(11-13-2017 01:44 PM)cotton1991 Wrote: Does this mean that Wichita has given up its dream of fielding a football team in hopes of snagging a Big12 invite when realignment comes calling in a few years and your current conference mates all split?
Big TV payouts are done. Thus, major realignment is probably done. Before long, football may be done.
Enjoy the Bad Boys Bowl.
Whatever happens to the AAC in the future hopefully Wichita will find a home somewhere.
(11-13-2017 10:19 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote: I watched an NFL game last night and all I witnessed were players and coaches walking around for hours. Between the walking and standing around, there were brief interruptions for commercials and actual game play. Had the clock not been running, I would still be stuck in front of the television as I type this.
Football is like those last 2 minutes in a college basketball game when the score is close and the trailing team immediately fouls the second the ball is thrown in causing the game to run in 3-second bursts for what seems like an eternity. Pure torture.
To be fair, baseball is also extremely boring.
Do I even need to bring up fking soccer?
NBA basketball looks like college basketball players running warm-up drills.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, college basketball has much more action per minute of ass in seat. I don't have time to watch humans walk around on grassy fields. Get the **** on with it!
That is all.
Happy Monday everyone!
T
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you are trying too hard. most basketball games could start with a track gun,last 2 minutes and end with the same result.
preemptive " like my sex life", this is P6 bring your A game.
(This post was last modified: 11-13-2017 05:05 PM by shere khan.)
(11-13-2017 05:08 PM)ShockerFever Wrote: I love geo smack on a sports board.
My piece of dirt where my parents procreated is better than yours. Boo yah.
Go figure the sphincters that are tightening the worst are high level 1-AA fans from Old Dominion and Georgia State.
I just come for the shitshow and am never disappointed. But are you really going to defend Kansas? I'm sure plenty of people's parents procreated in Kansas cause there's literally nothing else to do but the ones with any sense left shortly thereafter.
(11-13-2017 10:19 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote: I watched an NFL game last night and all I witnessed were players and coaches walking around for hours. Between the walking and standing around, there were brief interruptions for commercials and actual game play. Had the clock not been running, I would still be stuck in front of the television as I type this.
Football is like those last 2 minutes in a college basketball game when the score is close and the trailing team immediately fouls the second the ball is thrown in causing the game to run in 3-second bursts for what seems like an eternity. Pure torture.
To be fair, baseball is also extremely boring.
Do I even need to bring up fking soccer?
NBA basketball looks like college basketball players running warm-up drills.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, college basketball has much more action per minute of ass in seat. I don't have time to watch humans walk around on grassy fields. Get the **** on with it!
That is all.
Happy Monday everyone!
T
...
I agree with you on the NFL, just don't watch or keep up with it, well, till the playoffs. But hey, you'll come to love college football once you realize it's the number one sport and the one that really matters.
College football only matters to a select amount of schools every year. Everybody else is playing for peanuts.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love Tiger basketball, got 4 season tix, go to all home games and travel to whatever regional (when we were good) we play in. BUT, nothing like Tiger football or for that matter, college football in general. Our Tigers had a bye this past weekend, all I did was watch college football all day. Can't say I'd do the same for basketball. Matter of fact, if the Tigers aren't playing I don't watch basketball at all. But hey, your school doesn't have a football program, so I can understand where you're coming from. But again, hate to tell ya, but college football rules the roost when it comes to college sports. WSU has a great basketball team this year, I'll be there when WSU comes to town, I just hope we can be half way competitive with you guys.
Maybe, but at least Nebraska has that world-class university in Omaha.
UNL is in Lincoln, about 50 miles away. I can see how one would get confused though as the entire city of Bug'aha kneels at the alter of the scarlet and cream. I don't know if I'd call them world-class though. I hear they're REALLY good with corn.
(11-13-2017 01:19 PM)Play Angry Wrote: Football is a wonderful sport and will always have its place, but its period of ascendancy is over and its popularity will wane in the coming decades as people with an IQ over 80 and income above poverty levels steer their kids towards participation in sports which don't cause intellectual incapacity en masse by their early 40s. Society will continue to watch these poor dumb bastards play, like fans of gladiator events in bygone eras, but the allocation of resources will shift as the disconnect with the moneyed class widens.
The window on football's dominance from a monetary standpoint still has a while before it closes and the sport is overtaken by whatever successor emerges, though.
A few problems with your assertion:
1) While the "high IQ" people won't let their (likely horrible at sports anyway) kids from playing football, that doesn't mean they won't still want to watch it.
2) American football exists in its own ecosystem. It's not like soccer, where viewers can tell that no one cares about soccer here, and that our teams suck compared to everyone else's. Even if only 5% of the kids play football, those players will be on tv playing college and NFL ball.
I think you may have misinterpreted my post to predict an extinction level event is on the horizon for football. Obviously not, as people will continue to watch - just in fewer numbers on a relative basis as time goes by.
Sports' popularity ebb and flow, and football has spent the last couple of decades working toward its peak. The fact that it will lose its death grip on viewing audiences and revenue in the coming decades does not mean it is on the verge of going away anytime soon.
(11-13-2017 10:19 AM)C0|db|00ded Wrote: Football is like those last 2 minutes in a college basketball game when the score is close and the trailing team immediately fouls the second the ball is thrown in causing the game to run in 3-second bursts for what seems like an eternity. Pure torture.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, college basketball has much more action per minute of ass in seat. I don't have time to watch humans walk around on grassy fields. Get the **** on with it!
I agree that it has its boring moments, but at least the parts where they are playing are actually entertaining.
If they could fix the last 2 minutes of basketball, I think that maybe people would stop ignoring it. Because basketball has no defense, teams just trade shot tries for an hour. Those last 2 minutes are the only part of the game that matters. While they could be exciting, they are slowed down to a halt by fouls and timeouts.
Get rid of timeouts in the last 2 minutes, and allow a little more contact, and we can fix basketball.
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