Why do we love college sports? It certainly isn’t the quality — something which those (totally wrong morons) who claim the superiority of the NFL love to remind college football fans. And despite how some people like to claim their love for college football originates in its “purity” compared to the greedy franchised businesses of the NFL, there’s a new scandal every day in college sports, and they make up a multi-million dollar business that’s about as impure and cynical as it gets.
So if it’s a lower quality product that has no moral superiority, then why? For many sports, especially women’s (but not exclusively so), you could say it’s just because college is the highest platform for them — or at least the most high profile, even if a small percentage of athletes get post-collegiate opportunities in minimally-financially-rewarding, low-profile pro leagues, or spend time pursuing an Olympic team where we’ll see them at most a few times over a decade+.