I feel the exact same way. The NBA has less teams and for the most part the teams stay the same for a few years. In college, the best players will leave after one year and then you have to learn a whole new set of players. It’s too much to keep up with
This is why I really like women’s basketball and college football seeing the players develop is very enjoyable. I love watching college football more than NFL because I really like seeing the growth.
I think that’s what makes the sport intriguing, especially when your team is well put together bc you know after the season is done the team will never be the same so every game matters and rivalry’s are so much more intense.
@@Jack-jx6ln it depends on the team, as a Purdue fan we prioritize player development because we don't get the top recruits and I've seen backups turn into All-Americans.
I saw an interesting take recently on Twitter, and they said part of the reason college basketball fandom is declining is because of the lack of a video game, beyond the 90s kids the attachment to men’s game is super low, and there’s no means to draw in fandom outside of the on-court product(which is bad currently)
I’ve gotten really into the women’s side of college ball over the last year or two, and I’ve been really enjoying it. Having all of the players stay around for four years really helps since if there’s a good team I like I get to see most of them again the next season instead of the men’s teams where some of a team’s best players leave early and I can’t really get as attached to them as much
I think the biggest shift against college basketball in recent years is that we just have so much more content readily available to us now than we did even 10 years ago. "Keeping up" with college sports used to be your local conference and then for 6 weeks in February-March you would start paying attention to the big conference tournaments and March Madness. Anything beyond that was pretty much impossible. While the availability of games is generally a good thing, too many options is a real issue for fans. I also think you've tapped into a natural issue with staying locked into a sport as you get older and have less time. In high school I could keep up with 3-4 of the top soccer leagues in Europe where now I constantly seeing players in the Premier league for the first time. Don't worry though, my grandparents showed me that once you get to retirement you bounce back and can watch every single game of your team's MLB season if you want to so you can get back to that high level of sports fandom eventually, its just not a thing you can responsibly do in the middle part of life.
I love watching these videos despite not really being into basketball, or really sports in general. I picked up watching Secret Base to maybe be able to hold a basketball conversation with my coworkers on a new shift, and have absolutely fallen in love with Kofie
@@Robin0928 completely valid homie, jxmy's stuff is usually about 15 minutes but I totally understand. Just another rec of a top tier basketball youtube channel. :)
I worked on the TV crew for sports jobs for a few years. I loved basketball, but I definitely zoned out just like you. I would get home and already forget who won the game
As someone that doesn’t work in sports this is so relatable. Through high school I was absolutely obsessed with all the big 4 sports in the US and college sports. At the same time I was also an only child of divorce with few friends so I found sports to be my outlet. Then I went to college started to make good friends, graduated and got a job got a girlfriend developed interests outside of sports etc and gradually I started to lose interest in every sport. Now I really only follow my favorite baseball and football team and nothing else, which to me is mainly because of the die hard fandom I got through my family growing up for those teams. Sometimes I try to get back into it all again but there’s honestly just too much going on in life as we get older to keep up with all of it like when we were kids. There’s times I wish I could go back to being a kid again where I could keep up with it all and have banter about it all with friends 24/7 but at the end of the day it’s just a part of growing up
College Basketball has become a three week a year sport for me (I should say I live in Wisconsin and am a UW and Marquette fan...2 consistently top 25 schools)....I can't watch a January college basketball game like I used to.
Grew up in Louisville and my interest in men’s college basketball died with the demise of the old big east. Haven’t watched consistently in years and when I do it’s only in march. WCB is honestly more interesting to me rn
Outside of the marketing angle, I think a big reason the college game is stagnating is certain coaches/schemes have completely broken it. The Texas Tech and San Diego State’s of the world realized they’re never going to get top recruits, so they deploy a starting lineup of 6’5 to 6’7 tweener wings who try to jump every passing lane and play tight man defense. The ability to play perimeter defense that well is a skill in itself yes, but the poor spacing mostly due to the shorter 3 point line really gives teams trouble. We’ve gone from the Big East 2-3 zone to an all out pressure system due to the lack of elite perimeter talent in the college game
Illinois basketball mentioned! But yeah as someone who is almost 2 years removed from college I have almost no desire to keep up with any team that isn't my alma mater. I used to read all kinds of articles on a bunch of teams/conferences, follow all kinds of recruits, watch any game on tv but now I'll watch Illinois games and that's about it, and even that's starting to wane.
@@NafizurRahmanawesomeobviously Iowa but everyone knows them, I love Virginia Tech a lot, Hannah Hidalgo (freshman!) has been killing it for Notre Dame this year, LSU is obviously good, UCLA is great this year
They are worse at basketball and the people screaming in the stands care about how the women’s game is pushing forward a sociopolitical ideology more than they care about basketball. And im not even opposed to their sociopolitical ideology
I agree bruh, it’s combo of the one & done era not allowing schools to build teams that fans can actually remember, no exciting young stars coming up anymore, and transfer portal driving seasoned coaches crazy. NCAA can only expect viewership in March from now on sh*t is sad
I actually just graduated from UNC and I feel the same way I also grew up in the triangle area like you. I grew up a huge UNC fan as well so I went to so many games when I was a student. After you watch an NBA game in person you start to realize like damn the skill gap between the two like damn. It just is different. You see how basketball is supposed to be played. Also when you are separated from your college you have less of a reason to keep up with them
NYC doesn’t have a college basketball team (St Johns hasn’t even made the tournament since the 90’s) so I have no reason to watch that shit tbh. I’ll still make a March madness bracket but idk why I’d watch UNC over a regular season Knicks game against a rebuilding Blazers team
I disagree I think college will always be more pure than the NBA, I say this bc the NBA is all about getting the ball to ur best 2 players and having 3 support players, while college it’s all about the team and the defense is much better aswell.
I grew up in Chapel Hill, in the heart of the ACC, and College sports literally were a foundational part of who you were. I loved and followed sports with a passion and then in college decided to try and work in sports. Worked in Sports media for three years and found out pretty quickly that the second it became a job I lost most of my passion. Something about having to watch EVERY SINGLE game really burns you out. it's been a few years since then and I still love sports but now am way more selective about what I follow and how intensely I follow it. Had a similar thing happen to me but with the NBA. I just stick to CFB, CBB, and the NFL now. I think NIL is good for the game and actively improves the college level because talent is more inclined to stick around - but now the constant transferring and constant complete overhauls of college rosters has started to really effect my enjoyment of CBB. When I cant even keep track of who is on my own P5 university bball team because 3/4 of the team transfers every offseason it really takes away a lot of what makes collegiate athletics so special.
