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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
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
MMA will be the #1 sport, and they will have a Mandatory Draft for all

 
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Jaydumo20 said:
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.
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I think I disagree with everything except the part about uconn Bball
 
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RuffRuff said:
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.
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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
 
Jaydumo20 said:
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
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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.
 
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.
 
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boog204 said:
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.
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But it fills a lot of air time so networks keep paying for it.
 
boog204 said:
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.
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I keep hearing this about baseball but the #'s don't show it for MLB. Is it less popular than it was in the 90's? Yes it's way less popular than the 90's but so is the NBA and NHL.
 
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Without major changes, The Tour de France and other major 3 week races will whither away, or, if protests (not protesting anything to do with cycling) continue, won't be able to race on open roads. The recent Vuelta Espana was plagued by protesters blocking cyclists. Almost every stage. I hope the protesters made more enemies than friends.
 
boog204 said:
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.
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I hope not. I still think that playoff baseball, at least, is better than NFL and NBA. Regular season.... no
 
I think something replaces the NBA, not sure what. Baseball should just stop the inter league stuff and go to 4 divisions i each league. Go back to a more “pure” version where the playoffs comprise of 8 division winners. No wild cards thank you very much! The NCAA tournament will become the Big10-SEC challenge. A 1-done tournament with all teams getting bids. Everyone else will play in a 96 team tournament. There will be media pressure to set up a champ vs champ event and after a few years it will
Happen. The NFL will keep on keeping on. It will add teams in Paris, London, Moscow Rome and Iceland as well as Panama City, Rio, Mexico City (relocated Raiders) and São Paulo. In college football the Super league will be formed and will fail within 5 years as nobody really cares to watch Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State and Michigan play every year for the title. BC will say they could have been a member but they preferred to stay with Miami and Florida State.
 
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Soccer needs a major change. The only way Americans will embrace soccer is with more action. I suggest that they play with 2 balls at the same time. Imagine, two fastbreaks, offense and defense at the same time, 17 -12 scores.
 
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I don't think this is true at all. The recent changes have made baseball so much enjoyable for everyone from the casual fans to the diehards
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And massively popular at the 10-17 level. Tons of money being poured in, private equity, etc. MLB ain’t going anywhere - they’ll continue to adapt. Soccer may grow more because it’s it has so much more room, but it is never taking baseball. Only chance is if some iconic superstar ala soccer Jordan shows up that kids looked up to. We’ve been waiting for that guy for a long time. Soccers benefit is its simplicity and that kids can play it at 4 years old. Most great athletes then abandon it as they get older.

Listen, if you’re 5’8” and quick, play soccer. They’ll never attract the crème de la crème of big time athletes in the US. Most of us go watch those guys because they are unique physical specimens and larger than life.
 
The NFL will still be king. The NBA will be the NBA. Baseball will have fallen in a volcano and the people who like the NHL will still like the NHL. Soccer will fade in the US because we suck at it, but the rest of the world will still do what they do. The WNBA doubles down on trying to be the most unlikable group of human beings in sports and loses all forward momentum. Boxing no longer exists and horse racing is conducted without horses after a successful PETA campaign to have them banned. UFC is supplanted by the new Bar Fight League in which combatants are required to try to have a political discussion while doing shots at scheduled intervals.

College football and basketball are still popular, but there’s a league of 60+ schools playing in their own association. The NCAA is still around to organize the remnants of D1 as well as D2 and D3. It co-owns the year end tournament with the new power division and splits the revenue 30-70. Some number of NCAA teams earn berths to the tournament while all power conference teams are included. Ditto for the women’s tournament.

Half the power conference football teams play in their year end tournament. The remaining 50 or so teams left behind in the NCAA have a four team playoff in Flint, Michigan to determine the best of the rest. The players each pay a $50 entry fee to cover field rental.

The USA wins six gold medals at the 2036 Olympics because collegiate Olympic sports were all cut in 2030 due to budgetary constraints.
 
Sports must continue to evolve to meet the demand for results now. I think UConn will always be doing something good. I think they will get into a conference, either a watered-down ACC or the Big 12.
Pro football will still be king. Baseball needs more viewers. I am not sure how they do it. The NBA has its limits, but it will continue until salaries need to stop growing as they are now.
College sports need rules and boundaries, which it doesn't have now
 
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