Where will we be in ten years?

[Jaydumo20]

Where will college basketball be in ten years? (5 years is fine if a 10 year forecast makes your head explode)

I am also interested in what you all think will develop with these other sports:
Pro/College football
MLB
Womens Bball (pro and college)
NBA

Will NFL still be King?
Will MLB fix something?
Will Womens ball growth expand as more girls start to aspire to be like JuJu, Paige, Clark?

Behave

 

[TheHorde]

The divide between haves and have nots will be a chasm. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Power 4 (Power 2 by then?) has its own basketball and football playoff systems while the remaining leagues have the current NCAA tournament morph into something akin to the NIT.

 

[bendm]

No big changes to college bball. Minor expansion of March madness to 76 teams and there will be a new P3 but that’s ok because UConn will continue to dominate in a watered down ACC.

We’ll finally have a home for football which is cool but The CFP will expand to 24 or 28 teams or something stupid because theyre the most greedy people on earth and more people will eventually stop caring. Gap grows between NFL and college football.

 

[Jaydumo20]

I feel like the government will step in and College sports will still be pay to play but there will be transfer rules. UConn will still be a Bball powerhouse with one of Genos former players at the helm and Andrew Hurley or Luke as our coach.
Mlb will have a shorter season.
The NFL will drop in viewership. The oversaturation will take its toll and more will surface about CTE and concussions.

Womens bball will be at its height with more teams and more stars. We already had a female baller who was THE most famous athlete in 2024.

 

[Devland]

i will probably be in an urn on a shelf or scattered in one of my kids yards

 

[borninansonia]

civilization will probably collapse within 10 years

 

[RuffRuff]

Wow on the existentialism going on with this thread. This is a giant convo. What MLB needs, and I did propose it at one point, is what I heard John Smoltz suggest in that MLB needs to break up the regular season into small seasons deeming playoff bids. They need to generate some urgency on why to watch - a 162 game season to determine short playoffs just makes no sense. It's a slog. Give me 4, 40 game seasons where each quarter winner grabs a playoff spot. It'll create juice throughout the season. Right now, games in June mean jack.

 

[fatlucy]

Soccer will be a major sport in the US with MLB taking even more of a step back. I would be surprised if the US doesn't field at least three major soccer teams on par with EU by then.

 

[MuchoDogYears]

The Ivy League marks 100 years as being long enough before committing to rule CFB again.

They use their bottomless financial resources to buy every top 100 high school recruit and every top 200 NIL transfer for the next decade. After which they decide that they’re bored dominating CFB and dismantle their programs again.

 

[MuchoDogYears]

For women sports, Volleyball overtakes basketball in fan interest in the next 10 years.

 

[Flipside]

MMA will be the #1 sport, and there will be a Mandatory Draft for all

 

[NJHusky]

I feel like the government will step in and College sports will still be pay to play but there will be transfer rules. UConn will still be a Bball powerhouse with one of Genos former players at the helm and Andrew Hurley or Luke as our coach.
Mlb will have a shorter season.
The NFL will drop in viewership. The oversaturation will take its toll and more will surface about CTE and concussions.

Womens bball will be at its height with more teams and more stars. We already had a female baller who was THE most famous athlete in 2024.

I think I disagree with everything except the part about uconn Bball

 

[Palatine]

Same place.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Wow on the existentialism going on with this thread. This is a giant convo. What MLB needs, and I did propose it at one point, is what I heard John Smoltz suggest in that MLB needs to break up the regular season into small seasons deeming playoff bids. They need to generate some urgency on why to watch - a 162 game season to determine short playoffs just makes no sense. It's a slog. Give me 4, 40 game seasons where each quarter winner grabs a playoff spot. It'll create juice throughout the season. Right now, games in June mean jack.

That's actually brilliant. I havent heard that yet. Baseball is my favorite sport outside of CBB and I am barely watching baseball right now. I think your argument makes even more sense when you consider what impact the all star break has on the sport: the segmenting of the season actually serves as a clean slate for so many teams. 4 splits would be even better. You wouldn't have teams mailing it in in the last quarter. I'm all for this

 

[RuffRuff]

That's actually brilliant. I havent heard that yet. Baseball is my favorite sport outside of CBB and I am barely watching baseball right now. I think your argument makes even more sense when you consider what impact the all star break has on the sport: the segmenting of the season actually serves as a clean slate for so many teams. 4 splits would be even better. You wouldn't have teams mailing it in in the last quarter. I'm all for this

Yup - and it gives fans a reason to stay engaged. When you’re the fan of the Rockies, and your season is over 2 months in, why care? Maybe in that last quarter you expand rosters and call up young guys to revitalize for a run. It’s adds a new layer of texture and strategy. I don’t think they’ll ever cut the season shorter due to historical records/stats. This would be a way of maintaining it.

It also makes more sense in this age of pitch counts. Teams that win a playoff spot in first quarter can rest key SPs strategically over remainder of season.

The current system make no sense anymore. MLB has been slow to the punch to adapt, but seems ready.

Soccer may close gap but I don’t it ever laps MLB. It has a ceiling culturally. I find it outrageously boring personally. A lot of kids play it because it’s so basic they can, but usually check off into the major sports when older if they are true athletes with size.

 

[billythekid]

 

[HooperScooper]

I need a couple gummies to answer these questions. This topic could be an entire book.

 

[boog204]

I think baseball will continue to die. Which sucks because I’ve loved it so much. But it just has less and less juice every year and the youngins barely pay attention.