Sports Illustrated layoffs

That's why it's as boring as shit. But thanks for spelling it out better for me!

 

I don't think you can a market a sport nationally without star power, no matter how compelling. I will continue to like watching college basketball.

 

I watch the school I cover because I have to, and March Madness because I want to. The regular season is awful.

 

I don't understand why people who are into sports in general wouldn't enjoy college basketball.

 

Nowadays it amounts to being a 10-episode season of a show that has almost an entirely new cast each year. You don't get hooked on the characters.

 

The Romantic age of basketball - about 1983-2000 or so, captures late Boomers and Gen Xers. Many in the latter group are deep into the parenting years.

Millennials skip right to the NBA.

 

I can't support a sport that makes kings of rotten people like Calipari and Knight.
Fuck college basketball.

 

When you live in SEC county and watch terrible college basketball every year, I can understand.

 

Would you say the same thing to an NBA fan who doesn't like the WNBA?

College basketball is an inferior product. Teams struggle to break 60 points regularly.

 

I will put it this way. I don't get why college football is so much more popular. It's also inferior to the NFL. I prefer college football or basketball to the pro versions, but get why many don't. But I don't get why people who like college football not being more interested in college basketball.

Then again, I grew up in a place where even the JUCO and D-II programs had incredible atmospheres at their games.

 

The quality of play doesn't have much to do with CFB being more popular. I'd say it's the weekly march toward a possible title (any loss could be doom), playing rivals once a year, the cross-generational appeal, players stick around a few years, most college football teams are connected to the region, (college hoops these days are pretty much AAU squads that decide to play for a particular coach or shoe brand).
I don't know if anyone even "looks forward" to the next season after a college season is done because they know their best players are gone and don't have a read on the incoming class.

 

I get that's the perception, but outside of Kentucky the best teams are generally led by juniors and seniors with a one-and-done or two mixed in. Why is watching Leonard Fournette forced to come back only to focus on not getting hurt more appealing than watching Buddy Hield develop into the best player in the country? Why do people obsess over who Bama's second-string right guard is going to be, but can't keep track of slight roster turnover at Duke?

I just find it weird other than for some reason football, at all levels, became the cool sport in this country and turned everything else into a niche.