Just curious: say this does pass. Would the big 10 and SEC be allowed to split off from the ncaa and do their own thing?
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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From the Dellenger write-up:
For instance, the act prevents any league earning more than $1 billion in revenue on its 2025 tax returns from merging or consolidating with another conference.
There are only two leagues that earn such revenue: the Big Ten and SEC, college sports’ behemoths who many believe are destined to eventually break away to create their own “super league.”
It has always been headed that way though.
Either B1G/SEC were going to be within boundaries of NCAA governanace or they were going on their own to try and poach a few other NCAA teams and write their own rules to benefit their relationships with media outlets. I think 100% of all previous evidence points to an inevitable withdrawal from the NCAA in their future, so putting these restrictions in the draft bill probably shouldn't give anyone any hope it somehow makes them come to their senses. JP understands this.
Like JP said, let them go, but they have to take everything
Maybe they do, but if they’re willing to do it now to get their way, they most certainly would have in the future too when there’s less cost of doing so
Or M2 agrees to expanding the constraints, but to a level and manner in which only top of P2 really benefit. Befriend the elites of P2, as it’s long been a lost cause to keep up with them
For example, OSU president doesn’t want cap based on A4 conference average, lowered by M2. Says just find more revenue. Sure, but what is different than basing it on esch conference revenue? He’s still capped because of schools not earning at OSU level. And in this case, schools subsidized by OSU.
Give elites what they want without them leaving, in exchange, p2 have no cap and eat-what-they-kill revenue distribution
There’s not enough time left in the year. There are about 70 legislative days left in this session of Congress. It would have to go through Commitee in both chambers- I would assume the Senate Commerce Committee would move fast since Cruz and Cantwell are chair and ranking member, so presumably they’ve already run this past the committee membership, but even if Thune throws it on the calendar, and if it can get to 60 Votes, the House will never take it up, and if they did it would die in Conference Committee. The House already pissed about getting jammed by the Senate on other legislation, I don’t see them going along with this.
Telling coaches they can't change jobs when they want is blatantly unconstitutional.
Regionalised conferences are too good to be true and makes too much sense. Never happening
The SEC and B1G are not just willingly going to hand over all of their money and other baked in advantages. It's just not happening.
They can still quit mid-season but can’t accept or go to work for another program before their former team’s season is over. Nothing unconstitutional about that given similar arrangements are in place in the corporate world.
LOL, spoken like a true and naive B10 homer.
SEC and B10 would at least double their revenues and still maintain revenue advantages with unequal revenue sharing based on TV ratings.
I care more about the dump I took this afternoon than the B1G's revenue advantage, Iowa is likely never going to ascend to the top of the conference in football. Even with the money we'll be a mid/upper-mid tier program that might compete for a CFP berth every so often, and then not advance far. The money advantage means little to me as an Iowa fan. I just think it's funny that you believe this 7x10 nonsense is actually ever going to happen. Literally nothing that you've predicted on here has actually happened. And yet you call everyone else naive. It's really funny.
It’s not going to pass. Some crazy stuff that almost seem like intentionally making it toxic
A shame, as there are some good things in it.
Agreed. Nothing is ever going to pass.
If there were adults in the room, they'd actually enforce their own rules but there's too much money involved to ever get to that point. I fully expect the SEC and Big Ten to both go their own way at the end of this TV deal and not together. I'd imagine they'll only play conference games and then set up a 4 team playoff and a 'challenge series' to replace bowls. I also expect the completely feckless and dependent NCAA to let them go their own way for football and keep all other sports under the NCAA banner with revenue advantages and control over postseason tournaments.
"The 20 years olds who throw balls around aren't making enough" is certainly a take
This is a very logical sqwak take. You got more money than ISU but you will get the same amount of Nattys. Hawk fans who pound their chest about this just brings me joy.
They aren't when you consider the revenue they're bringing in.
I get what you are saying...but wouldn't you prefer to be in that financial situation?
To be fair, I think it’s a pretty difficult to answer the question of whether the value comes from the university affiliation or the individual.
Is the revenue coming to the school because of the individual, or because of the collective branding/longevity of the institutions (schools, conferences, tv contracts, etc.)?
If every single current CFB player disappeared today, and every single team got a brand new roster tomorrow, I’d bet the TV ratings and ticket sales would still be pretty similar.
