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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 924859" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>I don’t think the train has even entered the station yet. Fans of schools like GT, Purdue, Northwestern, Virginia, Oregon State, etc. are going to get fed up that they’re best players leave every year to go to a bigger school. Hendon Hooker left Virginia Tech, one of the largest ACC brands, and went to lead a Tennessee team who hasn’t really been relevant for 20 years. Other places like NC State who have a very solid fan base and atmosphere at their games are losing their stars. The best freshman baseball player in the country left NC State after just one year. It’s not a sustainable system, and it’s just now started. </p><p></p><p>It won’t be much longer until the star players from places like Clemson, Florida State, Oregon, Miami, Utah, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. start transferring to the massive B1G and SEC schools just to get a bigger check. Those places are traditional powerhouses with great fanbases and have been extremely relevant recently. Eventually they’ll start losing players every year to the likes of UGA, Bama, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, and UCLA, simply because those places will give them more money. When that starts happening the bubble has burst. I don’t think it will be much longer than 5 years from now, if that. If Clemson isn’t in the playoff next year it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Klubnik transfers to an SEC school to try to win a natty and get a fat check. The bigger SEC and B1G schools will start canabilizing each other too. USCjr, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Miss. State, etc will all start to lose players to the big dogs. A Mississippi State booster that gave their star RB $500k is going to be pissed when he leaves because Texas gave him $1M. A Florida State booster that gave their star QB $1M is going to be even <strong><em>more </em></strong>pissed when he leaves to go to Florida for $1.5M. </p><p></p><p>It’s not sustainable, and we’re just at the tip of the iceberg. I don’t know why you said “the train has left the station.” That’s insinuating I’m advocating for everybody to return to the original rules. That’s not even close to what I said, nor is it even close to the divide that’s imminent. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Same thing for you. What toothpaste am I trying to put back into the tube? Having a group of 30-40 schools break off and form their own professional league is not even close to putting toothpaste back in the tube. It’s buying a new electric toothbrush and squirting an entire tube of toothpaste on it. It’s going to be electric, and messy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 924859, member: 4572"] I don’t think the train has even entered the station yet. Fans of schools like GT, Purdue, Northwestern, Virginia, Oregon State, etc. are going to get fed up that they’re best players leave every year to go to a bigger school. Hendon Hooker left Virginia Tech, one of the largest ACC brands, and went to lead a Tennessee team who hasn’t really been relevant for 20 years. Other places like NC State who have a very solid fan base and atmosphere at their games are losing their stars. The best freshman baseball player in the country left NC State after just one year. It’s not a sustainable system, and it’s just now started. It won’t be much longer until the star players from places like Clemson, Florida State, Oregon, Miami, Utah, Wisconsin, Iowa, etc. start transferring to the massive B1G and SEC schools just to get a bigger check. Those places are traditional powerhouses with great fanbases and have been extremely relevant recently. Eventually they’ll start losing players every year to the likes of UGA, Bama, LSU, Tennessee, Auburn, Florida, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, USC, Texas, Oklahoma, and UCLA, simply because those places will give them more money. When that starts happening the bubble has burst. I don’t think it will be much longer than 5 years from now, if that. If Clemson isn’t in the playoff next year it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Klubnik transfers to an SEC school to try to win a natty and get a fat check. The bigger SEC and B1G schools will start canabilizing each other too. USCjr, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Miss. State, etc will all start to lose players to the big dogs. A Mississippi State booster that gave their star RB $500k is going to be pissed when he leaves because Texas gave him $1M. A Florida State booster that gave their star QB $1M is going to be even [B][I]more [/I][/B]pissed when he leaves to go to Florida for $1.5M. It’s not sustainable, and we’re just at the tip of the iceberg. I don’t know why you said “the train has left the station.” That’s insinuating I’m advocating for everybody to return to the original rules. That’s not even close to what I said, nor is it even close to the divide that’s imminent. Same thing for you. What toothpaste am I trying to put back into the tube? Having a group of 30-40 schools break off and form their own professional league is not even close to putting toothpaste back in the tube. It’s buying a new electric toothbrush and squirting an entire tube of toothpaste on it. It’s going to be electric, and messy. [/QUOTE]
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