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Hokie1992

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Absolutely, and who has the infrastructure in place?


college football does.

There are two big parts, one a stadium to play games in and two, training and practice facilities.

I'm going to go on a limb and say the ship sailed long ago on minor football and basketball. The NFL and NBA made a choice to use colleges as their minor league 100 and 60 years ago.

In 2017, the cost of standing up an NFL or NBA development league would be prohibitive. A minor league would have to match what an FCS level program can provide a kid.

The novelty of "semi-pro football" in the spring would be entertaining. But as I said, the cost of the infrastructure to support it versus the amount of money people would be willing to pay to watch the product wouldn't add up.

(In response to this post by VTHokie2000)

Posted: 08/09/2017 at 07:21AM



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