It has more chance than you realize. All it takes is a bunch of rich-ass schools (ie the Big10, SEC, Big12, ACC) to partner with a couple of TV networks and say "let's do this" ...and then football at the NCAA level is destroyed (which it probably should be). I love the promotion/relegation concept. Just don't **** with March Madness,.
I don't think they can mess with March Madness as long as the Big East exists. Any alternative tournament that lacks Connecticut, Villanova, Georgetown, St. John's, etc. would be illegitimate.
Right! Football does it's thing, Basketball does it's thing. I'm pretty sure St John's doesn't want to play Oklahoma at football. I have no idea how this impacts women's sports, or track, or the 32 other ones.
I think the goal is to unlink the Olympic sports from football so you can have something more like the southwest conference with easier travel for everything by football and basketball.
The idea of a super tier is quite possible. The notion it will have 70 teams is nonsensical. Maybe 30-35 teams. IMO, it would be the B1G, SEC schools + Notre Dame + maybe 2-3 more lucky schools. If a super tier happens, March Madness would eventually be affected in a big way.
30-40 teams is probably correct. This is all an inevitability, because this is a professional sport and has been for a long time. It's only natural that the top producers in terms of revenue would want to consolidate, increase their value, and capture more of it for themselves. The cutoff point will always be arbitrary due to both the conference baggage and the fact that the revenue deltas are so insane. For example: The difference in earnings between the top program ($161MM) and the #10 program ($95MM) is as large as the difference in earnings between the #10 program and the #70 program ($29MM). Personally I'm an accelerationist. I want this to hurry up and get over with so we can start building on granite and stop building on sand. Even if my team is left out (which it almost certainly will be), I don't really care. I will still donate and watch and attend when possible. Sharing a league with 41-80 sounds like a good time TBH.
Isn't FBS Football already separated from the NCAA? The winner of the playoffs does not win the NCAA National Championship. The NCAA Division 1 Champion is the FCS winner.
Hell yeah, right on. Hell no, **** that. I could 55x Bezos & Musk combined and not give 1 ****ing CENT to TAMU. Why we donating to for-profits? **** em'.
This amuses me. A&M baseball coach, in his postgame press conference immediately after losing the CWS: Less than 24 hours later the coach and his whole staff are on their way to Austin.
UT def b****ed TAMU, but only 4 people follow college baseball. Nobody cares. Coaches are allowed to leave. Just don't b**** and cry about the NIL. Players have the right to move and make money TOO. Do NOT @ me.
Nah, the two meanest things were: Justin Tucker kicking the game winner at Kyle Field in 2011. You can see all of their hearts break in real time as we slammed the door shut on them, once again, before they thought they were going to leave and dominate the SEC. Joining the SEC right after winning the Big 12. Big brother is home again.
In a business filled with shady BS, this takes the cake as possibly the shadiest Ive seen in some time. But its the aggie cult so f**k em
You asking ME? I really don't care. They're weird. The **** you want me to do about it? I graduated from there, I'm not all ABOUT IT the way TINMAN is about dating pre and post-op trannys. In general, there's really few cohorts as low on the totem poll to me as college kids. They're up there with boomers. I'd rather hangout with high school kids.
