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That is great. Explain to me again why we spent well over 100 Million Bux on that side of campus for sports that don't make money or draw flies and I have to stand knee deep in piss in the men's room if I go to a game at that shythole football stadium we play in?
To be honest I like men's baseball and go to games but that new stadium was a waste of money.
Good Post.. I hate posters Sh*tting in every thread.......I'm guilty of it too.Wouldn't be a true celebration of our softball championship without whining about football and Dems. It's just the organic, natural Segway that any sane person would make, so it's inevitable that it happens in the first page of almost every thread.
Congrats lady gators!
Here's the highlights if you wanna see
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Florida vs. Texas A&M Highlights 5-9-21
CO-Champions with Arkansas but seeded #1 in tourney because of tiebreaker....We won vs Bama and they lost.LOVE seeing our Gators win the SECC on a walk off HR. F ing LOVE it and LOVE that it makes the haters/dumpers upset. LOVE seeing those girls and coaches celebrate with a Championship after all their hard work. Congrats Gator girls!
Youre way overthinking this.This can be the only thought process going through an AD office that would perpetually slow-play investment in the primary money maker, and make the vast investments in 2nd tier, in-the-red sports.
No one gaf about softball. Thats why there is only s few hundred in the stands, and just like baseball, it's mostly their girlfriends.Wouldn't be a true celebration of our softball championship without whining about football and Dems.
the lack of youth participation all make me think it’s got a decade left, at the most.
the lack of youth participation
I've seen that trend reverse in the last four years
First of all...congratulations to the Lady Gators softball team for earning a share of the regular season title and the top seed in the SEC tournament.
Now, to the other point in this thread:
Football may be the exception, but overall youth participation has been declining in just about every other sport for several years now. I've seen first hand every day in my PE classes the dramatic changes. Twenty years ago I'd have in any given class a few really good athletes, and a few kids who couldn't throw the ball in the ocean if they were standing on the beach. But most of the class was of average ability, average fitness, and could at least tell me the basic rules and strategies of most games. Now, I've got several kids who play travel ball all year long, specializing in one sport, but are generally pretty athletic. And I've got the rest of the class whose only exercise is their thumbs on their video game controller. The "average" group no longer exists. The majority of students now don't know what hand a baseball glove goes on, can't serve a volleyball over the net if their life depended on it, and couldn't tell me the first thing about how to play any game, unless it's on their xbox.
So you are saying it was only a matter of time before someone shlts on the thread, just a question of who will do the shltting. In other words a "who gives a shlt" thread.Wouldn't be a true celebration of our softball championship without whining about football and Dems. It's just the organic, natural Segway that any sane person would make, so it's inevitable that it happens in the first page of almost every thread.
Congrats lady gators!
Here's the highlights if you wanna see
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Florida vs. Texas A&M Highlights 5-9-21
The "average" group no longer exists. The majority of students now don't know what hand a baseball glove goes on, can't serve a volleyball over the net
As for it being dead? Maybe in Californirado. But it always was. You cant seriously believe there is more interest and ernrollment in softball, baseball, lacrosse, foot hockey or whatever than football.
According to data from the Aspen Institute and the National Federation of State High School Associations(NFHS), from 2008-19 to 2018-19 the total number of youths aged 6 to 18 playing tackle football fell by more than 620,000, from about 2.5 million to less than 1.9 million. It seems almost certain that 2020 or 2021 will see overall high school participation in tackle football drop to below 1 million players, a level of participation not seen since 1998. Over that same decade season attendance at top-level college games (Football Bowl Subdivision) declined by almost 10% (per school).
Game Sunday Attendance: 748Good for the girls. The dozens in attendance were wild with excitement.