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[QUOTE="qdawgg, post: 4651102, member: 52"]
I’ve said this numerous times for awhile.  It’ll be interesting to see the long term impact of all of this on college FB and BB, especially.  What I always loved about following SU was watching players grow and develop, in BB and FB.  What happens to brand loyalty?   We’ve all continued to support FB even though it’s been a struggle to watch at times (ok, a lot) going back to 20 some odd years.  There were up and down years but you could get excited by a good season.  You could get excited by the following season, after a bad season because there was hope a freshman might come in and light it up and the good players would get even better.

But it’s hard as fan to really care too much about any of these players, to be honest.  That may sound terrible but all I mean by that is I don’t or won’t be pouring all my emotions into SU sports as I once did.  Once I start to get excited about a player I know they might be gone.  I’ll never buy any player merchandise.  For what?   My wife has completely lost interest already in FB, we used to be STH.  She doesn’t even know who the players are and doesn’t care.  How do I get my daughter excited for players when a player she loved watching is gone.  What’s the point.

So I’m just spouting off at this point but from an economic point of view I’m really curious in 3-5 years what the numbers show for fan support around the country.  The SEC and B10 will prob be themselves.  But for the other conferences, I’m not sure.  You can’t hold value in a brand and have continuous turnover.  Theoretically anyway.
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