In recent years, the role of red resources in ideological and political education in colleges and universities has been valued by more and more educators. However, if red resources are to be more widely used in ideological and political education in colleges, they will be subject to many objective conditions. By analyzing the problems and reasons mentioned above, we should work hard to overcome the objective conditions that are not conducive to the application of red resources and promote the red resources to play their due role in ideological and political education.