The one and dones have hurt collage basketball tbh. It's part of the reason why it's so much harder to follow when the rosters turn over every year. Like people like to shit on the women's game, but I know who Catlin Clark is, and I know she makes Iowa good. I have no idea who the number one star in the country will be next season or who he will play for in the men's game. NBA, you've got your Gannis, your Luka, your Jokic, your Bron, your Tatum. Names and faces a fan base can attach themselves, too. Rivalries build on the same guys, having played against each other for years. Like the fans of UNC and Duke still hate their rivals with a passion but the star players really don't have an attachment or a history with these teams, it's just a pit stop before they go pro.
College Basketball is the only sport I'm really interested in throughout the season. I don't really watch much NFL outside of the Colts and it's hard to get into CFB knowing my team has very little chance of doing anything relevant outside of the occasional upset. I never got to watch the Big Ten Tournament in a theatre, but I had a similar experience growing up in Indiana as a Purdue fan. I'm just not really interested in the NBA style of play (I prefer half court basketball and more of a balance between offense and defense and I'm not saying the NBA doesn't play defense, its just they are far ahead offensively compare to defensively) and its hard to find any menaing in any regular season game because there's so many and over half the teams make the playoffs. The NBA also doesn't have the rivalries that college basketball does, and while the amount of information to follow can be daunting I got bored with the NBA and felt like I already know about everything (or at least everything I would care to know about) about what was going on in the league. There's certainly know requirement to know everything and nobody does. If you want to focus on a particular conference you could probably learn almost every rotation player pretty good by the end of the season just by watching 3-4 games a week. When I started watching around 2015 I only knew the most popular guys like Perry Ellis, Frank Kaminsky, Malcolm Brogdon and Jahlil Okafor as well as several Purdue players, but by my 4th year of watching i knew most power 6 starters and the best mid major players. Yeah the rosters change but it keeps things fresh. Sorry for all this rambling on, but I just feel really passionate about the sport, and feel compelled to explain why I like it.
Interesting perspective! I also grew up in North Carolina and am very aware of the culture there, growing up in Durham pretty much EVERYBODY you spoke to had a rooting interest in Duke or UNC, and it’s something that’s stuck with me personally. I try to keep up with all the local teams, professional and collegiate, but as someone who loves basketball, I get a lot more out of keeping up with the Tar Heels than I do the Hornets, because it’s a much more successful program, and there aren’t as many games to watch throughout the season. Of course, you might think simply picking another NBA team would solve this issue, but again being from an area that cares so deeply about local sports teams, it’s pretty much impossible for me to care about any team outside of NC.
it'd be pretty cool to just see a video from you going over what teams you currently like and what sports you're actively following. i didn't even know you were interested in hockey until the charlotte bobcats video (and seeing you sound the horn at the canes game was so sick btw). i'd love to hear your insight on all that
Another reason that the NBA is easier to follow is that the notable players are far more consistent. In college, after 4 years every player is new, but in the NBA, LeBron's been a star for 20 years. You can stop paying attention for 5 years and then come back and still recognize tons of players.
That's always been the case in college sports, it's not like anything has changed. There will always be turnover in college sports. Yet, people still watch college sports. So, why do people still watch college sports then?
@@Montfortracing I agree, nothing has changed. I just meant that one of the reasons that I think it's easier to be a casual/intermittent fan of professional sports is the lack of turnover. And I don't think this is new, I think it's a long-term thing. And why do people follow college sports? Because college sports are wonderful of course! I just think that the turnover makes it a little harder to follow casually.
Old Hoopmixtapes and Ballislife tapes used to make it easy to get a sense of what a guy's play style was like. I remember always watching tapes of Marcus LoVett, Dennis Smith, Aquille Carr, Seventh Woods, Trae Jefferson etc. And now when I look up a recruit, I gotta go through a 20 minute film session and it makes me less interested.
My problems with college basketball are that 1. only three games in the regular season seem to matter. A smaller university can have a great regular season but get upset in the conference tournament and your season is pretty much over because the selection committee never paid attention to your games. To make matters worse, games are being played on Selection Sunday, so said team will get snubbed in favor of a team that played .500 ball in the regular season but got hot and made the tournament final but didn't win. It's unfair to see a mid-major only have one team make it but a major get 10-11 teams. 2. The same teams win every year. March Madness can be exciting...for the first two rounds. After the Sweet Sixteen starts, you can basically predict the winner based on past success, which team has the most five-star recruits, and whether or not they wear blue (I am serious on the last one, the NCAA basketball champs more often than not wear blue).
As a NC native, growing up in Raleigh myself…I used to LOVE watching College Basketball from when I was about six or seven until about 2018…Nowadays, I watch only March Madness. I don’t even watch the NBA anymore - except the Postseason. The only College team I consistently keep up with is my Alma mater - North Carolina Central (not in the upper echelon of D1). Back then, I kept up with just about every player and game. Now, I feel like I’m not missing it.
Personally, I find college basketball is so fun because of how many teams are out there. You'll never get your eyes on all of it. I watch the Big 10 and sometimes I'll catch a Pac-12/Mountain West matchup if I'm not that tired heading into the nightcap. With pro sports, i sometimes feel like I should try and get my eyes on every team since there are so few, and that exhausts me
I have similar feelings not just for college basketball but for college sports in general. It has nothing to with NIL or the transfer portal. It’s more about all the conference realignment and the exposure of the hypocrisy in college sports. Those that run the NCAA have been saying for years that college athletics isn’t professional athletics. Yet they’re letting these tv networks pay them hundreds of millions(or billions in the Big Ten’s case) dollars to broadcast their sports. They say academics come first but if that were the case why will the ACC starting next year have schools in California and Texas when a majority of their schools are on the Atlantic coast? Wouldn’t that cut into study time? I still like college sports but if I had to choose between college sports and professional sports I’m going with the pros. At least I know my favorite pro sports team has a better chance at winning a championship than my Alma mater😄And the pros are the best of the best in the world.
