People will not stop complaining about the state of things
College football is the rare phenomenon that is somehow both extremely popular yet extremely frustrating to its consumers on all variety of matters.The House settlement may bring some much-needed stability to the NIL/portal world, but it will not solve any of the following widespread complaints:
- Exorbitant ticket prices (which if anything will go up even farther to help offset the lost revenue)
- Traffic in and out of the stadium
- Inconvenient kickoff times
- Conference realignment
- Targeting
- Officiating in general
- Long replay reviews/too many commercials
- End zone fades
- Clock management
- The overtime format
- Coaches leaving before the bowl game
- Too many bowl games
- Your team’s recruiting ranking
- Your quarterback’s decision-making
- Losing to your rival
Mandel: What college sports' pay-for-play era will mean — and won't mean
A day few in college sports would have deemed imaginable even three years ago, much less 30, has (almost) arrived. But we'll keep watching.
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