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[tim]

Look affirm, I’m just telling it like it is. But maybe I’m wrong. Where are these areas where soccer is preferred over football and basketball? OK Asheville, maybe, but it’s too weird to count.

I didn’t say soccer is a bad sport. I just said that people in our region prefer other sports because they do! So if your student body is made up of people who’d rather watch soccer than football, that indicates that said student body is not representative of our region AT ALL.

Now some people cheer that on apparently thinking that Southern public schoolers are too dumb for Furman. I was pointing out that in my area, the miniscule number who go to Furman while very bright, are not the best of the best (like it used to be). I’m in the schools every day and I’m pretty up on the class rankings. Our best are going to Alabama after aggressive recruiting. Most of the rest of the best go to Clemson. A couple of legacy types go to Wofford. Every now and then one or two go to Furman. I shouldn’t have mentioned the oddness.

This all bugs me because I feel like I have a special connection to the place. Two brothers and my father went there. Five aunts went to FU or the women’s college. Richard Furman officiated my 4th great great grandfather’s wedding. They married sisters. But now this school named for a Revolutionary Baptist preacher from the High Hills of the Santee has been turned into an agnostic Yankee finishing school! And they like soccer more than football!!!!! That’s messed up.

Thank God Furman is no longer affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Have you kept up with the shenanigans going on there? Also, the student body has not been representative of our region in a long time, which is not all bad.

Funny thing to thank God for. There are no shenanigans in the Southern Baptist Convention. The messengers don't meet in convention until Tuesday in Nashville. Is Furman a better school after leaving that affiliation? The answer will always be a matter of opinion.

[Furmanoid]

What is the average attendance at an FU soccer game?

Men’s - 215/game in most recent season
Women’s - 149/game in most recent season

OK, any favorite sports survey is irrelevant considering those low numbers and the fact that not all those are students. May as well ask their favorite color of Jellybean.

Better steer clear of that jellybean survey for obvious reasons.

[Louis Tully]

Don't discount the popularity of Soccer and the way it is growing around here. Drive by the MESA complex pretty much any Saturday or Sunday. It is usually packed to the rim.

[Roundball]

Don't discount the popularity of Soccer and the way it is growing around here. Drive by the MESA complex pretty much any Saturday or Sunday. It is usually packed to the rim.

Greenville is hosting a huge number of players and families next weekend for the regionals. Like it or not, soccer is the sport of our youth. https://www.usyouthsoccer.org/south/sou ... pionships/

[Davemeister]

Shouldn't this be posted in the "Soccer" Forum? Come to think of it, why do we still have a "Baseball" Forum?

[apaladin]

Soccer is popular because anyone can play. If you are in shape and can run you can play soccer. No skills are necessary as in other sports.

[FU3]

No Skill ?!?? Apaladin has out done himself and that is no easy task.

[Furmanoid]

Soccer is popular with kids now because their mothers won’t let them play football as they are unable to comprehend concussion statistics. Even so, most soccer kids I know don’t get too excited about watching it. They’d rather watch football. Mom will let them do that. The rest of the world is stuck with soccer because they don’t have good sports. Just another reason why they all wish they were us.

[Sad Din]

Suddenly and without provocation folks have decided to show their ignorance...

SD thought he was the only one to do so. Join the club folks!

[Furmanoid]

Yeah, I felt like I was a little over the top with that last one. But rereading it, about the only thing I would change is maybe the last couple of words. Where am I wrong with it? Do kids really watch soccer? (Video games don’t count. Everybody lays FIFA). Where is the evidence that they do?

[Sad Din]

Yeah, I felt like I was a little over the top with that last one. But rereading it, about the only thing I would change is maybe the last couple of words. Where am I wrong with it? Do kids really watch soccer? (Video games don’t count. Everybody lays FIFA). Where is the evidence that they do?

IDK.. maybe the part about the rest of the world?

[Roundball]

Yeah, I felt like I was a little over the top with that last one. But rereading it, about the only thing I would change is maybe the last couple of words. Where am I wrong with it? Do kids really watch soccer? (Video games don’t count. Everybody lays FIFA). Where is the evidence that they do?

Kids don’t watch any sport on tv. They want and need instant gratification. Watching a sport for a few hours on tv is not going to happen. Here is an article from 2013. It has only gotten worse since then. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424 ... 2218839786

This is a few years old too, but is still a good one that shows the average age of those watching sports on tv keeps going up. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-s ... 2017-06-30

[FUBeAR]

like it or not, soccer is the sport of our youth.

Yeah - been hearing this for 50 years.

Kyle Rote Jr., son of an NFL Star Player, was the breakthrough Soccer player who clearly demonstrated that the USA was on the veritable cusp of turning their backs on Football, Basketball, and Baseball to join the rest of the world, as Kyle Jr. had on his Father’s game, in their unbridled love for only “real football”…in 1973.

I’ll wait.

BTW - FUBeAR loved PLAYING Soccer as a cub. Those top Players (the ones that don’t spend most of their time rolling around faking injuries) are amazing athletes. That said, the fake injury crap ruins the game and, unfortunately, has made its way into ‘our’ sports (lookin’ @ you LBJ); personally, I have no interest in watching it as a spectator sport (to each his/her own though - 10 hour videos of paint drying have almost 1M views, y’know); and Players don’t ‘run constantly for 90 minutes’ as they/fans like to claim - lots of standing around & slow jogging during those 90 minutes.

[Furmanoid]

Yeah, I felt like I was a little over the top with that last one. But rereading it, about the only thing I would change is maybe the last couple of words. Where am I wrong with it? Do kids really watch soccer? (Video games don’t count. Everybody lays FIFA). Where is the evidence that they do?

Kids don’t watch any sport on tv. They want and need instant gratification. Watching a sport for a few hours on tv is not going to happen. Here is an article from 2013. It has only gotten worse since then. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424 ... 2218839786

This is a few years old too, but is still a good one that shows the average age of those watching sports on tv keeps going up. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-s ... 2017-06-30

Thinking back, I didn’t watch that many games all the way through when I was a kid. I’d watch some, get restless and go outside to play something. My point was that playing a game in your youth doesn’t mean you’re gonna like to watch it later on. I was a tennis player. I can watch about 2 minutes of pro tennis. But in old manhood I can watch hours of football (have considered using a catheter for Redzone).

Anyway, I’m now persuaded that the surveying showing that our students are soccer fans was spurious. I feel better now.

[Sad Din]

Going back to original post, anyone know if in fact Latham Stadium will become a lax field and if anything is being done to it?