Did Texas unintentionally save the Big 12?

[scyclonekid]

UNI, southern Illinois, Indiana state. Next in line I swear to god!!

 

[Gunnerclone]

Pollard said what would be basically true about any conference. Remove the two tent poles, and the conference becomes a lesser conference. Washington States AD basically said his school is getting the support as if it was already in a lesser conference. Big difference.

Exactly...if you take Iowa and Nebraska out of the Big 10 that conference would fold up faster than a paper airplane. The B10 West would probably survive because it's so strong but the East schools would probably have to halt their football programs and just pray that another conference grabs them up.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I've always felt the super conference idea is extremely short-sighted from a financial standpoint. With actual viewers starting to matter more, you need more high quality matchups. I think it helps the weaker teams more than the strong teams (could be wrong though...).

I can't remember who published it or who did the analysis but a couple years back some finance guru explained how breaking the country up into regional pods would optimize viewership and overall revenue. IMO this idea seemed to make the most sense.

 

[ISUalum2012]

Didn't Saban and Fisher both say recently that college football needed to make scheduling more equitable. I think Saban went as far as saying the SEC should be playing 10 conference games with the other two vs P5 schools. If more coaches believe that, I think big changes are in store for college football at the next round of negotiations.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Didn't Saban and Fisher both say recently that college football needed to make scheduling more equitable. I think Saban went as far as saying the SEC should be playing 10 conference games with the other two vs P5 schools. If more coaches believe that, I think big changes are in store for college football at the next round of negotiations.

I mean that's great that $aban said that but perhaps the $EC should join the rest of the country and play 9 conference games first....

 

[CycloneGB]

I can't remember who published it or who did the analysis but a couple years back some finance guru explained how breaking the country up into regional pods would optimize viewership and overall revenue. IMO this idea seemed to make the most sense.

Thats how you can be 100% sure it will never happen.

 

[Gorm]

The CFA failed basically because the bigger conferences didn't want to continue to support the lower conferences. Trust me, the SEV and BIG 10 would never try to work out a deal that would help everyone. All conferences are in this for themselves.

 

[surly]

I can't remember who published it or who did the analysis but a couple years back some finance guru explained how breaking the country up into regional pods would optimize viewership and overall revenue. IMO this idea seemed to make the most sense.

Fundamental change seldom happens without a crisis. It will take a collapse of TV revenues for any sensible change to occur with realignment, perhaps yielding what your analysis suggests.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Thats how you can be 100% sure it will never happen.

The SEC and B1G would fight this becuase they would be losing

Fundamental change seldom happens without a crisis. It will take a collapse of TV revenues for any sensible change to occur with realignment, perhaps yielding what your analysis suggests.

I completely agree. The SEC and B1G aren't going to give up their financial advantage unless the writing was on the wall and the margin was narrowing and they were experiencing a reduction in revenue.

 

[chuckd4735]

Fundamental change seldom happens without a crisis. It will take a collapse of TV revenues for any sensible change to occur with realignment, perhaps yielding what your analysis suggests.

Its coming sooner than later, IMO.