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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5675339, member: 628"] Relegation requires longstanding tiers of professional leagues where player contracts are held independently. Needless to say, that doesn’t exist in the U.S for our 4 major sports. You can’t relegate the Pacers to the G League, or the White Sox to the International League. The infrastructure simple isn’t constructed in a way that could enable it. It could be possible in college sports, but we’d have to blow up the existing conferences. And no one is going to willingly take the risk of losing a spot in a league with a guaranteed annual media payment of tens of millions of dollars. No sport on Earth would design relegation in today’s media and economic environment. It’s an anachronism from a bygone age. [/QUOTE]