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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 5157183, member: 8240"] Let's face it, we're in the G-League for college football. The NCAA, NBA and NFL are like a cabal operating for the benefit of the pro leagues and the athletic departments. The NFL and NBA dump the cost of evaluating kids and developing them onto the universities who use the internet hype about the "future pros" on their rosters to increase donations and pay for lavish facilities, ever larger staffs and increased payrolls. Everybody wins.........if they're high enough on the food chain. I believe it won't be long before the house of cards starts to collapse. Even SEC schools have empty seats for games and the numbers of empty seats will rise when it becomes apparent that only a handful of schools have a chance to win championships. We boast about UConn fan support at the Garden, tournaments and bowl games, but what was it like before Hurley and Mora? Charlie Baker is failing so far, so the solution (if any) will come when the university Presidents become sufficiently embarrassed with the behavior of their Athletic Departments (tampering, etc.) or, the more likely scenario, don't see the promised increases in applications for admission, the increased flow of dollars into their endowments promised by their AD's, or the red ink from ballooning staffs and facilities becomes unsustainable. [/QUOTE]