I want to be careful about how I approach this.
I also want to make it clear that this is not a personal attack on Barstool, of whom I have decidedly mixed emotions. The truth is that being a high school boy, living in Massachusetts, who rooted for the Patriots during Deflategate, it became incredibly easy to get into Barstool. Years later, it’s a site I try to avoid. The cult of personality it inspires, along with its problematic history, aren’t things I’m interested in at this point in my life.
Still, they managed to catch my eye with an announcement they recently made, which impacts college football, bowl season, and the Group of Five.