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<blockquote data-quote="BashCtIllini" data-source="post: 2008046" data-attributes="member: 748491"><p>A salary cap would fundamentally change the way college sports has always worked and the blue bloods would fight it tooth and nail.</p><p></p><p>Blue Bloods get the name because they have been good forever. They're always good because they always get the best recruits. If the salary cap made that impossible to have vastly more talent than your opponents because you can't afford it, then it comes down to talent identification and coaching. Which would be great for the game, but takes away those inherent advantages schools with better reputations and facilities have.</p><p></p><p>Where my mind has always gone is certain teams won't be able to compete and they'll just slowly fade away. All of this conversation about a mega Big 10 and mega SEC with an expanded Big 12 being the 3rd conference backs up this thought. These are the schools that can stick around everyone else becomes an afterthought, and how long before the finances just don't work for those afterthought schools?</p><p></p><p>Then even within those mega conferences, I don't like our chances in the expanded Big 10, if we add schools like Notre Dame, Florida State, etc that won't get any easier. At what point does constantly being 16th or lower out of 24 in your conference just sap fan support to the point where you start asking what are we doing here?</p><p></p><p>It won't happen over night, but that is where my concern is with the direction of college sports.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BashCtIllini, post: 2008046, member: 748491"] A salary cap would fundamentally change the way college sports has always worked and the blue bloods would fight it tooth and nail. Blue Bloods get the name because they have been good forever. They're always good because they always get the best recruits. If the salary cap made that impossible to have vastly more talent than your opponents because you can't afford it, then it comes down to talent identification and coaching. Which would be great for the game, but takes away those inherent advantages schools with better reputations and facilities have. Where my mind has always gone is certain teams won't be able to compete and they'll just slowly fade away. All of this conversation about a mega Big 10 and mega SEC with an expanded Big 12 being the 3rd conference backs up this thought. These are the schools that can stick around everyone else becomes an afterthought, and how long before the finances just don't work for those afterthought schools? Then even within those mega conferences, I don't like our chances in the expanded Big 10, if we add schools like Notre Dame, Florida State, etc that won't get any easier. At what point does constantly being 16th or lower out of 24 in your conference just sap fan support to the point where you start asking what are we doing here? It won't happen over night, but that is where my concern is with the direction of college sports. [/QUOTE]
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