My fifth grade teacher Mrs. lovin in Knoxville let me watch the Duke Miami ACC tournament game in 2005-2006 during class. It was one of my favorite memories.
I still love college football cause among many other reasons, guys are there 3 years at least, but you’re right college hoops just isn’t the same as it was even mid last decade, with ignite/ot elite and just the sheer turnover of players man it’s hard to keep up when you already so deep into other sports.
@@matthewjefferson9797that’s part of the fun of college ball for me, I like seeing a bunch of dudes that have no chance of playing big time pro ball fighting for their lives to get a win for their school, but I can definitely see why people wouldn’t want to see that all the time
Never in my life have I even liked college basketball. Don't know why! It's definitely not a big deal in Texas where I grew up, so that's certainly a factor. I was aware of the fact that pros are paid but college players weren't, and that felt weird. Plus so many guys who made it to the NBA ended up not living up to a fraction of their projections and that cycle got exhausting to me. Keeping up with what could be is a lot more tiring than keeping up with what is, and that's really I think the biggest point of friction is for me.
I’m from NYC so there’s no reason to watch college sports as a whole since our only program hasn’t even made the tournament since the 90’s. Closest thing we had to college sports here was St Peter’s. We always got random February Knick games against the Terry Rozier led Hornets tho 😭
@@itzlucaaa6789 BINGO We have professional sports, so there's no reason why I should watch. When I went to school at Buffalo, I kinda became invested. But, once I left...I went back to my Yankees and Brooklyn Nets...there's no other reason why I would watch.
i feel like when it comes to college basketball, nobody really cares till the tournament unless u ride or die for a certain program. I dont care about it anymore cause UC & Xavier aint been worth a damn since i was a lil kid lol
As someone who was born and raised in North Carolina and recently graduated college, I could not have said this any better. I didn’t even know I thought this
the part about the change in hoopmixtape/ballislife is a big part of why its become hard to follow for me. not to mention guys going to ote, g-league ignite, overseas, etc. instead of all the best players going to college like it was when I was growing up.
I find that it's a lot easier to follow sports by watching podcasts discussing the season rather than actually watching ALL the games. My mental bandwidth for watching games is like 50 MLB games, but I'll listen to hours and hours of NFL and NBA podcasts. It's weird.
loved the video cuz it speaks sum truth on how colleges sports just eventually gets too big to follow but i’m also a huge maryland too so it was tuff to u hear u talk abt the melo trimble days 🥹
Doubt you’ll remember but this video got recommended for me. We were at NC state basketball camp together for a few summers (cant remember the exact year but I had to be around 9 or 10 years old). Hope all is well and keep doing your thing with UA-cam. Peace - Tyler Boone
I wish the NCAA/NBA would go to the baseball rule, if you go to college you have to stay 3 years at least. And put the college players back in the Olympics even though they'll never win.
I realize I’m very late to the party and no one will read this, but I think a large chunk of people falling out of love with MCBB is due to a lack of conference cohesion. In the video you mentioned going to a theater in high school just to watch the ACC tournament. I grew up in Big XII country through high school and I remember having a very similar experience. But when regional rivals like Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, all left and were replaced by schools like TCU and West Virginia, all of a sudden “Big XII basketball” as a thing you watched as a whole kind of melted away and instead you followed your individual school. The Big XII has now rebounded significantly since then (at least in basketball) and it’s starting to get that same kind of brand buzz going again. But still, the days of EVERYBODY at your hypothetical high school all gathering to watch your local conference is probably gone, specifically because “local conferences” don’t really exist anymore.
When I was younger college basketball was a big deal because I live in Razorback country, so the pretty good basketball team was used to cope for the terrible football team. Then as I got older I started watching the NBA and realized I would never be able to enjoy college basketball ever again. To quote Barry Mccockiner, “If I wanted to watch a bunch of kids shoot bricks for 40 minutes, I’d just go to my local YMCA”
When you from a city with no college basketball there’s no reason to watch it 😭. My city has an NBA team and they play better than the best college team so imma watch that
my mom is a UNC alumni and my Dad went to Duke for grad school, I grew up in Raleigh too... and I think we're close to the same age. We mighta gone to the same schools lmao
I haven't watched the NBA in years, I don't watch the NFL anymore and I have lost a lot of my love for college football and college basketball and I truly believe it is because there is just too much content everywhere and too many televised games. It waters everything down and yes, once you work in sports for a while, you get sick of it
I live in Durham North Carolina and my ex-wife's family had season tickets to Duke basketball games. It was an amazing experience for 4 or 5 years watching a future championship Duke team against Maryland and UNC. I kind of lost track of college sports after my divorce though I had been a huge fan of sports my whole life. I keep track of what's going on in college basketball without ever really watching many games. I'm wired kind of weirdly and the tenseness of sporting events makes me feel kind of jumpy and sick to my stomach. Because of that I keep track of sports journalism about basketball more than I keep track of the actual games. I always know who wins the national title and the road they took to get there but other than that I don't participate like I used to.😊
I think a lot of it has to do with the NCAA having a spacing issue so perimeter play is severely hampered. Bringing out the 3 point line to NBA distance could help
I still like college basketball but I a big difference is the best players all seem like they either playing G league, overseas, or OTE. Not as much star power in college compared to 5 years ago
I think as anyone gets older the amount of sports they can pay attention to shrinks. I barely follow any basketball at the moment, but still keep up to date on NFL and MLB, just the way the world goes.
I have to disagree with your take at about the 5 minute mark. It’s easier than ever to see the top players in high school and it’s not difficult at all to figure out who’s actually worth paying attention to. It takes about 30 seconds to check a players rank/scouting report.
I can and will watch any pro sport no matter who's playing, but with college sports I have to be invested in the school - my parents went to Ohio State, I'm a College of Charleston grad, so those are the teams I keep tabs on I was never more into Ohio State sports, even football, than when Greg Oden was balling for the Buckeyes - I caught every game I could, I was obsessed, but after Florida beat them for the title and Oden went to the league it just didn't have the same luster anymore And while I still happily watch College of Charleston ball when I get the chance, pulling for a mid-major isn't the same as pulling for a Power 5 team that will make March Madness even if they don't win their conference, you know? Maybe my thoughts will change if I go to grad school one of these days, like I could end up at UCLA or something and become a Bruin basketball scholar (still a while out from making that decision tho), but college basketball is just a "that's neat! anyways..." type thing for me
Grew up in NC but went to college at a small university out of state. I will watch any college basketball game, anytime, anywhere. If Alcorn State is playing Utah Tech at 5:00 am, I am setting an alarm for 4:30 so I can watch some of the pregame. The NBA just doesn't have nearly the same appeal.
