Excitement Level for Football on a 1-10?

NIL does not have people checking out. There are seventeen thousand baseball threads on this site and that has NIL and transfers just as much as football does.

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Originally Posted by Jarius

NIL does not have people checking out. There are seventeen thousand baseball threads on this site and that has NIL and transfers just as much as football does.

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Concur, NIL will have little negative impact. CFB will continue to grow. For MSU fans, we've only went into 3-4 seasons since JWS that we thought we were going to do something special. That will probably remain the same. Folks will complain, but won't stop watching and paying attention.

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Originally Posted by Jarius

NIL does not have people checking out. There are seventeen thousand baseball threads on this site and that has NIL and transfers just as much as football does.

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That’s more about a fight about Lemon as anything. I classify NIL/Portal as the same thing. The constant shuffling of players from school to school just doesn’t excite me anymore. That’s why I call them by the school they came from. They are becoming nameless

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Originally Posted by Coach34

That?s more about a fight about Lemon as anything. I classify NIL/Portal as the same thing. The constant shuffling of players from school to school just doesn?t excite me anymore. That?s why I call them by the school they came from. They are becoming nameless

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Attendance is not dropping either for baseball. Our fans simply don?t care about football and never have to the extent of our peers. Baseball interest within our fanbase will not drop on the whole.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

A lot of people are in wait and see mode and honestly....what are you going to learn at Media Days that most of us, especially the ones that post here, don't already know.

I mean what would we have talked about? Trying to read into the length of his opening statement? Or that he put on a cowboy hat?

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I've never watched media days. Just pointing it out. Most years there are threads discussing what players are going, what to expect, reactions to the coaches interview, etc.....
This year no one gives a crap.

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Originally Posted by DownwardDawg

I've never watched media days. Just pointing it out. Most years there are threads discussing what players are going, what to expect, reactions to the coaches interview, etc.....
This year no one gives a crap.

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I think it's two fold, like I said I think the biggest reason is wait and see mode. A lot of people are still feeling burned because all they heard from the MSU media last year was how we were going to prove everyone wrong and go 8-4. How Barbay was going to taylor his offense to the QB. How we had all this experience coming back on defense.....for the most part, all of that was a lie.

I think another reason is NIL. Like others have said, I'd be willing to bet that the average State fan couldn't name 10 players on our team. If you only support college athletics, then watching the new age of CFB, which is a lot like pro sports, is a turn off.

I am a 5 cuz I figure that'll be how many wins we have. I think Lebby is incredible but the schedule is a pure beast.

As per the idea to "skyrocket" the price of FB (and other tickets), there is a free article on genespage on the Top 10 most expensive colleges to attend a FB game, two tickets, parking fee, 2 beers, and 2 hotdogs. We are the #7 most expensive in the nation according to their figures. (I did think their ticket average price was too high). The article appeared a couple of days ago.

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Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG

I am in the very small minority where I wish we put more focus on basketball. It is going to be nearly impossible to compete with how NIL and the portal are combined with the limited amount of donations we get. Basketball is an area though we can put a lot of that focus and still be nationally relevant and be in a position to make noise in March madness. While it might not be as big as football it gets 100 times more national attention than baseball. We ruined our ability to surpass Ole Miss when they were on probation and we didn?t hire Kyle Whittingham when he was interested in our job. Had we just done that our program would be in an entirely different state right now and we would be up there with ole Miss competing at the top of the SEC instead of being near Vandy level now. People didn?t do their easy homework in just researching what a fraud Moorhead was and that has still impacted us to this day

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Basketball is certainly the easiest or at least would be most efficient use of NIL. Fewer players per team, and just 2-3 great players can get a team to championship level. With the right coach, anyway.

As far as leaving OM in the dust, neither school has been able to do that to the other. OM had their chance in 2003 but couldn't. We had chances, too, when OM was down. Since Sherrill came to State, neither school has dominated in-state recruiting for more than 2 years in a row.

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Originally Posted by Goldendawg

As per the idea to "skyrocket" the price of FB (and other tickets), there is a free article on genespage on the Top 10 most expensive colleges to attend a FB game, two tickets, parking fee, 2 beers, and 2 hotdogs. We are the #7 most expensive in the nation according to their figures. (I did think their ticket average price was too high). The article appeared a couple of days ago.

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I have been to every single SEC stadium in the sec and then some. There is a zero % chance that is accurate. I would imagine that is why the article was pulled. We get off extremely cheap comparatively.

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Originally Posted by Jarius

I have been to every single SEC stadium in the sec and then some. There is a zero % chance that is accurate. I would imagine that is why the article was pulled. We get off extremely cheap comparatively.

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Concur, from what little i know of ticket prices at other stadiums, we're on the lower end, especially on the secondary market. I'm a longtime season ticket holder, but rarely buys food drink inside the stadium, so i'm not sure where we rank on that. I park for free, which there is plenty of free parking less than a mile's walk, so don't know about that either.

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Originally Posted by Jarius

I have been to every single SEC stadium in the sec and then some. There is a zero % chance that is accurate. I would imagine that is why the article was pulled. We get off extremely cheap comparatively.

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I looked back yesterday after my post and you are correct the article must have been pulled. In my post, I did mention that I questioned the price that they used for tickets as they used $170 for two tickets (Heck, after over 5 decades as a season ticket holder, there have been far too many games that I couldn't evengive tickets away!***). I was merely reporting the article as posted on genespage. I did question the ticket costs used and it now appears that it was a poorly researched and presented article. Costs of attending college sports have seldom gone down year to year in FB especially.

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

Lowest it's ever been. 2.

I can't name 3 players.

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Not only this, but I've followed MSU football since 1968 and I've had my heart broken and expectations shattered too many times to get really excited about another football season. BUT, I hope I'm wrong, and hope does spring eternal!! I've forgotten how not to say "Wait until next year!!"