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]

 

[Tony4Canes]

And it begins..

 

[CaneinBroward]

And it begins..

Was expecting it to happen to G6 schools, private schools, or even ACC/Big XII schools, but a state flagship school in the fat cat $EC? Wow.

 

[Hold My Beer]

There were nine players on the men's roster: one from Arkansas, one from Texas and the rest from outside the US. A similar makeup with the women's team. From what I've read elsewhere, this isn't uncommon in college tennis at the D1 level.

Cutting a complete non-revenue sport like tennis also helps amplify a message from conference commissioners and school administrators about the need for congressional help wrt to passing the SCORE Act. We've heard from those folks over and over that non-revenue sports cannot survive in a world without it. Here's an example

 

[Hold My Beer]

Was expecting it to happen to G6 schools, private schools, or even ACC/Big XII schools, but a state flagship school in the fat cat $EC? Wow.

Wouldn't be surprised at all if the Arkansas AD and Greg Sankey were in alignment about the timing of this announcement. The SEC and B1G — and most of the ACC/B1G schools not named Texas Tech — want this legislation passed

 

[dccane06]

There were nine players on the men's roster: one from Arkansas, one from Texas and the rest from outside the US. A similar makeup with the women's team. From what I've read elsewhere, this isn't uncommon in college tennis at the D1 level.

Cutting a complete non-revenue sport like tennis also helps amplify a message from conference commissioners and school administrators about the need for congressional help wrt to passing the SCORE Act. We've heard from those folks over and over that non-revenue sports cannot survive in a world without it. Here's an example

This is common in a ton of sports all over the country. Swimming, tennis, cross country, etc. Coaches for those programs want to win now and international (older, more developed) athletes, give them the best chance of doing so.

 

[Silentobserver]

This is common in a ton of sports all over the country. Swimming, tennis, cross country, etc. Coaches for those programs want to win now and international (older, more developed) athletes, give them the best chance of doing so.

Same with men's soccer. Bring in former professionals who are 21, 22, 23 freshmen.

 

[Hold My Beer]

This is common in a ton of sports all over the country. Swimming, tennis, cross country, etc. Coaches for those programs want to win now and international (older, more developed) athletes, give them the best chance of doing so.

Not to mention that those individual sports you mention are much more of a niche undertaking in this country where the vast majority of good athletes choose to focus on team sports

 

[QuattroCane]

There were nine players on the men's roster: one from Arkansas, one from Texas and the rest from outside the US. A similar makeup with the women's team. From what I've read elsewhere, this isn't uncommon in college tennis at the D1 level.

Cutting a complete non-revenue sport like tennis also helps amplify a message from conference commissioners and school administrators about the need for congressional help wrt to passing the SCORE Act. We've heard from those folks over and over that non-revenue sports cannot survive in a world without it. Here's an example

Good point that’s the case with a lot of Olympic sports. Women’s golf is overrun with foreign students.
When you look at a LPGA event you see it as well.

 

[dccane06]

Each SEC cross-country and LD track events have "their kenyans"

 

[Hold My Beer]

Euthanize the ACC, let the SEC, B1G and XII rummage for parts and have the new "P3" (more like the P2 and their little brother) go off and do their own things.

Combining the G6 schools with a handful of the top programs in FCS to create a new classification would make a lot more sense, competitively speaking