College Football ~ Will next generation of fans show up?

[BlueDogs]

younger people don't care about the traditional spectator sports the way Gen X and older people do. Just a fact.

Long term, football has some very serious challenges. I know lots of parents that won't let their kids play football because of concussions, and that reduced participation, which is happening across the country, will have an impact down the road.

Just part of the ongoing pussification of our culture. Just look what's going on in the NFL.

 

[Husky25]

Just part of the ongoing pussification of our culture. Just look what's going on in the NFL.

Parents may not let their kids play organized football, but kids will be kids. My town did not have a Pop-Warner team. Kids, who met the weight requirement, played for the next town over. The rest played pick-up game. Isn't it better to learn how to tackle correctly, than to get a concussion at the park?

Teach coaches to teach kids how to hit correctly. Slowly but surely it will make it's way up the levels.

 

[whaler11]

Parents may not let their kids play organized football, but kids will be kids. My town did not have a Pop-Warner team. Kids, who met the weight requirement, played for the next town over. The rest played pick-up game. Isn't it better to learn how to tackle correctly, than to get a concussion at the park?

Teach coaches to teach kids how to hit correctly. Slowly but surely it will make it's way up the levels.

The dirty little secret is that there is no way to avoid concussions in football.

Some like our poster above will call it pussyfication... just like the who don't smoke or the who wear seat belts.

 

[dsturdy5]

A distant relative of mine was an NFL d-lineman for a few years in the NFL. In that time, he assumes he had around 5 concussions. None from head to head contact, rather from tackling a back and then having another couple of 300 lb guys land on top of him. Nothing you can do about that. I applaud football at all levels for trying to legislate concussions but there is a point where they are inevitable.