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mr.checkerboards said:
I'm not saying it won't be around.

I just don't think you'll see stadiums packed, people living and dying with it like they do. It will become corporate regulated BS just like the NFL
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mr.checkerboards said:
I don't think the money would be there with a mini NFL. People watch CFb because they hate the NFL, they certainly won't support two of them
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Not sure what part of the country you are from or live in, but I'm assuming it's the southeast. If so, I think your perspective is skewed because of where you (we) live.

There are plenty of people who live and die with their NFL team despite it being corporate and the best players making tens of millions of dollars per year. There are also plenty of people who watch CFB completely independent of their feelings about the NFL. The southeast has fewer numbers of those people than most other places in the country though.

Also, if you go to a game in Neyland and then go to any NFL game, and you think that CFB is just as corporate as the NFL, I'm not sure what to tell you. Any big time college game has a "rough around the edges" feel to it compared to any NFL game (except maybe if you tailgate with Bills Mafia or in Philly). The college game experience is more corporate than it was 20 years ago but it is nothing like the NFL.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
People 100% live and die by the NFL, just not in the Southeast
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Panthers, Dolphins, Falcons Bucs and Saints all have pretty good fanbases too. Really the only team I would say have "poor" fanbases are the Raiders (owner's fault), Chargers (owner's fault) and Jaguars (partially owner's fault).
 
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05_never_again said:
Not sure what part of the country you are from or live in, but I'm assuming it's the southeast. If so, I think your perspective is skewed because of where you (we) live.

There are plenty of people who live and die with their NFL team despite it being corporate and the best players making tens of millions of dollars per year. There are also plenty of people who watch CFB completely independent of their feelings about the NFL. The southeast has fewer numbers of those people than most other places in the country though.

Also, if you go to a game in Neyland and then go to any NFL game, and you think that CFB is just as corporate as the NFL, I'm not sure what to tell you. Any big time college game has a "rough around the edges" feel to it compared to any NFL game (except maybe if you tailgate with Bills Mafia or in Philly). The college game experience is more corporate than it was 20 years ago but it is nothing like the NFL.
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I didn't say it is there im saying it's heading there.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
I don't think the money would be there with a mini NFL. People watch CFb because they hate the NFL, they certainly won't support two of them
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Hard disagree.

CFB does well with viewership and attendance because schools have loyal fanbases that have been watching for decades (over a century for many schools). Schools like Tennessee still pull high attendance numbers even when we go 5-7. However smaller schools tend to have a hard time with attendance even when they are good. When I was in college at MTSU, we struggled to pull more than 14k fans. Most years we had more games with under 10k in attendance than we did over 15k.

"Minor league" football teams can probably expect to do as well as Minor league baseball teams. Which is not very good. But if the NFL invested into them and gave them better structure, maybe they could be a place for UDFA's to get noticed. But probably not.
 
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zjcvols said:
Probably BARVES mentality but I'm expecting 2022 Acuna, which won't be very fun on or off field. Maybe his energy can provide a boost.
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I highly doubt he's energized to play. He isn't a "I'm going to fire the team up" guy, to put it mildly. He shows a lot of emotion at times, but it's about him.
 
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