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<blockquote data-quote="cpf2001" data-source="post: 956887" data-attributes="member: 6459"><p>I know I've been beating this drum a lot, but it sounds like a really bad thing for the future of the sport.</p><p></p><p>There are two types of businesses: those that grow, and those that extract on their way down after a peak.</p><p></p><p>All of this conference shuffling looks like the "haves" just trying to extract a bigger share from a declining future.</p><p></p><p>Like if Google came out tomorrow and said "hey, we've never made much money on anything but ads, so we're shutting down all our R&D and other businesses" - does that make you want to buy them for the long term?</p><p></p><p>There's no guarantee that CFB could be better managed to *grow* the game in all these markets, and for all these programs, that are getting shafted by the consolidation, but if you don't even try then you definitely won't succeed.</p><p></p><p>A visionary at the head of the sport would say "shoot, so much of our revenue is concentrated into just a few programs? That's *so many opportunities* to grow other programs up to those levels!" Not "well, kill the losers, lol."</p><p></p><p>Obviously we know there's no powerful central leadership, but let's stop celebrating the supposed acumen of the most vicious dogs in a dogfight that's liable to leave everyone slowly bleeding out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cpf2001, post: 956887, member: 6459"] I know I've been beating this drum a lot, but it sounds like a really bad thing for the future of the sport. There are two types of businesses: those that grow, and those that extract on their way down after a peak. All of this conference shuffling looks like the "haves" just trying to extract a bigger share from a declining future. Like if Google came out tomorrow and said "hey, we've never made much money on anything but ads, so we're shutting down all our R&D and other businesses" - does that make you want to buy them for the long term? There's no guarantee that CFB could be better managed to *grow* the game in all these markets, and for all these programs, that are getting shafted by the consolidation, but if you don't even try then you definitely won't succeed. A visionary at the head of the sport would say "shoot, so much of our revenue is concentrated into just a few programs? That's *so many opportunities* to grow other programs up to those levels!" Not "well, kill the losers, lol." Obviously we know there's no powerful central leadership, but let's stop celebrating the supposed acumen of the most vicious dogs in a dogfight that's liable to leave everyone slowly bleeding out. [/QUOTE]
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