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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #280 on: July 04, 2022, 12:05:19 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 03, 2022, 11:48:54 PM
I think eventually it will.


Universities are already seeing it in the form of declining attendance, especially among actual current students.  They've priced average fans out of the market, so dads who love the sport are no longer able to take their kids to games and form that lifelong bond.  When those kids get to school, they don't care as much, and they don't attend.  They graduate and don't take the next generation of kids to games, and the spiral of decline increases.

TV money is still there, for now, but if you're not creating new fans then you're not creating new television viewers.  The whole thing is bound to collapse on itself at some point.

NCAA sports are losing two of biggest things that separated themselves from the pro sports.....tradition and amateurism.  Super conferences along with teams trending towards simply buying their rosters is going to quickly turn the NCAA into a semi-pro league.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #281 on: July 04, 2022, 09:08:55 AM »
Quote from: WhiskeyM on July 03, 2022, 11:28:55 PM
The B1G is standing down for now because they are going to take Texas and Oklahoma before they jump to the SEC.

let's GO!!!
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #282 on: July 04, 2022, 09:56:55 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 03, 2022, 08:26:22 PM
LOL.

Yeah keep fucking that chicken if you want.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #283 on: July 04, 2022, 11:29:48 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on June 30, 2022, 03:23:48 PM
Do you really love it?  Why?  Just curious.

I thought most of you B1Gers were pretty traditional.

Personally I dislike every bit of realignment that's occurred since about 1990. 

Found this articulate piece from a West Virginia fan posting the negatives of being the geographic oddball of their conference (see below). Nobody on here was that warm to Rutgers joining the Big Ten but at least a bit of a geographic rivalry was mustered with Penn State. In the same time zone.

For UCLA and USC, things are pretty stale with this being purely a money move on their part. Like with West Virginia, they will lose whole histories of organic rivalries. And as for the Big Ten accessing the LA market along with projected TV dollars, remember on the old board there was a really long thread about whether adding Rutgers and Maryland would really turn on more TVs?

Answer all along was “no” because, though NY market TVs might turn to watch a Rutgers Vs Illinois game, it wasn’t in numbers greater than Rutgers Vs their Big East opponents. And more so, nobody in the NY market cared a lick more about watching Iowa Vs Minnesota just because NJ/NY was newly part of Big Ten country. Same will be true with LA – nobody in Long Beach or Marina Del Ray is adding the Wisconsin Vs Northwestern game to their viewing slate because the LA schools are part of Big Ten country.


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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #284 on: July 04, 2022, 04:24:25 PM »
That's probably mostly true and all, but a few things:
1 - Texas @ South Carolina will be a sellout, because even the SEC's ne'er-do-wells sell out.  Maybe USCe showing up in Austin won't be a whole big thing, but that's on them.
Florida @ OU should be huge - the Sooners playing @ Auburn will be massive.  Over and over and over again.
2 - aside from the jokes about B1G teams getting to play in the RB every few years now, won't USC @ Iowa feel like a RB matchup to them?  Maybe not for all matchups, but I feel like Wisconsin @ UCLA will feel bigger than a normal away game....USC @ MSU will feel bigger than average.  It's like a bunch of mini-RBs week after week. 
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #285 on: July 04, 2022, 04:33:51 PM »
Novelties wear off.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #286 on: July 04, 2022, 04:49:52 PM »
South Carolina often sells out their field, they have devoted fans.  Kentucky has been selling out of late, smaller stadium there, but good fans and a good product.

Phil Fulmer got a job with homeland because no one else could empty a place of 100,000 people so fast.



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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #287 on: July 04, 2022, 05:12:31 PM »
Nebraska was a novelty. It was great for a while, but now kicking their ass is just another game. If they get good again, that will change.

PSU is still a big one, because they beat UW more than UW beats them. So they can F right off.

Maryland is fine, I guess. I was a proponent them and have no regrets about them.

Rutgers is why again? Oh yeah. The NYC market and AAU.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #288 on: July 04, 2022, 07:14:06 PM »
the AAU has  nothing to do with it
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #289 on: July 04, 2022, 10:33:27 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 04, 2022, 04:33:51 PM
Novelties wear off.
That's why I don't get married.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #290 on: July 04, 2022, 10:34:44 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on July 04, 2022, 04:49:52 PM


Phil Fulmer got a job with homeland because no one else could empty a place of 100,000 people so fast.




What I love about the upcoming season is that Tennessee thinks it's good again.  How many times can they cry wolf?  It's adorable.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #291 on: July 05, 2022, 01:20:37 AM »
As for home attendance:

Washington > Southern Cal
Oregon > UCLA

And, it is not even close.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #292 on: July 05, 2022, 04:51:30 AM »
Quote from: Hawkinole on July 05, 2022, 01:20:37 AM
As for home attendance:

Washington > Southern Cal (seating capacity +20,000)
Oregon > UCLA (seating capacity +38,000)

And, it is not even close.
To hammer home the point.
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Re: UCLA and USC
« Reply #293 on: July 05, 2022, 06:49:48 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on July 04, 2022, 04:33:51 PM
Novelties wear off.
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on July 04, 2022, 10:33:27 PM
That's why I don't get married.
Trolling has never worn off but evidently you've suffered from low "T" for quite some time
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