Sports is entertainment, and so I wonder how different this situation is from when Napster broke the music business, and thus forced musicians to have to play in order to get paid, which is still the case with platforms like I-Tunes. Likewise, Kindle has made it so easy to self-publish that any sort of big time advance for writer's has become a thing of the past. Besides, there is just so much competing product out there, and so how exactly is the next great writer going to separate themselves from everyone else? The movie and television business too continues to become more diversified in the wake of excessive amounts of product that compete against one another as well. It's not that they aren't making money still, it is just that the money seems to be getting spread all over the place in terms of the talent in front of the camera. (Yes, the big studios still have their hands in the cookie jar, so to speak, but for how long?} Youtube combined with GoPro camera technology has changed the way that people see and access entertainment, and now a relative unknown can go from shooting family movies in the backyard to making millions.

Watching the Bobcats beat the Bonnies on ESPN+ tonight was great, but it was enough. I didn't feel the need to watch Duke, Michigan State, and Kentucky play tonight. I rarely watch a full NFL game anymore either. I sometimes catch the highlights, but sometimes I don't. This makes me wonder how much college athletes are really going to end up making at the end of the day off of these changes. After all, there is ESPN, ESPN II, ESPN 3, and on and on and on. The amount of product available out there is staggering.

The other question I have is what is the incentive now to go play for some of the Power 5 schools? Exposure? More money? Now that there are relative unknowns making millions of dollars off of Youtube, what is the incentive for young athletes to go too far from where they now live in order to get some National exposure? For the sake of argument, why risk sitting on the bench at Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky, or Kansas, when one can tear up the MAC?

I also see Power 5 schools, especially in football, scheduling too many cupcakes. As a fan, why would I settle for that, when I can watch an exciting and competitive game involving two Regional Rivals?