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<blockquote data-quote="MtnWasp" data-source="post: 792962" data-attributes="member: 4110"><p>Hmmm, I don't see this as necessarily favoring the factory programs. The factory schools have large operating budgets under the current system. But if the new rules favor a free market approach, then this opens college sports to alternative sources of capital. The schools don't have to pay players out of their operating budgets but can be creative conduits/intermediaries to other sources of capital.</p><p></p><p>For instance, most factory schools are rural institutions. But a program like GT is within an urban setting where there is a concentration of capital. Would an Atlanta company benefit more from representation of a local sports star rather than one from out of town? In such a market, it will not be about the schools but about the individual players and individual stars will want to be brought home to where the capital lives.</p><p></p><p>We see this is pro sports all the time, where the big stars gravitate to the "Big Market" cities.</p><p></p><p>In other words, the market will be WIDE OPEN and the advantage goes to those who are first to creatively exploit the angles. Those who are currently at the top of the food chain are the parties most at risk to lose. The factory schools depend on booster dollars, school brand identity and fan-bases to assert their dominance. But if the market opens, the capital from the old sources may be entirely supplanted by new avenues to larger capital streams.</p><p></p><p>Gt may have been at a disadvantage in the present system, but if the old system goes down, those disadvantages might disappear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MtnWasp, post: 792962, member: 4110"] Hmmm, I don't see this as necessarily favoring the factory programs. The factory schools have large operating budgets under the current system. But if the new rules favor a free market approach, then this opens college sports to alternative sources of capital. The schools don't have to pay players out of their operating budgets but can be creative conduits/intermediaries to other sources of capital. For instance, most factory schools are rural institutions. But a program like GT is within an urban setting where there is a concentration of capital. Would an Atlanta company benefit more from representation of a local sports star rather than one from out of town? In such a market, it will not be about the schools but about the individual players and individual stars will want to be brought home to where the capital lives. We see this is pro sports all the time, where the big stars gravitate to the "Big Market" cities. In other words, the market will be WIDE OPEN and the advantage goes to those who are first to creatively exploit the angles. Those who are currently at the top of the food chain are the parties most at risk to lose. The factory schools depend on booster dollars, school brand identity and fan-bases to assert their dominance. But if the market opens, the capital from the old sources may be entirely supplanted by new avenues to larger capital streams. Gt may have been at a disadvantage in the present system, but if the old system goes down, those disadvantages might disappear. [/QUOTE]
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