Comments on: College or pro?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:37:12 +0000

Other reason college football is better:
1. Unless you grew up in an NFL city, a college team is easier to identify with. Even those who didn’t attend college have old State U.
2. Every pro team runs the same plays and sets. The game always comes down to execution. College football has different schemes and styles of play. So many things can happen. In a related point. . .
3. NFL players are so good that the element of randomness that college football brings are gone.
4. There are no historic upsets in pro football. On any given Sunday. . .
5. Speaking of Sunday, Sunday is a lousy day to watch sports. Work is hanging over your head, you have to get things done you didn’t do on Saturday, and you’ve probably already used your get out of jail free card for the weekend. Saturday can be spent in front of the TV all day with the knowledge that you still have Sunday to redeem yourself.
6. Would you rather tailgate at The Grove with the Kappas or at Lambeau with the Cheeseheads?

By: PatGLex

PatGLex — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:42:38 +0000

Given a choice between college or pro in almost any major sport, I’ll pick college. There’s much more emotion involved and better odds that the unexpected will happen — players stepping up to fulfill their promise, or collapsing under the weight of expectations. Not that this doesn’t happen in the pros, but, like Rob suggested (I think), the pros are a business. The players are, perhaps, more known quantities.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:14:46 +0000

I’m a diehard football fan but given the choice, I would take a college game over the pro game any day of the week (and ESPN is making sure that is any day of the week).

There is so much more passion in every aspect of the college game. I’m a Green Bay Packer fan but I don’t get to go to all of their games. In college, you have your selection of hundreds of programs you can follow with players and coaches who are more likely to interact with their fanbase.

In the pros, you lose a game and you go to work the next day and are over it for a while. In the college game, you are left to think even years down the road, why didn’t he just knock it down!

In college, the stadiums have nicknames (The Swamp, Death Valley, etc.); in the pros, the stadiums have corporate names (Invesco Field, Lucas Oil, etc.).

In college, from week 1, you are in the playoffs. If you lose a game, your national title hopes are sunk. In the pros, you can have a team with 6 losses winning the Super Bowl.

In college, you have personas like Spurrier, Paterno, and Bowden. In the pros, you have guys who come out of nowhere and will probably be fired in two years.

You keep your selfish, overpaid crybabies and I’ll take my student-athletes.