(07-15-2017 10:00 AM)AppManDG Wrote: Don't know if I'd call it a "local" happening, but by the end of 2001 most of the publicly traded dotcom companies were gone, and trillions of dollars of investment capital vanished.
Travel costs are down in G5? According to who? They sure aren't for App. Call it a "bus league" mentality if you will, but sending your teams thousands of miles away and while your students miss an exorbitant amout of class time, when there are schools close by your fans would rather play is the definition of stupidity.
I don't see where your analogy to the tech bubble fits. Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Intel were all around when the Tech bubble burst. When you've got any kind of technological renaissance like you had in the 1990s there's going to be a gold rush and many investors and entrepreneurs are going to come back empty handed.
Here's my breakdown of the situation:
1. Is the Bowl situation better than it used to be? Yes. At one time you practically had to win the conference championship to get to a bowl game and now the conference has five bowl tie-ins, with more possibly on the way. The ratings are not bad at all, too.
2. Is the TV contract situation better than it used to be? Yes. We get pocket change, but still better than what the Sun Belt would once get. And increased availability of stations like ESPN2 and ESPNU helps exposure for non-major FBS leagues.
3. Is post-season money better than it used to be? No question. You only need compare what the G5 gets from the CFP compared with the BCS as I said. And as I said before, there's automatic access to the NY6 bowls.
On top of that, GS and App (as an example) have significantly increased their budgets since moving to FBS. Being concerned because your travel costs went up several hundred thousand dollars a year just seems like missing the forest for the trees.