Here comes the doomsday thread, sorry
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Which is why it made no sense to have a 4 team playoff in the first place.
They are in the two conferences making the most media money, so yes. If looking at the supposed 100mil threshold that’s just the media rights deal for those big ten schools. That’s why this isn’t as currently a big deal super league as some have posted. It’s just cutting out the G5. Maybe a school like Cal, BC, Cinci, or Houston drop but that’s about it. Will be weird if this goes through how the inter conference dynamics play out
Also to consider is that if this happens, the Big 12 will be making more money as the excluded schools TV rights will be greatly devalued.
Agreed. Timing is everything. Just look at how the PAC-12 dissolution went down. It could have easily been reversed and the Big XII could have dissolved without breaks, shrewd negotiating and timing by Yormark, etc.
We are ALL SLAVES TO TV MONEY NOW!
I doubt I’d give too much of a crap about any of it to be honest. I find this garbage exhausting.
Mean old levee, taught me to weep and moan
I'm not sure it was even shrewd negotiating. He was just smart enough to take the deal as offered and not throw a bunch of conditions into it or try to hold them over for more money. It was more right place/right time than it was strategy.
This is the easiest way because if America doesn't watch, things change. The problem is the largest audience (these massive schools like Texas, Ohio State etc.) are more than enough to feed the beast and this is the United States where we don't give a **** about anyone else but ourselves. What saved the English Premier League and all of that a couple of years ago was not only all of the smaller soccer clubs and fans rioting against the stupid super league BUT you also had the fans and clubs at the elite/blue blood level right there with them. Tradition and the right thing means WAY more to those cultures than what we have here.
Here we have fan bases (Texas and OU) laughing at former conference mates in the Big 12 and actually hoping for their demise. It's some weird twisted **** and just a microcosm of America.
It’s just sports. People talk about relegation/promotion all of the time, it’s the same way in every country with their football. Arsenal fans would LOVE to see Spurs go down, Inter fans would LOVE to see AC go down, Barca fans would potentially cut off a testicle to see Madrid get relegated.
Texas historically really really loves and embraces that.
Actually exact opposite.
No change to March Madness in the current proposal according to Dellenger:
But what would end it is a complete P2 or P4 breakaway from the NCAA, which I think is what this proposal is seeking to prevent.
This is an interesting point, if they don’t control the playoff (kinda forgot that) then there isn’t a point to doing this if the G5 still gets in. I have to imagine that the CFP would make a change that says you have to be in this new strata to be an at large bid otherwise this is just a move to head off lawsuits nothing else.
Absolutely. The entire FSU screw job boils down to the fact that they had to have the SEC Champ in, and there was no way to justify having Bama in and leaving Texas out. So they had to invent an excuse to leave out FSU.
Man it just feels like the NCAA is latching on for the ride. I would’ve liked to have seen better leadership out of them these past 15 years to manage the changing landscape and lead positive, sustainable change.
I guess the schools could just leave if the NCAA pushed too hard, but it’s disappointing to see the NCAA become a P2 whipping boy in the interest of its own survival.
