re: Would you enjoy LSU FB if college football wasn't a NFL minor league?

Well college baseball is significantly less popular than Major League Baseball and college football is significantly more popular than NFL football. I can't help but think that college baseball is suffering because of the amount of elite talent that gets pulled away for a $5 million to $10 million signing bonus and the chance to develop under better coaches in the minors.

It's not like there's some law that states that LSU baseball attendance has to stay under 15,000 for big series like it currently is. College football proves that college sports can hold just as big of a market as professional sports, and LSU's football team also proves that there are hundreds of thousands of people who love LSU and are willing to come to campus for sporting events if the athletes are good enough. And there's certainly no shortage of baseball fans across the country, especially in the south.

Who's to say that in some alternate timeline where college baseball wasn't gutted by the farm systems and all of those talented coaches had to look for work at the college level, and all of the elite players had to go to college for 3 years, and big NCAA baseball games were televised and hyped up like big NCAA football games, that more people wouldn't be interested in baseball? There's no reason that LSU baseball shouldn't be able to pull 35,000 or 40,000 like Major League Baseball teams for a huge series if the teams got a ton of television coverage and we had the #1 overall baseball recruit and a bunch of legitimate studs coming in a la Leonard Fournette, Adams, White, Chaisson, etc. to hype up the program. But that's not the case so we're stuck playing against a bunch of nobodies who nobody's ever heard of every weekend and attendance is at ~1,000 for midweek games. Again, just my opinion but I think things could be better, and to wrap up the point of that wall of text about baseball: in turn, things could be a lot worse for college football. I doubt 90,000 people would want to watch the NFL's sloppy seconds every Saturday.

I get that these kinds of discussions are frowned upon on this website for whatever reason in favor of a bunch of assholes repeating the same dumb bullshite one liners and complaints about our sports teams, but it would be pretty interesting to see how a farm system would affect college football and how much more popular college baseball would be without one. Just my .02