I don't disagree at all. But once college starting charging high ticket prices, building luxury suites, paying multi-million coaching salaries, constantly building/rebuilding facilities in a never-ending "arms race" and signing massive media rights deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to a billion dollars, the "scholastic extracurricular" aspect of the sport gave way to what it has been for a few decades now...a multi-million/billion dollar entertainment business masquerading as "amature sports"

Much of the tradition and pageantry that made college sports what it has long been is ending. The question will be how long does it take fans to get past the nostalgia aspect of the sport and accept the new reality? It won't be immediately. It will probably take a few generations of the new reality to do so. But what WE current know and love about college sports is coming to and end.

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Posted by PowerTool

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Posted on 7/7/22 at 5:04 pm to Alt26

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building luxury suites, paying multi-million coaching salaries, constantly building/rebuilding facilities in a never-ending "arms race"

The facilities arms race is the biggest joke. The second a school reaches the goal of the big capitol campaign, they just extend it. The second all the new football complex facilities are completed, the Board of Regents is voting to build new-new indoor practice facilities. All on the advice of coaches who are getting fired after 4-5 years and need their buyouts covered.

They pretend it's all about recruiting, as if the new Hall of Mirrors in the Player Development Center would have landed Sagitariat Jefferspin instead of the cash and cars he got somewhere else.

The facilities arms race is really about college administrators and regents getting wined and dined, rolling around in cash with the construction and architecture firms - most of which have ties to alumni and state politicians.

This post was edited on 7/7/22 at 5:05 pm

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