tbh i never understood it. i love sports but i like to watch peak athletes, college players just aren't good enough once you get used to the pros and it's very obvious.
how do you think prediction markets are uniquely affecting college sports tho
not uniquely!! but i bet the higher volume of bets, larger percentage of the population involved in betting, and ability to bet on hyperspecific aspects of the game are affecting more of the players' decisions than ever before. not like they're throwing entire games but things like, they or a loved one bet on a certain score differential so they give up some points on purpose.
even subconsciously! like imagine a scenario where a kid's parents keep making really specific bets about his games and telling him about them unsolicited and he doesn't WANT to participate in insider trading but ofc it'd get in his head.
everything about these prediction markets is toxic to human behavior and society
Date: November 14th, 2026 1:02 PM Author: barnabyjones
biggest issue with UCLA has always been the stadium. the rose bowl is 180 as bowl game but is a bitch to get to for students/fans. They should build out Drake Stadium to be a 45k seat stadium. theres enough players in socal for them to be competitive if the administration ever started to care.
for sure an issue but i live here, i just don't think anyone cares all that much about college football. people are even lukewarm about the rams. it's just not a football city imo. lakers and dodgers run this town
Date: November 14th, 2026 4:22 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond
would people care if USC was good every year again? they were a yuge deal
not surprised about the rams. gone for 20 years after playing in anaheim for 15 before that. otoh the raiders were popular in socal even after going back to oakland.
im sure the rams have plenty of fans who are young/new to football though
Date: November 14th, 2026 1:21 PM Author: barnabyjones
point is there is land available around the field to build it out. westwood obviously is expensive/corrupt to construct anything so adding seats to drake is the easisiest fix.
Date: November 14th, 2026 1:18 PM Author: AZNgirl last girl on Earth not sexing Jensen Huang
playing in rosebowl is highly retarded, even sharing colosium with USC wld maek more sense. never wld build a new stadium in West LA cause land too pricey even for jews
Date: November 14th, 2026 1:53 PM Author: the wife guy cinematic universe
I went to a ucla - oregon state home game in the rose bowl in 2008 that was rocking and over 80k attendance. The real problem is so cal has been ethnically cleansed of white people and their white boomer alumni base all moved away and the current students are all yellow and brown and will never care about football
Date: November 14th, 2026 1:27 PM Author: Talafreako
It's only acceptable to give shit about college sports as an adult if you're a townie. This is one of the reasons The Big Chill sucks so bad, they're a bunch of yuppies obsessed with watching UMich.