If college sports are a big deal, it may not be a good fit. There has more to college fun than sports (I am a HUGE college sports fan, so this probably doesn’t apply to me, but plenty of students don’t go to games or care).
Look around the country and there are only a few, relatively speaking, college that have D1 programs, and of those programs. How many have great attendance? My point is, college sports are probably over rated for many many students. We just happen to be on a college sports website right now.
In fact I live in Orange County. I’d say that USC and maybe UCLA are the only schools that students, for the most part, care around college sports. And there are a ton of colleges and students in all of southern calif.