Big 10 about to add more very soon?

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Is this related in any way to the ACC games moving to CW?

 

[tarheel0910]

How long before ND's optimal buisness option sways to forgoing their independent status? With Swarbrick set to retire and the path and scheduling to the new playoff eventually tightening. Could it be sooner then later? Their NBC deal still makes them financially sitting pretty without the move though, but it seems to just be a matter of time with the other aspects.

ND would pressure the end of the ACC's GoR as well I would think, or maybe they could work their own buyout separately since they are contractually obligated to join the ACC if they relinquish their independent status? And that won't happen now for sure.

All depends on how much NBC pays them. At some point the scheduling and money gap will force them into a conference. I would bet 15-20 years, because of the ACC contract. Like you said, they don't want a part of this. Which sucks because they could actually give the conference a chance of survival.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Does this path lead to the demise of the NCAA?

 

[tarheel0910]

Does this path lead to the demise of the NCAA?

Depends on how you want to define that. P4 will probably have complete football autonomy at some point. The other schools and divisions would have to stick with the NCAA model.

 

[DaveChapelle]

Does this path lead to the demise of the NCAA?

I've posted this before. Once the ACC GoR expires in 2036, the SEC and B1G will consume the last schools that are valuable enough to increase their TV contracts enough to increase the $ split between schools.

Then, with no other options to increase their TV contracts, the SEC and B1G will look for other ways to satiate their financial greed. The next step is obvious. The NCAA tournament makes over $1 billion each year, and the NCAA keeps 83% of it. The remaining 17% is split between the 363 division 1 teams. The SEC and B1G will break away from the NCAA and form their own postseason tournament where they will keep 100% of the revenue.


So mark 2036 on your calendars. Sometime around that year is when much of what we love about college basketball will be ruined. The UNC/dook rivalry as we know it will end or be severely watered down, bc neither the SEC or B1G will invite a small private school that sucks at football. And the NCAA tourney will become a shell of what it used to be as 40 or so major schools (including UNC) will be participating in the new SEC/B1G national championship tourney.


All because a few elderly men are too greedy to care about the sports they are ruining.

 

[DaveChapelle]

Is this related in any way to the ACC games moving to CW?

No. The Raycom/Jefferson Pilot games of the past were on BallySports recently. Now those games are on the CW.

 

[dtodd4475]

I've posted this before. Once the ACC GoR expires in 2036, the SEC and B1G will consume the last schools that are valuable enough to increase their TV contracts enough to increase the $ split between schools.

Then, with no other options to increase their TV contracts, the SEC and B1G will look for other ways to satiate their financial greed. The next step is obvious. The NCAA tournament makes over $1 billion each year, and the NCAA keeps 83% of it. The remaining 17% is split between the 363 division 1 teams. The SEC and B1G will break away from the NCAA and form their own postseason tournament where they will keep 100% of the revenue.


So mark 2036 on your calendars. Sometime around that year is when much of what we love about college basketball will be ruined. The UNC/dook rivalry as we know it will end or be severely watered down, bc neither the SEC or B1G will invite a small private school that sucks at football. And the NCAA tourney will become a shell of what it used to be as 40 or so major schools (including UNC) will be participating in the new SEC/B1G national championship tourney.


All because a few elderly men are too greedy to care about the sports they are ruining.

Again, I think 2036 never gets close to the finish of the GoR. They have to go to the table, and not be bull headed acting like it still can work.

How it plays out after will be interesting. But as I told you with Oregon and Washington leaving soon, I would bet ya dollars to donuts ain't no way the GoR lasts till 2036..

 

[Archer2]

I’d‘d rather we drop down a division in all sports or better yet, drop intercollegiate sports altogether rather than be a part of this massive money grab. Stop trying to keep up with the Jones and get out of the money game.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I've posted this before. Once the ACC GoR expires in 2036, the SEC and B1G will consume the last schools that are valuable enough to increase their TV contracts enough to increase the $ split between schools.

Then, with no other options to increase their TV contracts, the SEC and B1G will look for other ways to satiate their financial greed. The next step is obvious. The NCAA tournament makes over $1 billion each year, and the NCAA keeps 83% of it. The remaining 17% is split between the 363 division 1 teams. The SEC and B1G will break away from the NCAA and form their own postseason tournament where they will keep 100% of the revenue.


So mark 2036 on your calendars. Sometime around that year is when much of what we love about college basketball will be ruined. The UNC/dook rivalry as we know it will end or be severely watered down, bc neither the SEC or B1G will invite a small private school that sucks at football. And the NCAA tourney will become a shell of what it used to be as 40 or so major schools (including UNC) will be participating in the new SEC/B1G national championship tourney.


All because a few elderly men are too greedy to care about the sports they are ruining.

All you say makes sense, except the 2036 delay. Even if the ACC doesn't figure out how to rescind the GoR straight jacket, that won't hold back the other 358 teams, will it?

If 40-80 of the nation's best schools are charging down a different path, it seems like the rest of the world will move on. So either the GoR gets trashed, or the ACC gets relegated to chump conference status, or they come up with a new idea . . . within just a few years.

The longer they wait, the worse it might get.