My 3rd grade teacher (who assigned A LOT of homework for that age) told us we'd have a week with no homework if Duke won the National Championship. That was the Christian Laettner, Grant HIll, Bobby Hurley team. My 4th grade teacher said the exact same thing. So by 4th grade Duke basketball had gotten me 2 weeks of no homework. At that age nothing is better. I was hooked for life. Or so I thought. But it's impossible to follow these days. I don't even recognize half the guys on the team. It's not bc I'm too busy. It's bc there is no continuity and you can't get attached to anything or anyone anymore. NCAA needs to fix this immediately or it will really hurt their product. College football may be facing a similar issue with transfers. But it hasn't destroyed the sport the way it has basketball. Wait you dropped Duke for Diamond Stone and Maryland. Unsubbing immediately. Apparently I still care 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
The NBA needs to get rid of the one and done rule and form a legitimate minor league or whatever. Just let the kids who want to be professionals be professionals when they are talented enough, like soccer around the world. 15 year old Lebron James should’ve been on an NBA roster 🤷🏻♂️ Luka was a pro at 16 in Europe. Messi signed to Barca at 14 I think. And then college basketball will be truly student athletes again, not just athletes. I think having college be semi-pro like it is right now is only hurting the sport and these kids If the NHL and MLB (both less popular sports) can have MULTIPLE minor leagues then the NBA could at least have 1 really good minor league, if not more. They would draw way more attention than minor league hockey or baseball and the games are easier to go to because they are shorter usually I believe that this hasn’t been done in basketball or football for real because they are predominantly black sports and society doesn’t care about supporting the non-exceptional black people as much as they do white people. The guy who isn’t good enough for the majors in baseball still gets a salary and a chance whereas basketball players have to go overseas and football players just end up with brain trauma and no money to show for it
I feel you, man. Somehow college hoops has lost much of its excitement in recent years. I still watch it, but it definitely feels like something is missing. Part of me almost doesn't care about basketball, but I still love watching KU hoops and Big 12 hoops. I'm not sure about your NBA argument though. Just imagine the soccer fans who follow multiple European leagues. Somehow it's still easy to follow Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, but I guess it's because those leagues have 20 teams. It's just easy to follow them for some reason.
Im a little older than you,and am from MD. PG County boy. I used to love college hoops. I started to slow down on it when the one and done came to be. When I started watching around 2000 or so,we expected 3-5 guys to jump to the league. That was ok! We only want guys who want to be there. Now with the transfer portal and the NIL,teams not in the conferences they should be in.. My Terps included. It got sort of whack. I still watch,and probably enjoy more than the NBA though. But back like 2000-2005,with the March Madness video games.. College hoops was upper echelon. I never went to UMD either,graduated from Salisbury out on the eastern shore
I don’t actually watch many nba games but am familiar with easily 100+ players due to the coverage it gets by media and social media. I can’t even tell you the starting 5 of my men’s college team it just doesn’t get covered. I even know way way more of our women’s team
What was your favorite era or season of MCBB? Mine was the 07-09 OSU runs. Never made them a football school, but thoroughly enjoyed the runs. Great video concept
I played against Jayson Tatum when he was in high school in some pick up games and that was so much fucking fun. But yeah, even at 15 he was better than anyone I’ve ever played against by a mile
Men’s college basketball is genuinely awful. March Madness is only cool because it’s a single elimination tournament. Overall the basketball being played is pretty bad
i still remember dreading all the shit talk I'd have to endure at school the day after the unc-duke game in 2012 when austin rivers hit the game winner at the buzzer. With all the one and dones, that feeling just doesn't exist any more and that's half of what made college bball so special. The intensity is gone
It just ain’t the same. Duke, Kentucky, MSU, Villanova, UNC. Every year it was awesome. Zion was the last time we may ever see the star power ever again. Just ain’t the same
I feel the exact same way. The NBA has less teams and for the most part the teams stay the same for a few years. In college, the best players will leave after one year and then you have to learn a whole new set of players. It’s too much to keep up with
Yeah one of my favorite aspects of sports is watching teams and players develop. That's non existent in college sports with transfers and one and done
This is why I really like women’s basketball and college football seeing the players develop is very enjoyable. I love watching college football more than NFL because I really like seeing the growth.
Almost all the best college players are still juniors and seniors but the top draft prospects leave after 1-2 years
I think that’s what makes the sport intriguing, especially when your team is well put together bc you know after the season is done the team will never be the same so every game matters and rivalry’s are so much more intense.
@@Jack-jx6ln it depends on the team, as a Purdue fan we prioritize player development because we don't get the top recruits and I've seen backups turn into All-Americans.
I saw an interesting take recently on Twitter, and they said part of the reason college basketball fandom is declining is because of the lack of a video game, beyond the 90s kids the attachment to men’s game is super low, and there’s no means to draw in fandom outside of the on-court product(which is bad currently)
I go to western Carolina and im loving mid-major basketball. Its nice to have no expectations and be pleasantly surprised by a good season
I’ve gotten really into the women’s side of college ball over the last year or two, and I’ve been really enjoying it. Having all of the players stay around for four years really helps since if there’s a good team I like I get to see most of them again the next season instead of the men’s teams where some of a team’s best players leave early and I can’t really get as attached to them as much
I think the biggest shift against college basketball in recent years is that we just have so much more content readily available to us now than we did even 10 years ago. "Keeping up" with college sports used to be your local conference and then for 6 weeks in February-March you would start paying attention to the big conference tournaments and March Madness. Anything beyond that was pretty much impossible. While the availability of games is generally a good thing, too many options is a real issue for fans. I also think you've tapped into a natural issue with staying locked into a sport as you get older and have less time. In high school I could keep up with 3-4 of the top soccer leagues in Europe where now I constantly seeing players in the Premier league for the first time. Don't worry though, my grandparents showed me that once you get to retirement you bounce back and can watch every single game of your team's MLB season if you want to so you can get back to that high level of sports fandom eventually, its just not a thing you can responsibly do in the middle part of life.
