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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3045532, member: 27"]
Could be.  I don’t see that scenario happening.  Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan might want to switch to a  pay-the-athletes model to extend the advantages they have over the small publics and the private schools but there aren’t enough schools to make that model work.  I don’t see the have nots agreeing to it.  They can’t.  They don’t have the money to make it happen.

A lot of people aren’t going to care about football or basketball if only 32 or so schools are left to compete at the highest level.  Football is already down to about 70 teams actually having a chance to win.  It will be counter productive to whittle the field down much further.  With schools like Gonzaga abd Villanova thriving, and the NCAA basketball tournament doing great, I can’t see big changes happening there either.

I hope the government doesn’t decide to run the private universities out of business with new legislation and super subsidies.  It will be hard to make that happen with most of the people in power from privates.

But I have great respect for your opinions.  I am no expert on education trends or forecasting the future.  Sure hope this does not happen.  I think it would greatly hurt interest in college sports and probably end it completely.
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