kungfoodude

The problem is that they are very rapidly losing the sub-30 crowd. That means the future will be extremely bleak.

You are sadly mistaken if you think college football isn't on just as shaky ground.

Lions fans taking over the Stupordome is amazing.

Bite your tongue. Then he wouldn't be on the Taints.

Announcers slobbering on Taysom The Golden Calf of Bristol so hard.

I would say it will not be in his best interest to stay here. He will be a hot commodity and I think he is smart enough to know that leaving is wise.

It's a good defense but it isn't an elite defense, even by FSU standards. To overcome their lack of a QB, they will need truly elite defensive play.

It will be interesting to see. He seems to make wild swings in direction so I sort of expect him to get some veteran GM that is long past his prime and perhaps has been on the shelf for years. Then surround him with a bunch of analytics nerds that feed him info he has no idea what to do with. So, basically the same construction as our current coaching staff but in the FO.

The mistake regular folks make is assuming that intellect and being wildly successful are bedfellows. I can tell an anecdote of a multimillion dollar company I had dealings with which the owner was barely literate. I mean that sincerely. He had been raised in Alabama, never made it to high school, and his "room" was the house porch for most of his childhood. But, he had built a very successful business. I had quite a few face to face interactions and although he thought he knew everything, he had the IQ of mildly handicapped chimp. But.....he was successful.

Oh he has done a lot of things that start with an 'R' alright. It isn't the word you are thinking.

And he learned the football side from......Marty Hurney. Never forget that.

FSU is basically not a top 15 team without their QB. Florida? You mean 5-7 Florida? So that's the basis for thinking FSU is good? Now I would have a different opinion if basically the FSU season wasn't over once they lost Jordan Travis. INB4 30+ loss to whomever they play.

If I had to guess, Evero is smart enough to find employment elsewhere. Most likely as a HC.

I have said the entire year the Big Ten is a complete joke. I stand by that. It is only eclipsed by mid-G5 level ACC.

Fitterer has another year at least. I suspect we will get our 4th or 5th option of HC candidate.

I forgot he was back. I would actually move them to #3, in that case.

The best teams are: 1. Washington 2. Oregon 3. Alabama 4. Georgia 5. Michigan 6. Texas(if they still had their QB they would be higher) 7. Ohio St. After that it's a decent sized pool of relatively evenly matched teams. The committee will have: 1. Michigan 2. Washington 3. Florida State(shouldn't even be in the discussion at all, literally not a top 10 team) 4. Alabama(they can't help themselves)

The biggest ad revenues are from social media titans and content platforms. They aren't from TV. The paradigm has shifted and most of the sports world is behind the times. I see some movement by the NBA trying to make their content much more easy to access. They also benefit from having global appeal.

Most young people do not care about pro sports. It is very obvious. Also the kings of the sport(college and pro football) have moved further and further towards making their products as hard and expensive to get as possible. That model will absolutely ruin them. If you want fan engagement, you better be at the forefront of making your content easy and cheap to access. Otherwise, it's basically curtains for your future.

He'S tHe NeXt ToM bRaDy, BrO! hOw CaN yOu NoT sEe It????!!!

It's just the evolution of entertainment options and they ways that people consume them. The younger crowd is just fine with free YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, etc. Or subscribe to a few streaming services. I have informally polled just about every 20something I meet or work with. I have yet to meet one that subscribes or knows one of their friends that subscribes to NFL Ticket. The writing is on the wall. They will be too late to see it. ESPN has been so slow to adapt that they will be in more trouble than they already are. All these entities have pushed their model of ever increasing TV revenues when that house of cards is as fraudulent/fragile as the housing market was in the early 2000's.

Yeah and we aren't protecting anyone's draft capital but the Bears. This is about as much of a win-win situation as we are going to get at the moment.

Shades of the Redskins fans. Snyder was universally loathed. Unfortunately for them he also progressively reduced their broad fanbase to a much smaller group of diehards and local legacies. Our fanbase has never been large but this owner will make it ever smaller. I fear that he will basically turn us into the Hornets. Essentially after all the ill will of Shinn, Bob Johnson/Michael Jordan torpedoed the fanbase from which it would probably take more than a decade to ever recover from the initial Hornets fanfare. That's assuming it ever does recover at all. TBQH, I believe I have likely lived through the peak of the Panthers fanbase. I don't think it will recover because I think the NFL has a limited time as the premier sport in the US.

The hallmark of being dumb is not realizing you aren't smart enough to know how to do everything. Tepper firmly believes this is all easy. He learned for a year or two from Marty Hurney and now he thinks he is some sort of Moneyball sage. It's just that all these idiots around him keep screwing up his brilliant plans. He is going to change the NFL if all these idiots just get out of his way and let him do it.