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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5324800, member: 173"]
Miami imploding after a Final Four run because everyone chased better NIL deals shows where college athletics is at.

The portal has completely changed college athletics; every season is a roster of soon-to-be free agents.  There was a time when I’d stick with watching a mediocre Syracuse team because you could see the development of young players who were going to help in future years (2002 is an example).  I don’t think I’ve watched five total minutes of Syracuse basketball since the end of the Colgate game - it was obvious this wasn’t going to be a good team, and I can’t see investing my time watching guys develop who likely will play elsewhere next year.  If they had ever gone on a run I might have been pulled back in…but I think I’m going to find other things are a much higher priority to me as soon as I’m reasonably confident it’s not a top 4 seed type of team.  Anything lower, I’ll tune back in when the NCAA tourney starts.

As a former season ticket holding die-hard, I think that is an indicator of how fans in general are going to view college athletics in the future - schools are going to need to win the fans over every year, and are going to find they bail very fast if the season isn’t going well.
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