Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

[HouClone]

I know this has been said often. Similar to the NFL collective bargining and salary cap implementation, college footbll will need to do something to bring competitive balance. Without the NFL salary cap, the Cowboys and San Fran as well as a few others would by buying Super Bowls. I don't konw the answer for college football but it's obviously broken. Hopefully it's not beyond repair?

Bob Thompson and Patrick Crakes, both tv guys, say tv media wants like teams where there won't be blowouts. And they say that is where it is going. Basically, heading to top brands. Well, I really hope that somehow this can be stopped. The people and players rose up and stopped it for soccer in Europe. But that is professional and different situation.

ISU will be out of this super league. I have zero interest in watching this. Bob Thompson said college could have the Saturday Ticket like the NFL Sunday Ticket. Give me a break.

 

[simply1]

Bob Thompson and Patrick Crakes, both tv guys, say tv media wants like teams where there won't be blowouts. And they say that is where it is going. Basically, heading to top brands. Well, I really hope that somehow this can be stopped. The people and players rose up and stopped it for soccer in Europe. But that is professional and different situation.

ISU will be out of this super league. I have zero interest in watching this. Bob Thompson said college could have the Saturday Ticket like the NFL Sunday Ticket. Give me a break.

I don’t see how it’s a national ticket I guess, large populated sections of the country don’t care for college sports like they do pro sports.

 

[simply1]

 

[FerShizzle]

Brett Yormark did that.

 

[KnappShack]

Not sure why they would make such a bold move.

Kliavkoff was such a rock solid leader. There'll be books written about his leadership

 

[aeroclone]

 

[Clonehomer]

Am I the only one that assumed this had already happened months ago when he drove the car into the ditch?

 

[LLCoolCY]

Don’t like the sound of this, not one bit.

 

[Al_4_State]

Don’t like the sound of this, not one bit.

It's always going to be "you get less or we take our ball and play by ourselves".

It'll probably be something where you get revenue on a per team basis, and the conferences with the most teams in get the most revenue.

 

[Clonehomer]

Don’t like the sound of this, not one bit.

Well of course they’re going to push for that. The question is just how much resistance they’ll get. If the other conferences hold together, they can overrule the SEC and Big10. The threats of breaking away are overblown at this point. Even if they don’t want to admit it, the SEC and Big10 still need the other conferences to keep CFB relevant. And they also need the other conferences for other sports. So they can’t just walk away.

 

[cyfan92]

At what point could the Pac-12, ACC, Big 12, and others sue the B1G and $EC for creating a duopoly? Could their be damages that could be paid to the other conferences?

 

[nrg4isu]

It's always going to be "you get less or we take our ball and play by ourselves".

It'll probably be something where you get revenue on a per team basis, and the conferences with the most teams in get the most revenue.

Things like this make me feel like I'm a ******* communist. Who exactly is out there at these schools saying, man we need a few hundred million more than these other conferences? I know the answer is "never", but when is enough enough? Can we not take the foot off the greed gas pedal for a second and think about what's best for the entire sport?

 

[SCNCY]

After the Big12's experience with Texas, I see the Big10 and SEC acting in a similar way. Essentially, the Big12 bowed down to Texas in order to keep them happy in order to receive higher payouts for everyone. In the end, Texas still left for their own big payout, despite what every other school has done in the past to keep them to stay. The Big 10 and SEC are probably going to do the same thing and continue to ask for concessions from everyone else. What these other conferences should do is not shy away from telling them no, because in the end, they can just up and leave when they want, just like Texas did.

Agreeing with what the SEC and Big 10 want is probably not going to be in the best interest of every other conference long term. Just like how the Big 12 did with Texas; I'm sure looking back, the conference could have done certain things differently to be in a better spot today, but we didn't because of Texas.

 

[Al_4_State]

At what point could the Pac-12, ACC, Big 12, and others sue the B1G and $EC for creating a duopoly? Could their be damages that could be paid to the other conferences?

I don't think that happens unless they break off.

And the Pac 12 doesn't exist any more, so it would be the Big 12 and the ACC.

 

[CyCrazy]

I don't even care anymore about this garbage, lets get to the end game and we all move on, whatever that may be.

 

[snowcraig2.0]

College sports are slowly dying.

 

[Drew0311]

I hate everytime this thread pops back up

 

[Beernuts]

Things like this make me feel like I'm a ******* communist. Who exactly is out there at these schools saying, man we need a few hundred million more than these other conferences? I know the answer is "never", but when is enough enough? Can we not take the foot off the greed gas pedal for a second and think about what's best for the entire sport?

Greed...it's as old as time...

Proverbs 11:24​

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer;
another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want​

 

[isucy86]

Don’t like the sound of this, not one bit.

This doesn't surprise me a bit. The NCAA hoops tournament is already set up this way. Conferences get a share of payouts based on the # of games played and its paid out over something like 6 years.

Linked is article about how hoops money is split and breakdown by Conference. The one interesting point is the hoops payout range isn't all that drastic (other than Pac12): $34M SEC, $32M Big12, $30M BigEast, $28M Big10, $24M ACC and $14M Pac12.

I gotta feel in the end there will be a fixed payout to each conference and then payouts like the hoops tournament. The key is what is the ratio of fixed vs. performance pool money. I am OK with the Big10 and SEC making more money if they get more teams in the 12 team playoff, but I feel the ratio should be somewhere around 75% fixed vs. 25% performance.

 

[Nor'easter]

Things like this make me feel like I'm a ******* communist. Who exactly is out there at these schools saying, man we need a few hundred million more than these other conferences? I know the answer is "never", but when is enough enough? Can we not take the foot off the greed gas pedal for a second and think about what's best for the entire sport?

Those schools are already going to be making $50 million more than the rest of the schools, at this point of making more money? If everyone at the top is making the same what's the difference? They're going to kill the sport for what? So those on power at the top can get a mega paycheck.
The fans don't want this, the media (the talking heads at ESPN, fox etc.) supposedly say they don't want this, why does this continue? Because the people calling the shots only care about getting paid even when it will inevitably kill the sport.
This uniquely American tradition will die off to pad the pockets of a few rich old men and we'll end up with a sterile NFL-lite.
Anyways I'm not saying anything new or ground breaking. Just ranting.