JD Vance fumbles Ohio State title trophy at White House event
Ryan Day and the Ohio State Buckeye’s football team were honored at the White House for their 2024 national championship victory.
They may as well have rolled out Quantum mechanics at this point. The attention span in this legal fight has flatlined for Joe Sixpack.
And that’s exactly what they want.
But before those running college sports – do we really know who they are at this point? – get comfortable with their shrewd shell game in the unfolding House settlement case impacting college football, understand this: no one in the history of business has survived by ignoring who they serve.
And with each passing month over the last four torturous years of paradigm change, those running college sports are on the edge of a catastrophic misread.
The fans, who fuel their collective sports, can only take so much.
So while attorneys for the NCAA and players fight it out in court over billions in lost revenue and billions more in future revenue, the fans – the one constant that has grown college football to unthinkable heights – have had a bellyful.
They’ve tuned out the monetary fight. They don’t care about billions made annually by Football Bowl Subdivision programs (some much more than others) and don’t give a rip how it’s split.
They don’t care about roster size and/or management, or that coaches continue to declare the loss of walk-ons is somehow, in some way, a death knell to the sport.
They just want their ball on fall Saturdays.
They want to roll into town Friday night, reconnect and avoid the grind of life, and hope like all hell this is the season they finally beat State. Simple, easy stuff.
But the flood of structural moves over the last four years – most made with zero foresight into how it impacts the product being sold – is now…
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