The middle isn’t always a bad thing, but when it’s an awkward in-between of two black-and-white options, it isn’t so great. That’s the position college football has found itself in recent years.
By way of example, I’m approaching my 10-year college reunion from the Air Force Academy. I don’t make it back to Colorado Springs for games often, but when I returned in 2019 before the pandemic, I was shocked to find that there was local beer being sold in Falcon Stadium. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so shocked, since Ohio State has been selling beer for years, but when I was in school, there wasn’t a drop of alcohol legally available at the cadet tailgates or in the stadium.