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Message: [QUOTE="Engineer90, post: 3147665, member: 9712"] Here are a few sticking points: 1. Sunk costs. Universities have a lot of money invested in facilities. What happens to them if college sports goes away? 2. If there is no good answer to #1, how do they pay for operations and maintenance of those facilities? 3. Football has no minor league at all. 4. Basketball's minor league is insufficient. 5. What happens to all the people employed by ADs if it all goes away? 6. Elimination of revenue sports has to occur across the board at all colleges. Sports is advertising for colleges and many schools would fear what happens to them if they drop sports and others don't. Club sports are great. Intermurals are great. Pseudo-professional sports and academics are not great. The NFL needs to create a minor league. Make a deal with colleges to use their facilities, if necessary. But the teams need to be tied to NFL teams and not colleges. The NBA needs to expand their minor league to be like MLB's or European soccer. THEN people would watch just like they watch AAA ball. It works for soccer in Europe and it works for baseball here. You just need to build the minor league system properly. What basketball has now is a half-arsed hybrid mutant system. Colleges need to eliminate all athletic scholarships just like the Ivies have done. Hell, they should eliminate all admissions benefits too. It is a disgrace that far more qualified kids are pushed out. But that won't happen until there is no longer money to be made and that won't happen until proper minor leagues are in place. [/QUOTE]

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