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u/HokiesforTSwift Virginia Tech • Transfer Portal Apr 28 '26
I am going to provide my arguments against highlights as standalone posts. I do not have the ability to materially impact whether or not this gets implemented, but as a long time member of this sub before I became a mod, I do want to share my opinion on the matter.
There are simply too many games on a Saturday. This makes it materially different from every professional sports sub being referenced, and even if you consider that most G6/FCS highlights will not be posted, consider there are still ~70 P4/ND teams. The only sub to which this is similar is r/soccer, but there are more TD's per game on average than goals per match. We will return to r/soccer as an example later.
Highlights will be dominated by the biggest fanbases: Ohio State, Michigan, etc.
LOWLIGHTS are what will end up being posted constantly. These are obviously centered around dunking/meme'ing/circlejerking against your most hated teams. The biggest fanbases will be having highlight/lowlight wars every Saturday. This has become a huge problem on r/soccer. The largest fanbases completely dominate this space as if they are engaging in some kind of online war. It has materially degraded the quality of discussion across the whole sub. The Daily Discussion is basically the only place left where you can actually discuss the sport beyond twitter level dunk/circlejerk discourse. Once you allow the sub to be dominated by this kind of tribal circlejerk/twitter level discourse, we will likely not be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
Highlights of controversial calls. Again, another thing that will drive discourse towards rage and circlejerking against teams they hate/for their own team.
To return to point two: Are you ready to see every juke, big hit, long pass, third down conversion and TD posted for every top teams games? Because that is what the sub will primarily be on gameday. Again, we need to understand that a few fanbases are going to be the primary posters and they will dominate on volume.