Why do Americans like college sports so much? I don't

Big in areas that don't have a pro team near them, or the sport is big down to the high school level such as Texas

Also college Football and Basketball were big before their pro counterparts

Maybe it's the last bastion for sports fans who want to feel a real connection to their team, young hungry players to prove themselves and last but not least it's not that much of a capitalistic shitshow (will change soon i guess).

>>77410409
>College sports aren't capitalist

Hahahaha

>>77410363
They're all paedophiles and/or mass shooters.

>>77410363
They were the first major competitions in gridiron and basketball. Now it regional, fun, less corporate

>>77410453
>Less corporate
Just ignore those 30 sponsored bowl games

>>77410419
They play for free. If thats not the antithesis of capitalism then i dont know what is

>>77410475
I do. 28 of them at least

>>77410475
Do you understand what "less" means?

>>77410497
Students are exploited by their schools, and get meme degrees in return.

>>77410497
And the people controlling the teams don't own them, which is quite literally how capitalism is defined

>>77410497
>colleges not letting people who make them money get paid at all
sounds like capitalism to me

>>77410527
They get a chance to play for professional teams and make millions of dollars in returns. A lot of D-1 kids dont finish their degrees

>>77410363

its where the sports started so they were bigger before the pro league were around

>>77410532
Its not. Just because you put literally in a sentence doesnt make it literally true

>>77410516
The super bowl isn't the beef o brady's super bowl

NCAA games still have commercials and sponsors. No difference. Just that that players don't get paid
>>77410532
Being exploited for a profit is total capitalism

>>77410576
It's when the means of production (in this case the team or institution) is privately held property.

Please apologize

only college sports people care about are football and basketball
nobody cares about college baseball, hockey, or any other random sport they play

>>77410553
They don't get paid for the revenue they generate. So bullshit

>>77410614
Thank you for checking google to confirm that you were wrong. The students arnt privately held property. Thanks lincoln

>>77410587
That's an unfortunate consequence rather than a defining characteristic, my uninformed friend. You are cherry picking, much more of the NFL is sponsored. The organizations themselves are a profit-seeking single entity of franchises

>>77410625
Theyre students not professionals

>>77410645
I didn't need Google for that, I actually learned it by reading as a younger man. You're not even making sense anymore Castro

>>77410614
But most D-1 teams are from state schools you fucking idiot

>>77410533
Sounds more like (((Communism))) desu

>>77410692
Hence, not privately held. You've made my point

>>77410682
>citizens dont own the schools or the students
>somehow this is still capitalism
I mean i sorta get what youre saying. Corporations do make huge profits off these games. But youre still wrong

>>77410670
And? They generate millions of dollars because of their labor

If you work at a college book store you'll get paid, but not if you play a sport?

>>77410729
Theres no professional librarian league

>>77410709
Most schools don't get state funding. It's mostly tuition now.

>>77410724
I was claiming the opposite you retard

>>77410363
1/3 or all Americans have been molested as a child. There you have the answer.

>>77410497
>for free
surely they wouldn't work for free
who would do such a thing??

>>77410746
There are for profit book stores on college campuses

Why should you care if a college kid is paid?

>>77410759
Then youre not who im arguing with

>>77410363
Because we love slave labor

>>77410752
Completely irrelevant

>>77410766
Millions of interns across the country

>>77410789
It is. It shows they are hardly state run or funded and are a for profit institution

>>77410497
>They play for free in 50,000 seats stadiums

>>77410622
I'm a student at a D1 Hockey school, you're missing out desu. It's incredibly entertaining.

>>77410892
They do. Im not sure why you greentexted this

Southerners love college sports, northerners love pro sports

Its more of a culture thing.

College ice hockey is big in New england and the upper midwest though.

>>77410363
The only college sport I watch is football, and only when its a game involving an undefeated team that is likely to lose or if there is a lot of rain.

>>77410446
Mudslimes, basically.

