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Traina Thoughts: Northwestern's Pat Fitzgerald Thinks People Don't Go To College Football Games Because of Smartphones

1. In one of the more "get off my lawn" rants you'll ever see, Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald somehow blamed smartphones for the decline in college football attendance.

"I think phones, I think technology has been the decline in attendance,' said Fitzgerald in a sentence that didn't exactly make total sense on Friday.

He later added that fans would, "rather have 12 TVs set up in their TV watching cave than go to a game and experience the pagenatry and tailgating."

Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald puts NCAA football's attendance problem and really society's eventual downfall in perspective:

Phones.