Key Highlights
- He didn’t deflect blame.
- He didn’t offer excuses. He simply told the truth — the truth every coach whispers privately, the truth every administrator tiptoes around, the truth every fan of a non-superpower program already knows:AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementCollege football is broken.
- And the people breaking it are the very ones who wish Frost would just keep his opinions to himself. Frost dared to say aloud what the sport’s gatekeepers prefer to bury under the blanket slogan of “the new era of college football.” That phrase sounds modern and exciting, but it’s simply a smoke screen for a system that has devolved into a financial free-for-all — one where rules are optional, oversight is toothless, spending is endless and integrity is a luxury only the underfunded can afford. Frost punctured that illusion with a single line:“It’s broken.
- College football’s broken.”AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe’s right. And his critics know he’s right.
- That’s why the legions of the miserable on social media are attacking him. The NCAA’s new era of name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation was supposed to give athletes more control, more opportunity and more transparency.