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[QUOTE="shantydaze, post: 4249976, member: 666"]
This is a point I have made as well.  There is a G-League team within 25 minutes of my house.  I have never been to a game.  This season, I have been to a game at my undergrad alma mater (2 hour drive), a game at Syracuse (a flight), and two tournament games for my undergrad alma mater (1.5 hour drive).  I have no connection to the G-League team even though it is connected to my state's NBA team (which I only casually follow).

In football, I have season tickets to the NFL team 25 minutes away and typically get to one game a year at my undergrad and one Syracuse game every three to four years.  If Syracuse and Wisconsin go to the pro model, I am not sure how much I am going to care.  Without a draft, the southern teams are still going to be dominant in recruiting talent so I don't see either team truly challenging for a National Title.

So, at what point does the football team just become a minor league team playing in the cities I went to school?  As my attention gets  further stretched by other options, probably not long.  When I was in school, I watched a lot of college football.  I remember spending 10 hours at Tully's on a Saturday (of course, I had friends in my program from Notre Dame, Nebraska, Colorado, and FSU, so there were a lot of games to watch).  Now, I watch (sometimes after the fact on the DVR) Syracuse and Wisconsin.  In the end, I just do not see myself spending time and money watching a inferior professional product if the connection to my alma maters is tenuous.
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