Damn bro you summarize that perfectly
I love watching these videos despite not really being into basketball, or really sports in general.
I picked up watching Secret Base to maybe be able to hold a basketball conversation with my coworkers on a new shift, and have absolutely fallen in love with Kofie
give bball a chance! or at least watch a few jxmyhighroller videos. plenty of fun storylines, even if you’re just tryna be casual about it.
@dropandy1453 oh, the storylines SB have covered are fascinating, but my issue is just trying to cram another thing into my life lol
jxmy highroller fell off and he is all about bs narratives @@dropandy1453
@@Robin0928 completely valid homie, jxmy's stuff is usually about 15 minutes but I totally understand. Just another rec of a top tier basketball youtube channel. :)
I worked on the TV crew for sports jobs for a few years. I loved basketball, but I definitely zoned out just like you. I would get home and already forget who won the game
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As someone that doesn’t work in sports this is so relatable. Through high school I was absolutely obsessed with all the big 4 sports in the US and college sports. At the same time I was also an only child of divorce with few friends so I found sports to be my outlet. Then I went to college started to make good friends, graduated and got a job got a girlfriend developed interests outside of sports etc and gradually I started to lose interest in every sport. Now I really only follow my favorite baseball and football team and nothing else, which to me is mainly because of the die hard fandom I got through my family growing up for those teams. Sometimes I try to get back into it all again but there’s honestly just too much going on in life as we get older to keep up with all of it like when we were kids. There’s times I wish I could go back to being a kid again where I could keep up with it all and have banter about it all with friends 24/7 but at the end of the day it’s just a part of growing up
College Basketball has become a three week a year sport for me (I should say I live in Wisconsin and am a UW and Marquette fan...2 consistently top 25 schools)....I can't watch a January college basketball game like I used to.
Grew up in Louisville and my interest in men’s college basketball died with the demise of the old big east. Haven’t watched consistently in years and when I do it’s only in march. WCB is honestly more interesting to me rn
Bro that music... Backyard Sports? Some other sort of Humongous Entertainment game? Absolutely unlocked a deep memory 😂
Outside of the marketing angle, I think a big reason the college game is stagnating is certain coaches/schemes have completely broken it. The Texas Tech and San Diego State’s of the world realized they’re never going to get top recruits, so they deploy a starting lineup of 6’5 to 6’7 tweener wings who try to jump every passing lane and play tight man defense. The ability to play perimeter defense that well is a skill in itself yes, but the poor spacing mostly due to the shorter 3 point line really gives teams trouble. We’ve gone from the Big East 2-3 zone to an all out pressure system due to the lack of elite perimeter talent in the college game
Illinois basketball mentioned!
But yeah as someone who is almost 2 years removed from college I have almost no desire to keep up with any team that isn't my alma mater. I used to read all kinds of articles on a bunch of teams/conferences, follow all kinds of recruits, watch any game on tv but now I'll watch Illinois games and that's about it, and even that's starting to wane.
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Despite what many UA-cam commenters say, women’s basketball is absolutely hype and worth more attention than College men’s ball
what teams should i try to catch?
@@NafizurRahmanawesomeI’ve only really had the chance to watch UCLA women’s growing up but now they are a top ranked team so I’d say them :D
@@NafizurRahmanawesomeobviously Iowa but everyone knows them, I love Virginia Tech a lot, Hannah Hidalgo (freshman!) has been killing it for Notre Dame this year, LSU is obviously good, UCLA is great this year
They are worse at basketball and the people screaming in the stands care about how the women’s game is pushing forward a sociopolitical ideology more than they care about basketball. And im not even opposed to their sociopolitical ideology
Like, at a certain point if you keep going down that rabbit hole youre gonna be driving around to random elementary school basketball games.
The loss of Pitt, Syracuse, Cincinnati, etc. from the big east has been one of the worst decisions for the sport imo
I agree bruh, it’s combo of the one & done era not allowing schools to build teams that fans can actually remember, no exciting young stars coming up anymore, and transfer portal driving seasoned coaches crazy. NCAA can only expect viewership in March from now on sh*t is sad
gamecocks womens basketball is the best thing in my life
I actually just graduated from UNC and I feel the same way I also grew up in the triangle area like you. I grew up a huge UNC fan as well so I went to so many games when I was a student. After you watch an NBA game in person you start to realize like damn the skill gap between the two like damn. It just is different. You see how basketball is supposed to be played. Also when you are separated from your college you have less of a reason to keep up with them
NYC doesn’t have a college basketball team (St Johns hasn’t even made the tournament since the 90’s) so I have no reason to watch that shit tbh. I’ll still make a March madness bracket but idk why I’d watch UNC over a regular season Knicks game against a rebuilding Blazers team
I disagree I think college will always be more pure than the NBA, I say this bc the NBA is all about getting the ball to ur best 2 players and having 3 support players, while college it’s all about the team and the defense is much better aswell.
It happened to me after the Zion RJ reddish duke team after they didn’t win the ship that year I had no care to watch college bball now more 😂
I grew up in Chapel Hill, in the heart of the ACC, and College sports literally were a foundational part of who you were. I loved and followed sports with a passion and then in college decided to try and work in sports. Worked in Sports media for three years and found out pretty quickly that the second it became a job I lost most of my passion. Something about having to watch EVERY SINGLE game really burns you out. it's been a few years since then and I still love sports but now am way more selective about what I follow and how intensely I follow it. Had a similar thing happen to me but with the NBA. I just stick to CFB, CBB, and the NFL now.
I think NIL is good for the game and actively improves the college level because talent is more inclined to stick around - but now the constant transferring and constant complete overhauls of college rosters has started to really effect my enjoyment of CBB. When I cant even keep track of who is on my own P5 university bball team because 3/4 of the team transfers every offseason it really takes away a lot of what makes collegiate athletics so special.
this video is so quiet lmao
Kofie’s videos are usually weird with the audio. Sometimes the background music is too loud, sometimes he is too quiet.
