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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3893048, member: 405"]
Good perspective, Dick.  I think there are 3 big dynamics that will take place within the next 20 years in college football.

(1) the brain injury issue; I foresee a mix of three outcomes here - football slowly loses participants to other sports, much like boxing has seen in the last 40 years, padded helmets and other changes to equipment are mandated, and lawsuits may simply shut down the sport;

(2) the television money;  the market dynamics are trending strongly against big contracts continuing to be given to the P5 conferences for this programming.  The audience is on so many other media, and there are so many other choices, that ratings can't help but go down.  Then what happens to the conferences after they lose, say, 25% of their annual TV money?; and

(3) the overall "college bubble" bursting.  Colleges around the country are straining to survive.  Oh, not the big state schools, and the best of the private ones with the big endowments.  But the education bubble, the willingness of students to continue to incur this significant debt for modest returns in terms of career prospects for many of them.  I still feel like lots of colleges are going to close in the next 10 years, let alone 20.
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