09-12-2019, 08:21 PM
(09-11-2019, 06:42 PM)2006alum Wrote: I'll say that I've found over the last two seasons that my interest in both college football and men's basketball has been declining surprisingly rapidly, for different reasons (CTE and mental health issues for football, pay-to-play scandals for basketball), and Stanford's relatively poor performance at both hasn't slowed my growing disinterest. Perhaps if this bill gets signed, the chickens will come home to roost even faster. As far as I'm concerned, college campuses are way too oriented around sports, and they're actually a of immense proportions money-suck for all but a dozen or so institutions, so there's not even that justification. I think everything will resolve itself when conferences have to negotiate post-cord-cutting media rights deals and realize there's about to be way, way less money to go around, but in the mean time, this bill will probably just marginally hasten the descent. So I guess my view is, a bad idea with a silver lining...
My interest has declined markedly over the years. I like to watch Stanford, but I really don't care to watch any other team. Pro football and pro basketball are immensely more entertaining. I don't find my alma mater's basketball team, D1 though it is, to be watchable at all. Kind of painful, really.
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