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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 3113963, member: 296"] I'm just shouting at the clouds, but here goes.. Spring football is such a bad idea. Even the Arena League is more or less on life support. Renting out giant stadiums that will never be filled is another horrendous flaw in this business model. Here is what I would do if I had a a few hundred million to set on fire. -Don't play Spring Football. Have a shortish preseason camp in late August. Spring Football is dumb. We have plenty of appetite for Fall Football. We have four levels of NCAA Football, a few levels of NAIA, Junior Colleges, High School and the NFL!! You're telling be there isn't a niche out there in the Fall for another level? I don't buy it. -The cost of professional football is the biggest barrier for success. Have a very small league with a very short season. 7 Teams, 6 regular season games. 1 post season game. Keep costs down. Less weeks of games and practice, less paychecks and smaller rosters. Shorter season means that you don't need as much depth. Get one successful season on the books as a proof of principle. -Play in pro sports starved places in small stadiums; smaller than MLS Stadiums even. The kinds of places that might pay you to play there or even share costs. Think Des Moines, Omaha, Springfield, even Dillon Stadium in Hartford. Maybe not those exact places, but places like that where there might be some pent up demand and can generate a following. The problem here is that my TV markets would be crap, but it's not like it would make money on TV for a few years anyways so at least put your teams where the communities might actually get behind your product. -I really don't think the NFL needs a D League when they have college football. But there is an outside chance that they might embrace the idea if you can provide a fringe players a place to stay game fit through mid season or so and maybe they can sign them later on. I still think another pro league is a fool's errand. But you are going to fail if you are on the hook for exorbitant rent in giant stadiums that will never be filled and if you are playing in the spring. ONLY if you have something like the USFL would that MIGHT work, but the NFL wasn't the monster it was now and I don't even think an enterprise like the USFL would last three seasons in this day and age. [/QUOTE]

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