This thread is about non conference.

You posted "the day its bat provided will be the day the conference ends too"

I definitely didn't read it the way you are now explaining it. I read it that you were saying bat and ball provided conference would be the end of the conference. I disagreed.

I don't know if revenue from bat sales going down would be the death of the conference or an association. You may or may not be right but its possible those revenue losses could be made up somewhere else but I don't see it ever happening so who cares.