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MEGA Conference Realignment and lawsuits Megathread: Stories, Tales, Lies, and Exaggerations

TheOriginalCane said:
Oh good lord…it’s not communism…it’s the very definition of risk management. It’s like insurance companies.

You find 18 schools. Some are bigger, some are smaller. They cover a huge swath of geography. Some do more research. Some are better at football. Some are better at basketball. Some have better in-person attendance, some have better TV ratings. And it all works out. Everyone gets more money from the conference from ALL sources than they would have gotten independently.

Instead, some of you act as if the “perfect model” of a conference would involve having 4 or 5 teams that dominate in every way, including revenue payouts. And that’s not how things work. It’s certainly not how things work best.
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I agree.....as long as every school utilizes or at least appears to utilize an adequate portion of conference money on being as competitive as possible.
 
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cookies said:
Good article that rehashes some conversations being had here; and it points to a fair inflection point—the B1G poaching Penn State from the BIG East.

www.footballscoop.com

Fox Sports CEO outlines plan to turn college football into the NFL lite

In 2006, the Big Ten and the Fox Corporation began their partnership to create the Big Ten Network.
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Thank you for the article. It is very interesting and outlines to me part of the reason why college football is in the position it is now in.

Fox Sports is dictating and B1G is following suit. Instead of the sport dictating to its TV partner how its product will be broadcast, a subsection of the sport is making decisions that are best for that subsection of schools, but is not good for the health of the rest of the sport.
 
cookies said:
Good article that rehashes some conversations being had here; and it points to a fair inflection point—the B1G poaching Penn State from the BIG East.

www.footballscoop.com

Fox Sports CEO outlines plan to turn college football into the NFL lite

In 2006, the Big Ten and the Fox Corporation began their partnership to create the Big Ten Network.
www.footballscoop.com www.footballscoop.com
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"..Fox wants to nationalize college football because its believes there's more money in catering to casuals than serving diehards. It wants to trade USC-Oregon State for USC-Ohio State, and doesn't care if it requires shipping UCLA softball to Ann Arbor or completely crushes Oregon State in the process..."
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- Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks

"...Reducing the stakes for non-conference games and lowering the bar for CFP participation would keep more people invested in college football for longer, I have no doubt about that. It would also turn college football into an entirely different sport than what it used to be, and I have serious doubts Fox or the Big Ten care."
 
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Empirical Cane said:
"..Fox wants to nationalize college football because its believes there's more money in catering to casuals than serving diehards. It wants to trade USC-Oregon State for USC-Ohio State, and doesn't care if it requires shipping UCLA softball to Ann Arbor or completely crushes Oregon State in the process..."
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- Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks

"...Reducing the stakes for non-conference games and lowering the bar for CFP participation would keep more people invested in college football for longer, I have no doubt about that. It would also turn college football into an entirely different sport than what it used to be, and I have serious doubts Fox or the Big Ten care."
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Yup. And they're going to get the 24 team playoff format they crave too. Espn's monopoly on CFP is coming to a close. And the streaming giants haven't even begun to flex yet. Will there be casualties? Absolutely. Is the college model at large going to be up ended? It already has. You need to break eggs to make an omelet and college athletics is long over due for a reset. Luckily miami is in no danger of being caught flat footed under the new regime. Just sit back and watch the corporate machine we've constructed work. Miami has never been in a better place.
 
Canesfan1993 said:
Yup. And they're going to get the 24 team playoff format they crave too. Espn's monopoly on CFP is coming to a close. And the streaming giants haven't even begun to flex yet. Will there be casualties? Absolutely. Is the college model at large going to be up ended? It already has. You need to break eggs to make an omelet and college athletics is long over due for a reset. Luckily miami is in no danger of being caught flat footed under the new regime. Just sit back and watch the corporate machine we've constructed work. Miami has never been in a better place.
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Santo Mario has forseen this and continues to build the roster to compete from Sep - Jan.
 
Georgia’s AD

“If you were 16 teams, you would hopefully assume the top four SEC teams are probably in that mix, right, and we maybe still keep the SEC weekend important,” said Brooks, who heads a calendar subgroup of the Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee. “I would be in favor of maybe the fifth ranked SEC team playing the eighth ranked team, the six playing seven. That way five through eight get datapoints to show (the CFP selection committee). We saw a little of that bubbling up last year when there were rumors of Vanderbilt playing someone else to bolster their resume.”
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