(09-30-2016 09:43 AM)Tigeer Wrote: (09-30-2016 09:34 AM)10thMountain Wrote: And no to renewing the series ever. It's dead and gone and needs to stay that way forever.
That is a heartfelt statement. It is just not good for college FB to have no game involving Texas and A&M. Just like many other rivalries that have been lost in the shuffle. And I don't think it is gone, forever.
As soon as revenue or ratings dip the networks if not the conferences will demand the game return. College football picked exactly the worst time for all of its changes. The generation that is growing up with an electronic device 10 inches from their noses is just not as interested in live sports because they never played them and don't understand them, and they require involvement and attention longer than 5 minutes.
So killing off rivalries in the name of product manipulation (realignment) has been destructive because it has created apathy among what had been loyal viewers. And the corporate group think that believes more unnecessary noise and larger electronic screens at the stadiums are good, exciting, and necessary, have already alienated many Boomers who just happen to be among the largest individual donors. Crowd out our schools' logos for corporate ones and those of us reaching the "don't give a damn anymore" level are going to increase.
Either there is a conspiracy to destroy college football (probably not it's too profitable) or those running the industry are so out of touch with their brainless monkey see monkey do copy cat mentality that they are through their clueless actions unilaterally destroying the very things that have endeared it to the fans. Those would include traditions, school logos which tie fans together, the college feel to the venues which remind them of their youth, rivalries that they pay big bucks to attend, and a core of traditional schools they play.
The network / corporate Borg are trying through IMG and others to turn each unique stadium experience into the same mindless ass numbing experience. Screw 'em! I don't want Auburn to be the same experience as Alabama, Tennessee, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Clemson, Texas, etc. It's the uniqueness of each that make going to those venues special. Let them do their own cheers no matter how irreverent. Did you guys know that IMG even exercises control over permissible cheers? So after these putzes screwed up the visuals at the stadium, blew my ear drums out with "exciting" game-day audio tracks, and crammed in more fannies (and fatter ones) on my row, I took my business on 3/4's of the games to my den, my easy chair, and enjoyed the game with good food and a clean restroom.
Now if in their relentless pursuit of expanding advertising revenues they screw up the games I want to see then to hell with them and the game. Why? Because my school no longer cares what its alums think or they wouldn't let these jerks screw up our experience. I'll go back to hunting dove (an excuse to drink beer and talk to buddies) or fishing (an excuse to drink beer and enjoy solitude).
No matter what folks think the public has expectations too. I love to watch the bitter rivalries. They made the game great and drove our passion. Lose those and who gives a crap what 85 guys between 18-22 with too much testosterone and too little self discipline, and who seldom have the academic credentials to actually function without athletic privilege at the schools actually do! In that case my school is better off without them, much better off!
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