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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.
 
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