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Originally Posted by dawgfan
The Big Ten is safe for the foreseeable future. At some point demographics may reduce the alumni base of those schools (given the much slower population growth in their main footprint), but we're talking decades and there will certainly be other, more immediate factors that could change the landscape before then. And hell, climate change might reverse that slow growth and send more people back to the rust belt...
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I think college football dying is a lot more likely a scenario. Whether because of increased lawsuits/drying up youth numbers due to brain damage worries, or more likely because the courts (or Congress) finally step in and effectively force the NFL to pay for and create it's own minor league system that is no longer officially tied to colleges. Or with the advances in technology maybe the current college model where large groups of students live in/near a central location becomes anachronistic.
I don't think any of that's likely by 2050, but I'd say that's slightly more realistic and likely to happen before the stagnant demographics of the rust belt or global warming starts playing a role
