Every Federation wants to encash on IPL Model popularity. They get TV /sponsorship easily as well as Businessman to fund Franchise. IPL -Billiards. Next what? IPL Chess? :P
I believe I saw an article for an IPL-style chess league a month or two ago! It is getting outrageous. The IPL model is not a model that is sustainable for sports other than cricket and hockey. Cricket it works for as cricket is still a dominantly "international over club" sport where we see more India national team games than IPL games every year and in hockey we only get the one-month slot anyway.
For football the IPL model can only work initially to build hype but we can not keep going every year with a short-format which will lead to months of Indians forgetting about Indian football (Again, cricket is good in that the India cricket team plays enough to keep hype up) and not to mention that it seems like every edition in an IPL format will see brand new squads every season. Is this viable? No.
And I won't even go into detail on why a glamour league will not work with sports like billiards... actually, I will... IT IS NOT EVEN A POPULAR SPORT AND IT NEVER WILL BE TO THE EXTENT THAT AN IPL LEAGUE CAN WORK!
Of course they can probably make billiards into what darts is to the UK but darts is only popular there because of betting and the like... that is heavily restricted in India!
Soon Indian sports will need to outgrow this attitude that the IPL-model is the way to go. It is a nice start but not good for every sport.
With a short duration league, the promoters do not have to maintain or build any infrastructure, academy, training facilities or even any office. Thats why they prefer IPL Model.
Lalit Modi got this idea from ICL and yes he did put in some more, with the help of BCCI and their money, influence and power to make the IPL successful. Credit goes to whoever started ICL.
Comments
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/01/patriots-deflate-ball-super-bowl-disqualified-penalties-sanctions
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/chess/Chess-set-to-make-an-IPL-like-move/articleshow/16850994.cms
With a short duration league, the promoters do not have to maintain or build any infrastructure, academy, training facilities or even any office. Thats why they prefer IPL Model.
next step - Spelling Bee IPL