Nascar intends to break the NCAA

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T Clifton

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They want to race on Saturdays instead of competing with the NFL.

Reggie Bush and Eric Dickerson were the celebrities for Nascar's opening event of 2022.

One had their heisman trophy repo'd and the other got a university the death penalty.

Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
 
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I grew up in a NASCAR family and a fan of Bill Elliott.
But so help me, I had the choice on tv today if the LA NASCAR event or Olympic Curling and watched 2 1/2 hours of guys and girls heading polished rocks down a frozen pond.

NASCAR needs to rethink their approach...
 
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IndianaVol said:
I grew up in a NASCAR family and a fan of Bill Elliott.
But so help me, I had the choice on tv today if the LA NASCAR event or Olympic Curling and watched 2 1/2 hours of guys and girls heading polished rocks down a frozen pond.

NASCAR needs to rethink their approach...
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My dad used to put every single race on the TV when I was younger. I don't think he's watched a full race in years, and the last two he's watched all the way were because we went to the track.

NASCAR seems to have totally alienated its core fans.
 
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T Clifton said:
They want to race on Saturdays instead of competing with the NFL.

Reggie Bush and Eric Dickerson were the celebrities for Nascar's opening event of 2022.

One had their heisman trophy repo'd and the other got a university the death penalty.

Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
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Now that's funny, might work in ACC territory. Talladega against Tuscaloosa? Bristol against Knoxville? Atlanta against Athens? Daytona against Gainesville. I know who I will take.
 
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T Clifton said:
They want to race on Saturdays instead of competing with the NFL.

Reggie Bush and Eric Dickerson were the celebrities for Nascar's opening event of 2022.

One had their heisman trophy repo'd and the other got a university the death penalty.

Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
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Nascar is a terrible product that is hemorrhaging money, it's about over for them.
 
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From Earnhardts untimely death , to the COT , to no personality corporate pitchmen drivers NASCAR is dying . I’m sure NCAAF is like “come at me bro !

I loved NASCAR back in the day too & Was a big “Awesome Bill From Dawsonville “ fan but any time I’ve attempted to watch it in the last 10 +years was nothing but a fool proof cure for my insomnia .
 
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I grew up with life size cardboard cut outs of Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin in my bedroom, glued to the TV for every race Sunday after church.

I don’t think I’ve watched more than 5 consecutive minutes of NASCAR since Gordon retired.

I’ve stopped watching a lot of college football except for UT, but I can tell you that extra time isn’t going towards NASCAR.
 
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I’ll confess I was never a NASCAR fan. But, there was a time when I did know who the drivers were and the numbers on their car.

I used to watch the Daytona 500 and I knew who won the Winston Cup.

I don’t have a clue who the drivers are currently and can’t tell you the last time I watched a race
 
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Though NASCAR has neglected their primary fan base, I would hope they would not try to compete against college football. The "core" fans probably prefer college to NFL so running against an SEC game would be more detrimental to ratings than against the Titans or Falcons (or whatever game is on in region) game. Plus, running on Saturday nights would hurt the local tracks, something that surely they would want to avoid.
 
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I've never been a big NASCAR fan, but my brother was until about 10 years ago.

In your opinion, what happened to NASCAR?
 
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Danl said:
I've never been a big NASCAR fan, but my brother was until about 10 years ago.

In your opinion, what happened to NASCAR?
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Too many rule changes, too many new drivers, lack of entertainment with the constant yellow flags, watching people drive in circles loses its appeal, etc etc
 
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Is there a link or something? My mother is die hard NASCAR and said she’s heard nothing about that.
 
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I thought it was funny Nashville finally got a NASCAR race back when nobody gave a crap about it anymore.
 
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WestTennesseeVol said:
Too many rule changes, too many new drivers, lack of entertainment with the constant yellow flags, watching people drive in circles loses its appeal, etc etc
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I always thought NASCAR's rise in popularly in the late 90s/2000s was kind on the same wavelength as when Arena Football had that strange spike in popularity during the same time period. AFL got TV deals and started throwing out expansion teams (and milked Kurt Warner's NFL success to death) and trying to partner with the NFL, even saying their goal was to have an AFL team in every NFL city. And after about 5-6 years it was like suddenly the fad was over and eventually the whole league shutdown....twice.

Also sort of reminds me of WCW's rise and fall, although NASCAR is still obviously doing better than both Arena Football and WCW as it's still around.
 
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Danl said:
I've never been a big NASCAR fan, but my brother was until about 10 years ago.

In your opinion, what happened to NASCAR?
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It's tough to pin-point it exactly. More like a series of things:

(1) The "Car of Tomorrow" (i.e. cookie-cutter cars),
(2) Dumb playoff gimmicks,
(3) Boring drivers,
(4) Over-corporatization

Hate to say it because he's a class act, but I'll always think the Jimmie Johnson era was the beginning of the decline. He was so dominant, but had no personality. He was just a corporate robot. It was so boring watching him win. And unlike Earnhardt or someone like that, where most people either loved him or hated him, most people were just indifferent to Jimmie Johnson.

After Tony Stewart faded from the limelight, it's difficult to think of too many major NASCAR contenders who weren't corporate robots. Stewart was basically the last vestige of the "old NASCAR" of people who were a bit off their rocker and were fun to watch. Most of the current class of drivers are rich kids who were groomed for a life of NASCAR racing since they were kids.

It's just not what it used to be back in the 80s or 90s.
 
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