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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9716 on: September 30, 2020, 12:29:43 PM »
Thanks. We are very proud of this.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9717 on: September 30, 2020, 12:37:14 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on September 30, 2020, 12:00:05 PM
A small thing I do is speak to people, or wave, or nod.  The wife and I were just out for a run/walk.  There was one shorter black guy around my age just killing it running.  As he passed me I said "nice job" and he smiled and waved.  Other folks we wave at if they look up, or complement their dog, or something.  Most folks are friendly, and I think it brightens their day a bit, and mine as well.

I always speak to the folks at Kroger, many of them know me now.

I try to bring more positive energy and feelings to the world and less negative energy and feelings.

Even at work.... hah

I hope it brightens someone's day to an extent.  I hope they may realize it and pass it forward.
If nothing else it seems to brighten my day a bit.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9718 on: October 01, 2020, 10:54:23 AM »
From Tom Shatel........................

Here’s something else to chew on: Morning Consult, a global data intelligence company, released eye-opening information this week.

The data studied Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012. It said members of Generation Z were less likely to identify as sports fans, half as likely as millennials to watch live sports regularly and twice as likely to never watch.

What that could mean is there’s a generation — perhaps those kids in your house locked onto their phones — that may not take the baton of being the next sports consumers.

If so, that will impact the money from future TV contracts and attendance at all sorts of games. Including college football.

Including Nebraska football.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9719 on: October 01, 2020, 10:57:09 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on October 01, 2020, 10:54:23 AM
From Tom Shatel........................

Here’s something else to chew on: Morning Consult, a global data intelligence company, released eye-opening information this week.

The data studied Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012. It said members of Generation Z were less likely to identify as sports fans, half as likely as millennials to watch live sports regularly and twice as likely to never watch.

What that could mean is there’s a generation — perhaps those kids in your house locked onto their phones — that may not take the baton of being the next sports consumers.

If so, that will impact the money from future TV contracts and attendance at all sorts of games. Including college football.

Including Nebraska football.


Well, sure.

Looks like the mediots are catching up to what we've been saying for over a decade now.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9720 on: October 01, 2020, 10:59:40 AM »
This is news how?

I echo UTee. We broke this scoop 15+ years ago.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9721 on: October 01, 2020, 11:03:46 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on October 01, 2020, 10:59:40 AM
This is news how?
It's news to me because it just showed up on my cell phone.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9722 on: October 01, 2020, 11:06:42 AM »
It's a combination of a lot of things.  GenY and GenZ being attached to phones instead of humans is only part of it.  

The sport could have salvaged at least some of this a decade ago, but they were all too happy to sell out their sport by increasing ticket prices and parking prices and required donation levels to the point that the average family of four was completely priced out.  Even if you WANTED to drag your young kids out of the houses, off their phones, to experience a ballgame, it simply wasn't affordable for the majority of people.  And if parents aren't taking kids to games, then new fans are not being cultivated.

That plus, selling out the gameday experience with Jumbotron ads and loud music, sterilized the atmosphere and destroyed its uniqueness.  I love my college and my team, but even I don't want to put up with that stuff, and so I dropped by season tickets and stopped going to all but a handful of games.

And it's not like I'm the old man yelling at clouds, it's not like I'm in the minority.  The proof is in the pudding-- attendance levels have been declining across most college football teams, for the past decade. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9723 on: October 01, 2020, 11:09:05 AM »
It reminds me of a company having a good product, it sells, folks like it, you have good market share, and then a marketer decides it needs a different perfume.

Or New Coke.  Remember that one?

It did end up cementing old Coke though.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9724 on: October 01, 2020, 11:16:36 AM »
someone got paid to do a poll or survey

fortunately, the results were as expected and of no serious note
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9725 on: October 01, 2020, 12:23:34 PM »
Someone start a petition. They work.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9726 on: October 01, 2020, 12:29:47 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on October 01, 2020, 11:06:42 AM
It's a combination of a lot of things.  GenY and GenZ being attached to phones instead of humans is only part of it. 

  Even if you WANTED to drag your young kids out of the houses, off their phones, to experience a ballgame, it simply wasn't affordable for the majority of people.  And if parents aren't taking kids to games, then new fans are not being cultivated.

That plus, selling out the gameday experience with Jumbotron ads and loud music, sterilized the atmosphere and destroyed its uniqueness.  I love my college and my team, but even I don't want to put up with that stuff, and so I dropped by season tickets and stopped going to all but a handful of games.

This should be made into a chain letter - well done 94 - you get a Yuengling.And letter sent to CFB ADs,NFL,MLB,NBA & NHL HQs.Even though you are an elderly codger yelling at the clouds while enjoying a Celis.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9727 on: October 01, 2020, 12:32:30 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on October 01, 2020, 11:09:05 AM
It reminds me of a company having a good product, it sells, folks like it, you have good market share, and then a marketer decides it needs a different perfume.

Or New Coke.  Remember that one?

It did end up cementing old Coke though.
I liked the Old Gennessee but some greedy knob 3 decades back decided to water down the recipe
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9728 on: October 01, 2020, 12:39:09 PM »

Quote from: Honestbuckeye on September 30, 2020, 11:31:33 AM
They work with troubled young people who have had challenges with crime and drugs. They teach them a vocation such as auto mechanic for example.
You actually have to have talent & intelligence for that but if you want to break them easy try politics or finance 😎
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #9729 on: October 01, 2020, 12:42:11 PM »
Quote from: bwarbiany on September 30, 2020, 11:43:57 AM
My oldest [boy] turned 13 on 8/8. Now I fear moving to Round Rock to be your neighbor lol...
Wait'll Fearless gets there it will be a real mess,no BBQ/Beer will be safe,you & 94 have been warned
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