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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4787183, member: 173"]
I had a business school professor who predicted the US was going to fiscally implode in 2033.  Since he also predicted the housing crash which hadn't happened (and in fact I remember articles from the early 2000s from economists predicting we knew how to control the economy and recessions were a thing of the past...), I'm at least open enough to that idea that I wouldn't predict much beyond a ten year window myself.

I think the problem is that a lot of the cable broadcast rights fees are subsidized by Aunt Sue who never watches.   As cord cutting continues, somehow they need to either figure out how to dupe Aunt Sue into paying for ESPN/FS1, massively jack up standalone fees for sports channels - or cut the broadcast rights for leagues.  That problem effects the NFL the least (due to limited inventory, popularity of gambling, games on over the air channels, etc.), college football probably second least - so on one hand I think your assessment is right.

On the other hand, I'm not 100% sure the death of cable isn't going to be apocalyptic for sports leagues, none will survive in anything close to the form they are now - and this is really like standing in a morgue arguing over which dead body is the least dead.
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