re: What happens if the college athletics bubble burst?

quote:

---

The only bubble is D1 college football and a much lesser degree men's basketball.

---

All of the non revenue sports have spending through the roof because Title IX says spending must be equal. They will face major cuts too.

I’ve said it before
It’s only a matter of time before a university gets out of the athletic business because it’s not what their mission is all about

You will have a group of teams that decide to go back to a different type of league and the super league will take over for those teams that want to keep spending

quote:

---

Minor league baseball has better players than college baseball, yet college is more popular G-League teams have more talent on their rosters than college teams. Minor league pro basketball is so popular that the Pels G-League affiliate plays their home games at the Pontchartrain Center

---

Nailed it. If LSU’s football team joins some minor league, with divisions and the like, changes names or starts going crazy with sponsorships, it’s done. Who will go and tailgate and hang out for a game filled with players that can be called up any day or traded?

Tiger Stadium would be renamed, because now you have to make money wherever you can, as the “salaries” will go a bit higher, and donors will surely start pulling the plug. Then private equity will come in and buy up the teams, reach an agreement on facilities, etc.

Fanbases will dry up fast.

quote:

---

You just make amazing, well thought out, iron clad points

---

Am I doing it right?

quote:

---

What if you’re Mississippi State

---

I assume you keep trying to get to 6 wins

In my scenario, I'm talking about the Big 6 or thereabouts; teams that will probably win 8-9 games every year on average. You don't go all in every year, you try to time it; you have a good crop of underclassmen, you then go heavy into the portal. If you don't have a strong base to build on, you hang back on the big names.
*I'm talking about "Big Six" in healthy situations, so Auburn and Florida right now aren't in the mix currently. You could argue LSU isn't, but prior to last year had a run of 8-9 win regular seasons, so solid. And LSU returns a pretty good core- some good corners, a linebacker, some DL, a stud TE and 2 solid backs. That's not a bad group to start with, a few holes to plug (which they did).

A few years from now, once the money guys get tired of paying out every season, you probably need to be close to convince them to pony up again. If you're trying to rebuild, they will likely tell you no, go get a bunch of high school recruits and see if you can develop the core again, then come back and ask for the big portal money.

quote:

---

no

---

You just make amazing, well thought out, iron clad points