The traditional college sports fan, and I certainly include myself in that, does not like a lot of the changes that we've seen to the sports recently, particularly how high the transfer rates now are, especially in basketball.

Having said that, the more main-stream fan, or fair weather fan, or I guess all of the normal people that are just regular fans, don't seem to mind (or even notice) any of the changes at all. The ratings for the NCAA Tournament were the highest they've been in 32 years for the 1st and 2nd round, the ratings for the Final Four were the highest since 2017, and the ratings for Monday's championship game were the highest since 2019.

The diehard college sports fans like myself and like many who read and post on this site often say college basketball doesn't mean as much to them as it used to, and I totally understand and agree with why that is. But, this is also a reminder that the diehard fans (like myself) are in the HUGE minority. Most normal people like college basketball and the NCAA Tournament just as much as they ever have, and they seem to have barely noticed that anything has even changed.