I love sports. Sports of all kinds. Love playing them, love watching them, love coaching them. However over the past 2 years I have come to the conclusion that as a spectator, I enjoy college sports a lot more than Pro Sports. Now don't get me wrong, the pro game especially during playoff time is exciting, but it seems like there are the haves and have nots. In college sports there is so much parity and on any given day anything can happen. It also seems like the kids play with a much stronger sense of urgency in college then they do as professionals. Plus at the end of the day you know a majority of these kids are gonna go pro in something else other than sports, and thats what makes the college game so much fun. I can't wait to watch this final 4 tonight What do you guys/gals like better?

College is better. You don't have guys half-assing it, because they're still chasing the dream of going pro.

College....for the PASSION alone!!

College for sure!! Sometimes its just nicer to watch sports being played as though they're fun to play, not always like its a job....

College all the way

Pros >>>>> college

Nothing matches the intensity of the NBA/NFL playoffs. Give me a 7-game Phoenix/Dallas series or Colts/Patriots AFC Championship anyday. When you watch those, it's obvious these cats don't do just "for the dollar". And why do fans have this silly notion about athletes and money anyway? They generate tons of income, put tremendous strain on their bodies(look at old football players) - why shouldn't they get all they can? They're no different than rock/movie stars, and should be paid as such. Everybody wants to get paid, but athletes are supposed to be better than the rest of us - nonsense.


My beef with college sports is the hypocrisy of the NCAA. Let's tell it like it is - many of these "kids" aren't student-athletes, they're hired mercenaries/semi-pros. Even Bobby Knight said so, and I can't stand him. The romance of college sports is a myth, IMO. Once TV(and those phat network contracts) got involved, college sports(specifically football & basketball) became a big-time, cold-hearted, bottom-line business. Look at the graduation rates of some of the Sweet 16 teams and the classes the kids(that the NCAA cares about so much) take. I'm so tired of the NCAA shills(like Vitale & Packer) whining about kids(many from poor backgrounds) going for pro dollars, while they're getting paid off this tournament. Screw the NCAA.

Just can't get into college ball -- especially hoops -- no matter how hard I try.

(and I usually don't.)

College.

I like both, there's good and evil in both.. here in Texas high school football may beat them both.."go figure".

Nothing on earth beats the intensity of watch professional sports on television, especially during playoff and championship games. The angles you can watch on TV, plus the insights with replay and really good color commentary makes the games something to really get into. However, watching pro games live is another matter. I've been to dozens of baseball games, a few pro basketball games, and even one regular season NFL game, and while the thrill of watching your favorite team live can be a big reason to go to the stadium, the games themselves usually don't live up to the hype. A lot of the baseball games I've been to had more action going on in the stands then on the field, and watching construction crews building a road has been more exciting at times. NBA games are a little bit better, but during the regular season, especially early on, a few teams are just going through the motions and saving their best play for just before the playoffs when the games really matter. As for the one NFL game I went to, I was at least fortunate enough to see it while the weather was still relatively warm, but how many people really want to watch an NFL football game in December when it is snowing and your team has no shot at the playoffs?

As for college games, the best way to watch them is to see it live. Not that the TV coverage is horrible or anything like that (it usually is decent), but the whole thrill of college sports is the atmosphere. Especially seeing the tailgating parties before the game, seeing thousands of fans for each school getting down before the game, seeing the cheerleaders and marching bands, and also seeing the players giving everything they've got to win games. While I absolutely agree with one of the posters that many of the athletes are basically semi-pro interns for the universities, most of the college athletes have no shot of ever playing professional sports, so this is their big moment to shine. Sure. some of the players at the major universities go to college as a way stop to the NFL or NBA, but you can't say that the college athletes at "Podunk University" are there for future NFL or NBA glory.

And then you have the non-marquee college sports like baseball, track, swimming, women's basketball, soccer, lacrosse, and hockey. Even if some college athletes excel in these sports, most of them aren't going to go pro, and even if they did, they are going to end up in the minor leagues for years working for peanuts and hoping for their big shot into the major leagues of baseball or hockey, or they are going to toil in obscurity for some pro sport that barely can get a few hundred people to actually pay to watch it. Or in the case of those college athletes with Olympic aspirations, they will struggle to land sponsors to keep their Olympic dreams alive unless they are world class athletes.