Are you getting priced out of attending your schools sporting events?

Yes, I have gone less and less. Last year was the first time I didn't attend any sports other than minor league stuff. It's not because I can't afford it, but I'd rather put that money to other use like a family trip instead. If you don't drink, it's hard to justify blowing hundreds just to catch a game, as the product has changed.

Most normal fans are. You can still attend women's sports cheap enough

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No, but given the direction of NIL, they're getting priced out of me attending

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Perfect description of my sentiments also.

Well stated.

Not priced out, but I would much rather spend my money elsewhere. But they don’t care. We are witnessing the full monetization of CFB.

How much does the average fan spend on a season ticket? It is dwarfed by the corporations that own the boxes. To maximize profits, that is who they will continue to cater to.

How much does the average non-ticket holder spend in a year on their team? $100 bucks on gear? Probably less than the average gambler loses each game. That is who they will continue to cater and market to.

This is why they don’t care if the average fan goes away, they built the foundation, but now they are extracting as much money as they possibly can while trying to maintain the illusion this is still CFB “for the fans”.

It’s an entertaining game, I will still tune in for 1.5 hours of game and 2.5 hours of commercials like a good sheep. But I will never feel the passion I used to, which essentially makes CFB as I remember it dead, it’s just something on the tv if I have nothing better to do, and it’s won’t ever come back.

More and more money for an increasingly shitty product. The story of American culture.

I have enough friends with season tickets to football and basketball that I generally get to go to several games a season for free. Thats enough to satisfy me. Baseball tickets are totally affordable so I go to quite a few games on the weekends.

I stopped attending regularly when the Yes program was introduced. I try to make it up for a few games every year, but I have found myself caring less and less about college athletics over the last decade, mainly because of the mercenary status of college football and one-and-dones in college basketball. The transfer portal and NIL have pretty much sealed it for me. I love college baseball, but we live 2 hours away from Columbia and my wife works Saturdays, so that typically limits us to Sunday games. If we lived in Cola I'd pay for two season tickets in a heartbeat.

It’s truly sickening how expensive everything is. They just want more money after more money. It will never be enough. And now that they’re paying the players you can forget it.

I think in general people are going to start to question spending so much to watch a game where realistically, the players no longer care about the schools thanks to NIL. I’ve been saying this for a while now, when you start paying the players it is no longer amateur, it’s no longer a commitment to an institution which is what made college sports so special.

Why would you pay so much money watching a product that plays like amateur although they get paid like professionals? It doesn’t make any sense. I could go on and on but college football had a very serious problem right now and it’s not the transfer portal. After people spend a few years throwing money at a product that has no commitment, no heart, for players that don’t really care anymore… at some point they are going to stop throwing that money.

I expect the crowds to get smaller and the game decline significantly over time.