30 is a guess, could be more but not so many more.
Baked into my thinking is that there are about 30 ish NFL, MBL and NBA teams. If advertisers/TV saw profitability in a larger pool, they would have added more teams. As it is it seems they believe they can reach the profitability point or market saturation with about that number. That banks on the idea, which I think they hold, that the product of somewhat of what college FB/MBB is now draws the viewership and not the schools themselves. Put another way, most VT fans will grumble but will relatively soon choose teams from the 30ish to root for just like they do pro sports now.
If that model came to fruition and they carried over to BB and all sports "minor league" entity, then it would be more, enough more to again reach that profitability point for what would become the successor March Madness.
This is one possible outcome. It is where I think the money that drives the current college sports want to go.
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Posted: 03/24/2022 at 12:47PM