Hypothetical: Would you boycott/give up p4 football?

[nycscooby]

I decided that, starting this season, I will be boycotting attending or watching any college football other than UConn. I know it's not going to matter to anyone but me but I just can't stomach what is going on any longer and really worried about the future of UConn athletics. I won't watch it, I won't read about it and one day, I won't think about it anymore. Started watching college football with Earl Campbell's heisman year in 1977 and had been watching all along. If UConn ends up on the right side of the P4 (or eventual P2) fence then the boycott will be lifted but until then...

 

[CL82]

C.D.'s concussion issue is probably the worst I've seen in non-football sports. I really hope she can stay on the floor.

I worry about it. I want the kid to get back out there and play the game that she loves, at the same time I can't help but wonder if risky for her. All we can do is let the doctors decide, but I will cringe every time she takes a bump out there.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Hoops will always be top dog (no pun intended) but hockey leapfrogged football for me nowadays since both of my kids play. I watch the Redzone on Sundays and will watch college occasionally if there is a good game on, but we are always tuned into the Rangers or UConn hockey if they happen to be on TV.

 

[Jaydumo20]

I decided that, starting this season, I will be boycotting attending or watching any college football other than UConn. I know it's not going to matter to anyone but me but I just can't stomach what is going on any longer and really worried about the future of UConn athletics. I won't watch it, I won't read about it and one day, I won't think about it anymore. Started watching college football with Earl Campbell's heisman year in 1977 and had been watching all along. If UConn ends up on the right side of the P4 (or eventual P2) fence then the boycott will be lifted but until then...

This 100%

 

[boog204]

I definitely could and not even treat it as a boycott. As I've gotten older and crankier I more or less have stopped caring for anything besides UConn basketball. I still follow the Yankees and hope they win and I'll certainly watch them choke in the playoffs for the 15th straight year, but a regular season game against the Mariners could not be less interesting to me at this juncture. I barely watch CFB anymore and watch less college basketball (besides UConn) than I ever had. I'm only somewhat interested in the NFL because I got back into fantasy this year. So long story short, I kind of hate everything besides UConn. Which sounds about right across the board.

 

[Hurleyman216]

My personal opinion is that basketball is being incredibly undervalued by P4 conferences. We are also the Notre Dame of college basketball (but with way more on field success). Even if we kill football some conference is going to want to scoop us for basketball only. With these huge leagues of 20 teams you can’t even play everyone once in football anyway, so having a team for all sports other than football shouldn’t matter all that much. The very near future is also going to involve more tv contracts with streaming platforms and we need to leverage that as best we can. Our appearance to a P4 conference might be more favorable without the crappy football product. That being said, conference realignment isn’t anywhere close to being done and until it is, we need to hang on to football and hope for the best.

 

[Scoe]

I definitely could and not even treat it as a boycott. As I've gotten older and crankier I more or less have stopped caring for anything besides UConn basketball. I still follow the Yankees and hope they win and I'll certainly watch them choke in the playoffs for the 15th straight year, but a regular season game against the Mariners could not be less interesting to me at this juncture. I barely watch CFB anymore and watch less college basketball (besides UConn) than I ever had. I'm only somewhat interested in the NFL because I got back into fantasy this year. So long story short, I kind of hate everything besides UConn. Which sounds about right across the board.

Tonight's Yankees-Redsox game is only available on Apple TV how convenient. Another issue is games only being available on Amazon or Apple or ESPN plus, I have gotten used to just listening to streamers calling the game.

 

[HuskyHawk]

My personal opinion is that basketball is being incredibly undervalued by P4 conferences. We are also the Notre Dame of college basketball (but with way more on field success). Even if we kill football some conference is going to want to scoop us for basketball only. With these huge leagues of 20 teams you can’t even play everyone once in football anyway, so having a team for all sports other than football shouldn’t matter all that much. The very near future is also going to involve more tv contracts with streaming platforms and we need to leverage that as best we can. Our appearance to a P4 conference might be more favorable without the crappy football product. That being said, conference realignment isn’t anywhere close to being done and until it is, we need to hang on to football and hope for the best.

It is. The fix is somewhat simple. Deny the NCAA the ability to fund it's operations solely from the NCAA tournament. Instead they'd need to get 2/3 of it from the football playoff and 1/3 from the NCAA Tournament. The revenue credits from basketball would go out and payout for football would go down.

 

[UCTitleTown]

Most people when polled if they would accept a ten years shorter lifespan to be a professional athlete and the result was strongly yes. I'd vote no. As you get older, you realize every day and year alive is a blessing.

 

[uconnfan68]

I’ll never pay extra to watch them, and haven’t been to a live game in years. I do have a big cable bill, and lots of streaming stuff too, just to make sure I can watch UConn games, in whatever sport. I haven’t missed any fb,mbb, wbb for many years ( even if I have to dvr it for later viewing), but have tried catching some baseball and hockey too.

 

[Greedo]

I used to live and breathe college football. I don’t pay attention to anything FBS outside of UConn anymore. I watch UConn games and that’s it. Couldn’t tell you any of the teams in the top 25 at the moment.

I’ve started finding FCS far more compelling and gives me more of the vibe I felt in college football as a whole 20+ years ago.

 

[superjohn]

I used to love football, it was right there with basketball for me but the product pretty much sucks now.

It was once a wildly interesting sport, now it's mostly just guys playing catch with each other. Between the on field product being so watered down, fantasy, and gambling I've lost so much interest in the sport.

I'll still catch a game here and there when there's nothing else on TV or if I'm out at the bar but it's mostly on in the background and the days of it being appointment viewing are done for me.

 

[bendm]

I will 100% boycott college football and basketball if a p3 breaks away and tries to hold its own March madness but until that happens I’ll keep watching both.

 

[CJasmer]

Football has becomes a gluttonous buzzkill for me as well. It’s indulged itself in gambling and fantasy, with every inch focused on economics. Realignment has scorned traditions and rivalriesfor $$ and cross country flights.

Beyond that, the quality of the game has just diluted to a point that I don’t even find it entertaining. Once upon a time it was a field full of passionate gladiators, now it’s just a bunch of Gen Z athletes playing flag football.
12 minutes of action time, that it what you get with football. It ends up being 10x more commercials than actual action. So much of what entertains and engages the college fanbase is the pageantry, the tailgating. No thanks.

All you need to do is go to one SEC or B10 game to understand how culturally imbedded the sport is in middle America, the regional bus that drives the economics. These are states who plan their years and vacations around following their teams around. They are just different out there, and what drives the revenue.

I could give two sh@ts about UConn football beyond its financial impact on UConn hoops. The reality is even if we get into a P3, there is zero potential to ever win anything of substance on a sustainable basis. We are just not in an area that offers the local recruiting.

I barely watch the NFL beyond the 3:30 marker of the 1pm games. But you have to give it credit, the NFL has evolved and marketed so much better than other major sports.

I attended a Mets game last week and I couldn’t believe how fast it went by with the new pitch clock. The issue is that it’s two decades late. Now baseball has to figure out how to make its 162 games meaningful. My idea - quarter season winners that get bids into a playoff. Rather than an arduous marathon to meaningful games, you have 4 mini seasons of 40 games. Much of the overall scheme would need to be worked out, but this makes a June game far more interesting without impacting season length/records.

Football is the most popular sport in USA. The people on this fan site are in the minority.