The big 4 will be giving us cement filled parachutes and telling us it's really nylon.
Why none of this may matter.
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I honestly think that was some of the strategy of not joining the PAC and taking the money. The break away super league was looming.
G5 will have it own version of national championship.
G5 will have it own version of national championship.
I'm sorry last I checked this was America where we talk about Football, not some game played by foppish Brits.
Not nearly as much, but March Madness lost a little bit of oomph for me when they started adding more teams.
But to be honest, UNLV not being even close had a lot to do with it too.
If we don’t have any opportunity whatsoever, no matter how unrealistic … to compete with the big boys, yeah, feels really lame.
If the football system is rebuilt, there are a lot of teams in the power 4 conferences that would also be left on the sideline. Higly unlikely that teams like Northwestern, Vanderbilt, California, Stanford, West Virginia, Cincinnati, UCF, TCU, Purdue, Rutgers, etc. would still be part of the final group. My expectation is that ultimately the teams in control like Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, USC, etc. will continue to be greedy and ultimately destroy the media cash flow due to more and more areas of the country losing interest in watching these games when they involve regional teams from other areas of the country that are of no interest outside of those areas. Considering less than 5 percent of potential viewers watch the top rated college football games, they do not really have a lot of wiggle room before funds will start to dry up. More and more people have walked away from cable and traditional TV, and now it is becoming much more common to pay for streaming services, but how many people are going to be willing to pay for streaming services to watch teams that do not interest them?
Without go back to the article, the dispersion amounts for the various tiers were still a lot more than the existing payouts. It compared the tiers to current conferences and the payouts were like double.
Also, there are 67 teams in AQs, but then you have to add Notre Dame… so 68.
I just wouldn't care anymore honestly. Without a 'relegation/promotion' aspect why would boosters care anymore or donate for the other 'championship'. Unless the money is so astronomical to pass up, why would a school like Vany or Illinois or ASU agree to a system where they could get demoted?
I suspect the 70 number came when Wazzu and Oregon St. were included. Sadly for them, no more.
What is interesting with all of this is what are they looking for with inclusion to the "haves". Are they looking at media value only, or are they trying to get the 70 best teams?
I think it may be tough to exclude bad teams in good conferences, but they could?
As for us going or staying when it comes to the PAC, I doubt that would have any bearing in being invited to the big boy table. If they downgrade teams and upgrade teams, it will not matter if we are in the PAC or MW. The new PAC teams do not need to be kicking themselves now. The Superconference will take any team they want regardless of conference.
I think it may be tough to exclude bad teams in good conferences, but they could?
As for us going or staying when it comes to the PAC, I doubt that would have any bearing in being invited to the big boy table. If they downgrade teams and upgrade teams, it will not matter if we are in the PAC or MW. The new PAC teams do not need to be kicking themselves now. The Superconference will take any team they want regardless of conference.
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Yep.
Again not doom and gloom. None of us know.
But that could be the end result.
That's my point with regards to this plan. The people planning this think they're going to capture the whole CFB tv market, but I feel like they would actually significantly decrease it. And why would the bottom 2/3 of the 70 teams agree to this? They'd probably be better off teaming up and saying screw off. Worst case would be those top 16 or so schools try to break off and form their own league. If that's the case.
Lets make every season predictable and the same. They might as well set in stone when we play each team in our “region”. What a terrible idea. This is a lazy cookie cutter short term solution, that is penny wise, but dollar dumb.
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