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Back for our ninth year and expanding by leaps and bounds, we’ll get to all the striking changes over the past six months as well as some of the more significant developments. But just like any other year, we begin by addressing what nobody is reporting with an honest, unbiased and transparent perspective on the status of college football.
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College football — big business controlled by a small group
You might not know it but over the past five years, college football has become a true monopoly. Think about that. The sport of amateur “student-athletes” is now only about generating new revenue streams for the elite few, compensating these elite players and maintaining the enormous growth both in popularity and profit. The NFL is the greatest and most powerful monopoly in sports. They figured out that it is a lot smarter to have every television outlet (FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, ESPN, etc.) and streaming services as “partners” rather than as competitors.
Why have any bidding for your product when everyone is in the market to promote the game at a price “negotiated” by the select few. It took a while but college football has been able — through conference realignment, expansion and contraction — to duplicate that model and create its own monopoly. And guess what? All the networks are included as “partners” in the production of televised games similar to the NFL. They will set the kickoff times and avoid conflicts with big games televised at the same time. That’s how you maximize profits.
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Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/ken-schreibers-5-preseason-takeaways-092033897.html
Author : The Providence Journal
Publish date : 2024-08-16 09:20:33
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