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73 sats \ 25 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Dec 2024 \ parent \ on: Are the TransferPortal and NIL Ruining College Sports? Using Austrian Economics Stacker_Sports
the 2 games are different
People who love college don't watch pro and vice versa, same with football
People are watching Caitlin Clark, they don't care about the other players
Since I am not a big fan of basketball, at all, I am not sure of what you are claiming. I can see that some people may be only following the one player whether pro or college, from the controversy they have aroused. I have noticed that college and pro games are vastly different and have come to the conclusion that college sports are finishing schools for the pros.
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My point is that the casual fan watches superstars.
For example, I don't follow baseball but I will watch Shohei Ohtani hit or pitch
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Yeah, in my household we watch because he is a Japanese superstar. My wife and son had bets going on every game of the World Series. It looks like he will be up to pitching next season, too. A double threat!
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I'm still amazed that someone can live in Japan and not know who Shohei is!!!
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Who was that?
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The guy who thought Japan had mask mandates and that India was paradise
I followed CC since her insane march madness runs- as a result I now know the names of quite a few wnba players I never cared about before.
I also never cared about NFL until Stanford players I cared about (Luck, Sherman, Ertz, CMC, etc) started to get some real traction. There are many ways for people to get hooked onto different sports and they stay for different reasons but you need something to get them into the funnel.
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Yes, it looks like this is the same for everything. There are other threads talking about Stacker News and how to get and keep people interested and moving with it.
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I forgot Ertz went to Stanford!
I'm guessing you graduated from Stanford too
add: Jim Harbaugh was HC, Greg Roman was OC, Vic Fangio was DC and they all went to SF 49ers after Stanford in 2011
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Harbaugh was amazing took us to the Orange Bowl starting from nothing and brought us so many great memories including the Greatest Upset Ever (USC). Was so heartbreaking when he left- we limped along for several more years by reputation (David Shaw inherited great recruits but sucked) but I think now with Pac12 dissolving and NIL age we are toast.
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You don’t know about that! Stanford has a rather large fund of money, don’t they. If they want good players they can buy them now.
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Haha we have fans that yell at you in the stadium if you stand up and block their view. The gender studies and other depts would have a fit if they found out we started funding athletes beyond scholarships.
Obviously a John Arillaga or a newly minted google billionaire could fund the entire thing if they wanted to...
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Phil Knight is a graduate of Stanford Business School
update:
Arillaga's daughter is married to Marc Andreessen
That doesn’t sound like a very good atmosphere for football games, does it?
Why are they at the games if their behavior is so constricted?
General manager Andrew Luck
I remember that upset in 2007. It was a night game. USC was a 42 point favorite
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That is an upset people should remember. 42 points is an awful lot of points to be upset with.
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One of the greatest sports memories of my life- Richard Sherman was our rookie WR and made an epic catch to get a first down that eventually led to the upset score.
Mark Bradford our WR who made the final TD catch to win the game grew up wanting to go to USC and his father passed away 2 weeks before the game...
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