I just wrote this article over at ultimatecyclone.com:
Maybe Spring Football isn't so crazy
Basically, What I propose is that if the 4 mega conferences form, there is no way we could ever survive and neither could most of the other colleges and universities' athletic programs. So don't try to compete and instead play football in the spring. There's quite a bit of detail in the article, but I really think this could work extermely well. In the long term we would gain lots of fans...every fan would have their fall team and their spring team. We'd have a much greater opportunity to win. In the short term, we'd bring in as much money as we do now and in the long term could possibly even catch up to the mega conferences in TV deals. And, perhaps the biggest win, in all of this is that we'd have a playoff from the start.
Are there problems...sure, how to align the conferences? what about other sports? NCAA ramifications of playing in the spring? Conflict with NFL draft? Scheduling around NBA, March Madness and MLB?
All of these are ligitimate concerns, but I think these can all be solved if it means roughly 50 teams double or more their TV revenue and all of the left over BCS teams, ****** off at the mega conferences find a way to maintain their current budgets.
Anyway, I'd love to hear the cyclone fanatic's take on this out of the box idea.
Maybe Spring Football isn't so crazy
Basically, What I propose is that if the 4 mega conferences form, there is no way we could ever survive and neither could most of the other colleges and universities' athletic programs. So don't try to compete and instead play football in the spring. There's quite a bit of detail in the article, but I really think this could work extermely well. In the long term we would gain lots of fans...every fan would have their fall team and their spring team. We'd have a much greater opportunity to win. In the short term, we'd bring in as much money as we do now and in the long term could possibly even catch up to the mega conferences in TV deals. And, perhaps the biggest win, in all of this is that we'd have a playoff from the start.
Are there problems...sure, how to align the conferences? what about other sports? NCAA ramifications of playing in the spring? Conflict with NFL draft? Scheduling around NBA, March Madness and MLB?
All of these are ligitimate concerns, but I think these can all be solved if it means roughly 50 teams double or more their TV revenue and all of the left over BCS teams, ****** off at the mega conferences find a way to maintain their current budgets.
Anyway, I'd love to hear the cyclone fanatic's take on this out of the box idea.