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Yep, you get fan affiliation with a college program because the program is successful long-term and the program is successful because its players are good.  Sure, that BE 30 for 30 profiled the larger than life coaches that gave the league street cred but it's the players they brought in that made the league.  That point was hammered home endlessly.  If the best players out of high school increasingly opted for pay for play, it's possible college football crowds begin to resemble college baseball crowds.  It's hard to know for sure how it would turn out because we don't have a football minor league system.  But it's been much talked about and those who have talked about it seriously have targeted cities in SEC territory in particular as franchise sites with the thought that they'd get some of that spillover SEC crowd.

I think the doomsday scenarios about privates dropping out of D-1 are a bit overblown.  If college football eventually goes the way of college baseball, then the privates will compete more and not less with the publics for those students who actually want an education and play at a high level.
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