Do you guys think it's plausible that, more than just the health concerns, the athletes themselves (the kids and students, more than the parents) are going to start choosing other sports over football to pursue a career in?
The impetus being the long-term financial viability of football. Running backs are being drafted and discarded way quickly, and other positions are being treated as temp positions, too.
I just wonder if the kids themselves will become shrewd enough to notice that basketball and baseball players are making way more money for longer a period of time.
Of course, the thing that makes players choose football is the right to beatpeople up and the celebration we throw onto them for it, so maybe kids are going to choose the praise over the long-term job security. Hell, Steve Nash, Vince Carter, Kobe and Garnett are still making money. Don't know too many equivalents in football.
In other words, I wonder if football has begun to approach that ceiling...where now they need players more than the players need them...