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UniCat retweeted
NEW: The early weeks of the college football season have gotten dangerously hot, and the heat is lasting longer.
Shortened games, a band member dead, hundreds of medical calls.
With the season moving up, it's a huge problem. And there's not an easy fix
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1) These are so much better
2) We outlined the number but not the Serpentine??? WE FAILED THE OPEN BOOK TEST
3) These are still so much better.
Looks like K-State has some new men’s basketball uniforms for the start of the Casey Alexander era.
Thoughts?
📸 from @KStateMBB on Instagram
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UniCat retweeted
Looks like K-State has some new men’s basketball uniforms for the start of the Casey Alexander era.
Thoughts?
📸 from @KStateMBB on Instagram
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UniCat retweeted
I think this speaks to a bigger problem with college football today. We’ve created a world where anything short of competing for a national championship is considered failure.
It wasn’t that long ago that you could have a great season without winning it all. Beat your rival. Compete for a conference championship. Win 10 or 11 games. Go win the Outback, Citrus, Sugar or Cotton Bowl and head into the offseason feeling pretty damn good about your program.
Now an 11-3 season gets dissected based on why you didn’t make the playoff or why your coach “can’t win the big one.”
That’s what we’ve lost. The national championship used to be the ultimate goal, but it wasn’t the only thing that gave a season meaning.
And the irony is we’ve sacrificed so much of what made college football unique for an expanded playoff system that still won’t eliminate arguments about who belongs. We’ll just argue about team No. 24 instead of team No. 4.
Conference championships should matter. Rivalries should matter. Bowl games should matter. A really good season should be allowed to simply be a really good season.
College football has a failure addiction. And it's sucking the joy from the sport.
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UniCat retweeted
Maybe we should go back to that then? (Obviously realize we can’t because the people who only are in CFB for the money would never revert to that system)
Once your team is eliminated from the 12-team CFP discussion, people first get angry, then eventually apathetic.
When the end goal was reaching a high-level bowl game or winning a conference title, it didn’t get this way this early.
Case for 24:
nytimes.com/athletic/7318104…
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UniCat retweeted
A few reasons why this is happening
1. Thanks in large part to ESPN everyone has decided that success can only be found in the playoff
2. The ability to flip rosters has eroded the idea of patience in program building
3. “Indiana did it why cant we?” Is a fallacy that too many people think is truth
Sunday Thoughts: It feels like half of CFB is having an existential crisis.
So many people want to fire their coach, even some with a good record and some with a new coach. Feels like we're in an unhealthy cycle and a weird place. Almost nobody can sustain anything.
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Entirely driven by the media pushing “Playoff-or-Nothing”. College football HAS to be more than just the playoff, or it will die. Doesn’t matter how big the CFP gets. There has to be more to life than deciding the National Champion.
Sunday Thoughts: It feels like half of CFB is having an existential crisis.
So many people want to fire their coach, even some with a good record and some with a new coach. Feels like we're in an unhealthy cycle and a weird place. Almost nobody can sustain anything.
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UniCat retweeted
The Playoff Industrial Complex did this
Sunday Thoughts: It feels like half of CFB is having an existential crisis.
So many people want to fire their coach, even some with a good record and some with a new coach. Feels like we're in an unhealthy cycle and a weird place. Almost nobody can sustain anything.
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UniCat retweeted
Oh sure, "Protect College Sports" by allowing for the possibility of eventual 22-team superduperconferences. This is embarrassing.
Exclusive: Tomahawk Nation has obtained a letter addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson and signed by the presidents of Florida State, Clemson, UNC, and Miami.
It asks the House to drop the independence requirement from Section 205 of the Protect College Sports Act and to increase the conference membership limit to 22. Full story coming
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UniCat retweeted
If these politicians really wanted to protect college sports they would restrict conferences to 10-12 teams based on geography and traditional rivalries
Twenty-one House members signed this letter encouraging House leadership to amend the expansion provision of the PCSA, led by Florida Reps. Neal Dunn and Mario Díaz-Balart.