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Why I love Kofies vids, feels like someone is just having a convo with me rather then yelling at me
Turn up your volume
The one and dones have hurt collage basketball tbh. It's part of the reason why it's so much harder to follow when the rosters turn over every year. Like people like to shit on the women's game, but I know who Catlin Clark is, and I know she makes Iowa good. I have no idea who the number one star in the country will be next season or who he will play for in the men's game. NBA, you've got your Gannis, your Luka, your Jokic, your Bron, your Tatum. Names and faces a fan base can attach themselves, too. Rivalries build on the same guys, having played against each other for years. Like the fans of UNC and Duke still hate their rivals with a passion but the star players really don't have an attachment or a history with these teams, it's just a pit stop before they go pro.
College Basketball is the only sport I'm really interested in throughout the season. I don't really watch much NFL outside of the Colts and it's hard to get into CFB knowing my team has very little chance of doing anything relevant outside of the occasional upset. I never got to watch the Big Ten Tournament in a theatre, but I had a similar experience growing up in Indiana as a Purdue fan. I'm just not really interested in the NBA style of play (I prefer half court basketball and more of a balance between offense and defense and I'm not saying the NBA doesn't play defense, its just they are far ahead offensively compare to defensively) and its hard to find any menaing in any regular season game because there's so many and over half the teams make the playoffs. The NBA also doesn't have the rivalries that college basketball does, and while the amount of information to follow can be daunting I got bored with the NBA and felt like I already know about everything (or at least everything I would care to know about) about what was going on in the league. There's certainly know requirement to know everything and nobody does. If you want to focus on a particular conference you could probably learn almost every rotation player pretty good by the end of the season just by watching 3-4 games a week. When I started watching around 2015 I only knew the most popular guys like Perry Ellis, Frank Kaminsky, Malcolm Brogdon and Jahlil Okafor as well as several Purdue players, but by my 4th year of watching i knew most power 6 starters and the best mid major players. Yeah the rosters change but it keeps things fresh. Sorry for all this rambling on, but I just feel really passionate about the sport, and feel compelled to explain why I like it.
Interesting perspective! I also grew up in North Carolina and am very aware of the culture there, growing up in Durham pretty much EVERYBODY you spoke to had a rooting interest in Duke or UNC, and it’s something that’s stuck with me personally. I try to keep up with all the local teams, professional and collegiate, but as someone who loves basketball, I get a lot more out of keeping up with the Tar Heels than I do the Hornets, because it’s a much more successful program, and there aren’t as many games to watch throughout the season. Of course, you might think simply picking another NBA team would solve this issue, but again being from an area that cares so deeply about local sports teams, it’s pretty much impossible for me to care about any team outside of NC.
it'd be pretty cool to just see a video from you going over what teams you currently like and what sports you're actively following. i didn't even know you were interested in hockey until the charlotte bobcats video (and seeing you sound the horn at the canes game was so sick btw). i'd love to hear your insight on all that
God, Humongous games had such banger music istg. Love the vids Kofie
I like the continuity of the pro leagues. College necessarily has just constant turnover, it just becomes a blur of players over the years.
It’s wild how both Kofie & Clara work at Secret Base & went to Maryland
Another reason that the NBA is easier to follow is that the notable players are far more consistent. In college, after 4 years every player is new, but in the NBA, LeBron's been a star for 20 years. You can stop paying attention for 5 years and then come back and still recognize tons of players.
That's always been the case in college sports, it's not like anything has changed. There will always be turnover in college sports. Yet, people still watch college sports. So, why do people still watch college sports then?
@@Montfortracing I agree, nothing has changed. I just meant that one of the reasons that I think it's easier to be a casual/intermittent fan of professional sports is the lack of turnover. And I don't think this is new, I think it's a long-term thing.
And why do people follow college sports? Because college sports are wonderful of course! I just think that the turnover makes it a little harder to follow casually.
Old Hoopmixtapes and Ballislife tapes used to make it easy to get a sense of what a guy's play style was like. I remember always watching tapes of Marcus LoVett, Dennis Smith, Aquille Carr, Seventh Woods, Trae Jefferson etc. And now when I look up a recruit, I gotta go through a 20 minute film session and it makes me less interested.
My problems with college basketball are that 1. only three games in the regular season seem to matter. A smaller university can have a great regular season but get upset in the conference tournament and your season is pretty much over because the selection committee never paid attention to your games. To make matters worse, games are being played on Selection Sunday, so said team will get snubbed in favor of a team that played .500 ball in the regular season but got hot and made the tournament final but didn't win. It's unfair to see a mid-major only have one team make it but a major get 10-11 teams.
2. The same teams win every year. March Madness can be exciting...for the first two rounds. After the Sweet Sixteen starts, you can basically predict the winner based on past success, which team has the most five-star recruits, and whether or not they wear blue (I am serious on the last one, the NCAA basketball champs more often than not wear blue).
As a NC native, growing up in Raleigh myself…I used to LOVE watching College Basketball from when I was about six or seven until about 2018…Nowadays, I watch only March Madness. I don’t even watch the NBA anymore - except the Postseason. The only College team I consistently keep up with is my Alma mater - North Carolina Central (not in the upper echelon of D1). Back then, I kept up with just about every player and game. Now, I feel like I’m not missing it.
Personally, I find college basketball is so fun because of how many teams are out there. You'll never get your eyes on all of it. I watch the Big 10 and sometimes I'll catch a Pac-12/Mountain West matchup if I'm not that tired heading into the nightcap. With pro sports, i sometimes feel like I should try and get my eyes on every team since there are so few, and that exhausts me
I hope the MW can get 5+ bids this year
I'm a UNC fan and I still love college basketball, honestly way more than the NBA. It's so much less predictable and just fun to watch for me.
I have similar feelings not just for college basketball but for college sports in general. It has nothing to with NIL or the transfer portal. It’s more about all the conference realignment and the exposure of the hypocrisy in college sports.
Those that run the NCAA have been saying for years that college athletics isn’t professional athletics. Yet they’re letting these tv networks pay them hundreds of millions(or billions in the Big Ten’s case) dollars to broadcast their sports.
They say academics come first but if that were the case why will the ACC starting next year have schools in California and Texas when a majority of their schools are on the Atlantic coast? Wouldn’t that cut into study time?
I still like college sports but if I had to choose between college sports and professional sports I’m going with the pros. At least I know my favorite pro sports team has a better chance at winning a championship than my Alma mater😄And the pros are the best of the best in the world.
