I totally don’t agree here.
As one example, Jamar Wall of the Stampeders, who played at Alabama in college, once commented to a reporter along the lines that nobody who is cheering for Alabama or in the SEC in general.
I will say, having lived in SEC country for three years of my adult life to see the mentality on the ground and having grown up in the Midwest, that this perspective is also dominant for the Big Ten and other schools in the Midwest as well.
Once players move on to play in any league other than the NFL, nobody cares, including definitely the alumni, who are always onto the current college team.
Now it’s not that a small few like me would not want to see certain players from certain schools do well in the CFL, but at this point, for me as a fan, my interest in that player has ZERO to do with where they went to school, for their pro college football is “glory days gone by.”
I think it’s helpful to indicate where a player went to school more prominent in graphics, but I don’t agree at all that this piece of data is going to draw more interest from fans than can other marketing for the CFL, including here in the US a better promotion by currently CBS (which is now at the tail end of a large media merger set to complete this summer such that much is of lower priority this year, including the last year of the agreement with the CFL).