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PadrosWindup
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Baseball and hockey minor leagues have evolved over 120 years

And it is very difficult to run a profitable franchises. The Richmond Flying Squirrels are the profitable exception. Hockey minor league franchises are usually on a shoe string, with one one foot heading out of town. Very much like Slap Shot. No way the NFL can develop a minor league program thar can compete with power 5 football. Where do you get coaching staffs like at UGA or OSU? Facilities like Bama or Clemson? Generate fan interest like Oklahoma or Michigan? At best you end up with the NBA's GLeague, which doesn't compete with Duke, Kansas or Villanova for a Connor Flagg level player? For the players, the college programs are way better development for the NBA or NFL.
Posted: 07/30/2024 at 08:50 AM ET
(In response to this post by Stech)

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Will StewartAdmin • 07/29/24 08:52 AM ET
Sounds like they want “no” guard rails for income, no salary cap, nothing.
Stech • 07/30/24 07:54 AM ET
The most important thing I was saying was “no” guard rails to income, not
Stech • 07/30/24 01:16 PM ET
Quite right - the NFL should be paying for player development
Marooned • 07/30/24 09:48 AM ET
The colleges don't want that any more than the NFL.**
reestuart • 07/30/24 05:50 PM ET
The problem isn't NFL versus college, the problem is the top of college
wwhokie1 • 07/30/24 11:07 AM ET
What? They should pay the colleges? If you don't want a program that feeds
Big12 guy • 07/30/24 10:30 AM ET
Baseball and hockey minor leagues have evolved over 120 years ◄
PadrosWindup • 07/30/24 08:50 AM ET
PE firms are buying up minor league baseball teams
mancunian • 07/30/24 05:39 PM ET
Exactly, the pro leagues have a vested interest in keeping
Marooned • 07/30/24 05:22 PM ET
Just a fancy way of saying if you can get it for free, you won't pay for it**
Stech • 07/30/24 11:50 AM ET
the best line
Vippie1 • 07/29/24 10:48 AM ET
If they'd have had some sort of warning ahead of time and time to prepare.
reestuart • 07/29/24 01:41 PM ET
The big word missing from this is BOOSTER
PadrosWindup • 07/29/24 10:28 AM ET
The NCAA is in danger of chopping off their own legs
HokieAl • 07/29/24 09:21 AM ET
And that’s where Congress and the IRS get interested **
Hokie1992 • 07/30/24 06:43 AM ET
NCAA is not chopping off their legs, the courts have already chopped them.
Stech • 07/29/24 03:44 PM ET
The Antitrust lawsuit chopped off it's head. The NCAA is no longer
VTreddog • 07/29/24 12:50 PM ET
“Let’s call it a draw” — MP&THG**
AlaHokie83 • 07/29/24 12:55 PM ET