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Message: [QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 2151445, member: 5058"] The greater the separation of haves and have nots, the greater the disparity amongst athletes and eventually sports. Non-revenue sports would all but cease to exist as the need would no longer be on the school to support them (or the incentive/money) as the big money schools would funnel so much money to revenue sports forcing lesser monied schools to drop the programs outright just in an effort to compete. With less teams to play, there is a greater travel expense which will take out most of the hangers on. The same would happen with hoops and football. Small schools and mid-majors die off and with them goes some traditional rivalries. Some big conference schools may put their eggs in one basket. Schools like Syracuse, Indiana, Duke, Kentucky may decide to drop football in favor of basketball. Coaching will be greatly affected as their salaries are maybe the most affected. Shoe and apparel endorsements now go to the athletes. There is simply no business value in Nike supplementing Jim B. As for tradition, now that players own the endorsement deals, how can you tell a kid he can't take a more lucrative deal with Rebok because the school likes Adidas. How will uniforms be kept consistent? Remember the original dream team fiasco? What about bad deals or bad products? What if a kid blows out a shoe and can't get it replaced in time because he took a deal with a fly by night outfit? For those that think bad decisions are an impossibility here, remember that when he entered the NBA, John Wallace took a shoe deal with Karl Kani [URL="https://www.google.com/amp/amp.www.complex.com/sneakers/2012/09/20-nba-players-who-didnt-deserve-sneaker-deals/"]20 NBA Players Who Didn't Deserve Sneaker Deals[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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