In case you missed it this week, the proposed European Super League - a grouping of 12 of the most famous and financially powerful soccer teams in Europe - fell apart spectacularly under the weight of fan protests and widespread condemnation by players and governments.
This whole saga has gotten me thinking a lot about the future of college football, because in many ways, college football faces some similar problems to European football.
The whole enterprise is generating massive sums of money, but at the end of the day, almost everyone says they don’t have any money:
- The smaller power conference programs need to raise and spend ever increasing amounts of money to compete with the quasi-professional teams who are running the sport.