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College Football Business: Is This Where We’re Heading?

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CaneinBroward said:
It's a shame really. The schools (i.e. conferences) have no foresight as to what college football could be. They just look at what benefits their individual institutions in the short run. It would have the chance to literally become more popular than the NFL if handled properly.
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No. The NFL is already a global brand. The Jags toyed with moving to London. Games are already played in Mexico, England and Germany. You know this.

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-announces-designated-teams-for-london-munich-2024-international-games.

What governing body is going to lead this college upswell? They can't even get a 12 team playoff right. College is now a semi pro league run by amateurs. The NFL will have to provide some leadership.
 
The problem is that we might not end up with owners who are committed to winning. Some owners are fine with being cheap if it keeps them in the green.

Just staying local, look at the Marlins. Jeffrey Loria owned the team just to collect revenue sharing payments.

Alex Rodriguez is the name we better run from. God help us if he bought the team.

His deal for the Twolves was voided after Glen Taylor found out that ARod and his private equity backers planned to gut payroll enough so that they'd be receiving 6.5 million in tax distributions.
 
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RozayCane said:
Very interesting!

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I think this is rat poison and we should encourage the P2 to do it. Why do pro football leagues like the XFL fail? It’s because fans don’t want to watch a professional league of players not good enough to play in the nfl.

College football works because a lot of us went to college and sat in class alongside players. We know they are amateurs- basically kids like we were. It isn’t a job so the expectations of performance aren’t the same as with nfl. You don’t often see nfl teams where someone complains about lack of discipline. In the nfl, if a Player acts dumb, he will be bagging groceries the next day. In college we know coaches are dealing with knuckleheads because we rode with them on the campus shuttle bus.

IMO, the non P2 schools need to break off and create a new association where the emphasis is still on the student part of “student athlete.” You can have some revenue sharing and nil with caps. But let the P2 try to survive as a half-*** NFL. It won’t last a decade because most casual college fans are going to say “I am not going to watch a ****ty version of the NFL.”

meanwhile the non P2 can market itself as actual “college football.” I think the mistake everyone keeps making is trying to figure out how to turn the ACC and big12 into competitors to the P2- which are essentially owned and operated by tv networks, with billionaires putting money into college programs like the billionaire owners of nfl teams. The short answer is they can’t. Maybe 4-8 teams get lucky and get invite to the P2, leaving 100 or so still out there not without a prayer of competing against programs getting 100+ million in tv money alone.

So stop trying to be something they aren’t and differentiate. I would rather watch the non P2 schools have real parity and competition for a title than one minute of a championship game with teams Iike Ohio state vs Georgia. Have 2 champs- the semi-pro regional title (for UGAs and Bamas) and the National college football title for everyone else.

The national college football association should be broadcast so anyone with a tv antenna can watch. No cable tv packages required. And can have games streamed for free as well. Just need internet, no subscriptions to streaming sites. P2 is locked behind paywalls and 100 dollar cable packages. The national college football league will be for regular people who don’t need to pay outrageous amounts to watch student athletes play college sports.
 
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miamicanephins said:
No. The NFL is already a global brand. The Jags toyed with moving to London. Games are already played in Mexico, England and Germany. You know this.

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-announces-designated-teams-for-london-munich-2024-international-games.

What governing body is going to lead this college upswell? They can't even get a 12 team playoff right. College is now a semi pro league run by amateurs. The NFL will have to provide some leadership.
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I'm talking about in the U.S., not worldwide. (Although the college game has tried with games held in Ireland, Japan, and Australia over the years, but you know this). Anyway, more college fans are diehard fans of their schools than those of NFL teams. Don't worry how tough it gets, the Canes won't threaten a move to San Antonio if they don't get a stadium they want. Families who have been linked to these institutions for multiple generations have no chance of changing loyalties if their schools are not included in the SEC or B1G.

Now, harness that uber loyalty and fanaticism, along with "franchises" in just about every state and you could actually give the NFL a run for its money regarding both eyeballs and attendance IF you do it right. I have some ideas, but this post is already long and boring enough.

Regarding your last few sentences, I total agree with you. That's why I said "It's a shame" in my original post. There is no "Pete Rozelle" who is going to get all these dumb *** schools together to realize the money they are actually leaving on the table by splitting into subsections. You're right it is being led by amateurs, which is why the TV networks run college football instead of the other way around. The NFL gets it. That's why they will continue to be king of the hill.
 
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Ideas been out there for a while. For example, Jason Williams floated buying into the Duke Basketball program not too long ago.
 
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