My fifth grade teacher Mrs. lovin in Knoxville let me watch the Duke Miami ACC tournament game in 2005-2006 during class. It was one of my favorite memories.
I still love college football cause among many other reasons, guys are there 3 years at least, but you’re right college hoops just isn’t the same as it was even mid last decade, with ignite/ot elite and just the sheer turnover of players man it’s hard to keep up when you already so deep into other sports.
that’s how i feel about the nba. honestly that’s how i feel about basketball in general. not sure why.
I feel like ever since G league ignite OTE and international play has gotten so popular its just no where near as many stars as there were
I can only watch so much plucky grind it out team basketball
@@matthewjefferson9797that’s part of the fun of college ball for me, I like seeing a bunch of dudes that have no chance of playing big time pro ball fighting for their lives to get a win for their school, but I can definitely see why people wouldn’t want to see that all the time
Never in my life have I even liked college basketball. Don't know why! It's definitely not a big deal in Texas where I grew up, so that's certainly a factor. I was aware of the fact that pros are paid but college players weren't, and that felt weird. Plus so many guys who made it to the NBA ended up not living up to a fraction of their projections and that cycle got exhausting to me. Keeping up with what could be is a lot more tiring than keeping up with what is, and that's really I think the biggest point of friction is for me.
I’m from NYC so there’s no reason to watch college sports as a whole since our only program hasn’t even made the tournament since the 90’s. Closest thing we had to college sports here was St Peter’s. We always got random February Knick games against the Terry Rozier led Hornets tho 😭
@@itzlucaaa6789 BINGO
We have professional sports, so there's no reason why I should watch.
When I went to school at Buffalo, I kinda became invested. But, once I left...I went back to my Yankees and Brooklyn Nets...there's no other reason why I would watch.
Last time CBB felt big was in 2010 with Duke-Butler. Remember CBB used to dominate ESPN coverage especially in the AM eating breakfast before school.
The backyard baseball music hitting so hard
i feel like when it comes to college basketball, nobody really cares till the tournament unless u ride or die for a certain program. I dont care about it anymore cause UC & Xavier aint been worth a damn since i was a lil kid lol
As someone who was born and raised in North Carolina and recently graduated college, I could not have said this any better. I didn’t even know I thought this
the part about the change in hoopmixtape/ballislife is a big part of why its become hard to follow for me. not to mention guys going to ote, g-league ignite, overseas, etc. instead of all the best players going to college like it was when I was growing up.
I find that it's a lot easier to follow sports by watching podcasts discussing the season rather than actually watching ALL the games. My mental bandwidth for watching games is like 50 MLB games, but I'll listen to hours and hours of NFL and NBA podcasts. It's weird.
The backyard background music is 🔥🔥
loved the video cuz it speaks sum truth on how colleges sports just eventually gets too big to follow but i’m also a huge maryland too so it was tuff to u hear u talk abt the melo trimble days 🥹
Shoutout to the Backyard Sports background music.
Doubt you’ll remember but this video got recommended for me. We were at NC state basketball camp together for a few summers (cant remember the exact year but I had to be around 9 or 10 years old). Hope all is well and keep doing your thing with UA-cam. Peace
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I wish the NCAA/NBA would go to the baseball rule, if you go to college you have to stay 3 years at least. And put the college players back in the Olympics even though they'll never win.
I’ve fallen in love with it again but it probaly helps that my schools has been good again.
I realize I’m very late to the party and no one will read this, but I think a large chunk of people falling out of love with MCBB is due to a lack of conference cohesion. In the video you mentioned going to a theater in high school just to watch the ACC tournament. I grew up in Big XII country through high school and I remember having a very similar experience. But when regional rivals like Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, all left and were replaced by schools like TCU and West Virginia, all of a sudden “Big XII basketball” as a thing you watched as a whole kind of melted away and instead you followed your individual school. The Big XII has now rebounded significantly since then (at least in basketball) and it’s starting to get that same kind of brand buzz going again. But still, the days of EVERYBODY at your hypothetical high school all gathering to watch your local conference is probably gone, specifically because “local conferences” don’t really exist anymore.
When I was younger college basketball was a big deal because I live in Razorback country, so the pretty good basketball team was used to cope for the terrible football team. Then as I got older I started watching the NBA and realized I would never be able to enjoy college basketball ever again. To quote Barry Mccockiner, “If I wanted to watch a bunch of kids shoot bricks for 40 minutes, I’d just go to my local YMCA”
When you from a city with no college basketball there’s no reason to watch it 😭. My city has an NBA team and they play better than the best college team so imma watch that
my mom is a UNC alumni and my Dad went to Duke for grad school, I grew up in Raleigh too... and I think we're close to the same age. We mighta gone to the same schools lmao
I haven't watched the NBA in years, I don't watch the NFL anymore and I have lost a lot of my love for college football and college basketball and I truly believe it is because there is just too much content everywhere and too many televised games. It waters everything down and yes, once you work in sports for a while, you get sick of it
I live in Durham North Carolina and my ex-wife's family had season tickets to Duke basketball games. It was an amazing experience for 4 or 5 years watching a future championship Duke team against Maryland and UNC. I kind of lost track of college sports after my divorce though I had been a huge fan of sports my whole life. I keep track of what's going on in college basketball without ever really watching many games. I'm wired kind of weirdly and the tenseness of sporting events makes me feel kind of jumpy and sick to my stomach. Because of that I keep track of sports journalism about basketball more than I keep track of the actual games. I always know who wins the national title and the road they took to get there but other than that I don't participate like I used to.😊
That Melo Trimble, Diamond Stone roster was definitely tough
That school trip sounds SO lit
Funny how Rasheed Sulaimon went from Duke to Maryland. I hadn’t realized they were rival schools.
I think a lot of it has to do with the NCAA having a spacing issue so perimeter play is severely hampered. Bringing out the 3 point line to NBA distance could help
I still like college basketball but I a big difference is the best players all seem like they either playing G league, overseas, or OTE. Not as much star power in college compared to 5 years ago
6:35 this is so real, alot of ppl like say "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" but I've personally found that to not be true
Melo Trimble was so fun to watch at UMD
Damn you've improved a LOT in 5 months
I remember those Cole Anthony mixtapes
I think as anyone gets older the amount of sports they can pay attention to shrinks. I barely follow any basketball at the moment, but still keep up to date on NFL and MLB, just the way the world goes.
