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Message: [QUOTE="The Yakk, post: 5081703, member: 9988"] Won't even need Congress to step in. Once the networks realize that actual revenues and ratings are down 50% from their projections because most of the rooting public has lost interest, they themselves will force the reckoning. The idea that by [B]contracting the sport[/B], the P2 schools can eat bigger slices of the same-sized pie is McKinsey-level idiocy. This applies to both football and basketball. They will flush all that March Madness money down the toilet before they know what hit them. Here is a history lesson: In the early days of the NFL, the Mara and Halas families realized that their teams could dominate the league forever; but that it was in [B]everyone's[/B] best interest--including their own--to have some level of parity. And the league was looking to [B]expand[/B]--always--and still today is looking for new markets to put teams and generate revenue. That league has likely earned over a trillion in revenue since its formation, or will hit that number soon. The business of the NFL has been nothing but a massive success, since forever. But the academic choads that run P2 schools--abetted by network suits who can't see a week ahead of their own faces--are doing the exact opposite. What they should be doing: Invite even more schools to play football at the FBS level, and figure out a way to make it affordable for everyone. Maybe even invite Canadian schools. [B]Expand[/B] the sport, the fanbase, and everyone's revenue. I only wish I could be there in 10 or 15 years to see the faces on the Florida State trustees--and their private equity masters--when they get told that their media contracts will be renewing for 50% of the expiring value. I wonder whom they will sue then? [/QUOTE]

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