The only advantage is possibly comfortable seating if it’s a newer theater. The screen is only showing the game. Can’t flip to other channels or have other TVs. Bathroom is a mile away. If you’re in the middle of the row then you’re inching your way past. I can’t envision a time when I’d go to a theater. A group of my buddy’s would rather be at a bar where we can complain about a 3rd and long completion against fsu D.
Now you open up a drive in theater with multi view? Each car/party can select which game audio they want. BYOB and I can roll up with friends and tailgate chairs? There may be something there.
I mean we’re getting into the weeds here but new theater models like Alamo Draft House solve most of these issues. All that said, I’m just dbling here and don’t actually care. Watch where you want.
Back when I was newer to Austin some UT alums invited me to watch the 2010 title game at the Alamo Drafthouse theater. I don’t think anyone that was there that day would try the experience again.
Does anyone remember a YouTube video that was clips of Jameis in the spring game with an avengers monologue in the background and then at the end it shows him throwing the ball over the Pike house. Can’t find it and i need it for some game week nostalgia. Thanks!
Just about every theater here sells at least beer. Might be a fun option for families who don't want to deal with bringing kids to a bar.
Sure my kid is gonna just chill out in a movie chair for 4 hours while daddy pretends to not be an alcoholic and drinks ipas while watching vatech duke nothing says kids event like 4 hours of a football game in a dark room
I didn't say what ages. My older two would probably love it. My youngest (6) would probably burn the place down in anger.
GFA's is the best idea. DuffandMuff wants people to drink in their cars...not great. The ACC's proposal leads to riots, fistfights and shootings.
I want them to drink outside their cars. In tailgate chairs. Just like a tailgate. Are you trying to ban tailgating, sir?! This idea really works if you just ban all acc games from cable tv. Can’t wait to watch fsu every Saturday at the local drive in.
Cant wait to watch ACC football on MySpace live, refrigerators, drive in screens, and entertainment consoles in vehicles.
When Connery made his cameo as King Dick in Robin Hood.....entire theatre stood up and clapped This would be the exact opposite and it would be top tier
Hear me out.... If college football turns into a 32 team super-conference, with a single elimination playoff to find a winner, and has recruits acting as free agents, I think it's in all of the trouble. The more CFB acts like the NFL, the more likely it is to fail. College Football thrives because it has historically been great where the NFL fell short. The more it looks like the NFL, the more it loses its competitive advantage, because the NFL is still king. The decision makers/ADs/School Presidents, need to be very cognizant of what they are doing in the coming years, because I'm sitting over here about the future of the sport.
you're right, fan interest is the bellwether for long-term viability, but we are in a short-term world, for ill. the golden goose lies beneath the blade of the capitalism guillotine. fan interest will wane and focus will shift, even moreso, to the NFL.
see this has always been a bad assumption, unless by "where" you mean physically. cfb thrives because it exists in places pro sports don't. the pageantry wont go away. the rivalries wont go away. in fact nothing is going away except an antiquated post season. no chance we drop to 32 and stay there forever. the system and scope simply doesnt support it. theres far fewer than 32 tier 1-2 teams and far more than 32 tier 1-3 teams.
You might as well enjoy what you have while you still have it and stop worrying about the future, given who the decision makers are there isn’t a lot of confidence that they’ll make the right decisions for the sport.
this is only true under current television/conference payouts to schools. if payouts become tied to performance (they will) and performance tied to money invested in the program, it will be less than 50 schools that can afford to participate at that level and even less that can hope to be competitive. if a system doesn't serve the maximization of profit it will change (slow or fast), absent state intervention, into one that does. capital accumulates and then optimizes its accumulation by cutting off the ability of others to accumulate in the same market. fyi: rivalries are already going away
Do you even keep up with the sport if you don't think rivalries are going away? I keep up way less than I used to and still am very aware of what's happening.
Is this where I go through a list and you tell me they aren't rivalries? Look at Nebraska's historic rivals, or Missouri, or Texas-Texas A&M, Auburn-UF, and on and on. Basically take any team that's about to move conferences and a rival who isn't (OU-OSU)
Lol is this where you move the goalposts to say that historical rivalries only count if they would have been competitive over a short period of time?
The ACC is doing everything it can to save Cal-Stanford and Odin is just being disrespectful of The Big Game.
Those "non-rivalries" going away are going to eat at viewership and globally the overall health of cfb
Missouri has no real connection to any SEC team. I imagine it's not entirely different than Nebraska where you don't feel super connected to most/any schools in your new conference because there's no history there.
i'm not doing that at all. theres a few valid rivalries lost but meh, most are pitt/wvu and no one cares about that.
there's literally an area in this country where you can be murdered over this rivalry Same as in Alabama
ND/Michigan went gameless for decades before conference realignments The scheduling for that series has more to do with the relationship our Athletic Departments have with each other at the time (it’s usually not pleasant) than conference alignment It will be interesting to see how ND/USC progresses with their move to the B1G. Wouldn’t shock me if the conference tries to freeze that series in hopes of forcing us into a move
lot of examples of ooc rivalries in the sport. uga/gt dont care, uf/fsu, clem/usce. the loss of important rivalries isnt on changing conferences, its on the people making the schedules. and the closer we move to a small number of large conferences the more likely we are to see most rivalries exist within conferences anyway.
This has to be the most insufferable bunch of fart sniffers in college athletics that I could possibly imagine. My god it would be awful to be involved in that.
ND/Michigan is because we are both the cuntiest of cunts. It has happened periodically through the years.