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Naming rights for CSU's new stadium - ideas?

Walter White said:
Do you think the best lower division football programs get publicity for their school? 99% of the population knows nothing about the best football programs in the lower divisions. Lower division football gets zero publicity, which is about the same as college soccer.
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Look at the sports sections of the newspapers, watch the sportscast on the news.

This week alone both Colorado School of Mines and CSU - Pueblo have had feature articles in the Post in addition to game stories. Each of these schools has recieved more print space, and more prominent space than all of the soccer coverage including the Rapids and MLS, the highest level of soccer in the US. Other than line scores I have seen virtually no coverage of college soccer.

Same on a certainly unscientific viewing of local sportscast. Coverage of small college football with individual teams getting more coverage than any soccer coverage other than HS. Nationally ESPN and some of the national networks have increased their soccer coverage, mainly to try to drive viewership to the games they are using to fill air time but again even the best college soccer teams get little to no coverage.

Lower division football doesn't get national coverage but neither does any college soccer. On a local and regional basis it is covered much more than soccer.

By the way even though they are an FBS school CSU isn't getting any national coverage now. Their level of coverage would not drop significantly and in fact may increase going from being a losing, lower end FBS program to a competitive FCS program.
 
I don't know if disdain is the right word for it, and I'm certainly not as opposed to soccer as Snow is, so I'll have to agree with your term "preference". But there's a little more.

Let me qualifiy this discussion by saying that I've lived in Brazil (and Barzil), I've lived in The Netherlands and I've lived in Italy. I've been exposed to the sport.

My preference is college football. I was raised with it. I understand the nuances of it and ultimately as a game it has meaning and excitement to me. In other places I've lived, there is no understanding of my chosen game, and therefore there's a general disregard for it.

However, my going in point has always been that I don't need anybody to like American Football. I'm happy with it, and that's enough.

At some point, it became tiresome hearing how soccer was a better sport, it was a more popular sport and that I must watch it and I would love it. I watched it, and I don't love it. But I don't understand the needs of Brazilians, The Dutch and especially the Italians to sell me on their sport. It wasn't good enough for the vast majority of my acquaintances in those countries that American Football was my preference. Instead, there was this constant measuring of (metaphorical) dicks. There was a need to convince me that soccer is the greatest sport on earth. Maybe for the masses, but not for me.

At some point I finally dug and and adopted the policy that soccer sucks. It was forced on me. Actually, I always thought soccer sucked, but I quit being polite about it.

It's a sport that systematically rewards poor sportsmanship (flopping is cheating) and also behaving like a vagina (flopping is behaving like a vagina).

Why do I root against the US soccer team? Because I don't want the sport to gain a toe-hold in our country. I view it (rightly or wrongly) as a less than masculine sport that is misaligned with what I want American values to be. I want our nation to suck at it. I don't want it to be part of our value system.

But I've been hearing since the arrival of Pele (was I even born? I'm not sure) how soccer was taking over America. Maybe it is. I'm not in touch (that anybody can prove) with 17 year-olds, so I don't know what the kids are into. Maybe we're losing ground. People can like what they like, but it makes me sad.

Soccer sucks, but again, I'm not nearly as entrenched on this position as Snow. That dude hates soccer!
 
Orr said:
I don't know if disdain is the right word for it, and I'm certainly not as opposed to soccer as Snow is, so I'll have to agree with your term "preference". But there's a little more.

Let me qualifiy this discussion by saying that I've lived in Brazil (and Barzil), I've lived in The Netherlands and I've lived in Italy. I've been exposed to the sport.

My preference is college football. I was raised with it. I understand the nuances of it and ultimately as a game it has meaning and excitement to me. In other places I've lived, there is no understanding of my chosen game, and therefore there's a general disregard for it.

However, my going in point has always been that I don't need anybody to like American Football. I'm happy with it, and that's enough.

