Any part of a person’s life that takes an unexpected twist or change can be tough for them to get used to. In this new day and age in sports and sports media, things can change in a second as rival leagues form in certain sports such as LIV Golf challenging the PGA Tour or the craziness that has become college football realignment.
On the latest episode of The Ryen Russillo Podcast, Russillo began the show with a monologue that said fans should expect changes in sports like we never seen before and that the business models of these leagues are going to be tested:
“I think we are at the beginning stages of unprecedented change in sports. All the things that we care about, pro sports leagues, players, all this stuff. I don’t know what’s going to change, but it’s going to be challenged in ways we’ve never seen before,” said Russillo.
Russillo makes the argument that fans can become used to the old way of leagues doing it such as the example he gives with the NFL having a salary cap and non-guaranteed contracts:
“I’m not saying this will happen, but I think we can at times become married to these outdated things that makes us think that we are actually operating things the right way…The NFL has a ton of mechanisms that are probably all wrong, but we actually probably liked it.”
With all that being said, even as changes get made to certain sports, Russillo thinks fans need to just accept that changes are going to happen and things eventually are not going to be way they used to be:
“The point I’m trying to make here is we are now at the beginning of sports being challenged in an unprecedented way. We’ve already seen it with college sports…I don’t know if the NBA, NFL, or MLB are ever going to be challenged the way the PGA Tour has been, but with media rights deals being the way they are and thinking about the way we have been accustomed to accepting so many things that are probably fundamentally wrong with just being employed in one of these leagues, a lot of us are probably going to have to come to grips with things that we don’t like that are actually probably right.”
