There are many things that people care about and take serious. The most serious thing would have to be people’s sports teams. How many videos out there in the world do you see when fans go crazy if there team loses? How bad of a mood they will be in until there team wins again. Or even the other way around, if your team wins your on cloud nine and it makes your hole week.  That’s why I feel like social media is so important because for one it doesn’t matter where you are at in the world you can always watch and hear about your favorite team or players just by your phone. Social media has changed the world. Expessually the sports world. One of the biggest things today that fans are involved in is called fantasy football. Fantasy football is the closest you get to being a coach. Not only do you get to be a coach but you get to draft and pick the players that are on your team.  So basically you take your favorite players or the players you think will do the best in the up coming season and make a team. Each week you look up and keep track of how well those players did and then you are able to see other teams in relationship with your team.  Hundreds of thousands of fans will participate each year. There are actually different leagues that you can join and earn money if your team ends up having the better record or most points at the end of the season. Its amazing to see how people can come up with things like this in order to keep people involved. Its also a good marketing strategy because it gets people more involved in players and in the team.

So now that we have classified why the social media is so important for the fans lets talk about why its so important for the players. Some people think that because of social media as in twitter, Facebook and insta that it get the players in trouble. Then others say that they like it because they get to follow some of their favorite athletes. There are some athletes that will literally let you in there day to day life. Let’s take LeBron James for instance. He will po as if they are even that much closer to him.st things on his fan page or to the people that are following him about his day or things that have happened with his family. Which makes a connection to the fan and the athlete.  Some athletes actually take it to the next level and respond to comments or questions that the fan might have. I find that to be really cool because not a lot of people do that. On the down side social media will also get you in trouble. Because there are so many people out there following you have to be careful what you say. Because if you say the wrong things you will be scolded for it.

                                                      NCAA playoffs.

The FCS has had playoffs for a really long time. This is the first year that the FBS has decided to have playoffs as well. It’s a good idea to have playoffs because that way you are able to have the two best teams play each other in the rose bowl. Before there would be teams in different conferences with the same record but would not get the opportunity to play because of the fact that they were in a different conference. So the NCAA decided to make it so that the 4 best teams in college football will be able to play each other no matter if the are in the pac 10 or even an independent conference. They will take the best records of each team and make a bracket. Those teams will play each other and the winner takes all. The question is why did it take so long for them to switch to playoffs in the first place?

            Bowl games are huge in college football  because that’s where all the money is. So they thought that if they did playoffs that they wouldn’t have enough bowl games and fans would not want to go as bad anymore. But they are finding out that it will be the opposite. Because of this teams that have never played each other before will finally get to play. Every year there are two big bowl games and every year people ask the same question. What if this undefeated team played this undefeated team who would win? And because of how everything was played out the would never have the opportunity to see who the best college football team in the world is.  The fact that they are now having the best teams and the best record teams play each other will make it so much more exciting for the fans. And to be honest its all about the fans and the reaction they will get out of this. They did a vote to see if its something the fans would want to happen and 90 percent of them said it would be a good idea.

            I also find this a good idea because being a player in the FCS it is really hard to make it to playoffs in the first place. Then once you do you have to keep beating out teams one after another just to make it to the championship game. The FBS championship is a 2 game playoff. You take the top 4 teams with the best record. After that you take the two teams that have won and that will be the national championship game. I find this to be very exciting because this has been talked about for years and it is finally happening. From a fan stand point I wont be able to say well my team would have beat your team anymore. Because this gives each of the best four teams to play each other. Cant wait for the national championship game!