>>77410946
>Southerners love college sports, northerners love pro sports

Southerners like college football more than northerners, but northerners like college basketball more than southerners. College football is just bigger than college basketball right now because of the NFL and the NFL Draft implications

Americans support college football cause they want to feel they are friends with Chad and not a fucking failure

Go Chad go, make a touch down! Yay! Now all the negros of the team are popular!
My black bulls are better than yours!
Now time for our white girls in college to get blacked by the team
Everyone now has 80000 college debt but Chad made a touchdown, USA USA

Do they care about high school sports as much too? In US TV shows it always seems like the whole school turns out to watch the sports teams play. I was the captain of my school cricket team, and also in the football team, the rugby team, the basketball team, and the athletics team. Would have been interesting if everyone came to watch and treated me like a local celebrity, instead of just a few dads coming to watch and no one really caring one way or the other. I might have grown up to be a bit more of a normie if I'd had that celebrity status at school.

>>77411459
The only sports people go to for the sport is football, everything else is just family and a couple friends.

>>77411459
for some reason americans take high school very seriously
or maybe it just the movies and shows

>>77410815
eh maybe you can argue that the AD/president/etc stuff their pockets in part due to the surplus generated, but they are all by definition non-profit and they aren't owned by people with claims to financial surplus. those people being paid to manage it can be ousted by a board or government with no controlling interest.

>>77411459
nah you'd probably have still grown up to be a faggot

>>77411483
fills the same niche as lower league clubs for most other countries. its a local thing, tribalism, supporting the boys etc

>>77411480
It would be nice to have the same sort of popularity for football in UK schools desu, if only because it would have made me more popular in school. Actually I was already very popular in school with all the lads, just too much of an autist to talk to any of the girls.

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>>77411483
We take it seriously now because the movies and TV shows took it seriously. It's retarded. People talk about it like it's supposed to be the most moving and incredible time in your life.

>>77411539
are proms as important as they seem in american media? like if you don't go you are a super loser or something?

>Attend one of the smaller state universities because it was closer to home and cheaper
>no football team and crappy DII basketball team
>Support bigger main campus sports teams

>>77410766
https://youtu.be/Us3_8FxoAls

>>77411640
i'm a big fan of this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-DRWu1LpA

>>77411583
Yes and no. Yes they are seen as the end all be all social event that isn't rivaled by anything at that stage in your life. There is huge money that is sunk into limos and dresses and after parties. You can definitely be seen as a loser for not going. But at the same time not going cuz "lol f*ck prom :)" can be a cool kid thing to do if you have some Chad qualities.

>>77411459
High school football is pretty1 huge in states like Texas, Florida and Ohio. Playoffs will get televised on the local sports channels that usually carry baseball games and stuff. Outside of that, not so much.

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>>77410363

It's a way to facilitate the interracial breeding grounds

>>77411659
I never understood your highshool social circles. In my school we all got along, we went out together we even invited the "nerds" everywhere we went.

>>77411932
That sounds amazing desu. I'd say most high school graduates would be better off here if this occurred.

>>77411932
Most high schools in America are like that, too.

>>77410497
Probably using unpaid black workers to support massive income and industry.

>>77410363
Because due to the nature of American sports (franchines and not clubs, etc)

basically what >>77410405 said

>>77411535
This. Small town communities rally around local sports because there may not be a professional team for 100 miles

>>77411932
You were all equally shit

>>77411972
It really is great I have the same circle of friends for 7 years now. I was a shut in when I started high school but they forced me to go out with them.
>>77412003
Then why does your media portray something entirely different?

>>77412080
Even if we were, who cares we had fun.

>>77410923
playing in their own 50,000+ seats stadiums is not "the antithesis of capitalism" you dumb fuck

>>77412003
They aren't.

>>77410363
Ever been to college?

The only thing I don't understand are cunts who cheer for schools they don't go to.

