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Subject: Re: Attendance Author: LawrenceBourneIII [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 21:59:27 10/21/24 Mon In reply to: voy vey 's message, "Attendance" on 10:19:08 10/21/24 Mon Two cents from a non-Ivy alum but recently self-minted fan of Ivy League football. My football school and alma mater is a lesser power conference school that has been corrupted by the recent realignments and media influence to the point I no longer care about it. I came to discover the Ivy League is one of the only conferences that is what college football should be, and what I impractically wish college football would return to. I dived in and can't get enough. I watch all of the games on ESPN+ (so I guess the media throws us a few bones amongst their carnage). I'm not in the northeast or I would be going to a handful of games each year in person, I promise you. If the league and its athletic departments were serious about promotion on two fronts, promoting its better players and facilitating a great tailgating and pre-game culture, I'm confident the downward attendance trend would be reversed within a couple of seasons at most, because let me tell you, there are a ton of people like me out there with an appetite for what this league has. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Welcome, and Loved Your Work in "Volunteers" Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:00:42 10/22/24 Tue LBIII, thanks very much for your kind words. We on this board often say that it's the rest of the college sports world which is losing its mind and we're among the few Division I conferences still doing it "right." Sometimes it feels like our board is an echo chamber, as we try to reassure ourselves that we're on the right path as everybody else moves in a different direction. It's gratifying to hear your words. I grieve for American college sports. Athletic departments were and are the "front porch" of American universities, the crown jewel of the world's higher education institutions. I've said on this board many times that paying college athletes is good for a tiny fraction of athletes, bad for the student bodies and colleges at large, and terrible for America. Competitive sports will go from being unambiguously good for our society to a negative influence. When you trade a positive development for maybe 1,000 college athletes nationwide against a terrible development for 345 million Americans, you get a tragedy. Having said that, welcome to our little board, Lawrence. It's a pleasure to have newcomers. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]