You are assigning an opinion to me that I do not hold. At all.
Well, the only proposals we ever read are: Teams want part of the TV money in some form or other. So what is your solution? In the stuff you wrote below you never address the problem organizers have. You address team problems, can even agree with UAE, Bahrain etc that shouldn't be there. But.... teams go and new ones come, big sponsors leave, no successor found, yes, a big problem, at the moment, but 15 years or so later, who misses Telekom/T-Mobile/Columbia? New sponsors came, all ended well. Sponsoring cycling is still extremely good value.
What is problematic for smaller sponsors is the World Tour, that nowadays is just there because it's there, there's no concept, no thought behind it anymore, at least Hein V. had that (you could disagree with lots of his plans, but at least he had them). Leaving only 2 WCs to the organizers of the GTs... possibly 3 if one of the non WT teams with automatic invitation declines... that's what would keep me away from sponsoring a team if I was the owner of a small or middle italian company. That Kern had to be left out of the Vuelta 25 because the Vuelta simply has decided to do a rotation of the 4 small spanish teams... that's a much bigger problem than the super teams (that are indeed a problem too, but IMO a smaller one)
Do you know the financials of organisers? Maybe there is a lot of room for improvement
No I don't.
But since the swiss are famous for how badly they manage money I'm sure it's just mismanagement on their part.
Probably the same for Paris-Nice, the Flèche, Liège and Dauphiné. Must be bad management that made ASO take over.
No idea why Coppa Placci, Giro del Lazio are not ridden anymore. Why Giro del Veneto and Giro della Romagna just came back after long breaks. No idea why Milano-Torino and the Giro del Piemonte weren't ridden some years. No idea, after all I don't know their financials. Maybe they just stopped organizing the races for fun? Or took some breaks to pursue a career in organizing pottery-competitions?
Also no idea why Flanders classic is now organizing a bunch of races, including the historic ennemies Omloop and Ronde.
And of course I haven't the slightest clue why the GP Cerami, that used to have a very decent (that's even an understatement) winners list nowadays is just a 1.2 race.
So there indeed seems to be lot of improvement possible for all these inept organizers. All they have to do is pay parts of their TV money to teams! A proposal you have endorsed repeatedly if I remember correctly.
Or maybe the change from lots of different organizers to basically 3 big organziers, ASO (ok, 1 superbig) RCS and Flanders classic, with the rest holdouts, indicates that organizing a cycling race is not really profitable. You need a big race like the Tour, maybe partially Paris-Roubaix to subsidize the rest, Giro already not enough to subsidize the "minor" RCS races, Piemonte, Milano-Torino. With Strade Bianche though they might have found another winner...Without that "hit", you're a "small independent" organizer, you need local support, I guess. Government money, donation by local clubs, whatever. Switzerland doesn't seem to have that, so the TdS surely looks to be the next to fall and be absorbed by ASO at this point. As much as I dislike ASO too much power, but hopefully absorbed by ASO at this point. Because if you dismiss all the buzzwords about concepts, vision and bla bla what remains in that communiqué is: We don't have the money to continue like this.
So team sponsors PAYING organizers would certainly make more sense than teams getting a share of the TV money... But of course neither is going to happen, if you want to have another business model the Velon-One Cycling, whatever it's called nowadays certainly isn't the answer.
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