And if that happens, guess what the rich blue bloods will do? That's right, offer up $60m per year...all that will happen is up the ante. So it's all just nebulous bull shit until someone other than a power school in a power conference starts winning nattys. My very humble opinion is that if the NIL continues on this path, you will see another division created with roughly 30 schools...and candidly we are almost there with the big 10 and SEC.
Unless they can come up with their own billionaires, not gonna happen. It has to be "pin money" to a donor. Nobody is going to drain away their net worth for their schools to chase a title. Even if they wanted to, their inheritors are going to put a stop to it pretty quick. And the schools can't pony up, because of TItle IX.
Where you are on point is the idea of a superleague. But it will ultimately have to be divorced from the schools. That's the only way to set it up as a for-profit enterprise where the schools are the ones leasing their name and likeness, and renting their stadium, to the team owners. Once it's for-profit, then you can unionize the players and set a salary cap and have revenue sharing so everybody can make a profit. A system where people are just giving away money in order to win football games is not sustainable. Everybody giving money expects to win, not everybody can win. People then stop giving, and then what? Basketball will eventually go the same way, but slower.
The good side to this is the rebalancing to Title IX. When the money makers are gone, the schools can start dropping sports that they only have because of the need to balance title IX.
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