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

[cookies]

Other members of the presidential committee include ESPN and Fox executives; business magnates like Gerry Cardinale and David Blitzer; Boris Epshteyn, a Republican political strategist and long-time adviser to President Donald Trump; and the committee chair, Cody Campbell, the Texas billionaire and close ally to Trump who’s leading a federal campaign to overhaul college sports along with New York Yankees president Randy Levine.

Gerry Cardinale is apart of the Ellison family’s purchase of Paramount and Warner Brothers so presumably this is a done deal lmao. Only business interest not represented is NBC/Comcast/Universal conglomerate.

Can’t even fight it. Big ten threw their big boy weight around and are forcing SEC/ESPN to fold for the 24 team playoff……this probably the last year of conference championship games

 

[CaneinBroward]

Other members of the presidential committee include ESPN and Fox executives; business magnates like Gerry Cardinale and David Blitzer; Boris Epshteyn, a Republican political strategist and long-time adviser to President Donald Trump; and the committee chair, Cody Campbell, the Texas billionaire and close ally to Trump who’s leading a federal campaign to overhaul college sports along with New York Yankees president Randy Levine.

Boris may want to change that last name.

 

[Hold My Beer]

……this probably the last year of conference championship games

Yeah, been saying for a couple years that CCG's were living on borrowed time.

Fans have already moved on, e.g. the UGA-Horns SEC CCG in 2024 had several thousand empty seats — and that game was played IN ATLANTA.

All this "the conferences won't get rid of them because they make too much money" came from folks not looking far enough down the road to recognize there can be other paths to generate even more revenue.

Start playoffs the week after Thanksgiving:

• First round: 8 games (window of Dec. 1-7)
• Second round: 8 games (Dec. 8-14)
• Quarterfinals: 4 games (Dec. 15-21)
• Off week of Christmas
• Semifinals on New Year's Day
• National championship the Monday after next (~ Jan. 9-15)

 

[TheOriginalCane]

……this probably the last year of conference championship games

Then this is probably the perfect year to win the ACC.

 

[hurricaneman]

Gerry Cardinale is apart of the Ellison family’s purchase of Paramount and Warner Brothers so presumably this is a done deal lmao. Only business interest not represented is NBC/Comcast/Universal conglomerate.

Can’t even fight it. Big ten threw their big boy weight around and are forcing SEC/ESPN to fold for the 24 team playoff……this probably the last year of conference championship games

I know the world has always operated this way that people with money have more power than the other 300 million people in a country but there's something about this day and age where the people with money have dropped any attempt to exercise that power somewhat modestly and gone full mask off. These people are speed running the destruction of everything they touch.

 

[Tony4Canes]