https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/entertain...index.html

I thought it would be petroleum getting too-expensive (decades from now) to make flying rare, but the leftists are now starting to avoid air travel due to the extravagant carbon-production.

If this trend spreads to the very liberal (on average) college administrators and vocal, "woke" students, will they ban air travel for their athletes too?

If so, will this force a realignment (back to) smaller, bus/train-scale conferences?

(01-07-2020 12:18 PM)PlayBall! Wrote:  https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/entertain...index.html

I thought it would be petroleum getting too-expensive (decades from now) to make flying rare, but the leftists are now starting to avoid air travel due to the extravagant carbon-production.

If this trend spreads to the very liberal (on average) college administrators and vocal, "woke" students, will they ban air travel for their athletes too?

If so, will this force a realignment (back to) smaller, bus/train-scale conferences?

It's an interesting idea, because you are talking about two very strong ideological tendencies on campuses: On one hand, most campuses, even in conservative states, tend to be staffed with liberals, and "climate change" is right up there near or at the very top of liberal ideological concerns these days.

But on the other, schools that have FBS football tend to cling to them like barnacles. The same administrators who voice all kinds of liberal opinions on everything else will go through endless contortions to keep afloat even pathetically attended and supported FBS football programs, soaking their students with huge fees to do so. FBS programs are like federal welfare programs, once established they are nearly impossible to get rid of.

So if it becomes clear that the kind of extravagant FBS football programs really are incompatible with a woke/liberal climate posture, that will be a titanic clash of forces.

(01-07-2020 12:26 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 12:18 PM)PlayBall! Wrote:  https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/entertain...index.html

I thought it would be petroleum getting too-expensive (decades from now) to make flying rare, but the leftists are now starting to avoid air travel due to the extravagant carbon-production.

If this trend spreads to the very liberal (on average) college administrators and vocal, "woke" students, will they ban air travel for their athletes too?

If so, will this force a realignment (back to) smaller, bus/train-scale conferences?

It's an interesting idea, because you are talking about two very strong ideological tendencies on campuses: On one hand, most campuses, even in conservative states, tend to be staffed with liberals, and "climate change" is right up there near or at the very top of liberal ideological concerns these days.

But on the other, schools that have FBS football tend to cling to them like barnacles. The same administrators who voice all kinds of liberal opinions on everything else will go through endless contortions to keep afloat even pathetically attended and supported FBS football programs, soaking their students with huge fees to do so. FBS programs are like federal welfare programs, once established they are nearly impossible to get rid of.

So if it becomes clear that the kind of extravagant FBS football programs really are incompatible with a woke/liberal climate posture, that will be a titanic clash of forces.

The most woke celebrities fly on private planes. This is going nowhere.

(01-07-2020 12:18 PM)PlayBall! Wrote:  https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/entertain...index.html

I thought it would be petroleum getting too-expensive (decades from now) to make flying rare, but the leftists are now starting to avoid air travel due to the extravagant carbon-production.

If this trend spreads to the very liberal (on average) college administrators and vocal, "woke" students, will they ban air travel for their athletes too?

If so, will this force a realignment (back to) smaller, bus/train-scale conferences?

People are flying more than ever. Airlines are investing in technologies to reduce carbon footprint but people are not going back to horse and buggy days to travel any more than they will stop driving.

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