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Topic: The Death of College Football - Realignment, NIL, Portal, Etc.

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« Reply #938 on: August 16, 2023, 11:44:58 AM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on August 16, 2023, 11:36:44 AM
i think this is accurate. more and more parents aren't going to want their kids playing football because of CTE.

call me crazy but i think soccer could explode in popularity in the US in the next 20-30 years. seeing it happen in South FL right now with Messi. ticket sales and tv viewership has exploded for InterMiami and they are about to build a $1 billion stadium downtown off his back.
I'll call you crazy for many other reasons, but not for this one. :)

Soccer is definitely increasing in popularity, it's really big here in Texico as well.

Quote from: Mdot21 on August 16, 2023, 11:36:44 AM
if they can actually figure out a way to get the very best players from Europe and South America into the MLS it will take off here. no one wants to watch the scrubs who can't cut it at the highest level. everyone wants to watch the best of the best compete.

That would be great, but a good start, would be just keeping the best American players at home. 
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« Reply #939 on: August 16, 2023, 11:55:47 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 16, 2023, 11:44:58 AM
I'll call you crazy for many other reasons, but not for this one. :)

Soccer is definitely increasing in popularity, it's really big here in Texico as well.

That would be great, but a good start, would be just keeping the best American players at home.
Lol. Guilty as charged. 

how good are the best American players though? I feel like our very best athletes all go play football, basektball, or baseball. 

imagine an America where someone with the speed and burst of Tyreek Hill was playing soccer from age 6-7 instead of football. now we'd have soccer players that even the Europeans and South Americans would be like....holy sh*t man that dude is pretty good.

Messi is 36 and he's been in America a month and he's already just destroying everybody in the MLS. Can't imagine what he would've done at 26 in his physical prime...
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« Reply #940 on: August 16, 2023, 03:47:00 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 10, 2023, 03:30:21 PM
The home of the Big Ten Conference Football championship game may no longer be solely Indianapolis.

Des Moines-based radio show "Miller and Condon" reports that future Big Ten title games will be played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.

"I think that the Big Ten football people are getting very, very close — in fact, maybe dotting I's and crossing T's — that the Big Ten Football championship is coming to Las Vegas," Ken Miller said Thursday from a remote broadcast from Las Vegas. "Potentially twice in the next five years."
move it to Vegas permanently and be done with it already. Indianapolis sucks. Las Vegas doesn't. Pretty simple. What we doing here man.
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« Reply #941 on: August 16, 2023, 03:59:02 PM »
I'm not a Vegas fan - at all.
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« Reply #942 on: August 16, 2023, 04:10:26 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on August 16, 2023, 03:59:02 PM
I'm not a Vegas fan - at all.
Same same. I try to avoid it as much as possible. Despite it being a 4 hr drive / 1 hr (cheap) flight, I only go there if there's something I *really* want to see, like going to the Adele concert next month. Vegas sucks.

And I don't like it for a B1G CCG because essentially everyone except USC/UCLA fans will have to fly there. But you usually can't know with certainty if your team will be in the game until the previous weekend. Not sure it'll be cheap to fly to Vegas from Detroit or Columbus on 1 week notice. 
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« Reply #943 on: August 16, 2023, 04:20:26 PM »
It's never cheap to fly to Vegas anymore. Nor are there any cheap eats or hotels.

Flight and hotel prices will soar when they find out 50,000 Buckeye Nutjobs are on their way.

I'd rather go to Europe than Vegas for the same $$$.
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« Reply #944 on: August 16, 2023, 04:24:49 PM »
I plugged in September dates for Delta to LAS and found $298 flights in the back, I think that is reasonable.
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« Reply #945 on: August 16, 2023, 04:34:53 PM »
Always gonna be cheaper coming out of a major hub. Most people don't have that option. It's one of the only (non-family/friends) things I miss about being in Chicago. I could go almost anywhere non-stop from ORD.
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« Reply #946 on: August 16, 2023, 04:44:28 PM »
When Cincinnati was a minor Delta hub, it was cheaper to fly out of Dayton/Indy/Laville to the point I'd drive to one of those cities and stay over night, the motel would usually let you park free for a week.  Cincy got dehubbed in 2009.
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« Reply #947 on: August 16, 2023, 04:52:26 PM »
Lots of times we fly to Chicago to visit family/friends and then go on from there.

Gonna do that with Cabo in January. Did it for Europe last time (cruise ship brought us back to Florida).

Anything West is through DFW, which I loathe. 
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« Reply #948 on: August 16, 2023, 04:57:39 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 16, 2023, 11:44:58 AM
I'll call you crazy for many other reasons, but not for this one. :)
Soccer is definitely increasing in popularity, it's really big here in Texico as well.

That would be great, but a good start, would be just keeping the best American players at home.
call me crazy but i think soccer could explode in popularity in the US in the next 20-30 years. seeing it happen in South FL right now with Messi. ticket sales and tv viewership has exploded for InterMiami and they are about to build a $1 billion stadium downtown off his back.Quote from: Mdot21 8/16/2023, 11:36:44 AM

I'm almost 50 years old and Soccer has been "going to explode in the US in the next 20-30 years for my entire lifetime and even before that.

I'll also point out that the two areas listed by @Mdot21 and @utee94 (Texico and S Fla) have a very high percentage of Hispanic population. There is a difference between soccer exploding in popularity among previously existing US residents and their decendants and soccer fandom simply being imported. 

I think soccer has been the "next big thing" for close to eighty years (basically since WWII) and it still isn't a big thing, it is STILL the next thing.

I googled most popular sports in America and got this site:
  • Football 
  • Basketball 
  • Baseball
  • Boxing
  • Hockey
  • Soccer
Note also that the percentage for soccer is about equal to the percentage of the US that is Hispanic so the "convert" numbers are miniscule. 
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« Reply #949 on: August 16, 2023, 05:00:21 PM »
Boxing?
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« Reply #950 on: August 16, 2023, 05:01:41 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on August 16, 2023, 05:00:21 PM
Boxing?
I would watch boxing or for that matter paint drying before I'd watch soccer.
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« Reply #951 on: August 16, 2023, 05:02:29 PM »
The local MLS team averages 45,000 per game this year, they have done better in past years.  
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