(12-22-2019 05:10 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(12-22-2019 02:58 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Actually when they go bankrupt it tends to be because they borrowed to bolster their roster to avoid relegation and ended up relegated and can't float their debt with the revenue from the lower tier league and severance from the higher tier.

If they didn't have pro/rel they would have no need for any sort of cap. They are free marketers with no draft and no salary cap. The debt cap only exists to keep the politicians out because they get interested when a hundred year old club gets liquidated in bankruptcy.

Caps are the norm. Formula 1 use to be the ultimate no limits sport. And then a bunch of Texans showed up with a snowmobile engine in the back of a racecar that was doing nothing but sucking the entire chassis down onto the road like a street sweeper. They crushed everybody. That company was Chaparral Cars in the US. Formula 1 got to where the cars were so fast and so powerful that a crash at speed was usually fatal. The very best in the sport ... people like Aryton Senna ... were also perversely the most likely to die playing it. Mercedes and Ferrari and McLaren were proudly spending 7 and 8 figures to shave off a second or two a lap. Formula 1 came around to see that killing off its name brand players was a bad idea and that the largest checkbook wins will ultimately turn away more fans than it will win. NCAAFB will either learn from the Formula 1s of the world or it will destroy itself trying to wring the last 20% of money like a sponge for the top 12-15 programs.

They're going the other way. I bet Alabama has more "analysts" than the NFL teams.
Any type of specific salary cap is unconstitutional. Now they may be legally able to cap total coach's salaries. I just don't see that as remotely likely.