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<blockquote data-quote="Pharm Frog" data-source="post: 3161783" data-attributes="member: 34435"><p>Totally agree with this. The sad fact is that a lot of the "joy" for me has been to root for teams where there was continuity and allegiances and relationships even if those were more perceived than real. This was true quite a while ago in professional sports and now those are almost gone from my entertainment options. Don't enjoy them much at all and consequently rarely watch more than the occasional highlights. College has been moving in the direction for while now but I see it being accelerated on that path. NIL and free agency portal swaps and alignments and re-alignments and such zap a lot of the passion out of it for me. I get that its a different situation now based more on the money/facilities race and television/streaming contracts and power relationships and personally I think that's okay if that's the way these schools want to go...although I do not think its okay to take the college out of college athletics. I think this may be why I'm increasingly drawn to downstream sports like team tennis (which is far more fun than I had imagined) and volleyball (which was already one of my favorite viewing sports) and baseball (although even my favorite sport is becoming more tedious than it should).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pharm Frog, post: 3161783, member: 34435"] Totally agree with this. The sad fact is that a lot of the "joy" for me has been to root for teams where there was continuity and allegiances and relationships even if those were more perceived than real. This was true quite a while ago in professional sports and now those are almost gone from my entertainment options. Don't enjoy them much at all and consequently rarely watch more than the occasional highlights. College has been moving in the direction for while now but I see it being accelerated on that path. NIL and free agency portal swaps and alignments and re-alignments and such zap a lot of the passion out of it for me. I get that its a different situation now based more on the money/facilities race and television/streaming contracts and power relationships and personally I think that's okay if that's the way these schools want to go...although I do not think its okay to take the college out of college athletics. I think this may be why I'm increasingly drawn to downstream sports like team tennis (which is far more fun than I had imagined) and volleyball (which was already one of my favorite viewing sports) and baseball (although even my favorite sport is becoming more tedious than it should). [/QUOTE]
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