about other teams. If UConn was in a conference, I might pay attention to other league teams like I did when UConn was in the Big East. Right now, I could care less about those teams anymore.
How much of that has to do with personal time constraints, vs being upset at what cfb has become. I just don't have the time to watch Cfb all day like i did in my teens and 20s.
I feel the same way!!! Living in Columbia, SC I used to pull for USCs because why not. Now I could give two poops about it. I won’t watch SEC or Big10 games. They are destroying college sports.
The being unable to watch all day is due to not being in my 20's and kids sports schedules. Yet I don't even watch random games at night. However, even if I was, I can't see myself dedicating the same amount of time now like I used to. I just don't care. It probably also has to do with the fact that UConn has no shot at any postseason of meaning (bowl games have become a joke now). So good question and point, but I think the pre kids me would have the same feeling.
They’ll recast David as long suffering Northwestern or the unexpected push for Penn State against Kentucky.
Think about it, they hit homeruns on Bell-offense, Sheffield-special teams, and McDonald-defense. Other impact players include Hoeh on the OL, Barton on the DL, Wright in the defensive backfield. There are others as well like Robinson at RB. They crushed there snd suppsedly will have more money to work with. They can do some things.