Has college football become too much of a big business to be enjoyable?

Initially hit return and posted without content...Apologies.

I think I can say with confidence that I am one of the older posters on the board. So, I do have a bit of "back in my day" syndrome at this point in the life. For some reason though, I truly do remember the wins and losses meaning more...not just hurting more or bringing more joy to my life. I'm not chalking that up to being older now either.

Even to an extent with Bama, it just feels like we are all just doing nothing but trying to outspend each other into oblivion. The ESPN contract money is going to go away sooner than later, and each of our respective universities have built budgets for football and other sports that they simply will not be able to support. What then?

At LSU, our administration is charging ridiculous parking fees and truly, we cannot fill the stadium except for maybe one game a year. I'm seeing the same thing around the conference and the country as far as empty seats before halftime and clearing out at halftime.

It seems like our newer "national past time" is not going to have the lifespan that our previous one enjoyed.

Am I completely wrong about this and just overthinking it? I understand the capabilities we all have to just stay at home and watch instead of going to the games, but if we aren't going for that experience and the universities are effectively killing the experience with "arms race" tactics, how long do we really expect this to keep going before crashing like the Roman Empire?