technology and sports attendance

[gh]

worth the read/watch (not sure I thought I'd ever say that about a college football coach)

https://247sports.com/Article/Pat-Fi...nce-133832223/

[Atticus]

worth the read/watch (not sure I thought I'd ever say that about a college football coach)

https://247sports.com/Article/Pat-Fi...nce-133832223/

Ha! There's a guy that a had to rant to rant and a ready-made audience to rant to.
Not that I don't agree with him. It's definitely a generation gap thing. All my grandkids are the same way.

[Conor Dary]

Fitzgerald is an interesting coach...fwiw at the Student rec center here....the students mostly don't interact with each other...even walking they are all looking at their phones...it's all rather odd....

[tandfman]

worth the read/watch (not sure I thought I'd ever say that about a college football coach)

https://247sports.com/Article/Pat-Fi...nce-133832223/

Yes, very interesting. Certainly relevant to millennials' attendance at track meets.

[scottmitchell74]

He's spot-on. It's partly why I stick to my flip-phone. I hate seeing people out, with their heads down.

[donley2]

I found this a gross over simplification. I find my phone indispesencible for following field events at meets.

[Master Po]

I think I have the steps in this trajectory:

1. NCAA football attendance is declining.
2. The world is soon to end.
3. The cause of 1 & 2? Cell phones.


Eventually someone will be right about #2. But I am unpersuaded by the evidence, the chain of reasoning, and the conclusions.

As for 'kids these days', being around them every day, they are interacting with each other pretty much constantly. But apparently they aren't watching football. That's too bad, at least for football programs.

[tandfman]

I found this a gross over simplification. I find my phone indispesencible for following field events at meets.

But how many meets support that, and support it well? I've had mixed experiences.

[donley2]

But how many meets support that, and support it well? I've had mixed experiences.

I am bit of a Luddite. Only owned a smart phone for about five years. In that timeframe the major meets I have attended are NCAA indoor/outdoor, Pan Am (Toronto) and USATF, so those have been generally good on real time field event results. Clearly it's not universal.