‘Colleges are dying for the same reason the NFL is dying and nobody seems to know why.’
neither colleges,by and large,nor the NFL are ‘dying’, except perhaps on this website...
I’d agree that most colleges aren’t feeling much, as there seems to be a steady supply of naive kids to feed them...but on the edges, people on our side are starting to question things - such as why they should send their kid to a school that costs over $200k, when they’ll only make $50k when they leave...whereas if they send their kid to another (i.e., state) school as a commuter, major in the right field (computer science), they can pay $50k over 4 years and make $200k pretty shortly after college (assuming they work in Silicone Valley). Plus, being a commuter likely insulates them from 75% of the crap that resident students have to now put up with.
As to the NFL...they’re getting walloped...but since they don’t intend to take on these agitators, they’re keeping quiet and hoping it all dies down. Of course it won’t.