State universities nowadays are sports entertainment conglomerates with a sideline in education.
That's why I am so dead set against college football playoffs, transcontinental conferences, the transfer portal, "name-image-likeness," weekday games, and extending the season past New Years Day. Maybe University of Chicago president Robert Hutchins had a valid point when he had his school drop football and leave the Big Ten in 1939 and called on all universities in America to do the same.
Not so much for the state funded secondary universities. My nephew was on a golf team that travelled a few hundred miles in shuttle buses. The flagship university up the road was flying the team down to play in Florida during the winter months..