[Maple Leaf]

What hasn't been mentioned is that young people just don't watch television--at all.  Both my children (in their 20s) watch e-sports online and neither watches professional or college sports--or any television.  In fact, they don't own TVs and have no desire to have one.  Nor do any of their friends.

E-sports is a foreign world to me.  While e-sports are not YET ready to supplant TV revenues for "real" sports, Dota2 has already given out $225 million in prize money, and it is merely the first among a couple of dozen online games that have professional players--many of them college age or younger.  In fact, I would not be surprised to learn that there are at least a couple of Stanford students making big bucks on e-sports. 

So 1) there is the issue of a generation of people devoted to online gaming and disinterested in athletics, and 2) even if they were not--they don't watch TV, which will eventually undermine the main revenue stream that college sports currently relies upon.

Which means the only tv adds you will see in the future are for prostate treatment, incontinent issues, hearing aids, back and joint pain, chair lifts and a little blue pill.  No sure if that will generate enough dollars.  Maybe someday the head football coach at Power 5 U will have the same salary as the campus window washer.

[Maple Leaf]

What hasn't been mentioned is that young people just don't watch television--at all.  Both my children (in their 20s) watch e-sports online and neither watches professional or college sports--or any television.  In fact, they don't own TVs and have no desire to have one.  Nor do any of their friends.

E-sports is a foreign world to me.  While e-sports are not YET ready to supplant TV revenues for "real" sports, Dota2 has already given out $225 million in prize money, and it is merely the first among a couple of dozen online games that have professional players--many of them college age or younger.  In fact, I would not be surprised to learn that there are at least a couple of Stanford students making big bucks on e-sports. 

So 1) there is the issue of a generation of people devoted to online gaming and disinterested in athletics, and 2) even if they were not--they don't watch TV, which will eventually undermine the main revenue stream that college sports currently relies upon.

Which means the only tv adds you will see in the future are for prostate treatment, incontinent issues, hearing aids, back and joint pain, chair lifts and a little blue pill.  No sure if that will generate enough dollars.  Maybe someday the head football coach at Power 5 U will have the same salary as the campus window washer.