You think we have top 80 viewership? Top 80 donorship? Top 80 attendance? "Potential" will be weeded out. Those data points will be the drivers. I have no idea if we have top 80 in any of those. I feel like we don't.
I’d distill it even further. Only the schools with the richest donor base are benefiting. This is why smu is legitimately able to include themselves in this next rung. They have no fan support, and I suspect that they never will. But they are rich. Obscenely rich. That’s all it takes.
If schools can’t come together to create some kind of level playing field, then it’s not really sport anymore. I see no reason to support this current version of college athletics if all it boils down to is who has the most obscenely rich donor to bankroll player salaries.
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