Half of that. You've got to contribute $30k for every 2 athletes.
Here comes the doomsday thread, sorry
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Is there a minimum sport component to this proposal?
ISU baseball the entire AD and keep 4 sports. Roll that up to $90k per athlete.
Add some sweet sweet Iowa Bacon cash and it's championship city
I guess there are people who buy season tickets to watch the band. Never understood it but they probably don’t understand how I can get wound up during a football game. Maybe the band can do some NIL stuff.
There will be less viewers for that product than there are for the current iteration of college football, but it absolutely would be viable.
I feel like they're betting on fans from the lower 2/3rds of the P5 becoming fans of a team that makes the cut, and that's just really unlikely.
A second NFL has never been successful. I'd like to hear the pitch on why an "elite" college league with a limited number of teams will be any different.
Schools run the conferences and the NCAA, so those loopholes would not fly in federal court.
Also the Landus headset thing kinda ticks me off. They pay no freaking dividends but a little on corn sales, especially compared to others but I get to watch my dividends go to a head set thing????
That is a good point...never thought of it that way? Interesting...
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Except for FSU, yes, you’re correct.
A 12-team playoff this year would have 10 teams that are in the SEC/B1G next year. TEN!
If you go back into ancient history far enough there is. The AFL existed as its own entity, and was successful enough to warrant absorption into the NFL as the AFC division.
But since the 1960's, yes, you are correct.
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To me, this is the NCAA trying to maintain their own relevance. This model, or something similar, is coming to college sports one way or another. Schools are going to compensate athletes. There's no avoiding that.
This feels like the NCAA trying to make sure that they're still involved when that happens, rather than see schools peel off and form their own governing body.
This feels like the NCAA trying to make sure that they're still involved when that happens, rather than see schools peel off and form their own governing body.
Wonder how those schools are going to like to compete with the new ones. Gotta think ole miss, Mizzou, OU (not in but first out), Penn state are all looking at each other and thinking this was a perfect storm but a few of us will not be in the playoffs next year due to the new comers.
These teams already have fan bases, they aren't starting from zero.
I'll just continue to watch ISU football, whatever division they end up in. What is happening to Washington State and Oregon State now is inevitably coming for us all (save for the Big 10 and SEC).
Built in fanbases.
This super league would make money, but I think it will make less money than it does now. The entire theory rides on the idea that the same number of people will watch all of these games, but the proceeds are split fewer ways.
If you eliminate 2/3rds of the current major programs from being allowed to participate, their fans aren't going to tune into the teams in the top division as much as they currently do. This will drive down ad revenue.
Thanks - Title IX would have to play into that "every 2" I would assume.
Get the portal fired up when you're not included though, unless the stated scholarship commitment comes into play.
And if you are not one of the selected 2, you merely get scholarships and the associated bennies or are merely PWOs?
