How is that good for the fans? Fans buy season tickets. If you lose your whole roster before the season begins, how is that good for me who had an expectation that I would see a competitive group? Should fans continue to invest in college sports? Fans also support scholarships...why invest in athletes who are not serious about my school or the education that my school offers?
How is the NIL and portal the best thing to ever happen?
You missed my sarcasm! I am in full agreement with you, but everybody has to make their own decision. I quit my donations to the GC club, as did several of my friends, for the reasons you stated, and others. It's a personal choice and to each their own. Some like the pay-for-play and portal nonsense, the farm team leagues, not for me. I am down to just watching a few baseball games at this point, and I was as big a fan of most USC sports as there ever was; it's taken a while to "detox" from spending so much time watching and attending sports, but it has its advantages (more family time, fishing, hunting, and other hobbies). The NIL/Portal/Pay-for-play has only just begun, within a few years college sports will be completely changed to where the athletes are employees of the universities and will have agents, contracts, and of course lawsuits, all of it, too much BS and chaos for me, sick of hearing about it. I watch sports to get away from the craziness all around us, and now it has taken over college athletics. Seems like the cost for fans for tickets, etc., would ultimately have to increase, we will see. But I've been around a long time, and I've had a lot of fun pulling for USC over the years, my alma mater, it's bittersweet watching it all being destroyed, at least from my point of view. Others will join in and support it, and it will become more and more like pro sports every year, I quit watching them years ago. I still wish all the GC teams the best though.
