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Message: [QUOTE="Jaydumo20, post: 4182077, member: 9280"] No offense taken. Your argument is a sound one. My main thrust is, as poster 'Osully' wrote below your comment, that I think it has more to do with what's happening outside of sports. I feel that college basketball may not be enough of a draw away from tik tok, youtube or any other of the web based functions. I do some work with college kids and when I ask them what they do on weekends, they say that they are up till 4am watching videos, texting or playing video games. I think nfl football thrives because of fantasy (first and foremost) and college football thrives because of the heavy tradition, tailgating, gambling drinking culture. As we know, regular season college football can be quite lame compared to CBB, due to the glaring disparity in D1 programs). But somehow it doesn't matter if the product is good. Being a good college basketball fan takes some work and attention. Football Fandom is so multifaceted, and easily consumable, it makes being a fan seem effortless. The perfect storm for our ADD culture (and I don't just mean teenagers) I'm a huge baseball fan and have basically given up on trying to talk baseball to any "sports" fan, out of fear that they no longer follow the sport (which is usually the case). Baseball has been relegated to the regional or hard-core fan and I've come to accept that. I see college Bball maybe going the same way. The new world looks like it really only has room for football. [/QUOTE]

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