I don't get this new found love for track moving to club status. The last times clubs had any sort of significance was maybe back in the late 60's and early 70's just before pro track began it's initial run. There quite a few clubs around the country, limited in scope and many functioning on a shoe string budget.
I ran for two national caliber clubs and let me tell you it wasn't anything like running for your college team. Our club members were located in different cities often in different states, rarely trained together and met at meet locations, sleeping in the same hotel if we stayed someplace overnight and that was about as much social interaction we had each weekend of competition. Sometimes you got to meet a new teammate "on the fly" at a meet in some distant state. That happened one year when one of our 4x4 guys didn't show up and our club coach found a guy in the stands to run a leg on our team. It turned out to be Fred Sowerby, but I don't remember any of our guys knowing who he was at the time, as it was early in his career and he was redshirting at Murray State.
Often times we traveled from one meet to the next, running in Baltimore on a Thursday night, New York City on Friday night and Boston or Toronto on Saturday night. It reminded me of the old barnstorming baseball players of the old days, traveling in some rickety old yellow bus from one town to the next. We mostly drove ourselves to each meet location, only rarely flying when we would go to Cleveland or Toronto or down to Florida for meets.
Some of you might think the European model would work here in the US, but you might want to understand the geography of Europe compared to the US. Where a five hour trip in Europe could take you to 3-4 different countries, here very often you don't even get out of your own state in 5 hours.
Club teams in Europe have been around a long time and many included other sports, such as soccer to go along with track and field, providing additional support for maintaining facilities. In fact, I saw a number of facilities in Europe where the soccer field was inside the track location, all fenced off and locked up, open only to members of the two sport teams.
Australia was another place where I witnessed club track and field and many athletes down there complained about the limited exposure to competition, usually consisting of Friday night meets against surrounding local communities, week after week. By the time the athletes were of mature age and capable of competing on the world stage, they had tired of the sport. I gave some cliinics down there and had many of the club coaches ask me how the US was able to keep their young athletes interested in running after high school. I remember telling them of the great college system in place in the US.
Finally, what about facilities, training rooms, professional coaching, equipment, and do you really think club track and field would be an appealing spectator sport that would provide the necessary funding to run a club garnered from the gate receipts and local TV? In today's world getting 2,000 people to show up for Millrose is a huge success. The days of drawing 20,000 plus to a meet are long gone.
I would strongly suggest you rethink that club track and field is the next utopia for our sport.