13 from Florida
4 South Carolina
4 North Carolina
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UniCat retweeted
22 members in a conference is insane. It's not even a conference at that point, it's just a new league.
Exclusive: Tomahawk Nation has obtained a letter addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson and signed by the presidents of Florida State, Clemson, UNC, and Miami.
It asks the House to drop the independence requirement from Section 205 of the Protect College Sports Act and to increase the conference membership limit to 22. Full story coming
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UniCat retweeted
College football was built on big upsets and rivalries
It was not built on trying to figure out a national champion
End of story
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There was a point in time where this sport was more than just national title or bust. Winning your conference was more than a fading data point, and getting to a Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl or any other BCS bowl actually meant something.
Does anyone actually miss this? 13-0 TCU who won the rose bowl has no chance to win the championship.
What an awesome system we had.
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NEW K-STATE SCRIPT
I need this on a football helmet and the road grey baseball jerseys immediately
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UniCat retweeted
Spot. On.
I think the people running sports have forgotten why people fell in love with them in the first place.
There used to be something simple about it. Saturday was college football. You knew the games mattered because losing one could wreck your entire season. Baseball was part of the rhythm of summer. The postseason felt different. Rivalries mattered. Traditions mattered. Going to a game felt like an event instead of another opportunity to squeeze another $20 out of you.
Now everything has to be bigger. More playoff teams. More games. More TV windows. Larger conferences. More subscriptions. More commercials. More premium seating. More money.
And somehow we’ve convinced ourselves that more automatically means better.
I love college football as much as anybody, but I don’t need a 24-team playoff to make me care about it. I cared because Georgia losing on a random Saturday in October mattered. That tension was the product. The regular season was basically a playoff before we ever had one.
That’s what worries me about where all of this is headed. The people making these decisions seem obsessed with maximizing the value of every individual piece without realizing they may be slowly killing the value of the whole thing.
There’s a limit to how much time and money people can give you.
You can’t keep adding games, adding subscriptions, raising ticket prices, changing conferences, moving kickoff times around for TV, and then act surprised when fans eventually say, “You know what, I’m good.”
Sports were supposed to be the thing we escaped TO.
At some point they started feeling like something else we have to keep up with.
Maybe sports haven’t peaked. But I definitely think we’ve reached the point where more isn’t better anymore.
I hate to say it folks but I think sports as a whole may have peaked. Everything about sports just feels so forced and unnecessary, a desperate attempt for a private equity firm to squeeze more juice from the lemon. You have college football who is going to expand to a 24 team playoff, getting rid of the most unique thing about college football; its regular season. But these people aren’t college football people, they are tv executives and investors. They could care less about the sustainability of the sports and the tradition of it, they only care about turning a profit.
The MLB playoff have begun and if you are between the ages of 22 and 65, you probably haven’t seen much of them because they are all on during the day. A MLB playoff game started at 2 PM Eastern on a Tuesday. This is 11 AM Pacific. Why? Because NBC has to be the only network that can air the Wild Card round, so they need triple headers to be able to get all of the games in. Atlanta and Philly are heading into a game 3 and didn’t even know what time they were playing til about midnight last night because of conflicts with other games and network availability. Corporate greed has completely botched the MLB playoffs so far in order to keep all the games on NBC.
It feels as if sports have peaked across the board. We’ve gotten to a point where it’s impossible for fans to care more than they have before, spend more than they have before, or watch more than they have before. Every consumer situation has an infliction point, where the capacity of the consumer is maxed out. The product has to back off in order to not burn out the customer and keep them engaged enough to have them invested long term while they back off and recharge short term.
I believe that is where America is with sports now. It currently demands too much of us on a daily basis and has ruined the reasons that we have fallen in love with it. Maybe we all just need a break…
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