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<blockquote data-quote="joegrizzy" data-source="post: 3873476" data-attributes="member: 45524"><p>in college football, where ranking matters like pageantry in a beauty contest, the vaunted pre-season ranking is the end all be all advantages. if the fans are told by the media that team x is going to REALLY win it all this year:</p><p></p><p>>media sells more</p><p>>fans buy tickets</p><p>>fans hyped</p><p>>team inevitably loses</p><p>>repeat</p><p></p><p>i mean, when are the season tickets sold? it's surely not once you realize a team isn't going to have it. </p><p></p><p>and that's pretty much. in a sport where one or two losses ends a season, EVERY year is a both a YEAR TO WIN IT ALL and a "rebuilding" year because the reality of "this is year wherein they COULD WIN" and "this is year wherein they CANNOT WIN" are both equally possible and in an almost every single possible outcome BOTH will occur in the same year.</p><p></p><p>there's no like...."win now" in a college sport wherein you have constant replacement and all you need is 3 months of summer, one red/white game, and a REALLY friendly relationship with the local sports media and you've got another year where you are top of the polls. once you ultimately lose and fall, you are in this "rebuilding" mode because you get quality game time, maybe even bowl time for your players.</p><p></p><p>totally different concept than like "we have this guy for x years on y contract with z salary cap and in addition to these other contracts that limit our roster flexibility we MUST win now" in a pro sport. the fans can just be infinitely gamed and.....i mean i *think* they see it? i dunno.</p><p></p><p>or you just go and enjoy the games. those people are cool. but man there aren't many of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joegrizzy, post: 3873476, member: 45524"] in college football, where ranking matters like pageantry in a beauty contest, the vaunted pre-season ranking is the end all be all advantages. if the fans are told by the media that team x is going to REALLY win it all this year: >media sells more >fans buy tickets >fans hyped >team inevitably loses >repeat i mean, when are the season tickets sold? it's surely not once you realize a team isn't going to have it. and that's pretty much. in a sport where one or two losses ends a season, EVERY year is a both a YEAR TO WIN IT ALL and a "rebuilding" year because the reality of "this is year wherein they COULD WIN" and "this is year wherein they CANNOT WIN" are both equally possible and in an almost every single possible outcome BOTH will occur in the same year. there's no like...."win now" in a college sport wherein you have constant replacement and all you need is 3 months of summer, one red/white game, and a REALLY friendly relationship with the local sports media and you've got another year where you are top of the polls. once you ultimately lose and fall, you are in this "rebuilding" mode because you get quality game time, maybe even bowl time for your players. totally different concept than like "we have this guy for x years on y contract with z salary cap and in addition to these other contracts that limit our roster flexibility we MUST win now" in a pro sport. the fans can just be infinitely gamed and.....i mean i *think* they see it? i dunno. or you just go and enjoy the games. those people are cool. but man there aren't many of them. [/QUOTE]
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