You'd do what Kilkenny have done, and get rid of all their promising young players that took them up. You'd have to release some young players as you panic to stay up as season went on, and they would become disillusioned
Kilkenny went up a year too soon, and hilariously, they are f*cked, surely you don't want the same to happen Waterford
When KK go down, the foreigners and journeymen leave what are they left with ? Nothing