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marchand is a heckuva player.

that's why they wont do anything. theyre rent seekers, not risk takers. the risk takers are the private equity funds salivating to make the sec and big ten break off and form their own, pe money fueled competition. not nfl owners.

i disagree. i think the tie to the college and the history makes it popular.

everything sounds better in french.

they dont challenge it because it provides them with free labor training and increases the popularity of the nfl product. its not a competitor. will that change when it TRULY becomes a paid league? we'll find out. you talk about the nfl devouring and taking over college football like its just an absolute win for the nfl. its not. there's a lot of risk involved and taking on a lot of cost. and there will be complications and other competitors. more likely to me would be private equity moving to create its own competition. overall, i see interest in college football lessening the more it moves away from the current "student-athlete" model, as much of a fiction as we know that model actually is. but that could just be because im old and i liked the old system. but i do think people dont care about minor league sports and they wont care about minor league football either. i firmly believe that and i think its likely the nfl does too.

bulls deny knicks request to interview billy donovan. nice job, leon. what a well thought out plan by the knicks.

lol knicks

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welp....he'll be on a little bit better team.

Looks like kreider to the ducks. so there goes that trade possibility. i'm not sad to see him go elsewhere, but he was rumored to be a wings potential trade target.

my kids watch almost no "live tv." maybe an award show. but they watch tik tok and youtube. almost nothing on regular tv.

cossa's late season performances are blocking cossa getting nhl ice time. not steve yzerman. would you rather have jack campbell in grand rapids? or this guy? personally, i'd rather have augustine, but he decided to go back to msu.

last years nba finals game 2 had 4 million more viewers. they had streaming last year too. nobody cares about okc and indiana.

i do not make it sound like that at all. no minor league system makes any money other than college football. why? because its tied to the universities that people have an affiliation with and it has 100+ years of tradition. people arent going to watch high school kids play for the detroit panthers against the columbus cougars (maybe in texas...). they will watch the michigan wolverines play the ohio state buckeyes. without the universities involvement, no one will care.

when the g league started there was a lot of angst about it taking the top talent because it could pay money and college basketball (wink) couldnt. and it did get some high profile players, especially in the beginning (and even lately with amen and ausar). but even with young high school talent, no one watches. they watch the ncaa tournament because its college sports and tradition. it would be the same with football. just like minor league baseball. no one cares but die hards. i dont understand why the nfl would pay money to create a developmental system that it now gets for free and ads a TON of interest in its overall product (the nfl draft is one of the biggest events in its calendar). i also dont see why this new minor league football system would generate the kind of interest that minor league systems in other sports do not. and i dont know if youve heard but colleges can now pay! real money! the nfl isnt going to outbid them for talent to play in a minor league system, the owners like their money too much.