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[QUOTE="richmondcuse03, post: 5181834, member: 984"]
There are more than 60 teams that want to spend the money to invest in big time football. That will be the key -- who is willing to fund it at a high level and pay the players. Just relying on donors to do it off the books is going to be harder moving forward, though, I'm sure the SEC would be fine with that. But becoming a real business changes the calculus.

I still don't see how the SEC and Big 10 on their own garner the eyeballs they need long-term to keep making gobs of money unless they keep football a national sport. There's a reason the NFL isn't just played in part of the country. Now they may try to have it both ways, like they do now, and I agree they have no incentive to change that. So it's going to take some real leadership to do what's right for the whole sport.

To be successful, this type of league needs to explain to the SEC folks why they stand to make more money in the long-term by keeping college football a national play. I'm sure uneven revenue sharing has to be part of the calculus or just have it based on wins/losses...
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