It might be there in a couple of years but it certainly isn’t there now. No other minor league set-up requires its players to be full-time students in good standing at an university. That’s the biggest difference and the biggest time drain for the players under the current dynamic.
When you have one collective of 30-40 schools that get all, not most but all, of the attention, media money, and blue chip players, then we’ll be there. Since the media is what’s driving this train, we might even have some sort of arrangement where the only thing “college-like” about these football teams is their name. You could have a situation where the players are professionals, and not students, playing under the banner of a famous university. At that point, it will be minor league football.
The question is if it will be successful. All other attempts at establishing alternate leagues or minor league football have fallen flat on their faces, especially with the viewing market. Can a conference of 30-40 top college teams but that plays at a lower skill level than, say the XFL, be successful just because of the university names attached to it? I guess we’ll see. All I know is that I won’t be watching unless Utah is part of it.
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