Picture this, they create teams per state/region with private owners. Each year there is a draft and teams pick anything and everything from a thrower to sprinter. They compete as team all year, just like they do in the NFL or even NCAA T&F. This would help promote the sport and make is easier for the casual fan to follow. This may allow for increase Salaries for players as well.
Thoughts?
Yup.
ethand123 wrote:
Picture this, they create teams per state/region with private owners. Each year there is a draft and teams pick anything and everything from a thrower to sprinter. They compete as team all year, just like they do in the NFL or even NCAA T&F. This would help promote the sport and make is easier for the casual fan to follow. This may allow for increase Salaries for players as well.
Thoughts?
That’s not a bad idea., but just had a wild idea of my own. what about structuring it like roller derby where they can hit each other as they run around the indoor oval?!?
Why not. It works in ncaa
ethand123 wrote:
Picture this, they create teams per state/region with private owners. Each year there is a draft and teams pick anything and everything from a thrower to sprinter. They compete as team all year, just like they do in the NFL or even NCAA T&F. This would help promote the sport and make is easier for the casual fan to follow. This may allow for increase Salaries for players as well.
Thoughts?
It would go bankrupt in less than a year.
ethand123 wrote:
Why not. It works in ncaa
Well the labor is virtually free and that helps, but not sure how well it "works". How many people show up for that April in season meet?
Winter Outdoor Track should start 2nd week of January, which championships end of March.
ethand123 wrote:
Why not. It works in ncaa
It's similar to how the NCAA is organized, but saying that it "works" for getting more eyeballs on the sport is a stretch.
They should take a page from the English Premier League and facilitate leagues all the way down to 7th division, or local pub leagues, with the ability to work one's way up.
You nail one thing; as long as Usatf/wa are in charge nothing will ever happen. No successful pro sport was led by its governing bureaucracy.
What is needed is entrepreneurs. Best model is actually a tour like golf of tennis.
Challenge is track has more athletes with shorter careers and less weeks of competitive season, but it's a starting point.
Wild Idea wrote:
what about structuring it like roller derby where they can hit each other as they run around the indoor oval?!?
We already have that. It's called an indoor 800.
NFL-NBA-MLB splits TV revenue and Ticket sales, 50-50 with the players. That's before overhead deductions, expenses, taxes, royalties, etc. are calculated. Pete Rozelle established that policy in the 1950s with the Los Angeles Rams.
dreamers wrote:
They should take a page from the English Premier League and facilitate leagues all the way down to 7th division, or local pub leagues, with the ability to work one's way up.
The talent would be watered down to the point of not being able to charge more than a few bucks to attend.
I think Tennis is a better model for track. Focus on a few majors per year so that the best in the world are competing against each other instead of having a thousand nothing events all over the place.
This works better at a global level than a national level, though. Like tennis, we should forget about nationality/teams and just have the best compete.