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Once Ultra High Definition television becomes the norm, all live sports are going to be in very serious trouble.
The at home game experience will be so good that even many die hard fans will stay home to watch. Every sport will be affected. It's going to get very interesting.
Once Ultra High Definition television becomes the norm, all live sports are going to be in very serious trouble.
The at home game experience will be so good that even many die hard fans will stay home to watch. Every sport will be affected. It's going to get very interesting.
IMO thats called laziness. If you are a real fan, you will show up and cheer your team on in the stadium.
IMO thats called laziness. If you are a real fan, you will show up and cheer your team on in the stadium.
Not questioning your fandom but when you've been to Rentschler once in 3 years you aren't in any position to criticize anyone else who doesn't go.
It's easy to say you'd be there if you could - but until you've actually sat through the last 3+ seasons, it's not laziness from the people who don't go.
Like most things in life, attending football games is all about desire, because if you have enough of that desire you'll find the time, spend the money, (and even tolerate the traffic!) Schools can influence that desire with various game day incentives but in the end there are only a few events that serve as communal bonding experiences: Concerts, Rallies, Parades, and Live Sporting Events. Sitting home watching a concert or game on your HDTV may be a comfortable alternative but it's simply not the same. Being there is what makes the event. Sportsart is right. Fans who come and have a great time are apt to return. There are lots of opinions out there on how to improve the game day experience and heaven knows the Boneyard is replete with them, but that's for another thread. The solace I take in our current circumstance (perhaps delusionally) is that unlike those football-centric schools who are seeing their historic sold-out attendance numbers in decline, we've never had that packed house syndrome. We actually have the chance to breathe new interest into what heretofore has never been fully appreciated or properly promoted. Ours is not a jaded population, it's more an uninspired one. We now have a coach who understands the importance of his role in that mission and an administration that realizes the need (driven by a P-5 conference imperative) to foster an exciting fan friendly environment that will go a long way toward infusing lots more folks with a strong desire to make The Rent the place to be on Saturdays in the fall. Count me in as a believer.
whaler11 said:You guys are missing that not everyone feels that way. I'd rather watch Redzone than go to an NFL game and that is if you bought my ticket and drove me to the stadium. Redzone > NFL in person experience to me any many others.
Like most things in life, attending football games is all about desire, because if you have enough of that desire you'll find the time, spend the money, (and even tolerate the traffic!) Schools can influence that desire with various game day incentives but in the end there are only a few events that serve as communal bonding experiences: Concerts, Rallies, Parades, and Live Sporting Events. Sitting home watching a concert or game on your HDTV may be a comfortable alternative but it's simply not the same. Being there is what makes the event. Sportsart is right. Fans who come and have a great time are apt to return. There are lots of opinions out there on how to improve the game day experience and heaven knows the Boneyard is replete with them, but that's for another thread. The solace I take in our current circumstance (perhaps delusionally) is that unlike those football-centric schools who are seeing their historic sold-out attendance numbers in decline, we've never had that packed house syndrome. We actually have the chance to breathe new interest into what heretofore has never been fully appreciated or properly promoted. Ours is not a jaded population, it's more an uninspired one. We now have a coach who understands the importance of his role in that mission and an administration that realizes the need (driven by a P-5 conference imperative) to foster an exciting fan friendly environment that will go a long way toward infusing lots more folks with a strong desire to make The Rent the place to be on Saturdays in the fall. Count me in as a believer.
IMO thats called laziness. If you are a real fan, you will show up and cheer your team on in the stadium.
Regardless of cost? Regardless of the time investment? What about other concerns? I skipped a football game, and watched in on television, this past Saturday because my oldest needed to put in some work on a history project and needed the help. Does that somehow make me less of a fan?
If it hasn't been asked, I would ask why people don't go to games, not just why they do. Generate a list of excuses, and then address them one by one.
No matter how good they make it look on TV, fans who have experienced a great gameday atmosphere will be at the game.
It really is a non issue.
Once Ultra High Definition television becomes the norm, all live sports are going to be in very serious trouble.
The at home game experience will be so good that even many die hard fans will stay home to watch. Every sport will be affected. It's going to get very interesting.
The leap from HD to UHD will be far less revolutionary than SD was going to HD. Aside from everyone having to get new TVs, and broadcasters having to find the bandwidth to distribute, eyes can only see so much detail at normal viewing distances and screen sizes. Until everyone has 65+ inch 4k panels it's not as pressing an issue as some other things that have been brought up.I agree with your statement which is why I go to every UConn home football game and as many road games as I can afford.
But just for informational purposes, Ultra High Def is not going to be an incremental change in technology - it's going to be a genuine breakthrough and it's coming around 2017 or so. Television football is going to be significantly enhanced in ways that are hard to imagine right now. If it works as planned it's not going to be a change - it's going to be a revolution.
Boneyard people will still keep going to the real games. No question about that. I count myself in this number.
But the new technology is going to be so seductive that many other more casual fans are going to stay home and college ADs and NFL marketing VP are genuinely concerned about the future of stadium attendance. The Michigan AD has already identified this as the number one challenge in his job. And that's from a school that just made a multi million dollar investment to increase seating capacity.