At some point, it became tiresome hearing how soccer was a better sport, it was a more popular sport and that I must watch it and I would love it. I watched it, and I don't love it. But I don't understand the needs of Brazilians, The Dutch and especially the Italians to sell me on their sport. It wasn't good enough for the vast majority of my acquaintances in those countries that American Football was my preference. Instead, there was this constant measuring of (metaphorical) dicks. There was a need to convince me that soccer is the greatest sport on earth. Maybe for the masses, but not for me.

At some point I finally dug and and adopted the policy that soccer sucks. It was forced on me. Actually, I always thought soccer sucked, but I quit being polite about it.

It's a sport that systematically rewards poor sportsmanship (flopping is cheating) and also behaving like a vagina (flopping is behaving like a vagina).

Why do I root against the US soccer team? Because I don't want the sport to gain a toe-hold in our country. I view it (rightly or wrongly) as a less than masculine sport that is misaligned with what I want American values to be. I want our nation to suck at it. I don't want it to be part of our value system.

But I've been hearing since the arrival of Pele (was I even born? I'm not sure) how soccer was taking over America. Maybe it is. I'm not in touch (that anybody can prove) with 17 year-olds, so I don't know what the kids are into. Maybe we're losing ground. People can like what they like, but it makes me sad.

Soccer sucks, but again, I'm not nearly as entrenched on this position as Snow. That dude hates soccer!
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Dude you lived in Brazil AND Italy? No wonder you hate soccer. ****ing flopper central!
 
wow did you guys know that not only does the USA have a soccer team, but Denver has some semi-pro team as well and the guys are adults. I thought you had to be under 14 to play soccer.
 
tante said:
wow did you guys know that not only does the USA have a soccer team, but Denver has some semi-pro team as well and the guys are adults. I thought you had to be under 14 to play soccer.
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You can get a note from your doctor if you want to play after 9th grade.
 
tante said:
wow did you guys know that not only does the USA have a soccer team, but Denver has some semi-pro team as well and the guys are adults. I thought you had to be under 14 to play soccer.
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You would think we would know this, but because this is America, nobody gives a ****.:smile2:
 
I have no problem with anyone who wants to watch soccer. I have even watched some of it occassionally when I didn't have anything better to do.

The resentment among many people probably comes from the core of soccer fans trying to stuff the sport down the throats of those who don't like it and aren't going to like it. Like Orr I have been hearing since the seventies how soccer "is just around the corner" from becoming the dominant spectator sport in the US. Hearing how we should all love it because "it is the most popular sport in the world," and is "more sophisticated and elegant, not like the brutal american game."

I have also heard how all the children who play it are going to be the new fan base and we will see full stadiums and games on TV every week.

Simply put, it hasn't happened and I don't see it happening any time soon. The kids who play soccer have a great experience then move on to watching the same spectator sports as the rest of the US. We have had the MLS, the NASL, etc.

The soccer fans may wish otherwise but the numbers don't show significant movements towards popularity for soccer in the US. MLS attendance is stagnant and while we joke about CSU attendance the Rapids average is less. TV ratings for a bad college football game are higher that most soccer games on TV. The trends aren't changing this.
 
Mods, can we change the name of this thread to:

"Allbuffs discusses things that suck"?
 
Total thread hijack. There is a "Soccer Sucks Because We Said So (Official Thread)" thread or some such in the Pub. Back to naming the CSU Unicorn Stadium.
 
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First off, what the hell is a "tantegasm;" second, why would anyone be searching for it on the internet?
 
rodrigo said:
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First off, what the hell is a "tantegasm;" second, why would anyone be searching for it on the internet?
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You should PM your question to Tante. He'll set you straight.

Or the opposite of it.
 
To any CSU or Baylor fans that found this thread: **** YOU!

To all tantegasm fans that found this thread: Welcome!
 
No surprises here. Will also be very curious what the conditions are, and how close they are to fulfilling those conditions right now.
 
dio said:
No surprises here. Will also be very curious what the conditions are, and how close they are to fulfilling those conditions right now.
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Article suggested that they want over half the stadium cost raised in private funds... and they didn't discuss which plan they were gonna use.
 
They claim it won't, but the revenue projections are so ridiculous that they will have to use the general fund to cover. Unless of course they find a crap-ton of private donations.
 
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