college football vs NASCAR theory

[1duluth1]

NASCAR used to be hugely popular & successful. My father has a theory that NASCAR's attempt to increase income more - ultimately ruined it.
Races at Rockingham & North Wilksboro? Let's stop racing there - and move to Chicago & Las Vegas. "Expand the footprint" and move to bigger TV markets.
The end of season is boring? Add a playoff to NASCAR.
Add Toyotas to the races.
etc.
Eventually, NASCAR became unrecognizable - and tradition was traded to chase dollars - ironically, making racing less popular.

I fear college football is making the same mistake.
Will a UNC-East Carolina game matter? WVU-Pitt? Army-Navy?
Will it be like NFL... where a person in Wyoming is a Broncos fan (closest team)? Or how someone in Virginia adopts the Dallas Cowboys - just because?
Who will be the team you follow in a 30-team super league? LSU? Alabama?
Or will we watch WVU games... and the super college conference loses a lot of viewers in America that feel no connection to a couple dozen teams?
-Winter Tim

 

[SKYHAWKBALL]

Excellent post, especially the NASCAR as it is very true. They are still killing Nascar by using these tactics, even Dale Jr mentioned it on his podcast that he does. There are no rivalries anymore in nascar because everyone walks on eggshells due to being punished or having the high money sponsors pull away from them. They have melted away the glue that held nascar together for decades.

 

[TownesVanZandt_rivals]

NASCAR was a growing sport but that growth reached a certain limit because the television contracts become too much…

CBS also pulled out of NASCAR as well right at that moment
But NASCAR and CFB beyond that have no similarities

Soccer is closer to what NASCAR is because that is where the money is going as the next thing

Money didn’t kill NASCAR the lack of viewers did.
Reached a certain point. Was nice when they were paying pennies to show the races but when that changed it no longer was worth the money because they couldn’t grow the fanbase anymore.

Reason why CFB has this value today is that there are people who will pay the price to stream the sport.
That is where we are heading. They aren’t trying to grow the sport they are trying to capitalize on the audience there is today

 

[EER X]

I think it's very much the same...at some point a group in NASCAR got very rich by increasing the price of everything (cost to participate, cost to watch in person, cost to air the product on TV, etc.). In the process, they were whistling past the graveyard while alienating all of the fans that made them what they were. When it started to fail, they tried all of the gimmicks such as "playoffs", rovals, etc, but it hasn't worked and now it's just a bunch of legacy trust fund babies racing in front of empty stands. There is no talent left, it's just the grandchildren of the owners.

The football powers are doing the exact same thing, grabbing all the money they can RIGHT NOW. It will definitely kill CFB in the end because they are once again leaving the fans behind. The only reason I've ever watched Alabama is because I love WVU and the sport that it plays. Once WVU is not associated with those teams, I'll never watch them and neither will the majority of fans across the country that are being left out. If I want to watch elite football I'll watch the NFL.