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>>77412227
yeah the schools get fuckloads of money, especially SEC schools from their sports programs.. but they players themselves dont get one dollar for playing.. not directly at least.

>>77412309
Officially worst status than wagecucks

>>77412309
>>77412358
'no'. You are forgetting all the other benefits and bullshit that college athletes get. Full rides, lenient grading, essentially not having to do any work, lower standards than regular students, etc.

>>77412390
yeah no shit. hence the last phrase of my post

>>77410527
>>77410532
>>77410533
>>77410766
Reminder, there are only 20 colleges athletic programs in the US that actually turn a profit.
Only 1% of college basketball/football players make it to the pros...

>>77413129
And that is 20 too many

>>77413172
20/347 D-1 programs... Come on now

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It's fun watching people who work hard in the classroom and are smart, just like you, succeed on the playing field where you weren't as good.

>>77413342
>half the classes are we wuz bullshit

>>77413342
It's like if the Nig was given a chance to get out of the ghetto and apply himself to build a better future for himself/family. Instead, they "graduate" with a meaningless degree and end up back on the street

>>77413392

>On March 5, 2010, the Chicago Bears signed Peppers [31] to a six-year contract worth $91.5 million, with $42 million guaranteed in the first three years.[32]

>Peppers signed a three-year deal with the Green Bay Packers on March 15, 2014. The deal was worth $30 million with $8.5 million in first year, and $7.5 million guaranteed,[51][52][53]

>>77413446
Not everyone is Julius Peppers though.
Most college players don't even sniff the NFL and still end up flunking college

>>77413446
see my post here >>77413129

>>77413228
College shouldn't be a business. Tuition is already way too high as it is

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>>77413342
>yfw you're the one professor at UNC who gave Julius Peppers an "A"

>>77413473
Completely agree. I was arguing against college players being paid. However, they could be paid if athletic departments excluded all sports that do not turn a profit. So basically the only sports would be football and men's basketball

>>77413129
slightly deceptive statistic in that yes 20 athletic programs turn a profit (as a whole) but what percent of college football or basketball programs by themselves turn a profit? The reason it's only 20 (as a whole) is because of all the other sports that nobody cares about operating severely in the red.

>>77413557
Thank Title IX for redistributing their profit to the entire athletic program

>>77410363
Idk. It's fucking stupid. Other people mentioned it but it's always most popular in the south or Nebraska so that shows the type of consumer base we're dealing with.

>>77410363
Mainly Southerners like it

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>>77413507
>it's in elementary phy-ed methods

Serious question: So from what I understand college handegg isn't full of commercials like professional handegg, right?

Since an average game of handegg only includes around 11 minutes of actualy gameplay, does coverage of college handegg games then only last like half an hour on average?

>>77410409

I prefer College Football to the NFL.

The greatest sport in the world is gaelic football where you play for the county you were born in and you support the county you were born in. No excuses. The players don't get paid, there's no transfers, there;s no bandwagon. NFL is the furthest from this as you can get., a circus full of mercenaries. European football isn't far off that either. And the fans are mostly bandwagon cunts.

College is on Saturdays which is a better day for having an excuse to get with all your friends and drink. Also college has better spirit to it, NFL is almost depressing with how corporate it is. People saying only rural areas like it are wrong; OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin, USC, UCLA, ASU, Washington, Cal, are all in places with pro sports yet are still massively popular.

>>77411459
In high school basically the entire school will go to the game, so even if you don't care at all about the sport you will go just to hang around with all your friends. Almost like a giant party.

And if you do like the sport, you will have a way better seat at a high school game than if you go to some fuckhuge 50k person stadium.

>>77413747
Big college games have a shitload of commercials, but they don't actually make the game much longer. The 11 mins of action thing is a misleading meme parroted by sissies. Even highschool games with running clocks and shortened quarters still take like 2 hours

>>77413634
yes that's part of it... but even if you just look at mens sports, schools are lucky if they can turn a profit in anything beside basketball or football.