I was a college basketball coach for 8 years. I couldn't watch basketball for 3 years after I was out.
also work in sports media, i feel exactly the same
That Backyard Baseball menu music tho
The 1 & Done’s killed it in my opinion
I have to disagree with your take at about the 5 minute mark. It’s easier than ever to see the top players in high school and it’s not difficult at all to figure out who’s actually worth paying attention to. It takes about 30 seconds to check a players rank/scouting report.
I can and will watch any pro sport no matter who's playing, but with college sports I have to be invested in the school - my parents went to Ohio State, I'm a College of Charleston grad, so those are the teams I keep tabs on
I was never more into Ohio State sports, even football, than when Greg Oden was balling for the Buckeyes - I caught every game I could, I was obsessed, but after Florida beat them for the title and Oden went to the league it just didn't have the same luster anymore
And while I still happily watch College of Charleston ball when I get the chance, pulling for a mid-major isn't the same as pulling for a Power 5 team that will make March Madness even if they don't win their conference, you know? Maybe my thoughts will change if I go to grad school one of these days, like I could end up at UCLA or something and become a Bruin basketball scholar (still a while out from making that decision tho), but college basketball is just a "that's neat! anyways..." type thing for me
Grew up in NC but went to college at a small university out of state. I will watch any college basketball game, anytime, anywhere. If Alcorn State is playing Utah Tech at 5:00 am, I am setting an alarm for 4:30 so I can watch some of the pregame. The NBA just doesn't have nearly the same appeal.
I feel the exact same way
Being in San Diego where the 3 D1 basketball teams are mid major schools, I'll always prefer watching them. I love the mid majors
Love the videos. Make the mic volume slightly louder though.
Seeing the Ravenscroft colors in the background triggered me
You are the man Kofie
How are you a fan of pistons and Bengals but from NC?
My 3rd grade teacher (who assigned A LOT of homework for that age) told us we'd have a week with no homework if Duke won the National Championship. That was the Christian Laettner, Grant HIll, Bobby Hurley team. My 4th grade teacher said the exact same thing. So by 4th grade Duke basketball had gotten me 2 weeks of no homework. At that age nothing is better. I was hooked for life. Or so I thought. But it's impossible to follow these days. I don't even recognize half the guys on the team. It's not bc I'm too busy. It's bc there is no continuity and you can't get attached to anything or anyone anymore. NCAA needs to fix this immediately or it will really hurt their product. College football may be facing a similar issue with transfers. But it hasn't destroyed the sport the way it has basketball.
Wait you dropped Duke for Diamond Stone and Maryland. Unsubbing immediately. Apparently I still care 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
The NBA needs to get rid of the one and done rule and form a legitimate minor league or whatever. Just let the kids who want to be professionals be professionals when they are talented enough, like soccer around the world. 15 year old Lebron James should’ve been on an NBA roster 🤷🏻♂️ Luka was a pro at 16 in Europe. Messi signed to Barca at 14 I think. And then college basketball will be truly student athletes again, not just athletes. I think having college be semi-pro like it is right now is only hurting the sport and these kids
If the NHL and MLB (both less popular sports) can have MULTIPLE minor leagues then the NBA could at least have 1 really good minor league, if not more. They would draw way more attention than minor league hockey or baseball and the games are easier to go to because they are shorter usually
I believe that this hasn’t been done in basketball or football for real because they are predominantly black sports and society doesn’t care about supporting the non-exceptional black people as much as they do white people. The guy who isn’t good enough for the majors in baseball still gets a salary and a chance whereas basketball players have to go overseas and football players just end up with brain trauma and no money to show for it
College sports in general for me
Is that backyard baseball music in the background
I feel you, man. Somehow college hoops has lost much of its excitement in recent years. I still watch it, but it definitely feels like something is missing. Part of me almost doesn't care about basketball, but I still love watching KU hoops and Big 12 hoops. I'm not sure about your NBA argument though. Just imagine the soccer fans who follow multiple European leagues. Somehow it's still easy to follow Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, but I guess it's because those leagues have 20 teams. It's just easy to follow them for some reason.
Im a little older than you,and am from MD. PG County boy. I used to love college hoops. I started to slow down on it when the one and done came to be. When I started watching around 2000 or so,we expected 3-5 guys to jump to the league. That was ok! We only want guys who want to be there. Now with the transfer portal and the NIL,teams not in the conferences they should be in.. My Terps included. It got sort of whack. I still watch,and probably enjoy more than the NBA though. But back like 2000-2005,with the March Madness video games.. College hoops was upper echelon. I never went to UMD either,graduated from Salisbury out on the eastern shore
9:56 of my life I’ll never get back.
I think the biggest problem is there aren’t many if any superstars anymore
I don’t actually watch many nba games but am familiar with easily 100+ players due to the coverage it gets by media and social media. I can’t even tell you the starting 5 of my men’s college team it just doesn’t get covered. I even know way way more of our women’s team
What was your favorite era or season of MCBB? Mine was the 07-09 OSU runs. Never made them a football school, but thoroughly enjoyed the runs. Great video concept
Siena!!
@@GrubWarp absolutely great game !
Been watching for awhile now and I never knew you were from Raleigh and I live in Raleigh🤣🤣🤣
Same
out of curiosity what did you major in?
love the new videos! big SB fan
Sports Journalism
I played against Jayson Tatum when he was in high school in some pick up games and that was so much fucking fun. But yeah, even at 15 he was better than anyone I’ve ever played against by a mile
Is that backyard baseball in the back i hear?
Men’s college basketball is genuinely awful. March Madness is only cool because it’s a single elimination tournament. Overall the basketball being played is pretty bad
i still remember dreading all the shit talk I'd have to endure at school the day after the unc-duke game in 2012 when austin rivers hit the game winner at the buzzer. With all the one and dones, that feeling just doesn't exist any more and that's half of what made college bball so special. The intensity is gone
How can we get less one and dones?
I’ll never watch a regular season game, but if Wright State or Dayton make it to the tournament I’ll watch
it's not even a job for me,and i get tired of it
I know what is meant by transfer portal but man I love the name.
It just ain’t the same. Duke, Kentucky, MSU, Villanova, UNC. Every year it was awesome. Zion was the last time we may ever see the star power ever again. Just ain’t the same