MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — I fell in love with college sports for a lot of reasons. The passion of each school's fanbases, the year-round ability to cheer on your favorite school, or just watch any two schools in the country play, and the ability for athletics to be a path to improve one's future all appealed to me.
Even things more in minutate of the sport, like the coaching carousel and tracking recruiting rankings made things more fun as my understanding of the collegiate athletics world grew.
But right at the top of the list of why, if you catch me at the right moment, I'll still insist that college sports are better than professional sports is this: college sports lends itself to so many different identities for teams to play.